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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 26, 2019 - Sep 2, 2019

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

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

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics cover

2. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

by Jeremy Kun
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The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas cover

3. The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas

by David A. Patterson, Andrew Waterman
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Dreamland cover

4. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers
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Lions' Commentary on Unix cover

5. Lions' Commentary on Unix

by John Lions
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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

6. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach
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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide cover

7. Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide

by Chris Horrocks
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Functional Programming in Scala cover

8. Functional Programming in Scala

by Paul Chiusano, Rúnar Bjarnason
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Recht und Automation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Eine verwaltungswissenschaftliche Untersuchung. cover

9. Recht und Automation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Eine verwaltungswissenschaftliche Untersuchung.

by Niklas Luhmann
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The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor cover

10. The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor

by Gerald H. Pollack
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding cover

11. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela
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Pure Mathematics for Beginners: A Rigorous Introduction to Logic, Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Topology, Complex Analysis, and Linear Algebra cover

12. Pure Mathematics for Beginners: A Rigorous Introduction to Logic, Set Theory, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Topology, Complex Analysis, and Linear Algebra

by Steve Warner
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning cover

13. The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

by Taylor Larimore
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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover

14. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf
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Pyramid cover

15. Pyramid

by David Macaulay
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The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive cover

16. The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

by John Graham-Cumming
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The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics cover

17. The RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

by Steve Upstill
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Land of Lisp cover

18. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski
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A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing cover

19. A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton Gordon Malkiel
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Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence) cover

20. Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Artificial Intelligence)

by Harold Abelson, Andrea Disessa
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World cover

21. The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

by Andrea Wulf
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What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science) cover

22. What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science)

by Addy Pross
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The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild cover

23. The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild

by Thomas D. Seeley
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual cover

24. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

by Ward Farnsworth
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Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics cover

25. Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics

by Robert Jackson Marks (II), William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert
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The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes cover

26. The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason cover

27. Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

by Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams
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Algorithms and Data Structures cover

28. Algorithms and Data Structures

by Niklaus Wirth
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Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology) cover

29. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology)

by Wing-Kin Sung
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Learning the vi and Vim Editors cover

30. Learning the vi and Vim Editors

by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
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Mastering Vim cover

31. Mastering Vim

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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager cover

32. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

by Michael Lopp
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