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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 13, 2020 - Apr 20, 2020

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Justice Matters: Rescuing the legal system for the twenty-first cover

1. Justice Matters: Rescuing the legal system for the twenty-first

by Roberta R. Katz

Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking cover

2. Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

by David Bayles, Ted Orland

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Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game cover

3. Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game

by Andrew R. Gallimore

Defending My Enemy cover

4. Defending My Enemy

by Aryeh Neier

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

5. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

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Go To...software Superheroes: From Fortran to the Internet Age and Beyond cover

6. Go To...software Superheroes: From Fortran to the Internet Age and Beyond

by Steve Lohr

UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

7. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) cover

8. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Gregory Clark

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The Dream Machine cover

9. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer cover

10. Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer

by Scott McCartney

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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake cover

11. Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake

by Ron Westrum

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction cover

12. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Eyrikson Tetlock, Dan Gardner

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Basic Economics cover

13. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell

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Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972 cover

14. Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972

by Marshall L. Michel, III

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic cover

15. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

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Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals cover

16. Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals

by Cisco Systems, Inc

Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems cover

17. Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

by Nathan Marz, James Warren

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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance cover

18. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

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Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business cover

19. Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

by David J. Anderson

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Is God a Mathematician? cover

20. Is God a Mathematician?

by Mario Livio

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind cover

21. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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ZFS on Linux: Internals and Administration cover

22. ZFS on Linux: Internals and Administration

by William R. Speirs, Ph.d.

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System cover

23. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil

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

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

by Conrad Barski

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8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot cover

25. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot

by Esther Gokhale

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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 cover

26. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991

by Eric Hobsbawm

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

27. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

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Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life cover

28. Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life

by Barry Oshry

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The Pathology of Human Viral Infections and Associated Conditions cover

29. The Pathology of Human Viral Infections and Associated Conditions

by James F. Boyd