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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 9, 2022 - May 16, 2022

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance

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Money Machine 6/e,The cover

2. Money Machine 6/e,The

by Philip Coggan

Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU cover

3. Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU

by Wendy Kaminer

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Friends in High Places cover

4. Friends in High Places

by William L. Livingston

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Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal cover

5. Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal

by Robert C. Hockett

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

6. SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Bill Karwin

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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution cover

7. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

by Gregory Zuckerman

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A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic cover

8. A Million Thoughts: Learn All About Meditation from a Himalayan Mystic

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The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman cover

9. The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River cover

10. Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

by Eric Kuhn, John Fleck

Exploding the Phone cover

11. Exploding the Phone

by Phil Lapsley

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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor cover

12. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor

by Ken Silverstein

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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 cover

13. The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1

by Arthur Schopenhauer

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts cover

14. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

by Stanislas Dehaene

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The Road to Mecca cover

15. The Road to Mecca

by Muhammad Asad

Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person cover

16. Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person

by David Boonin

Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library) cover

17. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)

by Aleksandr Kalmanovich Zvonkin

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Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years cover

18. Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years

by Elizabeth G. Hainstock

The Magnesium Miracle (Revised and Updated Edition) cover

19. The Magnesium Miracle (Revised and Updated Edition)

by Carolyn Dean

Goethe's Faust cover

20. Goethe's Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World cover

21. In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

by Nate Anderson

F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts cover

22. F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts

by Philip J. Kaplan

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Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

23. Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Richard T. Snodgrass

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Bitemporal Databases: Modeling and Implementation cover

24. Bitemporal Databases: Modeling and Implementation

Privatizing Russia (MIT Press) cover

25. Privatizing Russia (MIT Press)

by Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny