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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 20, 2014 - Oct 27, 2014

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

1. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity cover

2. Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

by David W. Galenson

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Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks cover

3. Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

by Michal Zalewski

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

4. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Precision Machining Technology cover

5. Precision Machining Technology

by Peter J. Hoffman, Eric S. Hopewell, Brian Janes

Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) cover

6. Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)

by Keith J. Nisbett, Richard G. Budynas

A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power cover

7. A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power

by David Burnham

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

8. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

9. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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Practical Programming for Strength Training cover

10. Practical Programming for Strength Training

by Mark Rippetoe, Andy Baker (Powerlifter)

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Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs) cover

11. Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs)

by Alex Wilmerding

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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) cover

12. Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

by Tim Kendall

True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home cover

13. True Brews: How to Craft Fermented Cider, Beer, Wine, Sake, Soda, Mead, Kefir, and Kombucha at Home

by Emma Christensen

Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) cover

14. Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Ernst Junger

Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 cover

15. Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7

by Aaron Reed

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You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance cover

16. You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance

by Kyle Simpson

You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar cover

17. You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar

by Kyle Simpson

You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures cover

18. You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures

by Kyle Simpson

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You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes cover

19. You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes

by Kyle Simpson

Python for Data Analysis cover

20. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition cover

21. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Velleman

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers cover

22. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life cover

23. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray

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What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) cover

24. What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

by Raymond M. Smullyan

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business cover

25. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman

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Finite and Infinite Games cover

26. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Purely Functional Data Structures cover

27. Purely Functional Data Structures

by Chris Okasaki

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Out of the Crisis (MIT Press) cover

28. Out of the Crisis (MIT Press)

by William Edwards Deming

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer cover

29. The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

by Jeffrey K. Liker

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

30. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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The Trusted Advisor cover

31. The Trusted Advisor

by David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford

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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us cover

32. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

by Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell

How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity cover

33. How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity

by Brian C. Goodwin

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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet cover

34. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

by Nina Teicholz

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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom cover

35. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey cover

36. The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

by Emmanuel Goldstein

Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles cover

37. Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles

by Martin Gardner

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) cover

38. My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

by Martin Gardner

Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence cover

39. Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence

by Nathan Barry

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Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy) cover

40. Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy)

by Lawrence A. Shapiro

Cognition in the Wild (MIT Press) cover

41. Cognition in the Wild (MIT Press)

by Edwin Hutchins

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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind) cover

42. Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)

by Andy Clark

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Choose Yourself! cover

43. Choose Yourself!

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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries) cover

44. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)

by Lawrence M Krauss

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers cover

45. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

by Richard Nelson Bolles

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II cover

46. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

by Robert Kurson

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Dirac: A Scientific Biography cover

47. Dirac: A Scientific Biography

by Helge Kragh

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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces cover

48. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

by William Hollingsworth Whyte

Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition) cover

49. Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/Crc Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)

by Kenneth Christopher

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

50. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall

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The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions cover

51. The Definitive Book of Body Language: The Hidden Meaning Behind People's Gestures and Expressions

by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease

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