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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 19, 2019 - Aug 26, 2019

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I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier cover

1. I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

by Fred Moody

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Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America cover

2. Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

by Andrew Gumbel

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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life cover

3. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray

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The Kerbal Player's Guide: The Easiest Way to Launch a Space Program cover

4. The Kerbal Player's Guide: The Easiest Way to Launch a Space Program

by Jon Manning, Tim Nugent, Alasdair Allan, Paul Fenwick, Paris Buttfield-Addison

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5. Counterexamples in Analysis

by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading cover

6. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

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

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

by Martin Kleppmann

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Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers cover

8. Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

by Charles Seife

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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child cover

9. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

by Anthony Esolen

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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order cover

10. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

11. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview cover

12. The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower cover

13. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

by Michael Pillsbury

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Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) cover

14. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

by Joshua Spodek

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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism cover

15. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen

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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security) cover

16. Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security)

by Kuan Yew Lee, Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne

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The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era cover

17. The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era

by Mingfu Liu

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18. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers

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Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices) cover

19. Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)

by Karl Eugene Wiegers, Joy Beatty

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20. Translucent Databases

by Peter Wayner

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

21. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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22. Machinery's Handbook: Toolbox

by Erik Oberg, Franklin D. Jones, Holbrook Lynedon Horton, Henry H. Ryffel

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23. Algorithms

by Jeff Erickson

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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray cover

24. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

by Sabine Hossenfelder

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Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought cover

25. Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

by Drew Neil

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Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era cover

26. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

by Tomas De Yriarte, J. B. C. Grainville, Honore F. M. Langle

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27. What is Category Theory?

by Giandomenico Sica

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28. Macroeconomics

by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts

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Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production cover

29. Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production

by Taiichi Ohno

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30. Human Error

by James Reason

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Die Wahrheit uber Hansel und Gretel (German Edition) cover

31. Die Wahrheit uber Hansel und Gretel (German Edition)

by Hans Traxler

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Making Games for the NES (8bitworkshop) cover

32. Making Games for the NES (8bitworkshop)

by Steven Hugg

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33. Algebra (AMS Chelsea Publishing)

by Saunders Mac Lane, Garrett Birkhoff

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34. Interface: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 19, 2019 - Aug 26, 2019

Showing 1 - 37 of 37 books

1. I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

2. Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

3. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

4. The Kerbal Player's Guide: The Easiest Way to Launch a Space Program

5. Counterexamples in Analysis

6. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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

8. Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

9. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

10. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

11. How to Win Friends & Influence People

12. The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

13. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

14. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

15. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

16. Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security)

17. The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era

18. Dreamland

19. Software Requirements (Developer Best Practices)

20. Translucent Databases

21. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

22. Machinery's Handbook: Toolbox

23. Algorithms

24. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

25. Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought

26. Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

27. What is Category Theory?

28. Macroeconomics

29. Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production

30. Human Error

31. Die Wahrheit uber Hansel und Gretel (German Edition)

32. Making Games for the NES (8bitworkshop)

33. Algebra (AMS Chelsea Publishing)

34. Interface: A Novel

35. America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, the Truth About US Foreign Policy, and Everything Else

36. Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy

37. Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual