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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

by Matthew Walker

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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual cover

2. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

by Jocko Willink

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

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

by David Goggins

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4. The Ashley Book of Knots

by Clifford Warren Ashley

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

5. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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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)

by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer

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

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

by Yanko Tsvetkov

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CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web cover

8. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web

by Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl

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9. Tartine Bread

by Chad Robertson

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

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

by Jeff Benedict

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

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

by Lynne Cox

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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

by Rod Dreher

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13. Physics of the Plasma Universe

by Anthony L. Peratt

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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

by Laozi, Ursula K. Le Guin

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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

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

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

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

by Don Norman

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

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

by Donald A. Norman

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18. Gilgamesh the King

by Robert Silverberg

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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

by Betty Edwards

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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

by Jim Dwyer

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21. Programming a personal computer

by Per Brinch Hansen

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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

by James Bernard MacKinnon

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

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

by Patricia Crone

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24. Mathematics for Computer Science

by Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, Albert R. Meyer

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

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

by Adrian Nye

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26. Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse

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Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences cover

27. Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences

by Cathy Pearl

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Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences cover

28. Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences

by Amir Shevat

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance cover

29. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth

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30. Spiritual Vibrations

by Елена Петровна Блаватская

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

Showing 1 - 33 of 33 books

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

2. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

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

4. The Ashley Book of Knots

5. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

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

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

8. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web

9. Tartine Bread

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

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

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

13. Physics of the Plasma Universe

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

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

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

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

18. Gilgamesh the King

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

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

21. Programming a personal computer

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

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

24. Mathematics for Computer Science

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

26. Finite and Infinite Games

27. Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences

28. Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences

29. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

30. Spiritual Vibrations

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

32. Laika

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