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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 16, 2015 - Nov 23, 2015

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

1. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

2. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 2) cover

3. Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 2)

by Heppenheimer Ta

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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition cover

4. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition

by Jerome Friedman, Robert Tibshirani

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

5. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic cover

6. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest cover

7. Chimp & the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

by David Quammen

The Origins of AIDS cover

8. The Origins of AIDS

by Jacques Pepin

Machine Learning for Hackers: Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started cover

9. Machine Learning for Hackers: Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started

by Drew Conway, John White

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

10. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure) cover

11. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure)

by Mark Hodder

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Programmer's Guide to Drupal cover

12. Programmer's Guide to Drupal

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead cover

13. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown

O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

14. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

by Jerry D. Peek

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Enemies: A History of the FBI cover

15. Enemies: A History of the FBI

by Tim Weiner

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Calculus Made Easy cover

16. Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

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Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

17. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Show Me A Hero cover

18. Show Me A Hero

by Lisa Belkin

Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise cover

19. Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise

by Manfred Robert Schroeder

Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

20. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam cover

21. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

by Reza Aslan

The Don't Go Hungry Diet cover

22. The Don't Go Hungry Diet

by Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

The Big Short cover

23. The Big Short

by Michael M. Lewis

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Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book cover

24. Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book

by John Cassidy

Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird cover

25. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

by Andrew D. Blechman

Refuting ISIS: A Rebuttal Of Its Religious And Ideological Foundations cover

26. Refuting ISIS: A Rebuttal Of Its Religious And Ideological Foundations

by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi

Probability and Statistics (4th Edition) cover

27. Probability and Statistics (4th Edition)

The Art of Fermentation: With Practical Information on Fermenting Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Milk, Beans, Meats, and More cover

28. The Art of Fermentation: With Practical Information on Fermenting Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Milk, Beans, Meats, and More

by Sandor Ellix Katz

Vegetarian Sports Nutrition cover

29. Vegetarian Sports Nutrition

by D. Enette Larson-Meyer

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) cover

30. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

by Daniel L. Everett

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Algorithms cover

31. Algorithms

by Jeff Erickson

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