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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 10, 2016 - Oct 17, 2016

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Beyond the Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire Universe cover

1. Beyond the Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire Universe

by Ethan Siegel

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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press) cover

2. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students cover

3. Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students

by R. Shankar

Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics (The Open Yale Courses Series) cover

4. Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics (The Open Yale Courses Series)

by R. Shankar

Quantum Computing since Democritus cover

5. Quantum Computing since Democritus

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

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

by Jane Mayer

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From c-Numbers to q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory (California Studies in the History of Science) cover

7. From c-Numbers to q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory (California Studies in the History of Science)

by Olivier Darrigol, Research Director Olivier Darrigol

Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users cover

8. Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users

by Michael Rock

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design cover

9. Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design

by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler

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Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) cover

10. Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)

by Christopher Alexander

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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation cover

11. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

by Tim Brown

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Thoughts on Design cover

12. Thoughts on Design

by Paul Rand

The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 (A Quadrant Book) cover

13. The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 (A Quadrant Book)

by John Harwood

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information cover

14. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Branded Interactions: Creating the Digital Experience cover

15. Branded Interactions: Creating the Digital Experience

by Marco Spies

Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care cover

16. Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

by Marty Makary

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design cover

17. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel

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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty cover

18. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy

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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

19. Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

20. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition) cover

21. Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition)

by Harry Moritz Schey

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Tog on Software Design cover

22. Tog on Software Design

by Bruce Tognazzini

Tog on Interface cover

23. Tog on Interface

by Bruce Tognazzini

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The End Of Physics: The Myth Of A Unified Theory cover

24. The End Of Physics: The Myth Of A Unified Theory

by David Lindley

Statistical Models: Theory and Practice cover

25. Statistical Models: Theory and Practice

by David Freedman

From Bauhaus to Our House cover

26. From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe

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Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions cover

27. Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

by Gerd Gigerenzer

A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein cover

28. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein

by Palle Yourgrau

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

29. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Site Reliability Engineering cover

30. Site Reliability Engineering

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City cover

31. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

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Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation cover

32. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation

by R. G. Loeliger

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The Cyberiad cover

33. The Cyberiad

by Stanislaw Lem

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition cover

34. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

by Steven Levy

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) cover

35. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition)

by Steve Krug

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The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform cover

36. The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform

by James S. Corum

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism cover

37. Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism

by Charles Clover

Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for a Random World cover

38. Data Matters: Conceptual Statistics for a Random World

by Nicholas Maxwell

Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition) cover

39. Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition)

by Bassam Halabi, Sam Halabi, Danny McPherson

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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War cover

40. Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

by Peter Warren Singer, August Cole

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DAEMON cover

41. DAEMON

by Daniel Suarez

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Freedom (TM) cover

42. Freedom (TM)

by Daniel Suarez

Cracking Security Misconceptions cover

43. Cracking Security Misconceptions