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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 10, 2015 - Aug 17, 2015

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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success cover

1. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

by William Thorndike

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1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances (Dover Science Books) cover

2. 1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances (Dover Science Books)

by Gardner Dexter Hiscox

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507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books) cover

3. 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)

by Henry T. Brown

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Whose Justice? Which Rationality? cover

4. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

by Alasdair C. MacIntyre

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Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality cover

5. Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality

by Bob Walsh

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Programming Rust cover

6. Programming Rust

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff

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Basic Aerobatics cover

7. Basic Aerobatics

by Geza Szurovy

WWW: Wake (WWW Trilogy) cover

8. WWW: Wake (WWW Trilogy)

by Robert J. Sawyer

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time cover

9. The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

by Judith Shulevitz

The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science) cover

10. The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

by John L. Gustafson

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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing cover

11. Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

by Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze

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Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition cover

12. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition

by Dan Jurafsky, James H. Martin

Aided Navigation: GPS with High Rate Sensors cover

13. Aided Navigation: GPS with High Rate Sensors

by Jay Farrell

Optimal State Estimation: Kalman, H Infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches cover

14. Optimal State Estimation: Kalman, H Infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches

by Dan Simon

Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens (3e édition) cover

15. Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens (3e édition)

by Robert-Vincent Joule, Jean-Léon Beauvois

Design of Shielded Enclosures: Cost-Effective Methods to Prevent EMI cover

16. Design of Shielded Enclosures: Cost-Effective Methods to Prevent EMI

by Louis T. Gnecco

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America cover

17. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology cover

18. Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

by Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden

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The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat cover

19. The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat

by Tim Spector

Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition cover

20. Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions cover

21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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Anatomy of Lisp (McGraw-Hill computer science series) cover

22. Anatomy of Lisp (McGraw-Hill computer science series)

by John Allen

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Thinking with a Pencil cover

23. Thinking with a Pencil

by Henning Nelms

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time cover

24. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel

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Raspberry Pi Assembly Language RASPBIAN Beginners: Hands On Guide cover

25. Raspberry Pi Assembly Language RASPBIAN Beginners: Hands On Guide

by Bruce Smith

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance cover

26. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

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The Erlang Run-Time System cover

27. The Erlang Run-Time System

by Erik Stenman

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures cover

28. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

by Carl Zimmer

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty cover

29. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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L'ÃƒÂªtre contre l'avoir cover

30. L'ÃƒÂªtre contre l'avoir

by Francis Cousin

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Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being cover

31. Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

by George Lakoff

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Starman Jones cover

32. Starman Jones

by Robert A. Heinlein

The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It cover

33. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

by Scott Patterson

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

34. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes cover

35. The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes

by David Darling

Call to Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results cover

36. Call to Action: Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results

by Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, Lisa T. Davis

An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms (2nd Edition) cover

37. An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms (2nd Edition)

by Robert Sedgewick, Philippe Flajolet

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Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) cover

38. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

39. Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Gray, Jim

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An Introduction to Database Systems cover

40. An Introduction to Database Systems

by C. J. Date

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The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future cover

41. The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future

by James M. Inhofe

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

42. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable cover

43. The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable

by Jeff S. Volek, Phd Stephen D. Phinney MD, Rd Jeff S. Volek Phd, Stephen D. Phinney

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