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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 27, 2016 - Jul 4, 2016

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Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation cover

1. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation

by William A. Fischel

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time cover

2. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck

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Cities for People cover

3. Cities for People

by Jan Gehl

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4. Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Revised Edition

by Theodor H. Nelson

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

5. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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PostgreSQL: Up and Running cover

6. PostgreSQL: Up and Running

by Regina O. Obe, Regina Obe, Leo S. Hsu

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) cover

7. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics cover

8. Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics

by Mark Buchanan

The Writer's Handbook (Writer's Handbooks (Writer Inc)) cover

9. The Writer's Handbook (Writer's Handbooks (Writer Inc))

by Sylvia K. Burack

How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

10. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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The Paralation Model: Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming (Artificial Intelligence) cover

11. The Paralation Model: Architecture-Independent Parallel Programming (Artificial Intelligence)

by Gary Sabot

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Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems cover

12. Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

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Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition) cover

13. Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition)

by Richard G. Lyons

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PREVIEWS & PREMISES cover

14. PREVIEWS & PREMISES

by Alvin Toffler

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies cover

15. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom

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Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence cover

16. Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence

by Rory Miller

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Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs cover

17. Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs

by Ronald M. Baecker

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Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance Kept a Kingdom United, but a Country Divided cover

18. Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance Kept a Kingdom United, but a Country Divided

by Joe Pike

Self-Discipline in 10 days: How To Go From Thinking to Doing cover

19. Self-Discipline in 10 days: How To Go From Thinking to Doing

by Theodore Bryant

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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It cover

20. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

by Kelly McGonigal

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Law and Rockets: An American Lawyer in Iraq cover

21. Law and Rockets: An American Lawyer in Iraq

by Michael O'Kane

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

22. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives cover

23. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Complexity and Criticality (Advanced Physics Texts) cover

24. Complexity and Criticality (Advanced Physics Texts)

by Kim Christensen, Nicholas R. Moloney

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Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers cover

25. Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers

by Stephen Wolfram

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

26. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

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The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book cover

27. The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book

by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Tīfāshī

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Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

28. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Writing for Science cover

29. Writing for Science

by Robert Goldbort