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

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Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach (The MIT Press) cover

1. Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach (The MIT Press)

by Carlos A. Varela

Basic Simple Type Theory (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science) cover

2. Basic Simple Type Theory (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science)

by J. Roger Hindley

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Jaron Lanier cover

3. You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Jaron Lanier

by Jaron Lanier

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

4. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption cover

5. Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption

by Jean-Philippe Aumasson

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Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years cover

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

by David Graeber

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The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio cover

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

by Forrest Maready

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons cover

8. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

by Phyllis Haddox, Siegfried Engelmann, Elaine Bruner

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Butter side up!, or, The delights of science cover

9. Butter side up!, or, The delights of science

by Magnus Pyke

Poland: A History cover

10. Poland: A History

by Adam Zamoyski

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

11. 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

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

by Dietrich Dorner

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

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

by Dan Barber

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

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

by John L. Gustafson

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

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

by David S. Touretzky

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Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am cover

16. Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

by Robert Gandt

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

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

by Edward Ludwig 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

18. 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

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

by Doug Dayton

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The Mystery of Banking cover

20. 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

21. 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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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