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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 8, 2017 - May 15, 2017

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Designing Web Graphics.3 (3rd Edition) cover

1. Designing Web Graphics.3 (3rd Edition)

by Lynda Weinman

Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition) cover

2. Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)

by Robert Love

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The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home cover

3. The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home

by Ken Forkish

In Search of Perfection cover

4. In Search of Perfection

by Heston Blumenthal

The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd cover

5. The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

by Richard Zacks

Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition cover

6. Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition

by Jason Gregory

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Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core cover

7. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core

by Jonathan Levin

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Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement cover

8. Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

by Thomas Szasz

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

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

by Jon Gertner

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Chapters on Machinery and Labor cover

10. Chapters on Machinery and Labor

by George E. Barnett

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

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

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates cover

12. The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates

by Des Ekin

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America cover

13. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

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Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy cover

14. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

by Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian

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Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity cover

15. Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

by Carliss Young Baldwin, Kim B. Clark

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Measurement cover

16. Measurement

by Paul Lockhart

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Freedom Climbers cover

17. Freedom Climbers

by Bernadette McDonald

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II cover

18. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

by Douglas A. Blackmon

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition cover

19. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

by Charles T. Munger

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The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America cover

20. The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America

by Alex Berenson

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence cover

21. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson

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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:

22. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbooks) cover

23. The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbooks)

by Jon Hershfield, Tom Corboy

The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts cover

24. The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts

by Lee Baer

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

25. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Ship of Theseus cover

26. Ship of Theseus

by J. J. Abrams, Doug Dorst

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Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 cover

27. Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233

by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman

28. Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation

by Andrew Pettegree

The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must cover

29. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

by Robert Zubrin

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

30. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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Fat City: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes cover

31. Fat City: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes

by Donald Lambro

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us cover

32. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

by Michael Moss

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Vagueness (Problems of Philosophy) cover

33. Vagueness (Problems of Philosophy)

by Timothy Williamson

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Vagueness: A Reader cover

34. Vagueness: A Reader

by Rosanna Kenney, Peter Smith

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue cover

35. Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue

by David Einhorn

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

36. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet cover

37. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas cover

38. Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas

by A. G. Mojtabai