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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 12, 2016 - Sep 19, 2016

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

1. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

2. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications cover

3. The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

by Michal Zalewski

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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State cover

4. The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge

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Analyzing Sun networks cover

5. Analyzing Sun networks

by Carl Malamud

Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython cover

6. Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython

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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential cover

7. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

by Barbara Oakley, PhD

The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job cover

8. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

by Karen Kelsky

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

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

by Antonio Garcia Martinez

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Hands-On Programming with R: Write Your Own Functions and Simulations cover

10. Hands-On Programming with R: Write Your Own Functions and Simulations

by Garrett Grolemund

Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (4th Edition) cover

11. Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (4th Edition)

by Douglas Comer

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Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition) cover

12. Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition)

by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, Andrew M. Rudoff

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage cover

13. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

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South: The ENDURANCE Expedition cover

14. South: The ENDURANCE Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton

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Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

15. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? cover

16. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

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Espresso Coffee: Professional Techniques cover

17. Espresso Coffee: Professional Techniques

by David C. Schomer

The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage cover

18. The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

by Anthony Brandt

The Philosophy Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) cover

19. The Philosophy Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)

by DK

Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education cover

20. Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education

by Diego Gambetta, Steffen Hertog

Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us cover

21. Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

by Murray Carpenter

The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space: Apogee Books Space Series 12 cover

22. The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space: Apogee Books Space Series 12

by Gerard K. O'Neill, David Gump, Space Studies Institute, Space Frontier Foundation

Unnatural Selections cover

23. Unnatural Selections

by Gary Larson

Starting Point, 1979-1996 cover

24. Starting Point, 1979-1996

by Hayao Miyazaki

Natural Justice cover

25. Natural Justice

by Ken Binmore

Mastering Bitcoin cover

26. Mastering Bitcoin

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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1939 - Der Krieg, der viele Väter hatte. cover

27. 1939 - Der Krieg, der viele Väter hatte.

by Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof

Euclid's Elements cover

28. Euclid's Elements

by Euclid, Sir Thomas Little Heath, Dana Densmore

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

29. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny cover

30. Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

by Mike Dash

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right cover

31. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer

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The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual cover

32. The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual

by H. Ward Silver

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An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming cover

33. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

by Timothy Budd

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

34. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp

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Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations cover

35. Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations

by Scott Berinato

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures cover

36. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures

by Dona M Wong

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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns cover

37. Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

by Kent Beck

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All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals cover

38. All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals

by John Conway, C. M. Kosemen, Darren Naish

The Upanishads: A Classic of Indian Spirituality cover

39. The Upanishads: A Classic of Indian Spirituality

by Eknath Easwaran

The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War cover

40. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War

by Thaddeus Holt

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Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewing Elements) cover

41. Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewing Elements)

by Chris White, Jamil Zainasheff

Object Thinking (Developer Reference) cover

42. Object Thinking (Developer Reference)

by David West

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Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

43. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg

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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America cover

44. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

by Thomas Frank

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover

45. The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

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The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 cover

46. The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945

by Max Hastings

A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) cover

47. A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)

by Dmitri Tymoczko

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life cover

48. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder

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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance cover

49. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic cover

50. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

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Elements of Programming cover

51. Elements of Programming

by Alexander A. Stepanov, Paul McJones

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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition cover

52. Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

by Daniele Teti

Distributed Cloud YunFS: Concepts and Design cover

53. Distributed Cloud YunFS: Concepts and Design

by Hongliang Zhu

Fante/Mencken: John Fante and H.L. Mencken: A Personal Correspondence, 1930-1952 cover

54. Fante/Mencken: John Fante and H.L. Mencken: A Personal Correspondence, 1930-1952

by John Fante, Henry Louis Mencken