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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 25, 2016 - Aug 1, 2016

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Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics) cover

1. Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics)

by James Joyce

Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition cover

2. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

by Everett M. Rogers

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

3. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today cover

4. 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

by Stephen Le

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage cover

5. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew

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Leisure the Basis of Culture cover

6. Leisure the Basis of Culture

by Josef Pieper

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley cover

7. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez

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Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology cover

8. Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology

by Steven Levy

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So You've been Publicly Shamed cover

9. So You've been Publicly Shamed

by Jon Ronson

867-5309 Jenny, the Song That Saved Me cover

10. 867-5309 Jenny, the Song That Saved Me

by Alex Call

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome cover

11. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I cover

12. The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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Hands-On Programming with R cover

13. Hands-On Programming with R

by Garrett Grolemund

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition) cover

14. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition)

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

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The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production cover

15. The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production

by David Gibson, David Gibson

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) cover

16. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

by Alfred V. Aho

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Free Will cover

17. Free Will

by Sam Harris

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The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life cover

18. The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life

by Rodney Dietert, PhD

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

19. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition cover

20. Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition

by Abigail Gehring

Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening cover

21. Grow or Die: The Good Guide to Survival Gardening

by David Goodman

Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain cover

22. Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain

by Pete Egoscue, Roger Gittines

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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) cover

23. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch)

by Ann Leckie

C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software cover

24. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson

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Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing - How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior cover

25. Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing - How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior

by William Sargant

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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders cover

26. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

by L. David Marquet

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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan cover

27. Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan

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First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science cover

28. First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science

by Howard Burton

The Manga Guide to Databases cover

29. The Manga Guide to Databases

by Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Co Ltd Trend

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Adventures in Raspberry Pi cover

30. Adventures in Raspberry Pi

by Carrie Anne Philbin

Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

31. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson

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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure cover

32. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure

by Jerry Kaplan

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

33. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

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Exploring Expect cover

34. Exploring Expect

by Don Libes

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Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals cover

35. Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals

by Pat Shaughnessy

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Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets cover

36. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

by Peter Van der Linden

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Parting Shots cover

37. Parting Shots

by Matthew Parris, Andrew Bryson

Learning Processing, Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

38. Learning Processing, Second Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Daniel Shiffman

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made cover

39. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

by Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas

High Output Management cover

40. High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove

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Galois Theory: Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame by Emil Artin (Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, Number 2) cover

41. Galois Theory: Lectures Delivered at the University of Notre Dame by Emil Artin (Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, Number 2)

by Emil Artin, Arthur Norton Milgram

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past) cover

42. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)

by Cixin Liu

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Conman : A Master Swindler’s Own Story (Library of Larceny) cover

43. Conman : A Master Swindler’s Own Story (Library of Larceny)

by J.R. Weil, W.T. Brannon

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems cover

44. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

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21st Century C: C Tips from the New School cover

45. 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School

by Ben Klemens

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Lucky Or Smart?: Fifty Pages for the First-Time Entrepreneur cover

46. Lucky Or Smart?: Fifty Pages for the First-Time Entrepreneur

by Bo Peabody

Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning cover

47. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

by Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth

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Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat (Combat Aircraft) cover

48. Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat (Combat Aircraft)

by Tom Cooper, Farzad Bishop