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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 12, 2021 - Jul 19, 2021

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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal cover

1. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

by Mark Bittman

Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications Using The Booch Method cover

2. Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications Using The Booch Method

by Robert C. Martin

Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press) cover

3. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press)

by Clemens Szyperski

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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (paperback) (Addison-wesley Component Software) cover

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

by Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer

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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications cover

5. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

by Grady Booch

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On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics (The MIT Press) cover

6. On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics (The MIT Press)

by Agustin Rayo

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic cover

7. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

by Scott Gottlieb

The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction cover

8. The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction

by Roy Eskapa

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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942: Reproduced from the original typescript, War Department, Washington, DC (Instructions for Servicemen) cover

9. Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942: Reproduced from the original typescript, War Department, Washington, DC (Instructions for Servicemen)

by United States. War Department, Bodleian Library

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Instructions for Servicemen S.) cover

10. Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Instructions for Servicemen S.)

by Bodleian Library

Annals of the Former World cover

11. Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee

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Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition) cover

12. Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (2nd Edition)

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture cover

13. Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture

by Thom Holmes

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader cover

14. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli

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The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making (McGraw-Hill Series in Social Psychology) cover

15. The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making (McGraw-Hill Series in Social Psychology)

by Scott Plous

How Emotions Are Made cover

16. How Emotions Are Made

by Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Circuits of the Mind cover

17. Circuits of the Mind

by Leslie G. Valiant

Brain Computations: What and How cover

18. Brain Computations: What and How

by Edmund T. Rolls

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The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life cover

19. The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life

by Robert Becker, Gary Selden

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The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain cover

20. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

by John E. Sarno

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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness cover

21. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

by Joshua Wolf Shenk

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A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness cover

22. A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

by Nassir Ghaemi

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Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business cover

23. Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business

by Anja Shortland

Empire cover

24. Empire

by Niall Ferguson

Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage cover

25. Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage

by Jeff Benedict

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (Infrastructures) cover

26. The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (Infrastructures)

by Morgan G. Ames

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C++ Crash Course: A Fast-Paced Introduction cover

27. C++ Crash Course: A Fast-Paced Introduction

by Josh Lospinoso

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The Anywhere Operating System: How to lead a team and run your business from anywhere cover

28. The Anywhere Operating System: How to lead a team and run your business from anywhere

by Luke Thomas, Aisha Samake

Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3: Get to grips with tools, techniques, and algorithms for computer vision and machine learning, 3rd Edition cover

29. Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3: Get to grips with tools, techniques, and algorithms for computer vision and machine learning, 3rd Edition

by Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino

The Control of Nature cover

30. The Control of Nature

by John McPhee

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