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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 20, 2018 - Aug 27, 2018

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

1. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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When Panic Attacks: A New Drug-Free Therapy to Beat Chronic Shyness, Anxiety and Phobias cover

2. When Panic Attacks: A New Drug-Free Therapy to Beat Chronic Shyness, Anxiety and Phobias

by David D. Burns, David D. Burns, M.D.

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship cover

3. Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship

by Mira Kirshenbaum

Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions cover

4. Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Gr cover

5. The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Gr

by Peter Pringle

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

6. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Technical Documentation Basics: How to Write That F***ing Manual - The essentials of technical writing in a nutshell cover

7. Technical Documentation Basics: How to Write That F***ing Manual - The essentials of technical writing in a nutshell

by Marc Achtelig

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

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

by David Kushner

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Voyaging On A Small Income, 2nd Edition cover

9. Voyaging On A Small Income, 2nd Edition

by Annie Hill

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The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors (IBM Press) cover

10. The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors (IBM Press)

by Francis DeRespinis

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression cover

11. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

by Terrence Real

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

12. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder cover

13. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

by Mr. Peter Zeihan

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At Work in the Fields of the Bomb cover

14. At Work in the Fields of the Bomb

by Robert Del Tredici

The Three-Body Problem cover

15. The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu

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Sigh for a Merlin : Testing the Spitfire cover

16. Sigh for a Merlin : Testing the Spitfire

by Alex Henshaw

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Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines cover

17. Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines

by David H. Freedman

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Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture cover

18. Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture

by Beth Lesser

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

by Sam Peltzman

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Leonardo da Vinci cover

20. Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

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The Most Dangerous Enemy: The Definitive History of the Battle of Britain cover

21. The Most Dangerous Enemy: The Definitive History of the Battle of Britain

by Stephen Bungay

How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention cover

22. How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention

by Stephen Witt

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Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) cover

23. Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Frances Moore Lappé

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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition) cover

24. Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Fourth Edition)

by Harry Moritz Schey

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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 cover

25. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

by Antony Beevor

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer cover

26. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb cover

27. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

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Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded cover

28. Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded

by Joel Brinkley

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Web Scalability for Startup Engineers cover

29. Web Scalability for Startup Engineers

by Artur Ejsmont

The Corto Maltese guide in Venice cover

30. The Corto Maltese guide in Venice

by Guido Fuga, Hugo Pratt, Lele Vianello

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

31. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

32. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens

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