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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 3, 2015 - Aug 10, 2015

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Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age cover

1. Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age

by Michael Wolff

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism cover

2. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 cover

3. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128

by AnnaLee Saxenian

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The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer cover

4. The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer

by Georges Ifrah

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Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art and Architecture cover

5. Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art and Architecture

by Paul Calter

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The Ancient Engineers: An Astonishing Look Back at the Ancient Wonders of the World and Their Creators cover

6. The Ancient Engineers: An Astonishing Look Back at the Ancient Wonders of the World and Their Creators

by L. Sprague De Camp

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Infinitesimal Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

7. Infinitesimal Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by James M. Henle, Eugene M. Kleinberg

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

8. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition cover

9. The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition

by M. F. K. Fisher

Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) cover

10. Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)

by Christopher Alexander

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The Way to Write cover

11. The Way to Write

by John Fairfax

Computer Networks cover

12. Computer Networks

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition cover

13. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

14. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul cover

15. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

by Howard Schultz

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond cover

16. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz

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Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition cover

17. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

by Everett M. Rogers

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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job cover

18. Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job

by John Mongan, Eric Giguère, Noah Kindler

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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

19. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

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Don't Shoot the Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training cover

20. Don't Shoot the Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training

by Karen Pryor

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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age cover

21. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology cover

22. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

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Total Recall cover

23. Total Recall

by Piers Anthony

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The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications cover

24. The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

by Michal Zalewski

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger cover

25. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson

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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers cover

26. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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The Dam Builders: Power from the Glens cover

27. The Dam Builders: Power from the Glens

by James Miller

Card College, Vol. 1: A Complete Course in Sleight-of-Hand Card Magic cover

28. Card College, Vol. 1: A Complete Course in Sleight-of-Hand Card Magic

by Roberto Giobbi

The Inner Game of Tennis cover

29. The Inner Game of Tennis

by W. Timothy Gallwey

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies) cover

30. The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies)

by Yanis Varoufakis

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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East cover

31. The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East

by Andrew Scott Cooper

747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation cover

32. 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation

by Joe Sutter, Jay Spenser

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Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War cover

33. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War

by Michael D. Gordin

Effective Modern C++ cover

34. Effective Modern C++

by Scott Meyers

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Living Clojure cover

35. Living Clojure

by Carin Meier

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Number Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

36. Number Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by George E. Andrews

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

37. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip cover

38. Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

by Peter Hessler

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum cover

39. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman

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Quantum Computing since Democritus cover

40. Quantum Computing since Democritus

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Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition cover

41. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition

by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang

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Melanin: The Chemical Key To Black Greatness (Black Greatness Series) cover

42. Melanin: The Chemical Key To Black Greatness (Black Greatness Series)

by Carol Barnes

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother cover

43. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

by Amy Chua

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients cover

44. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre

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Combinatorial Theory cover

45. Combinatorial Theory

by Marshall Hall

The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

46. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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The Art of SEO (Theory in Practice) cover

47. The Art of SEO (Theory in Practice)

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin

The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization cover

48. The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

49. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Elements of Programming Interviews: The Insiders' Guide cover

50. Elements of Programming Interviews: The Insiders' Guide

by Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash

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