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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 26, 2015 - Nov 2, 2015

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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease cover

1. Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

by Robert H. Lustig

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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir cover

2. Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace: A Memoir

by Michael Morton

Lisp in Small Pieces cover

3. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

4. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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Command and Control cover

5. Command and Control

by Eric Schlosser

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Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception cover

6. Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception

by Pamela Meyer

War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier cover

7. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

by Smedley Darlington Butler

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Sweet Tooth cover

8. Sweet Tooth

by Ian McEwan

The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking cover

9. The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

by Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François

Britain's War Machine cover

10. Britain's War Machine

by David Edgerton

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition cover

11. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

by Jared M. Diamond

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The Conscience of a Liberal cover

12. The Conscience of a Liberal

by Paul Krugman

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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

13. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World cover

14. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

by David E. Stannard

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

15. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

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Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War cover

16. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War

by John Ellis

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain cover

17. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

by David Eagleman

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Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? cover

18. Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen

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Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development cover

19. Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development

by George E. Vaillant

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 cover

20. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

by David McCullough

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Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking cover

21. Information Hiding Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking

by Stefan Katzenbeisser, Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition cover

22. Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter

The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker cover

23. The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker

by Roger Ebert

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Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park cover

24. Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park

by Peter Nabokov, Lawrence L. Loendorf

Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False cover

25. Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel

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What Darwin Got Wrong cover

26. What Darwin Got Wrong

by Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia cover

27. Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

by Stephen Bodio

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

28. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

29. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

30. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides) cover

31. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides)

by David Flanagan

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Third-Party JavaScript cover

32. Third-Party JavaScript

by Ben Vinegar, Anton Kovalyov

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

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

by Robert L. Cross, Andrew Parker

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