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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 12, 2018 - Nov 19, 2018

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The Angular Tutorial: Learn Front-End Development and Automated Testing with Angular cover

1. The Angular Tutorial: Learn Front-End Development and Automated Testing with Angular

by Adam Morgan

New computational paradigms for computer music cover

2. New computational paradigms for computer music

by Gérard Assayag

The Lost Art of Steam Heating cover

3. The Lost Art of Steam Heating

by Dan Holohan

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Head First Design Patterns cover

4. Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

5. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide cover

6. Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide

by Austen Allred, Vin Clancy

The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation cover

7. The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation

by Greg LeRoy

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Mastering Algorithms with Perl: Practical Programming Through Computer Science cover

8. Mastering Algorithms with Perl: Practical Programming Through Computer Science

by Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald

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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

9. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

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The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness cover

10. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness

by John Yates, Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

11. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

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Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition cover

12. Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) cover

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

by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn cover

14. Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard R. Hamming

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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner

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Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title cover

16. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title

by Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, James Wood

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Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers cover

17. Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers

by Jacques Vallee

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters cover

18. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt

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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The cover

19. Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work cover

20. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

21. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex cover

22. Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

by Michael Hiltzik

Shadows on the Wasteland: Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes cover

23. Shadows on the Wasteland: Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes

by Mike Stroud

Mind Over Matter cover

24. Mind Over Matter

by Ranulph Fiennes

Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It cover

25. Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It

by Lise Eliot

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy cover

26. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

27. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence cover

28. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order cover

29. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

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Dreamland cover

30. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers

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What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength cover

31. What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

by Scott Carney

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

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

by Matthew Walker

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Linux Kernel Development cover

33. Linux Kernel Development

by Robert Love

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Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition cover

34. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition

by Daniel P. Bovet

Code cover

35. Code

by Charles Petzold

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A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas cover

36. A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

by Warren Berger

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Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK cover

37. Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette cover

38. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

by Hampton Sides

Small Wars Their Principles and Practice cover

39. Small Wars Their Principles and Practice

by C. E. Callwell

On Intelligence cover

40. On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice cover

41. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder

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Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Opensolaris Kernel Architecture cover

42. Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Opensolaris Kernel Architecture

by Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro

Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook cover

43. Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

by Jay Cummings

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ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966-1985 cover

44. ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966-1985

by Robert L.. Ashenhurst

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The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility cover

45. The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility

by Stewart Brand

A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market cover

46. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

by Edward O. Thorp

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

47. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms cover

48. Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms

by Robert Sedgewick

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The Algorithm Design Manual cover

49. The Algorithm Design Manual

by Steven S Skiena

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Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition cover

50. Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structure, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition

by Robert Sedgewick

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

51. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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