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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 6, 2016 - Jun 13, 2016

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Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (Interactive Technologies) cover

1. Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (Interactive Technologies)

by Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

2. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to play the most complex video game ever made cover

3. Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to play the most complex video game ever made

by Peter Tyson

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VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5.2 cover

4. VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5.2

by Ruth E. Goldenberg, Lawrence J. Kenah, Denise E. Dumas

Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity cover

5. Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama

The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism cover

6. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism

by Trevor Aaronson

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Sex and the Single Zillionaire: A Novel cover

7. Sex and the Single Zillionaire: A Novel

by Tom Perkins

Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins cover

8. Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins

by Tom Perkins

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. Philip Ball cover

9. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. Philip Ball

by Philip Ball

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Mine's Bigger: The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It cover

10. Mine's Bigger: The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It

by David A. Kaplan

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

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

by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins

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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity cover

12. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

by Julia Serano

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Model Building in Mathematical Programming, 4th Edition cover

13. Model Building in Mathematical Programming, 4th Edition

by H. Paul Williams

The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World cover

14. The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World

by Marti Olsen Laney

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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education cover

15. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

by Diane Ravitch

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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution cover

16. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

by Richard Dawkins

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Compiling with Continuations cover

17. Compiling with Continuations

by Andrew W. Appel

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Economic Analysis of Property Rights (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) cover

18. Economic Analysis of Property Rights (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

by Yoram Barzel

The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series) cover

19. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)

by Eric S. Raymond

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty cover

20. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business cover

21. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

by Josh Kaufman

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Handbook of Designs and Devices (Dover Pictorial Archive) cover

22. Handbook of Designs and Devices (Dover Pictorial Archive)

by Clarence Pearson Hornung

Minimalist Mobile Robotics (Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence) cover

23. Minimalist Mobile Robotics (Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence)

by Jonathan H. Connell

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century cover

24. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez

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Sets and Groups: A First Course in Algebra cover

25. Sets and Groups: A First Course in Algebra

by James Alexander Green

Calculus, 4th edition cover

26. Calculus, 4th edition

by Michael Spivak

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The Art of the Sale: Learning from the Masters About the Business of Life cover

27. The Art of the Sale: Learning from the Masters About the Business of Life

by Philip Delves Broughton

Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

28. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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