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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Mar 26, 2018 - Apr 2, 2018

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The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better cover

1. The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better

by Seth Godin
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker
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Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men cover

3. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

by Lundy Bancroft
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Journey into the Whirlwind cover

4. Journey into the Whirlwind

by Evgenii︠a︡ Ginzburg
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left cover

5. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left

by Roger Scruton
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Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail cover

6. Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail

by John Gall
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White Girls cover

7. White Girls

by Hilton Als
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It's Not Luck cover

8. It's Not Luck

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance - A Business Novel cover

9. Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance - A Business Novel

by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, Jeff Cox
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Hanging Fire: Achieving Predictable Results in an Uncertain World cover

10. Hanging Fire: Achieving Predictable Results in an Uncertain World

by Jeff Cox
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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times cover

11. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

by Lucy Lethbridge
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization cover

12. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition) cover

13. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers cover

14. Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers

by Michael C. Jackson
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Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary cover

15. Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary

by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones
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Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory cover

16. Basic Structures of Matter: Supergravitation Unified Theory

by Stoyan Sarg
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An Introduction to Cybernetics cover

17. An Introduction to Cybernetics

by W. Ross Ashby
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The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition cover

18. The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition

by Herbert Alexander Simon
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Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity cover

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

by Carliss Young Baldwin, Kim B. Clark
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Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence cover

20. Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence

by Jacob Lund Fisker
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The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America cover

21. The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America

by Leonard Peikoff
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On The Shortness Of Life cover

22. On The Shortness Of Life

by Seneca
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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

23. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner
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The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd Edition cover

24. The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger
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Software Tools in Pascal cover

25. Software Tools in Pascal

by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger
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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

26. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road cover

27. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

by Nick Bilton
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business cover

28. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg
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When Google Met Wikileaks cover

29. When Google Met Wikileaks

by Julian Assange
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Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X: Third Edition - for Linux and OS X cover

30. Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X: Third Edition - for Linux and OS X

by Ray Seyfarth
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General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications cover

31. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications

by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition cover

32. Thinking and Deciding, 4th Edition

by Jonathan Baron
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

33. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

34. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon cover

35. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann
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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade cover

36. Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

by Adam Minter
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing cover

37. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

by Marie Kondo
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Analog VLSI and Neural Systems cover

38. Analog VLSI and Neural Systems

by Carver Mead
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It cover

39. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis) cover

40. Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis)

by Thomas C. Schelling
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collector's Library) cover

41. The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collector's Library)

by Ibn Battutah
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Travels of Ibn Jubayr cover

42. Travels of Ibn Jubayr

by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ibn Jubayr, Ronald J. C. Broadhurst
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The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders cover

43. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win cover

44. Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win

by Jack D. Schwager
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Market Wizards cover

45. Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager
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21st Century C cover

46. 21st Century C

by Ben Klemens
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The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics cover

47. The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics

by Isaac William Martin
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies) cover

48. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies)

by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass
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The Fundamentals of Ethics cover

49. The Fundamentals of Ethics

by Russ Shafer-Landau
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C++ Primer (5th Edition) cover

50. C++ Primer (5th Edition)

by Stanley B. Lippman
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Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game cover

51. Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

by Jon Birger
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The Protean Self: Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation cover

52. The Protean Self: Human Resilience In An Age Of Fragmentation

by Robert J. Lifton
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