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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 21, 2015 - Dec 28, 2015

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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness cover

1. How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

by Russell D. Roberts

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny cover

2. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright

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The Promise cover

3. The Promise

by Nicola Davies

This Is Not My Hat cover

4. This Is Not My Hat

by Jon Klassen

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Wolves cover

5. Wolves

by Emily Gravett

Smelly Louie cover

6. Smelly Louie

by Catherine Rayner

Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site cover

7. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site

by Sherri Duskey Rinker

Gorilla cover

8. Gorilla

by Anthony Browne

Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

9. Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos cover

10. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

by Deborah Heiligman

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Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series) cover

11. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series)

by Liping Ma

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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist cover

12. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable cover

13. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable

by John Steele Gordon

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I cover

14. Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I

by Danzig Baldaev

Structural Physics of Nuclear Fusion: With BSM-SG Atomic Models cover

15. Structural Physics of Nuclear Fusion: With BSM-SG Atomic Models

by Stoyan Sarg

The Wittgenstein Reader cover

16. The Wittgenstein Reader

by Sir Anthony Kenny

Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (paperback) (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Component Software) cover

17. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (paperback) (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Component Software)

by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer

The Trouble with Cookies cover

18. The Trouble with Cookies

by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby

Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs (The Pragmatic Programmers) cover

19. Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs (The Pragmatic Programmers)

by Adam Tornhill

Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

20. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg

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Blindsight cover

21. Blindsight

by Peter Watts

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Permutation City: A Novel cover

22. Permutation City: A Novel

by Greg Egan

Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People cover

23. Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People

by Joe Navarro, Toni Sciarra Poynter

Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale cover

24. Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale

by William Mitchell

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Principles of Constraint Programming cover

25. Principles of Constraint Programming

by Krzysztof Apt

Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence cover

26. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

by David Benatar

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Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition) cover

27. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)

by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon

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Aufbau der Physik. cover

28. Aufbau der Physik.

by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition) cover

29. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, Davie Richard O'Hallaron

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What Makes It Page?: The Windows 7 (x64) Virtual Memory Manager cover

30. What Makes It Page?: The Windows 7 (x64) Virtual Memory Manager

by Enrico Martignetti

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages cover

31. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

by Carlota Perez

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science cover

32. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

by Culadasa (John Yates Ph D ), Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? cover

33. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

by Dave Eggers

Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming cover

34. Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming

by Thomas VanDrunen

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

35. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) cover

36. Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

by Matthew Mathias, John Gallagher