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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 28, 2015 - Jan 4, 2016

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Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State cover

1. Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State

by William H. Janeway

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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization cover

2. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge

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The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done cover

3. The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done

by Peter R. Scholtes

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The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition cover

4. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition

by Steven Spear

Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations cover

5. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations

by Karl Eugene Wiegers

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A Tour of C++ (C++ In-Depth) cover

6. A Tour of C++ (C++ In-Depth)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example cover

7. Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example

by Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo

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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of

8. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business

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Doing Grammar: Fourth Edition cover

9. Doing Grammar: Fourth Edition

by Max Morenberg

What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods cover

10. What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

11. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy cover

12. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian

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Still Alice cover

13. Still Alice

by Lisa Genova

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals cover

14. Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

by Saul Alinsky

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Visualizing Quaternions (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology) cover

15. Visualizing Quaternions (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)

by Andrew J. Hanson

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults cover

16. The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

by Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt

Designing Web Usability cover

17. Designing Web Usability

by Jakob Nielsen

Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times cover

18. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

by Lucy Lethbridge

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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons cover

19. A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (Source Books in History of Sciences) cover

20. From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (Source Books in History of Sciences)

by Jean van Heijenoort

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Beginning Logic cover

21. Beginning Logic

by Edward John Lemmon

Computability and Logic cover

22. Computability and Logic

by George Boolos, Richard C. Jeffrey, George S. Boolos, John P. Burgess

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Cunt Coloring Book cover

23. Cunt Coloring Book

by Tee Corinne

The Right Stuff cover

24. The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America cover

25. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well cover

26. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

27. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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CorelDRAW X6 The Official Guide cover

28. CorelDRAW X6 The Official Guide

by Gary David Bouton

What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People cover

29. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

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Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) cover

30. Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

by Amir Alexander

Operation Red Jericho (The Guild of Specialists) cover

31. Operation Red Jericho (The Guild of Specialists)

by Joshua Mowll

The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures) cover

32. The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)

by John Von Neumann

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

33. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

34. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

35. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life cover

36. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams

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The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life cover

37. The Pledge: Your Master Plan for an Abundant Life

by Michael Masterson

Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism cover

38. Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism

by Susan Haack