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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 6, 2017 - Nov 13, 2017

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Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition) cover

1. Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition)

by Thomas L. Floyd

Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) cover

2. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1)

3. "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler

by J. R. Weil

The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us cover

4. The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison – An Oracle Biography of Ruthless Ambition and Silicon Valley Fame cover

5. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison – An Oracle Biography of Ruthless Ambition and Silicon Valley Fame

by Mike Wilson

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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic cover

6. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

by Mike Duncan

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Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It cover

7. Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It

by Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, Drew Farris

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The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering 2300 Characters cover

8. The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering 2300 Characters

by Andrew Scott Conning

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created cover

9. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

by Charles C. Mann

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Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting cover

10. Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting

by Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay

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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System cover

11. A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

by T. R. Reid

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How the World Was One cover

12. How the World Was One

by Arthur Charles Clarke

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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention cover

13. The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention

by Alexander Monro

Paper: Paging Through History cover

14. Paper: Paging Through History

by Mark Kurlansky

Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought cover

15. Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

by David H. Fischer

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us cover

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

by Michael Moss

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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) cover

17. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

by Barbara A. Oakley

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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens cover

18. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

by Benedict Carey

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

19. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Hello Web App cover

20. Hello Web App

by Tracy Osborn

A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES) cover

21. A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

22. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik

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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (9th Edition) cover

23. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (9th Edition)

by John C. Hull

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Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition cover

24. Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

by Aidas Bendoraitis

Inside the Artist's Studio: (Interviews with 24 artists on process, inspiration, technique. Includes photographs and new artwork of their studios) cover

25. Inside the Artist's Studio: (Interviews with 24 artists on process, inspiration, technique. Includes photographs and new artwork of their studios)

by Joe Fig

Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking cover

26. Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

by David Bayles, Ted Orland

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The Naked Spinor: A Rewrite of Clifford Algebra cover

27. The Naked Spinor: A Rewrite of Clifford Algebra

by Dennis Morris