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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 3, 2018 - Dec 10, 2018

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

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

by Matthew Walker

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Essential Cell Biology, 4th Edition cover

2. Essential Cell Biology, 4th Edition

by Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, Keith Roberts

Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux) cover

3. Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)

by Nick Srnicek

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition) cover

4. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition)

by Giulia Enders

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality cover

5. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

by Max Tegmark

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Who cover

6. Who

by Geoff Smart, Randy Street

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The Machinery of Life cover

7. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism cover

8. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader cover

9. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli

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Small Fry cover

10. Small Fry

by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare cover

11. Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare

by F. Bailey Norwood, Jayson L. Lusk

Seeking SRE cover

12. Seeking SRE

by David N. Blank-Edelman

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town cover

13. Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

by Beth Macy

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies) cover

14. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (Platform Studies)

by Jimmy Maher

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Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library) cover

15. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)

by Aleksandr Kalmanovich Zvonkin

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Two Hundred Years Together (Complete Edition in 2 Volumes) / Dvesti Let Vmeste - v 2-h Tomah (in Rus cover

16. Two Hundred Years Together (Complete Edition in 2 Volumes) / Dvesti Let Vmeste - v 2-h Tomah (in Rus

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

The Power of Frameworks: For Windows and Os/2 cover

17. The Power of Frameworks: For Windows and Os/2

by Taligent, Inc

Computer System Organization: The B5700/B6700 Series cover

18. Computer System Organization: The B5700/B6700 Series

by Elliott I. Organick, Robert L. Ashenhurst

Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story cover

19. Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story

by Tony Wheeler, Maureen Wheeler

Studies in Words (Canto Classics) cover

20. Studies in Words (Canto Classics)

by C. S. Lewis

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

21. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business cover

22. It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business

by Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton

The Wuggly Ump cover

23. The Wuggly Ump

by Edward Gorey

The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware cover

24. The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware

by Andrew "bunnie" Huang

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Concurrent and Real-time Systems: The CSP Approach cover

25. Concurrent and Real-time Systems: The CSP Approach

by Steve Schneider

The Four Steps to the Epiphany cover

26. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank

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