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

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) cover

1. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

by Alfred V. Aho

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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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Crafting A Compiler cover

3. Crafting A Compiler

by Charles N. Fischer, Ronald Kaplan Cytron, Richard Joseph LeBlanc

The Sociopath Next Door cover

4. The Sociopath Next Door

by Martha Stout

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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste cover

5. 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

6. 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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A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation cover

7. A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation

by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson

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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies cover

8. Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

by Cesar Hidalgo

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Missions, methodes, techniques speciales des services secrets au 21e siecle (French Edition) cover

9. Missions, methodes, techniques speciales des services secrets au 21e siecle (French Edition)

by Lieutenant-Colonel X., Jacques Léger

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Argentina: An Economic Chronicle. How One of the Richest Countries in the World Lost Its Wealth cover

10. Argentina: An Economic Chronicle. How One of the Richest Countries in the World Lost Its Wealth

by Vito Tanzi

How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

11. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Critical Chain cover

12. Critical Chain

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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

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

by Spencer Johnson

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

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

by Eric Ries

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

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

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials) cover

16. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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

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

by John Markoff

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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

18. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer

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

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

by Irving Kirsch

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

20. 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 Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

21. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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

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

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

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

by James Harford

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

24. 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 cover

25. Learning the bash Shell

by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt

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Dan Dare: Spacefleet Operations (Owners' Workshop Manual) cover

26. Dan Dare: Spacefleet Operations (Owners' Workshop Manual)

by Rod Barzilay

The Quest for Artificial Intelligence cover

27. The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

by Nils J. Nilsson

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

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

by Roger Lowenstein

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

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

by Nicholas Dunbar

Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

30. Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Thomas Sowell

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Bad Data Handbook cover

31. Bad Data Handbook

by Q. Ethan McCallum

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Letters to a Young Scientist cover

32. Letters to a Young Scientist

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

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

by Tzm Team

Maths for Mums and Dads cover

34. Maths for Mums and Dads

by Robert Eastaway, Mike Askew

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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure cover

35. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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

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

by Glenn Doman, Janet Doman