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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 7, 2019 - Oct 14, 2019

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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail cover

1. Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

by William Ophuls

Deception: How Clinton Sold America Out to the Chinese Military cover

2. Deception: How Clinton Sold America Out to the Chinese Military

by Charles Robinson Smith

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit cover

3. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

by Barry Estabrook

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Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory cover

4. Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory

by Avner Ash, Robert Gross

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Divide & Quit cover

5. Divide & Quit

by Penderel Moon, Mark Tully

Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! cover

6. Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time!

by Conrad Barski

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Design and Analysis of Experiments with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) cover

7. Design and Analysis of Experiments with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

by John Lawson

Human Space Flight: Mission Patch Handbook cover

8. Human Space Flight: Mission Patch Handbook

by Aerographics

Inside Com (Microsoft Programming Series) cover

9. Inside Com (Microsoft Programming Series)

by Dale Rogerson

Essential COM cover

10. Essential COM

by Don Box

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Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch cover

11. Programming Bitcoin: Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch

by Jimmy Song

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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book cover

12. The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

by Andriy Burkov

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Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices cover

13. Multi-armed Bandit Allocation Indices

by John Gittins, Kevin Glazebrook, Richard Weber

Programming the Semantic Web cover

14. Programming the Semantic Web

by Toby Segaran

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design cover

15. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

by Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores

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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China cover

16. Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China

by Alec Ash

Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines cover

17. Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines

by David H. Freedman

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents cover

18. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

by Lindsay C. Gibson

Political Theory and Modernity cover

19. Political Theory and Modernity

by William Connolly

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex cover

20. Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall

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Shackleton's Boat Journey cover

21. Shackleton's Boat Journey

by Frank Arthur Worsley

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness cover

22. Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

by Anne Harrington

Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution, 3rd Edition cover

23. Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution, 3rd Edition

by William M. Baum

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It cover

24. Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It

by Garry Martin, Joseph J. Pear

The Curse of the High IQ cover

25. The Curse of the High IQ

by Aaron Clarey

The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law cover

26. The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

by Ward Farnsworth

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DK Workbooks: Computer Coding: An Introduction to Computer Programming cover

27. DK Workbooks: Computer Coding: An Introduction to Computer Programming

by DK

100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present cover

28. 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

by Paul K. Davis

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