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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 17, 2018 - Dec 24, 2018

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Exercises in Programming Style cover

1. Exercises in Programming Style

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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Lecture Notes) cover

2. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Lecture Notes)

by Donald Ervin Knuth

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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

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

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

by Matthew Walker

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Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable cover

5. Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable

by Seth Fletcher

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Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations cover

6. Drucker’s Lost Art of Management: Peter Drucker’s Timeless Vision for Building Effective Organizations

by Joseph A. Maciariello, Karen Linkletter

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies cover

7. Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

by Geoffrey West

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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds cover

8. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis

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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World cover

10. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas

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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America cover

11. The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior

Psychology and Space cover

12. Psychology and Space

by Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Lebedev

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School cover

13. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

by Kathleen Flinn

Brief Answers to the Big Questions cover

14. Brief Answers to the Big Questions

by Stephen Hawking

Neural Networks and Qualitative Physics: A Viability Approach cover

15. Neural Networks and Qualitative Physics: A Viability Approach

by Jean-Pierre Aubin

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F# cover

16. Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F#

Thinking in Systems: A Primer cover

17. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella Meadows

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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time cover

18. Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook cover

19. Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

by Jay Cummings

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Works of Love (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) cover

20. Works of Love (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

by Soren Kierkegaard

Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity cover

21. Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity

by Karen Panetta, Katianne Williams

Once-A-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day cover

22. Once-A-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day

by Mimi Wilson, Mary Beth Lagerborg

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam cover

23. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

by Jerry Lembcke

How the States Got Their Shapes cover

24. How the States Got Their Shapes

by Mark Stein

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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons cover

25. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

by George Pendle

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

26. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt cover

27. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

by Toby Wilkinson

A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics cover

28. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

by Jeremy Kun

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Molecular Cell Biology cover

29. Molecular Cell Biology

by Harvey F. Lodish

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John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World cover

30. John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

by Jason Louv

Byrne: Six Books of Euclid (Multilingual Edition) cover

31. Byrne: Six Books of Euclid (Multilingual Edition)

by Oliver Byrne, Werner Oechslin

The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions) cover

32. The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Upton Sinclair

The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting cover

33. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

by Jimmy Moore, Jason Fung

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Digital Design and Computer Architecture cover

34. Digital Design and Computer Architecture

by David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

35. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons cover

36. Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons

by John Carter

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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History cover

37. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

by Dan Flores

The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain cover

38. The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

by Nick Chater

Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts cover

39. Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts: Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts

by James Valentine

Life in a Medieval Village cover

40. Life in a Medieval Village

by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies