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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 9, 2019 - Sep 16, 2019

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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California cover

1. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (3rd Edition): Php in 24 Hours cover

2. Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (3rd Edition): Php in 24 Hours

by Matt Zandstra

Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin— - How to Recognize and Set Healthy Boundaries cover

3. Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin— - How to Recognize and Set Healthy Boundaries

by Anne Katherine

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

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

by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management cover

5. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

by Roger Lowenstein

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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

6. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick

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Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong cover

7. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong

by Neil Monnery

Heritage and Destiny: Reflections on the Bell System in Transition cover

8. Heritage and Destiny: Reflections on the Bell System in Transition

by Alvin Von Auw

Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance cover

9. Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance

by Nicholas Kardaras

Linkers and Loaders (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming) cover

10. Linkers and Loaders (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

by John R. Levine

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

11. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

12. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate

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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base cover

13. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

by Annie Jacobsen

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Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field: A Guided Study (Masterworks of Discovery) cover

14. Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field: A Guided Study (Masterworks of Discovery)

by Thomas K. Simpson

The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet cover

15. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet

by Jeff Kosseff

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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

16. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger

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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (2nd Edition) cover

17. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (2nd Edition)

by John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones

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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil cover

18. Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

by Tom Mueller

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Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue cover

19. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

by Ryan Holiday

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime cover

20. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

by Sean Carroll

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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection cover

21. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

by John E. Sarno

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Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization cover

22. Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

by John Robb

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum cover

23. Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

by Lee Smolin

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra cover

24. Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

by John Derbyshire

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data cover

25. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

by David Spiegelhalter

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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty cover

26. Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

by Ian Stewart

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms cover

27. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

by Hannah Fry

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Strategy: A History cover

28. Strategy: A History

by Lawrence Freedman

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Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance cover

29. Venice's Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance

by Ioanna Iordanou

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet cover

30. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

by Nina Teicholz

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity cover

31. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Scott

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Un-grind my Gears: After hard day at work. Coloring book for adults cover

32. Un-grind my Gears: After hard day at work. Coloring book for adults

by Bartlomiej Golaszewski

What Is Marketing? cover

33. What Is Marketing?

by Alvin J. Silk

Marketing Management and Strategy (4th Edition) cover

34. Marketing Management and Strategy (4th Edition)

by Peter Doyle, Philip Stern

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering cover

35. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

by Robert L. Glass

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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition cover

36. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition

by Steve McConnell

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