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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 13, 2015 - Apr 20, 2015

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The Origin of Brands: How Product Evolution Creates Endless Possibilities for New Brands cover

1. The Origin of Brands: How Product Evolution Creates Endless Possibilities for New Brands

by Al Ries, Laura Ries

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

2. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

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Using Docker cover

3. Using Docker

by Adrian Mouat

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

4. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

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A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (3rd Edition) cover

5. A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (3rd Edition)

by Mark G. Sobell

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Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure (Independent Studies in Political Economy) cover

6. Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

by Dominick T. Armentano

Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job cover

7. Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job

by Sean Wise, Brad Feld

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

8. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall

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Star's Reach: A Novel Of The Deindustrial Future cover

9. Star's Reach: A Novel Of The Deindustrial Future

by John Michael Greer

The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or, Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good cover

10. The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or, Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

by Matthew Crawford

Machine Language for the Commodore 64, 128, and Other Commodore Computers cover

11. Machine Language for the Commodore 64, 128, and Other Commodore Computers

by Jim Butterfield

Introduction to Computing and Algorithms cover

12. Introduction to Computing and Algorithms

by Russell L. Shackelford

The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism cover

13. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

by Thomas Frank

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Seveneves: A Novel cover

14. Seveneves: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson

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The Sheep Look Up cover

15. The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica cover

16. Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica

by Nicholas Johnson

Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition cover

17. Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition

by Sara Turing

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

18. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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

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

by Andrew Hodges

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The Design and Evolution of C++ cover

20. The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied cover

21. Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied

by Andrei Alexandrescu

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The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works cover

22. The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

by Ricardo Semler

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

23. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B Irvine

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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain cover

24. Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

by Michael Paterniti

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Heaven and Hell. J[n Kalman Stefnsson cover

25. Heaven and Hell. J[n Kalman Stefnsson

by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group cover

26. The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group

by Dan Briody

Grammar of the Film Language cover

27. Grammar of the Film Language

by Daniel Arijon

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The Circle cover

28. The Circle

by Dave Eggers

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Making a Transistor Radio cover

29. Making a Transistor Radio

by G. C. Dobbs

Fundamentals of Database Systems (6th Edition) cover

30. Fundamentals of Database Systems (6th Edition)

by Ramez Elmasri, Sham Navathe

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Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference cover

31. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

by Judea Pearl

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The Darkroom Cookbook (Alternative Process Photography) cover

32. The Darkroom Cookbook (Alternative Process Photography)

by Stephen G. Anchell, Steve Anchell

The Film Developing Cookbook (Darkroom Cookbook, Vol. 2) cover

33. The Film Developing Cookbook (Darkroom Cookbook, Vol. 2)

by Stephen G. Anchell

All About Computers cover

34. All About Computers

by Helen Davies

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind cover

35. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

by Joseph Murphy