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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 7, 2017 - Aug 14, 2017

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The Sale of a Lifetime: How the Great Bubble Burst of 2017-2019 Can Make You Rich cover

1. The Sale of a Lifetime: How the Great Bubble Burst of 2017-2019 Can Make You Rich

by Harry S. Dent, Jr.

The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down cover

2. The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down

by Harry S. Dent

Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification cover

3. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

by Timur Kuran

The Gene: An Intimate History cover

4. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The Golem: What You Should Know About Science (Canto Classics) cover

5. The Golem: What You Should Know About Science (Canto Classics)

by Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch

Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

6. Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Joseph H. Silverman, John T. Tate

Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory cover

7. Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

by Avner Ash, Robert Gross

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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

8. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

9. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems cover

10. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

by Aurélien Géron

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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature cover

11. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine, Roc Filella Escolà, ʻImanuʾel Loṭem

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century cover

12. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding cover

13. Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding

by Wolfgang Baur, Scott Hungerford, Jeff Grubb

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance cover

14. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

by David Epstein

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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve cover

15. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

by G. Edward Griffin

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Information Visualization, Third Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies) cover

16. Information Visualization, Third Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies)

by Colin Ware

The Grapes of Wrath cover

17. The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Assholes: A Theory cover

18. Assholes: A Theory

by Aaron James

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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners cover

19. Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

by Michael Erard

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power cover

20. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

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Site Reliability Engineering cover

21. Site Reliability Engineering

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

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

22. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels cover

23. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

by Alex Epstein

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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators cover

24. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

by Clay Shirky

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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography cover

25. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography

by Edward Rice

Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition): An Object-Oriented Approach to Geometry (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

26. Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition): An Object-Oriented Approach to Geometry (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Leo Dorst, Daniel Fontijne, Stephen Mann

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Linear and Geometric Algebra cover

27. Linear and Geometric Algebra

by Alan MacDonald

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Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

28. Algebra (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Serge Lang

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Primer of Biostatistics, Seventh Edition (Primer of Biostatistics (Glantz)(Paperback)) cover

29. Primer of Biostatistics, Seventh Edition (Primer of Biostatistics (Glantz)(Paperback))

by Stanton Glantz

The Design of Studies for Medical Research cover

30. The Design of Studies for Medical Research

by David Machin, Michael J. Campbell

Study Design and Statistical Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians cover

31. Study Design and Statistical Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians

by Mitchell Katz

The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities cover

32. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities

by Matthew White

The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction cover

33. The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction

by William E. Shotts, Jr.

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The Endurance Diet: Discover the 5 Core Habits of the World’s Greatest Athletes to Look, Feel, and Perform Better cover

34. The Endurance Diet: Discover the 5 Core Habits of the World’s Greatest Athletes to Look, Feel, and Perform Better

by Matt Fitzgerald

Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual cover

35. Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual

by Ben Clark

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The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides) cover

36. The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs (Princeton Lifesaver Study Guides)

by Raffi Grinberg

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women cover

37. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore (Writer and editor)

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies cover

38. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey B. West

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Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus cover

39. Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus

by John Gray, John Gray, John [Ph.D] Gray

ABCs of Programming cover

40. ABCs of Programming

by Arthur Johnston, Madison Johnston

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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters cover

41. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

by Thomas M. Nichols

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