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

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

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

by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
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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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Essential Cell Biology cover

3. Essential Cell Biology

by Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, Keith Roberts
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Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux) cover

4. Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)

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

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

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

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

by Max Tegmark
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The Machinery of Life cover

7. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader cover

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

by Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
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Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story cover

9. Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story

by Tony Wheeler, Maureen Wheeler
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Small Fry: A Memoir cover

10. Small Fry: A Memoir

by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
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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
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Seeking SRE cover

12. Seeking SRE

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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
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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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The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends cover

15. The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends

by J. F. Gariépy
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Managing The Professional Service Firm cover

16. Managing The Professional Service Firm

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

17. 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

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

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
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The Flying Circus of Physics cover

19. The Flying Circus of Physics

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

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

by Taligent, Inc
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Computer System Organization: The B5700/B6700 Series cover

21. Computer System Organization: The B5700/B6700 Series

by Elliott I. Organick, Robert L. Ashenhurst
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen cover

22. 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

23. 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
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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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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win cover

25. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win

by Steve Blank
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