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

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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now cover

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

by Jaron Lanier

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

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

by Gerald M. Weinberg

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

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

by Maria Konnikova

The True and Only Heaven cover

4. The True and Only Heaven

by Christopher Lasch

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

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

by Jennifer Bachner, Benjamin Ginsberg

Linux For Dummies cover

7. Linux For Dummies

by Richard Blum

Classics to Moderns in the Intermediate Grade (Music for Millions, Vol 37) cover

8. Classics to Moderns in the Intermediate Grade (Music for Millions, Vol 37)

by Denes Agay

Basic Economics cover

9. 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

10. 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

11. Lying

by Sam Harris

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

12. 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

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

by Andy Greenberg

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

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

by Rod Hill

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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science cover

15. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

by E. T. Jaynes

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Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design: Concepts and Applications of 500 Mb Charts cover

16. Heavy Weather Avoidance and Route Design: Concepts and Applications of 500 Mb Charts

by Mike Ma-Li Chen, Lee S. Chesneau

Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough cover

17. Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough

by Patricia D. Stokes

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The Once and Future King cover

18. The Once and Future King

by T. H. White

The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster: From First Liftoff to Tragic Final Flight (Countdown to Space) cover

19. The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster: From First Liftoff to Tragic Final Flight (Countdown to Space)

by Michael D. Cole

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew cover

20. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

by Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures cover

21. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

by Merlin Sheldrake

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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything cover

22. Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

by David Bellos

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Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing cover

23. Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing

by Mark Levy

Information Machines cover

24. Information Machines

by Ben H. Bagdikian

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