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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 22, 2015 - Jun 29, 2015

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On Constitutional Disobedience (Inalienable Rights) cover

1. On Constitutional Disobedience (Inalienable Rights)

by Louis Michael Seidman

Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People cover

2. Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People

by Thomas Gregor

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

3. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) cover

4. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Sandi Metz

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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

5. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

6. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Designing Active Server Pages cover

7. Designing Active Server Pages

by Scott Mitchell

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The Shape of Space (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics) cover

8. The Shape of Space (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics)

by Jeffrey R. Weeks

Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate cover

9. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate

by Vaclav Smil

Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology cover

10. Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology

by Mara Prentiss

Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews cover

11. Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews

by Timothy Falcon Crack

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street cover

12. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

by William Poundstone

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The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable cover

13. The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

by James Owen Weatherall

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Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom cover

14. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom

by Van K. Tharp

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The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter cover

15. The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter

by Jason Kersten

Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It cover

16. Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It

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The Science of Ice Cream: RSC cover

17. The Science of Ice Cream: RSC

by Chris Clarke

A History of Western Philosophy cover

18. A History of Western Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

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Commandos de choc en Indochine. cover

19. Commandos de choc en Indochine.

by Erwan Bergot

The Greek Experience cover

20. The Greek Experience

by Cecil Maurice Bowra

Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life cover

21. Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

by Maxwell Maltz

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Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Dover Books on Engineering) cover

22. Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Dover Books on Engineering)

by David S. Touretzky

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The C Programming Language cover

23. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

24. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Bridging the Gap to Objective-C cover

25. Bridging the Gap to Objective-C

by Jacob Schatz

Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach cover

26. Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach

by Alejandro Serrano Mena

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Mr. Beck's Underground Map: A History cover

27. Mr. Beck's Underground Map: A History

by Mark Ovenden, London Transport Museum

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty cover

28. Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

by Vikram Chandra

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

29. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck

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The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance cover

30. The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance

by Louis Borgenicht M.D., Joe Borgenicht

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

31. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

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Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age cover

32. Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

by Paul J. Nahin

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Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner: 200 Quick, Easy and Healthy Recipes for Your Baby. cover

33. Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner: 200 Quick, Easy and Healthy Recipes for Your Baby.

by Annabel Karmel

Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with Your Baby cover

34. Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with Your Baby

by Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau

The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting cover

35. The New Contented Little Baby Book: The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting

by Gina Ford

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information cover

36. The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

by Frank Pasquale

What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life cover

37. What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

by Lise Eliot

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Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way cover

38. Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way

by Mayim Bialik

What to Expect When You're Expecting cover

39. What to Expect When You're Expecting

by Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel

Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example cover

40. Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example

by Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo

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On Intelligence cover

41. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition) cover

42. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron

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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology cover

43. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman

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Head First Java cover

44. Head First Java

by Kathy Sierra

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New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with PowerWeb and New Business Mentor CD cover

45. New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with PowerWeb and New Business Mentor CD

by Jeffry A. Timmons, Stephen Spinelli

If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir cover

46. If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir

by Om Swami

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