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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 12, 2022 - Dec 19, 2022

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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

1. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger

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I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times cover

2. I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

by Mónica Guzmán

The Wright Brothers cover

3. The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough

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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

4. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Espionnes : Doubles vies sous haute tension - Une enquete exclusive au coeur des services secrets francais (French Edition) cover

5. Espionnes : Doubles vies sous haute tension - Une enquete exclusive au coeur des services secrets francais (French Edition)

by Dalila Kerchouche

Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective cover

6. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang

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Official Rules of Soccer cover

7. Official Rules of Soccer

by United States Soccer Federation

Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning cover

8. Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

by Phil Boissiere

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History cover

9. The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

by David Edgerton

Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets cover

10. Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

11. Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Jim Blinn

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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry cover

12. Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle

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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody cover

13. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

by Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay

The Machinery of Life cover

14. The Machinery of Life

by David S. Goodsell

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How to Know Everything cover

15. How to Know Everything

by Elke Wiss

Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer cover

16. Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

by Roy Peter Clark

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail cover

17. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

by Ray Dalio

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The Advantage cover

18. The Advantage

by Patrick M. Lencioni

The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change cover

19. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

by Camille Fournier

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Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition cover

20. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

by Everett M. Rogers

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