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

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Showing 1 - 26 of 26 books

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

1. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

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2. Dreamland

by Sam Quinones, Neil Hellegers

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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

3. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach

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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide cover

4. Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide

by Chris Horrocks

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5. Functional Programming in Scala

by Paul Chiusano, Rúnar Bjarnason

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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding cover

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

by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

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7. Pyramid

by David Macaulay

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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

8. 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

9. The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Richard A. Ferri, Laura F. Dogu

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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing cover

10. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf

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The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics cover

11. The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

by Steve Upstill

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

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

by Gerald H. Pollack

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

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

by Burton Gordon Malkiel

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14. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Mel Lindauer, Taylor Larimore, Michael LeBoeuf

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15. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski

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

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

by Harold Abelson, Andrea Disessa

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17. The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

18. 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

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

by Ward Farnsworth

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Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics cover

20. Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics

by Robert Jackson Marks (II), William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert

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

Showing 1 - 26 of 26 books

1. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

2. Dreamland

3. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

4. Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide

5. Functional Programming in Scala

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

7. Pyramid

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

9. The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning

10. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

11. The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

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

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

14. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

15. Land of Lisp

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

17. The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes

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

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

20. Introduction To Evolutionary Informatics

21. Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

22. Algorithms and Data Structures

23. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: A Practical Introduction (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series)

24. Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

25. Mastering Vim

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