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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 4, 2021 - Oct 11, 2021

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The 10X Author: Level Up or Be Left Behind cover

1. The 10X Author: Level Up or Be Left Behind

by Johnny Truant, Sean M Platt

Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft cover

2. Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft

by Michael Drummond

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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium cover

3. The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

by Martin Gurri

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The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent cover

4. The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro

Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science) cover

5. Chess skill in man and machine (Texts and monographs in computer science)

by Peter William Frey

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The Big Score: Robert Friedland, INCO, And The Voisey's Bay Hustle cover

6. The Big Score: Robert Friedland, INCO, And The Voisey's Bay Hustle

by Jacquie McNish

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power cover

7. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

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The Woodpecker Method cover

8. The Woodpecker Method

by Axel Smith, Hans Tikkanen

Outlaw Sea cover

9. Outlaw Sea

by William Langewiesche

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier cover

10. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina

Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship cover

11. Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

by Steven Ujifusa

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb cover

12. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition cover

13. Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Computer Algebra with LISP and REDUCE: An Introduction to Computer-aided Pure Mathematics (Mathematics and Its Applications, 72) cover

14. Computer Algebra with LISP and REDUCE: An Introduction to Computer-aided Pure Mathematics (Mathematics and Its Applications, 72)

by F. Brackx, D. Constales

A Short Stay in Hell cover

15. A Short Stay in Hell

by Steven L. Peck

High-Performance Java Persistence cover

16. High-Performance Java Persistence

by Vlad Mihalcea

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life cover

17. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq cover

18. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

by Stephen Kinzer

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

19. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov

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Database System Concepts cover

20. Database System Concepts

by Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan, Abraham Silberschatz, Professor

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The Future of Fusion Energy cover

21. The Future of Fusion Energy

by Jason Parisi, Justin Ball

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Nudge: The Final Edition cover

22. Nudge: The Final Edition

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

23. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess

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Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation cover

24. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

by Eva Illouz

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Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898 (Harvard Historical Studies) cover

25. Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898 (Harvard Historical Studies)

by Charles Sanders Peirce

Sense of Smell cover

26. Sense of Smell

by Robert Hamilton Wright