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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jun 8, 2020 - Jun 15, 2020

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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others cover

1. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

by Tali Sharot

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Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux cover

2. Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux

by Jeff Duntemann

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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series) cover

3. Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)

by Kathryn D. Sullivan

The Diversity Myth cover

4. The Diversity Myth

by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel

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Practical File System Design cover

5. Practical File System Design

by Dominic Giampaolo

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OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word cover

6. OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

by Allan Metcalf

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Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It cover

7. Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It

by David Fleming

Bicycling Science (MIT Press) cover

8. Bicycling Science (MIT Press)

by David Gordon Wilson

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The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code Series Book 1) (The Code Series, 1) cover

9. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code Series Book 1) (The Code Series, 1)

by Dr. Jason Fung

The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance cover

10. The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance

by Guerino Mazzola

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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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Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse cover

12. Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse

by Ben Schott

Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America, 99) cover

13. Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA (Politics and Society in Modern America, 99)

by Benjamin C. Waterhouse

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An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

14. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani

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Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning cover

15. Harvest Of Rage: Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning

by Joel Dyer

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The Product Management Interview: How to Find the Right Job as a Product Manager and Crush the PM Interview Process cover

16. The Product Management Interview: How to Find the Right Job as a Product Manager and Crush the PM Interview Process

by Alex Willen

Buying Small Apartment Buildings: Become a Successful Real Estate Investor by Owning Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads cover

17. Buying Small Apartment Buildings: Become a Successful Real Estate Investor by Owning Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads

by Alex Willen

Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics (Monographs in Computer Science) cover

18. Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics (Monographs in Computer Science)

by Edsger W. Dijkstra, Carel S. Scholten

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Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (EDN Series for Design Engineers) cover

19. Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (EDN Series for Design Engineers)

by Jim Williams

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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition cover

20. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers cover

21. Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers

by Katherine Cox-Buday

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America cover

22. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

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Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more cover

23. Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more

by David H. Freedman

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

24. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner

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How to Starve Cancer cover

25. How to Starve Cancer

by Jane McLelland

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War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier cover

26. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

by Smedley Darlington Butler

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Against Intellectual Monopoly cover

27. Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine

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