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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 11, 2015 - May 18, 2015

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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter cover

1. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

2. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot cover

3. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

by Mark Vanhoenacker

The New Old World cover

4. The New Old World

by Perry Anderson

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How to Win Friends and Influence People (8.5

5. How to Win Friends and Influence People (8.5" x 11")

by Dale Carnegie

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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & ... Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) cover

6. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & ... Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, Jeffrey Brantley

The Tribe of Tiger cover

7. The Tribe of Tiger

by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander cover

8. The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

by Pete Blaber

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Wool cover

9. Wool

by Hugh Howey

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West cover

10. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

by Blaine Harden

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HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites cover

11. HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants cover

12. Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy cover

13. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy

by Henry George

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

14. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) cover

15. Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1)

by Jack Campbell

Sleight of Mouth cover

16. Sleight of Mouth

by Robert Dilts

Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want cover

17. Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want

by Rintu Basu

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Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning cover

18. Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning

by Richard Bandler, John Grinder

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

19. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff

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Freighter Captain cover

20. Freighter Captain

by Max Hardberger

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Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy cover

21. Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy

by Andrea A. DiSessa

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism cover

22. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

by Olivia Fox Cabane

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How to Make War (Fourth Edition): A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century cover

23. How to Make War (Fourth Edition): A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century

by James F. Dunnigan

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Blue Angel: A Novel cover

24. Blue Angel: A Novel

by Francine Prose

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The Art of Thinking Clearly cover

25. The Art of Thinking Clearly

by Rolf Dobelli

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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution cover

26. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

by Paul Davies, P. C. W. Davies

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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity cover

27. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

by Stuart Kauffman

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

28. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray

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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life cover

29. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray

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Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think cover

30. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

by Dennis Greenberger

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The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots cover

31. The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots

by Thomas Fink, Yong Mao

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

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

by William B Irvine

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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate cover

33. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

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Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

34. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Kevin P. Murphy

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Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) cover

35. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

by Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, Donald B. Rubin

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

36. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

37. Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman

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Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data cover

38. Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data

by Peter Flach

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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan cover

39. Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan

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Think Bayes cover

40. Think Bayes

by Allen Downey

Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning cover

41. Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning

by David Barber

Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it cover

42. Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it

by Ben Goldacre

First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently cover

43. First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently

by Curt Coffman

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

44. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

45. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance

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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development cover

46. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

by Donald G. Reinertsen

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Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers cover

47. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

by Justin Mares, Gabriel Weinberg

Power of Uniqueness, The cover

48. Power of Uniqueness, The

by Arthur F. Miller, Jr., William Hendricks, Bill Hendricks