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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 15, 2015 - Jun 22, 2015

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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

1. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp

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Team Geek cover

2. Team Geek

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

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Arrest-Proof Yourself cover

3. Arrest-Proof Yourself

by Dale Carson, Wes Denham

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Unix Power Tools, Third Edition cover

4. Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

by Shelley Powers

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Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings cover

5. Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings

by Daniel Hughes

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends cover

6. Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

by Tim Sanders

Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence cover

7. Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence

by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.

Contractors' Handbook: The Expert Guide for UK Contractors and Freelancers cover

8. Contractors' Handbook: The Expert Guide for UK Contractors and Freelancers

by Dave Chaplin

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery cover

9. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

by Frank T. Vertosick

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Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health cover

10. Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health

by Denise Minger

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The Design of Everyday Things cover

11. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries cover

12. Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries

Broken Piano for President cover

13. Broken Piano for President

by Patrick Wensink

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Cholesterol is Not the Culprit: A Guide to Preventing Heart Disease cover

14. Cholesterol is Not the Culprit: A Guide to Preventing Heart Disease

by Fred A. Kummerow

Blue Angel: A Novel cover

15. Blue Angel: A Novel

by Francine Prose

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

16. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition cover

17. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

18. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century cover

19. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

by Geoffrey Parker

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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project cover

20. Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project

by General Leslie R. Groves

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

21. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric cover

22. Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

by Ward Farnsworth

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Lectures on Literature cover

23. Lectures on Literature

by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, John Updike

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Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine cover

24. Rip-Off! The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine

by David Craig

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Design of Computers and Other Complex Digital Devices cover

25. Design of Computers and Other Complex Digital Devices

by Richard P. Pohanish, Stanley A. Greene

Federal Income Taxation, 12th (Concepts & Insights) (Concepts and Insights) cover

26. Federal Income Taxation, 12th (Concepts & Insights) (Concepts and Insights)

by Marvin A. Chirelstein, Lawrence Zelenak

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Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach (8th Edition) cover

27. Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach (8th Edition)

by William Kleitz

The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

28. The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan

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

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

by Dennis Greenberger

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A Burglar's Guide to the City cover

30. A Burglar's Guide to the City

by Geoff Manaugh

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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience cover

31. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld

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Last Chance to See cover

32. Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

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Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems) cover

33. Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)

by John R. Koza

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1215: The Year of Magna Carta cover

34. 1215: The Year of Magna Carta

by Danny Danziger, John Gillingham

Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning cover

35. Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

by J. Marshall Unger

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Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons) cover

36. Visible Speech (Asian Interactions and Comparisons)

by John DeFrancis

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Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

37. Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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A Field Guide to Genetic Programming cover

38. A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

by Riccardo Poli

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Hidden Forest, The: The Biography of an Ecosystem cover

39. Hidden Forest, The: The Biography of an Ecosystem

by Jon R. Luoma

Politics in Healing: The Suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine cover

40. Politics in Healing: The Suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine

by Daniel Haley

Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology cover

41. Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology

by Paul A. LaViolette

Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System cover

42. Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System

by Siegfried Engelmann

War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse cover

43. War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse

by Siegfried Engelmann