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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 19, 2017 - Jun 26, 2017

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Watchmaking cover

1. Watchmaking

by George Daniels

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy cover

2. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

3. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation cover

4. Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation

by Sonia Hirt

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

5. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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Windows 98 Annoyances: Taking Charge of Windows 98 cover

6. Windows 98 Annoyances: Taking Charge of Windows 98

by David Karp

Spurious Correlations cover

7. Spurious Correlations

by Tyler Vigen

The End of History and the Last Man cover

8. The End of History and the Last Man

by Francis Fukuyama

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City cover

9. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China) cover

10. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China)

by Mark Edward Lewis

A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward cover

11. A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

by Isaac Metzker

Complete Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding cover

12. Complete Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding

by Bill Lane, Azriela Jaffe

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

13. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties cover

14. Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

by Beth Kobliner

Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction cover

15. Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction

by Claudia Christian, Morgan Grant Buchanan

Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition) cover

16. Hacker's Delight (2nd Edition)

by Henry S. Warren

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Human Nature: The Categorial Framework cover

17. Human Nature: The Categorial Framework

by P. M. S. Hacker

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Flat Stanley Collection cover

18. Flat Stanley Collection

by Jeff Brown

Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter cover

19. Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

by Richard Platt

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Software Specification Methods cover

20. Software Specification Methods

by Henri Habrias, Marc Frappier

The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business cover

21. The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business

by Christopher Leonard

The Fear Index cover

22. The Fear Index

by Robert Harris

Where Night Is Day: The World of the ICU (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) cover

23. Where Night Is Day: The World of the ICU (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

by James Kelly

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life cover

24. Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

by Henry Cloud, John Townsend, John Sims Townsend

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

25. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink

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Life Hacks: Any Procedure or Action That Solves a Problem, Simplifies a Task, Reduces Frustration, Etc. in One's Everyday Life cover

26. Life Hacks: Any Procedure or Action That Solves a Problem, Simplifies a Task, Reduces Frustration, Etc. in One's Everyday Life

by Keith Bradford

Fitzhugh Haiku cover

27. Fitzhugh Haiku

by Asie Oz

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