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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Sep 16, 2019 - Sep 23, 2019

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The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath cover

1. The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath

by Susan Clancy

The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America cover

2. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

by Ernest Freeberg

Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow cover

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

by Joshua Spodek

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Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity cover

4. Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity

by Shaila Catherine

8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. cover

5. 8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life.

by Victor Davich

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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

6. The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by David Hurst Thomas, Andrew Hunt

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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment cover

7. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright

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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition cover

8. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality cover

9. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality

by Bill Kilday

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Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump cover

10. Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump

by Jerome R. Corsi

Internal Family Systems Therapy (The Guilford Family Therapy Series) cover

11. Internal Family Systems Therapy (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

by Richard C. Schwartz

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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program) cover

12. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

by Kip S Thorne

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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World cover

13. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by J. Adam Tooze

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The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World cover

14. The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

by Steven L. Kent

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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age cover

15. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

16. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition) cover

17. Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced To Plain Common Sense (Revised Edition)

by Arieh Ben-Naim

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety cover

18. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

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Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd Edition) cover

19. Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd Edition)

by Marc J. Rochkind

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See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

20. See MIPS Run (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Dominic Sweetman

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UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers cover

21. UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers

by Curt Schimmel

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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) cover

22. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

by George Varghese

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23. WHISTLE AS YOU GO The Story of the Kiwi Concert Party and Terry Vaughan

by Terry Vaughan

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War cover

24. Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

by Susan Southard

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models cover

25. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann

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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History cover

26. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History

by Leo Braudy

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

27. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

by Camille Fournier

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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes cover

28. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn

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CustomerCentric Selling, Second Edition cover

29. CustomerCentric Selling, Second Edition

by Michael T. Bosworth, John R. Holland, Frank Visgatis

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Experimental Researches in Electricity; Volume 2 cover

30. Experimental Researches in Electricity; Volume 2

by Michael Faraday