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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 17, 2022 - Oct 24, 2022

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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It cover

1. Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

by Adam Savage

Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System cover

2. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

by M. Chris Fabricant

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities cover

4. Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

by John Warner

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South cover

5. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington

The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles cover

6. The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles

by Terry Wahls M.D.

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Apple cover

7. Apple

by Jim Carlton

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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) cover

8. Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

by Krzysztof Cwalina, Jeremy Barton, Brad Abrams

Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped cover

9. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped

by Dean Budnick, Josh Baron

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Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy cover

10. Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

by Courtney Jung

The Case for Degrowth cover

11. The Case for Degrowth

by Giorgis Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D′Alisa, Federico Demaria

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

12. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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How You Make the Sale cover

13. How You Make the Sale

by Frank McNair

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Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation cover

14. Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

by Robert L. Schuettinger

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Atomic Awakening: A New Look At The History And Future Of Nuclear Power cover

15. Atomic Awakening: A New Look At The History And Future Of Nuclear Power

by James Mahaffey

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers cover

16. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD

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The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are cover

17. The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

by Daniel J. Siegel

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

18. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates cover

19. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

by Peter T. Leeson

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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men cover

20. Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

by Leonard Sax

Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition) cover

21. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice (3rd Edition)

by John F. Hughes

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Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools―and What We Can Do About It cover

22. Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools―and What We Can Do About It

by Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder

Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years Of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson And Undergraduate Students On Science, Technology, Society And Life cover

23. Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years Of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson And Undergraduate Students On Science, Technology, Society And Life

by Freeman J. Dyson

Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff cover

24. Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff

by Leigh Phillips

The Chicken From Minsk: And 99 Other Infuriating Challenging Brain Teasers From The Great T cover

25. The Chicken From Minsk: And 99 Other Infuriating Challenging Brain Teasers From The Great T

by Yuri B. Chernyak, Robert M. Rose

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science cover

26. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

by Marc Aronson, Marina Tamar Budhos

Design and Analysis of Experiments (Springer Texts in Statistics) cover

27. Design and Analysis of Experiments (Springer Texts in Statistics)

by Angela Dean, Daniel Voss, Danel Draguljić

Design of Experiments: A Modern Approach cover

28. Design of Experiments: A Modern Approach

by Bradley Jones, Douglas C. Montgomery

Design Of Experiments cover

29. Design Of Experiments

by Mike Peralta

Design and Analysis of Experiments cover

30. Design and Analysis of Experiments

by Douglas C. Montgomery

Linux Firewalls cover

31. Linux Firewalls

by Steve Suehring, Robert Loren Ziegler