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

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

1. 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

2. 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

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

by Roger Lowenstein

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

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

by Neil Monnery

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

5. 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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How to Avoid Huge Ships cover

6. How to Avoid Huge Ships

by John W. Trimmer

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

7. 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

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

by Nicholas Kardaras

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

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

by Thomas K. Simpson

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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Logicomix: An epic search for truth cover

11. Logicomix: An epic search for truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

12. JavaScript: The Good Parts

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

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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

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection cover

15. Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

by John E. Sarno

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The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet cover

16. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet

by Jeff Kosseff

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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit cover

17. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit

by John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones

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

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

by Jesse Eisinger

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

19. 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

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

by Ryan Holiday

Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty cover

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

by Ian Stewart

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms cover

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

by Hannah Fry

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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data cover

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

by David Spiegelhalter

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

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

by Sean Carroll

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

25. 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

26. 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

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

by John Derbyshire

Good Calories, Bad Calories cover

28. Good Calories, Bad Calories

by Gary Taubes

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

29. 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

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

by Kim Scott

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

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

by Bartlomiej Golaszewski

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering cover

32. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

by Robert L. Glass

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Code Complete cover

33. Code Complete

by Steve McConnell

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Marketing Management And Strategy cover

34. Marketing Management And Strategy

by Peter Doyle, Philip Stern

What Is Marketing? cover

35. What Is Marketing?

by Alvin J. Silk