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

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

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

by Clayton M. Christensen

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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

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

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

by Jennifer Dasal

If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript cover

4. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

by Angus Croll

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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

5. 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

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) cover

6. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

by Alfred V. Aho

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Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing) cover

7. Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing)

by Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman

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Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever cover

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

by Harlan Ellison

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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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System cover

11. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil

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

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

by G. Edward Griffin

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

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

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

by Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons, Leon Krier

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence cover

15. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea cover

16. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

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Automatic SketchUp: Creating 3-D Models in Ruby cover

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

by Matthew Scarpino

Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity cover

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

by James B. Hartle

Manual of Freediving: Underwater on a Single Breath cover

19. Manual of Freediving: Underwater on a Single Breath

by Umberto Pelizzari, Stefano Tovaglieri

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update cover

20. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

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Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces cover

21. Introduction to Tensor Analysis and the Calculus of Moving Surfaces

by Pavel Grinfeld

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cover

22. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

by Andy Hunt, David Thomas, Dave Thomas, David . Thomas

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