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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 12, 2020 - Oct 19, 2020

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Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching cover

1. Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching

by Ajahn Sucitto
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now cover

2. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics cover

3. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win cover

4. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

5. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt
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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

6. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration cover

7. Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration

by James Urquhart
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What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People cover

8. What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People

by Jennifer Bachner, Benjamin Ginsberg
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Classics to Moderns in the Intermediate Grade | Piano Songbook for Intermediate Students | Original Classical Sheet Music from Baroque to 20th Century | Music for Millions, Vol 37 cover

9. Classics to Moderns in the Intermediate Grade | Piano Songbook for Intermediate Students | Original Classical Sheet Music from Baroque to 20th Century | Music for Millions, Vol 37

by Denes Agay
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

10. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Linux For Dummies, 10th Edition cover

11. Linux For Dummies, 10th Edition

by Richard Blum
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Basic Economics cover

12. Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell
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What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength cover

13. What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

by Scott Carney
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Lying cover

14. Lying

by Sam Harris
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The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics cover

15. The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

16. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers cover

17. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg
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