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

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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator cover

1. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday

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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

2. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management cover

3. Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management

by Russell L. Ackoff

The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small cover

4. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

by John Gall

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Micromotives and Macrobehavior cover

5. Micromotives and Macrobehavior

by Thomas C. Schelling

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The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends cover

6. The Visual Investor: How to Spot Market Trends

by John J. Murphy

The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover

7. The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

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Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences cover

8. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

by Leonard Sax

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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street cover

9. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

by Fred Schwed, Jr.

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

10. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials) cover

11. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials)

by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig, Atsuhiro Dokō, Kazumi Masuzawa, Miwa Niimi, Warren Buffett, Yonatan Bar

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference cover

12. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

by Cordelia Fine

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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

13. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Building Web Reputation Systems cover

14. Building Web Reputation Systems

by Randy Farmer, Bryce Glass

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The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory cover

15. The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory

by David Bohm

The Great Crash 1929 cover

16. The Great Crash 1929

by John Kenneth Galbraith

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How to Sue a Telemarketer cover

17. How to Sue a Telemarketer

by Stephen I. Ostrow, Ozmo Kramer

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Real Mathematical Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

18. Real Mathematical Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

Steve Jobs cover

19. Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore cover

20. On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore

by Brian Bagnall

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The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies) cover

21. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)

by Jimmy Maher

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Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century cover

22. Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

by Robert Kagan

Car Hacker's Manual cover

23. Car Hacker's Manual

by Craig Smith, Lecturer in Philosophy Craig Smith

The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books) cover

24. The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)

by Frank O'Brien

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Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs cover

25. Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs

by Giuseppe Di Battista

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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters cover

26. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

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Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond cover

27. Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond

by Peter H. Salus

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

28. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

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Safeware: System Safety and Computers cover

29. Safeware: System Safety and Computers

by Nancy Leveson

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A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing) cover

30. A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)

by Paul E. Ceruzzi

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

31. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series) cover

32. Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)

by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson

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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution cover

33. The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

by T.R. Reid

IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems (History of Computing) cover

34. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems (History of Computing)

by Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer

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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

35. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition cover

36. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

by Steven Levy

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

37. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

38. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

39. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

40. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

41. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution cover

42. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson

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The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition cover

43. The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition

by Eric S. Raymond

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The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier cover

44. The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier

by Bruce Sterling

The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen cover

45. The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen

by Jonathan Littman

The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer cover

46. The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

by Doron Swade

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage cover

47. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll

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CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

48. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century cover

49. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker

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Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 - 67 (History of Computing) cover

50. Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 - 67 (History of Computing)

by Simon Lavington

Moleskine Classic Notebook, Large, Squared, Black, Hard Cover (5 x 8.25) (Classic Notebooks) cover

51. Moleskine Classic Notebook, Large, Squared, Black, Hard Cover (5 x 8.25) (Classic Notebooks)

by Moleskine

Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs: Well-Mannered Object-Oriented Design in C++ cover

52. Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs: Well-Mannered Object-Oriented Design in C++

by Inc Taligent

TCP/IP Architecture, Design and Implementation in Linux cover

53. TCP/IP Architecture, Design and Implementation in Linux

by Sameer Seth, M. Ajaykumar Venkatesulu

Tai-Pan cover

54. Tai-Pan

by James Clavell

The Search for Modern China cover

55. The Search for Modern China

by Jonathan D. Spence

Man's Search for Meaning cover

56. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl

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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love cover

57. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

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Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages cover

58. Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

by Thomas J. Mathiesen

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) cover

59. The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)

by Masanobu Fukuoka

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Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader cover

60. Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader

by Bas Aarts

The Art Forger: A Novel cover

61. The Art Forger: A Novel

by B. A. Shapiro

Structured COBOL Programming: With Syntax Guide and Student Program and Data Disk cover

62. Structured COBOL Programming: With Syntax Guide and Student Program and Data Disk

by Nancy B. Stern, Robert A. Stern

How to Think About Analysis cover

63. How to Think About Analysis

by Lara Alcock

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Quantum Computing since Democritus cover

64. Quantum Computing since Democritus

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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World cover

65. Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World

by David Keys

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series) cover

66. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)

by Kurt W. Beyer

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

67. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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Introduction to Parallel Algorithms cover

68. Introduction to Parallel Algorithms

by Joseph JáJá, Joseph Jaja

Technomanifestos: Visions of the Information Revolutionaries cover

69. Technomanifestos: Visions of the Information Revolutionaries

by Adam Brate

Wherever You Go, There You Are cover

70. Wherever You Go, There You Are

by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box cover

71. Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box

by Syngress

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Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy cover

72. Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy

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