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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

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

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

by Mike Power

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

3. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications cover

4. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno

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

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

by Nicholas Shaxson

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Linear Algebra with Applications, 5th Edition cover

6. Linear Algebra with Applications, 5th Edition

by Otto Bretscher

A First Course in Probability (9th Edition) cover

7. A First Course in Probability (9th Edition)

by Sheldon M. Ross

Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide cover

8. Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide

by Thomas Keller

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Box Set cover

9. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Box Set

by Hayao Miyazaki

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

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

by J. Nathan Kutz

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison cover

11. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault

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

12. 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: The Art of Human Hacking cover

13. Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking

by Christopher Hadnagy

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The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II cover

14. The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

by Aljean Harmetz

The Big U cover

15. The Big U

by Neal Stephenson

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

16. 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

17. 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) cover

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

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

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

by Harry Partch

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Learning Perl cover

20. Learning Perl

by Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix

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Statistical Analysis with Missing Data cover

21. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data

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

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

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

by Chris Hedges

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

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

by Sheldon S. Wolin

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Death of the Liberal Class cover

24. Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges