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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 3, 2019 - Jun 10, 2019

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Practical UNIX and Internet Security cover

1. Practical UNIX and Internet Security

by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford

The Ashley Book of Knots cover

2. The Ashley Book of Knots

by Clifford Warren Ashley

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The Draw Any Animal Book: 100 Simple Step-by-Step Drawing Sequences for Every Kind of Creature cover

3. The Draw Any Animal Book: 100 Simple Step-by-Step Drawing Sequences for Every Kind of Creature

by Robert Lambry

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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

4. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

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Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace cover

5. Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace

by Douglas Rushkoff

Engineering: A Compiler cover

6. Engineering: A Compiler

by Keith D. Cooper

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York cover

7. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

8. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

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Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime cover

9. Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime

by Michael Woodiwiss

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Citizen Game (French Edition) cover

10. Citizen Game (French Edition)

by Nicolas Gaume

Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality cover

11. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality

by Lewis C. Epstein

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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education cover

12. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

by Michael Pollan

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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint cover

13. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

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Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics) cover

14. Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics)

by Cameron Davidson-Pilon

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Venus Revealed: A New Look Below The Clouds Of Our Mysteriious Twin Planet cover

15. Venus Revealed: A New Look Below The Clouds Of Our Mysteriious Twin Planet

by David H. Grinspoon

How to Draw Animals (Perigee) cover

16. How to Draw Animals (Perigee)

by Jack Hamm

The Computer - My Life cover

17. The Computer - My Life

by Konrad Zuse

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Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science cover

18. Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science

by Carey Gillam

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

19. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Alan Cooper

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Another Sort of Learning cover

20. Another Sort of Learning

by James V. Schall

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It cover

21. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

22. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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Hybrid Woodworking: Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture (Popular Woodworking) cover

23. Hybrid Woodworking: Blending Power & Hand Tools for Quick, Quality Furniture (Popular Woodworking)

by Marc Spagnuolo

Essential Joinery: The Fundamental Techniques Every Woodworker Should Know cover

24. Essential Joinery: The Fundamental Techniques Every Woodworker Should Know

by Marc Spagnuolo

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. cover

25. Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

by Robert Paul Smith

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

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

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

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Blue Runa: Edred's Shorter Wporks (1988-1994) cover

27. Blue Runa: Edred's Shorter Wporks (1988-1994)

by Edred Thorsson

Motel of the Mysteries cover

28. Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay

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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia cover

29. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

by Christina Thompson

No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money cover

30. No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money

by David Lough

The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict: Evidence I & II Fully Updated in One Volume To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians in the 21st Century. cover

31. The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict: Evidence I & II Fully Updated in One Volume To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians in the 21st Century.

by Josh McDowell

The 48 Laws of Power cover

32. The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

33. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources in the Cloud cover

34. The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources in the Cloud

by Arun Kejariwal, John Allspaw