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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 8, 2019 - Apr 15, 2019

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Showing 1 - 28 of 28 books

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (American Empire Project) cover

1. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (American Empire Project)

by Anand Gopal

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2. The Science of Interstellar

by Kip Thorne

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3. The Fifth Risk

by Michael Lewis

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4. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout

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Illustrating Basic (A Simple Programming Language) cover

5. Illustrating Basic (A Simple Programming Language)

by Donald Alcock

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6. Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook

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7. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States

by Albert O. Hirschman

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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation cover

8. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris

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How the World Works (Real Story (Soft Skull Press)) cover

9. How the World Works (Real Story (Soft Skull Press))

by Noam Chomsky

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10. Basic Fun With Adventure Games

by Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zuanich

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

11. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work cover

12. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

by Matthew B. Crawford

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Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

13. Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Principles of Marketing (14th Edition) cover

14. Principles of Marketing (14th Edition)

by Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong, John Saunders undifferentiated, Veronica Wong, Peggy H. Cunningham, Valerie Trifts

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius cover

15. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement cover

16. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

by Eric Redmond, Jim R. Wilson

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17. Rhythms of the Brain

by G. Buzsáki

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think cover

18. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: Volume 1 cover

19. Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: Volume 1

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp

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New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (Fundamental Theories of Physics) cover

20. New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

by David Hestenes

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined cover

21. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

22. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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

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

by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

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On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) (Volume 76) cover

24. On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) (Volume 76)

by David Bohm

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Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love cover

25. Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

by Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, Amir Shevat

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26. Designing Web APIs

by Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni, Amir Shevat

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 8, 2019 - Apr 15, 2019

Showing 1 - 28 of 28 books

1. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (American Empire Project)

2. The Science of Interstellar

3. The Fifth Risk

4. A Philosophy of Software Design

5. Illustrating Basic (A Simple Programming Language)

6. Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook

7. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States

8. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

9. How the World Works (Real Story (Soft Skull Press))

10. Basic Fun With Adventure Games

11. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

12. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

13. Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

14. Principles of Marketing (14th Edition)

15. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

16. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

17. Rhythms of the Brain

18. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

19. Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: Volume 1

20. New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

21. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

22. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

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

24. On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) (Volume 76)

25. Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

26. Designing Web APIs

27. The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

28. A Gentle Introduction to Game Theory (Mathematical World, Vol. 13)