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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 20, 2016 - Jun 27, 2016

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom cover

1. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

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Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press) cover

2. Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press)

by Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell

Creation: Life and How to Make It cover

3. Creation: Life and How to Make It

by Steve Grand

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols cover

4. Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

by Henry Dreyfuss

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Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual cover

5. Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual

by Ben Clark

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Modern Control Systems (13th Edition) cover

6. Modern Control Systems (13th Edition)

by Richard C. Dorf, Robert H. Bishop

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) cover

7. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides) cover

8. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides)

by David Flanagan

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Pro JavaScript Techniques: Second Edition cover

9. Pro JavaScript Techniques: Second Edition

by John Paxton, John Resig, Russ Ferguson

Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again cover

10. Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

by Donald J. Trump

REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture cover

11. REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture

by Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, Ian Robinson

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Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node cover

12. Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node

by Mike Amundsen, Michael Amundsen

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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It cover

13. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

by Scott Patterson

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Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939 cover

14. Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, R. G. Bosanquet

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Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use (Convergence) cover

15. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use (Convergence)

by Noam Chomsky

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy cover

16. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

by David Graeber

Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To cover

17. Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To

by Dana Loesch

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30 Years a Watchtower Slave: The Confessions of a Converted Jehovah's Witness cover

18. 30 Years a Watchtower Slave: The Confessions of a Converted Jehovah's Witness

by William J. Schnell

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

19. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual cover

20. LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

by John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel J. Edwards, Timothy P. Hart, Michael I. Levin

Advanced .NET Debugging cover

21. Advanced .NET Debugging

by Mario Hewardt

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Advanced Windows Debugging cover

22. Advanced Windows Debugging

by Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat

Apple Crunch cover

23. Apple Crunch

by Frederic Vincent Huber

Sex in America cover

24. Sex in America

by Edward Laumann, Robert T. Michael, Gina Kolata

Swift Pocket Reference cover

25. Swift Pocket Reference

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26. Build Your Own Z80 Computer

by Steve Ciarcia

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The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques (Mit Press Series in Logic Programming) cover

27. The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques (Mit Press Series in Logic Programming)

by Leon Sterling, Ehud Yehuda Shapiro

The Craft of Prolog (Logic Programming) cover

28. The Craft of Prolog (Logic Programming)

by Richard O'Keefe

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty cover

29. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

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Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C cover

30. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C

by Bruce Schneier

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Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition cover

31. Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition

by Keith Daniel Cooper, Linda Torczon

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World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 cover

32. World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17

by G. Edward Griffin

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Object Thinking (Developer Reference) cover

33. Object Thinking (Developer Reference)

by David West

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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man cover

34. The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

by David Maurer

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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation cover

35. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

by Gary William Flake

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History of My Life, Vols. 1-2 cover

36. History of My Life, Vols. 1-2

by Giacomo Casanova

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com cover

37. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com

by Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt cover

38. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis

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The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Commemorative Edition cover

39. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Commemorative Edition

by Horace Freeland Judson

Rosie Revere, Engineer cover

40. Rosie Revere, Engineer

by Andrea Beaty

Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement cover

41. Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement

by Tony Robbins

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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body cover

42. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

by Neil Shubin

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