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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 11, 2021 - Oct 18, 2021

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Showing 1 - 34 of 34 books

How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything cover

1. How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything

by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, Wilma Keppel

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Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures) cover

2. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)

by Joscha Bach

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community cover

3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World cover

4. Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

by George Gilder

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Federal Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights) cover

5. Federal Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights)

by MARVIN A.. ZELENAK CHIRELSTEIN (LAWRENCE.), Lawrence Zelenak

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Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship cover

6. Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship

by Zach Vorhies, Kent Heckenlively

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Algorithms in C (Computer Science Series) cover

7. Algorithms in C (Computer Science Series)

by Robert Sedgewick

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction cover

8. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction

by Mary V. Solanto

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Stylish F#: Crafting Elegant Functional Code for .NET and .NET Core cover

9. Stylish F#: Crafting Elegant Functional Code for .NET and .NET Core

by Kit Eason

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Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers cover

10. Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers

by Isaac Abraham

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Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media (Zone Books) cover

11. Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media (Zone Books)

by Stefan Andriopoulos

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The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do cover

12. The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do

by Peg Tyre

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy cover

13. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

14. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 70) cover

15. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 70)

by Robert J. Gordon

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Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents) cover

16. Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

by Floyd E. Toole

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17. Brain Computations: What and How

by Edmund T. Rolls

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Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory cover

18. Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory

by Richard Phillips Feynman

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Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley cover

19. Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley

by Lon Milo Duquette

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The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces cover

20. The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces

by Stephen Coles, Tony Seddon

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Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces cover

21. Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces

by Bruce Willen, Nolen Strals

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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators cover

22. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

by Clay Shirky

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Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Engineering Systems) cover

23. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Engineering Systems)

by Nancy G. Leveson

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Everything I Know about Women I Learned from My Tractor cover

24. Everything I Know about Women I Learned from My Tractor

by Roger Welsch

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Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Inside Technology) cover

25. Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Inside Technology)

by Donald MacKenzie

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Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain cover

26. Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

by William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton

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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm cover

27. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

by Lewis Dartnell

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment cover

28. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

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Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance cover

29. Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance

by Laurence B. Siegel

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) cover

30. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

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31. Secular Cycles

by Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 11, 2021 - Oct 18, 2021

Showing 1 - 34 of 34 books

1. How to Build With Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything

2. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures)

3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

4. Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

5. Federal Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights)

6. Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship

7. Algorithms in C (Computer Science Series)

8. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction

9. Stylish F#: Crafting Elegant Functional Code for .NET and .NET Core

10. Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers

11. Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media (Zone Books)

12. The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do

13. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

14. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

15. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 70)

16. Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents)

17. Brain Computations: What and How

18. Feynman's Thesis: A New Approach to Quantum Theory

19. Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley

20. The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces

21. Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces

22. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

23. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Engineering Systems)

24. Everything I Know about Women I Learned from My Tractor

25. Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Inside Technology)

26. Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain

27. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

28. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

29. Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance

30. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)

31. Secular Cycles

32. The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements

33. Spiritual Warfare: Book Three of The Enlightenment Trilogy

34. Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Advanced Texts in Econometrics (Paperback))