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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 18, 2021 - Oct 25, 2021

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ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History cover

1. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

by Jennifer Dasal
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters cover

2. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

by Frances Stonor Saunders
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business cover

3. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen
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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript cover

4. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

by Angus Croll
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Private Equity Laid Bare cover

5. Private Equity Laid Bare

by Ludovic Phalippou
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The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) cover

6. The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration)

by Tim Severin
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

7. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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Principles of Compiler Design cover

8. Principles of Compiler Design

by Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power cover

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

by Shoshana Zuboff
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Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever cover

10. Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever

by Harlan Ellison
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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve cover

11. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

by G. Edward Griffin
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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

12. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz
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The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System cover

13. The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil
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CSS Secrets cover

14. CSS Secrets

by Lea Verou
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OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation cover

15. OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation

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Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid cover

16. Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

by Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, Leon Krier
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are cover

17. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence cover

18. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins
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Thinking About Glue cover

19. Thinking About Glue

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

20. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife
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Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby cover

21. Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby

by Matthew Scarpino
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Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing cover

22. Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

by Jared Bhatti, Heidi Waterhouse
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Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity cover

23. Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity

by James B. Hartle
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

24. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought cover

25. Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

by Andrew W. Lo
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