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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 15, 2014 - Dec 22, 2014

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It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News cover

1. It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News

by Drew Curtis

First Course in Probability, A cover

2. First Course in Probability, A

by Sheldon M. Ross

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Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High cover

3. Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High

by Power, Mike (Journalist)

Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens cover

4. Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

by Nicholas Shaxson

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Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications cover

5. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno

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Linear Algebra with Applications, 5th Edition cover

6. Linear Algebra with Applications, 5th Edition

by Otto Bretscher

Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide cover

7. Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide

by Thomas Keller

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Box Set cover

8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Box Set

by Hayao Miyazaki

Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems & Big Data cover

9. Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems & Big Data

by Jose Nathan

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison cover

10. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault, mechil foucault, Simon Prebble

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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

11. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson

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Social Engineering cover

12. Social Engineering

by Christopher Hadnagy

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The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life cover

13. The Big U: A Hilarious Satire of American College Life

by Neal Stephenson

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

14. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator cover

15. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday

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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) – Google's Proven Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Guide cover

16. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) – Google's Proven Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Guide

by Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) cover

17. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

by Roderick J. A. Little, Donald B. Rubin

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Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition cover

18. Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition

by Harry Partch

Learning Perl, 6th Edition cover

19. Learning Perl, 6th Edition

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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism cover

20. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle cover

21. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

by Chris Hedges

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Death of the Liberal Class cover

22. Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges