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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 21, 2015 - Sep 28, 2015

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos cover

1. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman

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Who Owns the Future? cover

2. Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier

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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers cover

3. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

by Steve Souders

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F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts cover

4. F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts

by Philip J. Kaplan

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The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations cover

5. The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations

by Robert L. Cross, Andrew Parker

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The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript cover

6. The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript

by Nicholas C. Zakas

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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

7. 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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This Is Not Your City cover

8. This Is Not Your City

by Caitlin Horrocks

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition) cover

9. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

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Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise cover

10. Walking the High-Tech High Wire: The Technical Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Successful Enterprise

by David Adamson

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So You've Been Publicly Shamed cover

11. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

by Jon Ronson

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

12. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

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

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

by Steven Levy

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Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century Was Reported cover

14. Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century Was Reported

by John Simpson

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition cover

15. Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, Second Edition

by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner

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Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists cover

16. Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists

by Thomas E. Payne

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

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

by William Zinsser

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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence cover

18. Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

by Karen Armstrong

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The Microelectronics Revolution (MIT Press) cover

19. The Microelectronics Revolution (MIT Press)

by Tom Forester

19. Multidimensional Iterators in NumPy cover

20. 19. Multidimensional Iterators in NumPy

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation cover

21. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

by Dan Fagin

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

22. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster cover

23. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

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Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills cover

24. Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

by Russell L. Blaylock

How to Sell a Lobster cover

25. How to Sell a Lobster

by Bill Bishop

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Landmarks cover

26. Landmarks

by Robert Macfarlane

Mapping Big Data cover

27. Mapping Big Data

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The C Programming Language cover

28. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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