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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 17, 2015 - Aug 24, 2015

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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

1. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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Portable UNIX cover

2. Portable UNIX

by Douglas W. Topham

Treading on Python Volume 2: Intermediate Python cover

3. Treading on Python Volume 2: Intermediate Python

by Matt Harrison

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Capital in the Twenty First Century cover

4. Capital in the Twenty First Century

by Thomas Piketty

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Microinteractions: Full Color Edition: Designing with Details cover

5. Microinteractions: Full Color Edition: Designing with Details

by Dan Saffer

Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports cover

6. Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports

by Thomas R. Ittelson

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Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean cover

7. Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

by Karen Berman, Joe Knight

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Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers cover

8. Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers

by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case

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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth cover

9. The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America cover

10. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

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Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code cover

11. Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code

by Van Lindberg

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

12. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at Work cover

13. Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at Work

by Marie G. McIntyre, Ph.D.

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World cover

14. The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

by Steve LeVine

Astrophysics through Computation: With Mathematica® Support cover

15. Astrophysics through Computation: With Mathematica® Support

by Brian Koberlein, David Meisel

The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut cover

16. The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut

by Clayton C. Anderson

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

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

by Dava Sobel

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The Bug: A Novel cover

18. The Bug: A Novel

by Ellen Ullman

C# in Depth, 3rd Edition cover

19. C# in Depth, 3rd Edition

by Jon Skeet

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War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage cover

20. War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

21. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

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Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

22. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics cover

23. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

by Leonard Susskind

Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information cover

24. Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

by Vlatko Vedral

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Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction cover

25. Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

by Ian J. Deary

One Second After (A John Matherson Novel) cover

26. One Second After (A John Matherson Novel)

by William R. Forstchen

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Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them cover

27. Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them

by Cynthia Shapiro

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The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe) cover

28. The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)

by Umberto Eco

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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles cover

29. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles

by Bruce H. Lipton

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Smalltalk 80: The Language cover

30. Smalltalk 80: The Language

by Adele Goldberg, David Robson

Algorithms in C (Computer Science Series) cover

31. Algorithms in C (Computer Science Series)

by Robert Sedgewick

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Exploring Expect cover

32. Exploring Expect

by Don Libes

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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon cover

33. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone

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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships cover

34. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

by Leil Lowndes

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Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age cover

35. Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age

by Kirkpatrick Sale

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Aperture Magazine Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952-1976 cover

36. Aperture Magazine Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952-1976

by Peter C. Bunnell

The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It) cover

37. The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It)

by Andy Wightman

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L'ÃƒÂªtre contre l'avoir cover

38. L'ÃƒÂªtre contre l'avoir

by Francis Cousin

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Capitalisme, désir et servitude cover

39. Capitalisme, désir et servitude

by Frédéric Lordon

Free: The Future of a Radical Price cover

40. Free: The Future of a Radical Price

by Chris Anderson

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Machine Learning cover

41. Machine Learning

by Robert J. Schalkoff

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