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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 1, 2014 - Dec 8, 2014

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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) cover

1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

2. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach cover

3. Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach

by Ivar Jacobson

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

4. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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

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

by Daniel J. Velleman

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The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life — Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process cover

6. The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life — Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

by Thomas M. Sterner

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

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

by Lynn Stout

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

8. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, 2-Volume Set, 7e cover

9. Endocrinology: Adult and Pediatric, 2-Volume Set, 7e

by J. Larry Jameson

Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs cover

10. Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs

by Mark Jason Dominus

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Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers cover

11. Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers

by Lancelot Hogben

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Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War cover

12. Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War

by William L. Smallwood

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus cover

13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus

by Michael Spivak

Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry: cover

14. Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry:

by George F. Simmons

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Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing on Amazon.com cover

15. Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing on Amazon.com

by Aaron Shepard

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces cover

16. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

by Radley Balko

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Improvised Munitions Handbook cover

17. Improvised Munitions Handbook

by United States. Department of the Army

Python for Data Analysis cover

18. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews cover

19. Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews

by Timothy Falcon Crack

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ARRL Antenna Book 22nd Ed Softcover cover

20. ARRL Antenna Book 22nd Ed Softcover

by American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

21. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

22. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance) cover

23. The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)

by Alex Kuznetsov

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Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job cover

24. Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job

by Jeffrey J. Fox

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Federal Income Taxation, 12th (Concepts & Insights) (Concepts and Insights) cover

25. Federal Income Taxation, 12th (Concepts & Insights) (Concepts and Insights)

by Marvin A. Chirelstein, Lawrence Zelenak

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir cover

26. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

by Haruki Murakami

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

27. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections cover

28. Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections

by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking (Sierra Club Outdoor Adventure Guide) cover

29. Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking (Sierra Club Outdoor Adventure Guide)

by John Hart

Small and Short-Range Radar Systems (Modern and Practical Approaches to Electrical Engineering) cover

30. Small and Short-Range Radar Systems (Modern and Practical Approaches to Electrical Engineering)

by Gregory L. Charvat

High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic cover

31. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic

by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham

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Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy cover

32. Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom

Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) cover

33. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

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Data Structures With Abstract Data Types and Modula-2 cover

34. Data Structures With Abstract Data Types and Modula-2

by Daniel F. Stubbs, Neil W. Webre

The Elements of Networking Style: And Other Essays & Animadversions on the Art of Intercomputer Networking cover

35. The Elements of Networking Style: And Other Essays & Animadversions on the Art of Intercomputer Networking

by M. A. Padlipsky

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Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare cover

36. Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

37. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need cover

38. Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder

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Symmetry cover

39. Symmetry

by Hermann Weyl

Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story cover

40. Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story

by Ember Reichgott Junge

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

41. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals (paperback): A Return to Fundamentals cover

42. Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals (paperback): A Return to Fundamentals

by John Day

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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics cover

43. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics

by Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno cover

44. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film

45. Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game"

by Andrew Hodges

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

46. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

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Lessons: An Autobiography cover

47. Lessons: An Autobiography

by An Wang

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers cover

48. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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JavaScript Patterns cover

49. JavaScript Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

50. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition cover

51. Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

by David Flanagan

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload cover

52. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

by Daniel J. Levitin