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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 6, 2015 - Apr 13, 2015

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Living Clojure cover

1. Living Clojure

by Carin Meier
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Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law cover

2. Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law

by Robert A. Kagan
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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error cover

3. The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

by Sidney Dekker
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa cover

4. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

by Dambisa Moyo
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

5. Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Michael C. Feathers
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

6. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser
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Atomic Accidents cover

7. Atomic Accidents

by James Mahaffey
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Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

8. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa
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Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition cover

9. Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)
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Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth cover

10. Good to Great: A Study of Management Strategies of Companies with Lasting Growth

by Jim Collins
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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business cover

11. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

by Douglas W. Hubbard
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

12. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) cover

13. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Jez Humble
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind cover

14. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) cover

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

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover

17. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes
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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

18. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman
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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory cover

19. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory

by George Gamow
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Teach Like A Champion 3.0 cover

20. Teach Like A Champion 3.0

by Doug Lemov
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Head First C cover

21. Head First C

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys cover

22. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

by Michael Collins
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Existence cover

23. Existence

by David Brin
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics cover

24. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

25. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

26. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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