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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 2, 2019 - Sep 9, 2019

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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well cover

1. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

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Applied Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) cover

2. Applied Ethics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

by Peter Singer

Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft cover

3. Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft

by David Bank

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Learning Core Audio: A Hands-On Guide to Audio Programming for Mac and iOS cover

4. Learning Core Audio: A Hands-On Guide to Audio Programming for Mac and iOS

by Chris Adamson, Kevin Avila

The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator cover

5. The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator

by Chris Takemura, Luke S. Crawford

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The Weighted Blanket Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Weighted Blankets and Deep Pressure for Autism, Chronic Pain, and Other Conditions cover

6. The Weighted Blanket Guide: Everything You Need to Know about Weighted Blankets and Deep Pressure for Autism, Chronic Pain, and Other Conditions

by Eileen Parker, Cara Koscinski

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter cover

7. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Patrick Henrich

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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age cover

8. Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne

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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America cover

9. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

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Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition) cover

10. Windows Internals, Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more (7th Edition)

by Pavel Yosifovich, Mark E. Russinovich, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon

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Wealth Secrets: How the Rich Got Rich cover

11. Wealth Secrets: How the Rich Got Rich

by Sam Wilkin

Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival cover

12. Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival

by Laurence Gonzales

Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

13. Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow

by Joshua Spodek

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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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The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders cover

15. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders

by Connie Bruck

999 Days Around Africa: The Road Chose Me cover

16. 999 Days Around Africa: The Road Chose Me

by Dan Grec

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The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina cover

17. The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina

by Dan Grec

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What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World cover

18. What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World

by Jon Young

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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization cover

19. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

by Bryan Ward-Perkins

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Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists, 2nd Edition cover

20. Effective Writing for Engineers, Managers, Scientists, 2nd Edition

by H. J. Tichy, Sylvia Fourdrinier

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters cover

21. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

by Tom Nichols

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Hitler, Mein Kampf - Eine kritische Edition cover

22. Hitler, Mein Kampf - Eine kritische Edition

by Adolf Hitler

Missing Person (Verba Mundi) (Verba Mundi Book) cover

23. Missing Person (Verba Mundi) (Verba Mundi Book)

by Patrick Modiano, Daniel Weissbort

Gödel's Proof cover

24. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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BOSH!: Simple Recipes * Amazing Food * All Plants (BOSH Series) cover

25. BOSH!: Simple Recipes * Amazing Food * All Plants (BOSH Series)

by Ian Theasby, Henry David Firth

Gödel's Theorem cover

26. Gödel's Theorem

by Torkel Franzén

Secret Games of the Gods: Ancient Ritual Systems in Board Games cover

27. Secret Games of the Gods: Ancient Ritual Systems in Board Games

by Nigel Pennick

Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations cover

28. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

by Robert Charles Bell

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion (Oxford Handbooks) cover

29. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion (Oxford Handbooks)

by John Corrigan

The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

30. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto

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Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats cover

31. Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

by Gwynne Dyer

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The Water Knife cover

32. The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World cover

33. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

by Bjørn Lomborg

Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS cover

34. Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS

by Tyson Macaulay, Bryan L. Singer