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

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Showing 1 - 30 of 30 books

1. Apple

by Jim Carlton

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

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

by Adam Savage

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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System cover

3. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

by M. Chris Fabricant

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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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

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

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

by John Warner

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

7. 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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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

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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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10. The Case for Degrowth

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

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

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

by Courtney Jung

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12. How You Make the Sale

by Frank McNair

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13. Traction

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

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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

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

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

by Paul Graham

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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

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

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

by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD

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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

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Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice cover

21. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

by John F. Hughes

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

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

by Leigh Phillips

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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

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

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

by Yuri B. Chernyak, Robert M. Rose

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

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

by Marc Aronson, Marina Tamar Budhos

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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture cover

26. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler

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27. Linux Firewalls

by Steve Suehring, Robert Loren Ziegler

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

Showing 1 - 30 of 30 books

1. Apple

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

3. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. The Case for Degrowth

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

12. How You Make the Sale

13. Traction

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

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

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

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

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

19. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

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

21. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

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

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

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

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

26. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

27. Linux Firewalls

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

29. Design and Analysis of Experiments

30. Design of Experiments: A Modern Approach