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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 14, 2015 - Sep 21, 2015

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

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs cover

2. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

by Johann Hari

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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency cover

3. El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

by Ioan Grillo

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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

4. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

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23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism cover

5. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine cover

6. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory cover

7. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

by John Seabrook

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An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

8. An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Greg Michaelson

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

9. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations) cover

10. Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations)

by Stanisław Lem

Machine Learning for Hackers cover

11. Machine Learning for Hackers

by Drew Conway, John White

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

12. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics) cover

13. Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics)

by Cameron Davidson-Pilon

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Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence (4th Edition) (International Computer Science Series) cover

14. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence (4th Edition) (International Computer Science Series)

by Ivan Bratko

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

15. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff

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The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million cover

16. The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

by Mark Roberge

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

17. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others cover

18. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry cover

19. Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry

by Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler

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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

20. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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Death March (2nd Edition) cover

21. Death March (2nd Edition)

by Edward Yourdon

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Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and Career Success cover

22. Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and Career Success

by Anne Baber

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How to Sell a Lobster cover

23. How to Sell a Lobster

by Bill Bishop

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Zero Resistance Selling cover

24. Zero Resistance Selling

by Maxwell Maltz

New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development cover

25. New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development

by Mike Weinberg

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Winning Through Intimidation cover

26. Winning Through Intimidation

by Robert J. Ringer

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Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men cover

27. Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men

by Peggy Drexler, Linden Gross

Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness cover

28. Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

by Jeffrey Gitomer

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything cover

29. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

by Christopher Hitchens

You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar : The Sandler Sales Institute's 7-Step System for Successful Selling cover

30. You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar : The Sandler Sales Institute's 7-Step System for Successful Selling

by David H. Sandler

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Secrets of Question-Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results cover

31. Secrets of Question-Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results

by Thomas Freese

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The Soviet Political Poster: 1917-1980 cover

32. The Soviet Political Poster: 1917-1980

by Nina Ivanovna Baburina

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Behold!!! the Protong cover

33. Behold!!! the Protong

by Stanislav Szukalski, Glenn Bray, Robert Williams

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

34. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition) cover

35. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)

by Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

36. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics cover

37. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader

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

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

by George Lakoff

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An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance cover

39. An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

by Michel M. Dacorogna

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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter cover

40. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World cover

41. The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe cover

42. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

by Simon Singh

Mission to Tashkent cover

43. Mission to Tashkent

by F.M. Bailey

Word Freak cover

44. Word Freak

by Stefan Fatsis

The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them (California Studies in Food and Culture) cover

45. The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them (California Studies in Food and Culture)

by Susan Allport

Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin cover

46. Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin

by Loretta Graziano Breuning

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao cover

47. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz

Unix Power Tools cover

48. Unix Power Tools

by Shelley Powers

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Effective Computation in Physics cover

49. Effective Computation in Physics

by Anthony Scopatz, Kathryn D. Huff

Discrete-Time Signal Processing (3rd Edition) (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series) cover

50. Discrete-Time Signal Processing (3rd Edition) (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series)

by Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer

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