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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 23, 2016 - May 30, 2016

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Preußen und die Marktwirtschaft cover

1. Preußen und die Marktwirtschaft

by Ehrhardt Bödecker

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

2. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon

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The Grapes of Wrath cover

3. The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement cover

4. Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement

by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, Sarah Shourd

Coming of the Third Reich cover

5. Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans

Program Construction: Calculating Implementations from Specifications cover

6. Program Construction: Calculating Implementations from Specifications

by Roland Backhouse

Algorithmic Problem Solving cover

7. Algorithmic Problem Solving

by Roland Backhouse

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Artificial Reality 2 (2nd Edition) cover

8. Artificial Reality 2 (2nd Edition)

by Myron W. Krueger

The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By cover

9. The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By

by Scott Andrew Shane, Scott Shane

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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum cover

10. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman

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Visual Basic How-To: The Definitive Vb3 Problem Solver/Book and Disk cover

11. Visual Basic How-To: The Definitive Vb3 Problem Solver/Book and Disk

by Zane Thomas, Robert Arnson, Mitchell Waite

Nankin-sen tozasareta kioku o tazunete: moto heishi 102-nin no shōgen cover

12. Nankin-sen tozasareta kioku o tazunete: moto heishi 102-nin no shōgen

by 松岡環

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism cover

13. It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism

by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein

Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series) cover

14. Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Sloan Technology Series)

by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson

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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective cover

15. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang

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Zero Bugs and Program Faster cover

16. Zero Bugs and Program Faster

by Kate Thompson

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Last Chance to See cover

17. Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

18. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them cover

19. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

by Joshua Greene

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Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management cover

20. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management

by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins

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Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

21. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg

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Orwell: The Lost Writings cover

22. Orwell: The Lost Writings

by George Orwell, W. J. West

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How Asia Works cover

23. How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell

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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript cover

24. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

by Angus Croll

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

25. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

26. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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The C Programming Language cover

27. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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C Primer Plus (6th Edition) (Developer's Library) cover

28. C Primer Plus (6th Edition) (Developer's Library)

by Stephen Prata

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

29. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek cover

30. All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek

by Dave Marinaccio