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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 14, 2019 - Oct 21, 2019

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

1. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual cover

2. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds cover

3. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

The Ashley Book of Knots cover

4. The Ashley Book of Knots

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

5. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-wesley Component Software) cover

6. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (Addison-wesley Component Software)

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Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons, Vol. 2 cover

7. Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons, Vol. 2

Tartine Bread cover

8. Tartine Bread

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The Mormon Way of Doing Business: How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America cover

9. The Mormon Way of Doing Business: How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer cover

10. Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

Finite and Infinite Games cover

11. Finite and Infinite Games

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The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation cover

12. The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

Physics of the Plasma Universe cover

13. Physics of the Plasma Universe

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Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way cover

14. Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

15. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

16. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things cover

17. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Gilgamesh the King cover

18. Gilgamesh the King

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

19. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

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More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley cover

20. More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys, Three Years, and a Chronicle of Ideals and Ambition in Silicon Valley

Programming a personal computer cover

21. Programming a personal computer

The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be cover

22. The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World cover

23. Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

Mathematics for Computer Science cover

24. Mathematics for Computer Science

Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System cover

25. Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System

Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences cover

26. Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences

Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences cover

27. Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance cover

28. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Spiritual Vibrations cover

29. Spiritual Vibrations

The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress cover

30. The Origins of Unhappiness: A New Understanding of Personal Distress

Laika cover

31. Laika

Computer Time Travel: How to build a microprocessor from transistors cover

32. Computer Time Travel: How to build a microprocessor from transistors