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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 9, 2015 - Nov 16, 2015

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The Soul of A New Machine cover

1. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder
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Not for Bread Alone cover

2. Not for Bread Alone

by Konosuke Matsushita
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy cover

3. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy

by Henry George
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia cover

4. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

by Robert Nozick
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A Theory of Justice cover

5. A Theory of Justice

by John Rawls
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence cover

6. The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros
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Accelerando (Singularity) cover

7. Accelerando (Singularity)

by Charles Stross
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

8. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne
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Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students cover

9. Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

by Allan Bloom
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On Directing Film cover

10. On Directing Film

by David Mamet
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Outliers: The Story of Success cover

11. Outliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World After an Apocalypse cover

12. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World After an Apocalypse

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

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

by Smedley Darlington Butler
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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

14. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow
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The Wisdom of Crowds cover

15. The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic cover

16. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

by Sam Quinones
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Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life cover

17. Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life

by David Perlmutter
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Mindfulness in Plain English cover

18. Mindfulness in Plain English

by Bhante Henepola Gunarantana
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Disney's World: A Biography cover

19. Disney's World: A Biography

by Leonard Mosley
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Mailing May cover

20. Mailing May

by Michael O. Tunnell
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From Bauhaus to Our House cover

21. From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe
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Ancient Inventions cover

22. Ancient Inventions

by Peter J. James, Nick Thorpe, I. J. Thorpe
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Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

23. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg
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The Physics of Musical Instruments cover

24. The Physics of Musical Instruments

by Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing
Read 1 comment
Trade is War cover

25. Trade is War

by Yashpal Tandon
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