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

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success cover

1. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck

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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System cover

2. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

by Paul Fussell

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

3. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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The Sociopath Next Door cover

4. The Sociopath Next Door

by Martha Stout, Ph.D.

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Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy) cover

5. Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)

by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste cover

6. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

by Pierre Bourdieu

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics cover

7. Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics

by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd

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Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation cover

8. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement cover

9. The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford

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Critical Chain cover

10. Critical Chain

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials) cover

11. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses cover

12. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

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Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life cover

13. Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

14. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

15. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

16. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America cover

17. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth cover

18. The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch

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Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition cover

19. Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Die Tradition des lyrischen Dramas von Musset bis Hofmannsthal (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes) (German Edition) cover

20. Die Tradition des lyrischen Dramas von Musset bis Hofmannsthal (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes) (German Edition)

by Evelyn Schels

Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition cover

21. Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition

by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt

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The Quest for Artificial Intelligence cover

22. The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

by Nils J. Nilsson

Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It cover

23. Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It

by Nicholas Dunbar

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management cover

24. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein

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Intellectuals and Society cover

25. Intellectuals and Society

by Thomas Sowell

The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought cover

26. The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought

by Tzm Team

Bad Data Handbook cover

27. Bad Data Handbook

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Letters to a Young Scientist cover

28. Letters to a Young Scientist

Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon cover

29. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon

by James Harford

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus cover

30. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

by Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy

The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure cover

31. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Maths for Mums and Dads cover

32. Maths for Mums and Dads

by Robert Eastaway, Mike Askew

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

33. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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How to Teach Your Baby Math (The Gentle Revolution Series) cover

34. How to Teach Your Baby Math (The Gentle Revolution Series)

by Glenn Doman, Janet Doman