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

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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

1. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow
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High Performance Python cover

2. High Performance Python

by Micha Gorelick
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded cover

3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

by David Graeber
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Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption cover

4. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption

by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
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The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio cover

5. The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

by Forrest Maready
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition cover

6. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition

by Phyllis Haddox, Siegfried Engelmann, Elaine Bruner
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Poland: A History cover

7. Poland: A History

by Adam Zamoyski
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food cover

8. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

by Dan Barber
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Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow cover

9. Beyond Soap: The Real Truth About What You Are Doing to Your Skin and How to Fix It for a Beautiful, Healthy Glow

by Sandy Skotnicki, Christopher Shulgan
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The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations cover

10. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

by Dietrich Dorner
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The End of Error: Unum Computing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science) cover

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

by John L. Gustafson
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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders cover

12. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

by L. David Marquet
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Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am cover

13. Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

by Robert Gandt
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Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Dover Books on Engineering) cover

14. Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Dover Books on Engineering)

by David S. Touretzky
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

15. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser
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Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University) cover

16. Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)

by Kevin Erdmann
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Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company cover

17. Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World's Most Successful Company

by Doug Dayton
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The Mystery of Banking cover

18. The Mystery of Banking

by Murray Newton Rothbard
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution cover

19. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

20. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann
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