Hacker News Books

Years > 2021 > Week 48

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 29, 2021 - Dec 6, 2021

Join 4,200+ subscribers and get an email every Thursday with the best books being discussed on Hacker News...

Showing 1 - 29 of 29 books

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 cover

1. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

by Rashid Khalidi

Introduction to Information Retrieval cover

2. Introduction to Information Retrieval

by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze

Read 5 comments

Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (The MIT Press) cover

3. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (The MIT Press)

by Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) cover

4. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell

Read 10 comments

The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

5. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau

Read 8 comments

Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week cover

6. Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week

by John Little, Doug McGuff

Read 9 comments

Joint-Friendly Fitness: Your Guide to the Optimal Exercise Program cover

7. Joint-Friendly Fitness: Your Guide to the Optimal Exercise Program

by Bill Desimone

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

8. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

Read 8 comments

How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

9. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Natalie Sidner, Lawrence Krubner

Read 32 comments

Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction cover

10. Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction

by Jonathan T. Pennington

The Man Born to Be King cover

11. The Man Born to Be King

by Dorothy Leigh Sayers

How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? cover

12. How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?

by Hiroyuki Nishigaki

Read 4 comments

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing cover

13. The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

by Joost A. M. Meerloo

Read 3 comments

Radio Theory Handbook - Beginner to Advanced cover

14. Radio Theory Handbook - Beginner to Advanced

by Ron Bertrand

How Radio Signals Work cover

15. How Radio Signals Work

by Jim Sinclair

Seveneves: A Novel cover

16. Seveneves: A Novel

by Neal Stephenson

Read 2 comments

Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 cover

17. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

by Matt Ridley, Alina Chan

Read 2 comments

Functional Python Programming: Discover the power of functional programming, generator functions, lazy evaluation, the built-in itertools library, and monads, 2nd Edition cover

18. Functional Python Programming: Discover the power of functional programming, generator functions, lazy evaluation, the built-in itertools library, and monads, 2nd Edition

by Steven F. Lott

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos cover

19. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

Read 3 comments

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More cover

20. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More

by Matt Parker

Mathemagic cover

21. Mathemagic

by Raymond Blum

Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--But Didn't (Life 101 Series) cover

22. Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--But Didn't (Life 101 Series)

by Peter McWilliams

Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty cover

23. Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty

by Patrick M. Lencioni

The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims (Great Books in Philosophy) cover

24. The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims (Great Books in Philosophy)

by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Voice of the Crystal cover

25. The Voice of the Crystal

by H. Peter Friedrichs

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

26. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

Read 19 comments

I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time cover

27. I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

by Laura Vanderkam

The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Search for True Love cover

28. The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Search for True Love

by Ty Tashiro

Introduction to Embedded Systems, Second Edition: A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach (The MIT Press) cover

29. Introduction to Embedded Systems, Second Edition: A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach (The MIT Press)

by Edward Ashford Lee, Sanjit Arunkumar Seshia