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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 25, 2017 - Oct 2, 2017

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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth cover

1. The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

by Clayton, Michael

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No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller cover

2. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

by Harry Markopolos

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The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual cover

3. The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual

by H. Ward Silver

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The ARRL Extra Class License Manual Spiral 11th Edition cover

4. The ARRL Extra Class License Manual Spiral 11th Edition

by H. Ward Silver

The ARRL General Class License Manual Spiral Bound cover

5. The ARRL General Class License Manual Spiral Bound

by ARRL Inc.

Principles of Economics, 7th Edition (Mankiw's Principles of Economics) cover

6. Principles of Economics, 7th Edition (Mankiw's Principles of Economics)

by N. Gregory Mankiw

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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

7. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger

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The Playboy Book: Forty Years cover

8. The Playboy Book: Forty Years

by Murray Fisher

Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition cover

9. Game Coding Complete, Fourth Edition

by Mike McShaffry, David Graham

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Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits cover

10. Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

by Robert C. Townsend, Warren Bennis

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Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection cover

11. Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection

by Rev. W. Awdry

Mass Destruction cover

12. Mass Destruction

by Melvin Tinker

Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life cover

13. Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life

by Margalis Fjelstad

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

14. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind cover

15. Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind

by Robert Kurzban

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The New Old World cover

16. The New Old World

by Perry Anderson

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Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care cover

17. Competition & Monopoly in Medical Care

by Harry Edward Frech (III)

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18. Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation: The 1962 Amendments (Evaluative Studies 15)

by Sam Peltzman

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Chinese Cursive Script: An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese (Far Eastern Publications Series) cover

19. Chinese Cursive Script: An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese (Far Eastern Publications Series)

by Fred Fang-Yu Wang

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Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication: Volume 5 of Modular Series on Solid State Devices (2nd Edition) cover

20. Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication: Volume 5 of Modular Series on Solid State Devices (2nd Edition)

by Richard C. Jaeger

Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd Edition) cover

21. Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd Edition)

by Jan M. Rabaey

Digital Design (3rd Edition) cover

22. Digital Design (3rd Edition)

by M. Morris Mano

Visualizing Data cover

23. Visualizing Data

by William S. Cleveland

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century cover

24. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker

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Basic Economics cover

25. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Wealth, Poverty and Politics cover

26. Wealth, Poverty and Politics

by Thomas Sowell

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Quantum Sense and Nonsense cover

27. Quantum Sense and Nonsense

by Jean Bricmont

Fundamentals of Matrix Computations cover

28. Fundamentals of Matrix Computations

by David S. Watkins

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

29. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior) cover

30. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

by Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels

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The New Age of Ceramics cover

31. The New Age of Ceramics

by Hannah Stouffer

Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom cover

32. Deep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom

by Yogani

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom cover

33. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt

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Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities cover

34. Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities

by Kevin Kelly

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

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

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers cover

36. Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

by B. Jack Copeland

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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders cover

37. Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton

LEGO Architecture: The Visual Guide cover

38. LEGO Architecture: The Visual Guide

by Philip Wilkinson, Adam Reed Tucker

The Manager's Path cover

39. The Manager's Path

by Camille Fournier

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Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ & The Shocking Legacy of the Grail cover

40. Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ & The Shocking Legacy of the Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information cover

41. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

by Manuel Lima

Debugging Teams cover

42. Debugging Teams

by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

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

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

by Michael Lopp

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Hate Mail: The Definitive Collection cover

44. Hate Mail: The Definitive Collection

by Bingo

Java 9 for Programmers (4th Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) cover

45. Java 9 for Programmers (4th Edition) (Deitel Developer Series)

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel

Java Generics and Collections cover

46. Java Generics and Collections

by Maurice Naftalin, Philip Wadler

Spring Boot in Action cover

47. Spring Boot in Action

by Craig Walls

Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming cover

48. Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming

by Raoul-Gabriel Urma

Beginning Java 8 Language Features: Lambda Expressions, Inner Classes, Threads, I/O, Collections, and Streams cover

49. Beginning Java 8 Language Features: Lambda Expressions, Inner Classes, Threads, I/O, Collections, and Streams

by Kishori Sharan

Java Concurrency in Practice cover

50. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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The Physics of Star Trek cover

51. The Physics of Star Trek

by Lawrence Krauss, Lawrence M. Krauss

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't cover

52. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

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