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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 10, 2014 - Nov 17, 2014

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Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them cover

1. Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them

by Cynthia Shapiro

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Can Japan Compete? cover

2. Can Japan Compete?

by Michael Porter, Mick Takeuchi, Sakakibara

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men cover

3. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

by Lundy Bancroft

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CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

4. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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Meditations: A New Translation cover

5. Meditations: A New Translation

by Marcus Aurelius

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The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public cover

6. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

by Lynn Stout

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Book of Military Obituaries (The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries) cover

7. Book of Military Obituaries (The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries)

by David Twiston Davies

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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph cover

8. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

by Ryan Holiday

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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

9. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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C Companion cover

10. C Companion

by Allen I. Holub

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State cover

11. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State

by Yasheng Huang

Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation cover

12. Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation

by Steven Muchnick

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Forth Programmer's Handbook (3rd Edition) cover

13. Forth Programmer's Handbook (3rd Edition)

by Edward K. Conklin, Elizabeth D. Rather

Elementary Basic , as Chronicled by John H. Watson (Learning to Program Your Computer in Basic with Sherlock Holmes) cover

14. Elementary Basic , as Chronicled by John H. Watson (Learning to Program Your Computer in Basic with Sherlock Holmes)

by John H. Watson

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Flash Boys cover

15. Flash Boys

by Michael Lewis

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Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years cover

16. Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

by Simon Singh

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Say Good Night to Insomnia: The Six-Week, Drug-Free Program Developed At Harvard Medical School cover

17. Say Good Night to Insomnia: The Six-Week, Drug-Free Program Developed At Harvard Medical School

by Gregg D. Jacobs

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LINQ in Action cover

18. LINQ in Action

by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley

Concurrency in C# Cookbook cover

19. Concurrency in C# Cookbook

by Stephen Cleary

CLR via C# (4th Edition) (Developer Reference) cover

20. CLR via C# (4th Edition) (Developer Reference)

by Jeffrey Richter

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C# in Depth, 3rd Edition cover

21. C# in Depth, 3rd Edition

by Jon Skeet

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Ways of Seeing cover

22. Ways of Seeing

by John Berger

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Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 cover

23. Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004

by Peter J. Westwick

C# 5.0 in a Nutshell cover

24. C# 5.0 in a Nutshell

by Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

25. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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4. The Bandwidth of Paper cover

26. 4. The Bandwidth of Paper

by Fred Trotter, David Uhlman

Industrialization Without National Patents: The Netherlands, 1869-1912; Switzerland, 1850-1907 (Princeton Legacy Library) cover

27. Industrialization Without National Patents: The Netherlands, 1869-1912; Switzerland, 1850-1907 (Princeton Legacy Library)

by Eric Schiff