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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 8, 2023 - May 15, 2023

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An Introduction to Legal Reasoning cover

1. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning

by Edward H. Levi

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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream cover

2. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson

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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity cover

4. Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity

by Nicholas Kardaras

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The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, 11) cover

5. The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, 11)

by Michel Foucault

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Artificial Life II (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS) cover

6. Artificial Life II (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

by Christopher G. Langton, Charles Taylor, J. Doyne Farmer, Steen Rasmussen

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Running with Raven: The Amazing Story of One Man, His Passion, and the Community He Inspired cover

7. Running with Raven: The Amazing Story of One Man, His Passion, and the Community He Inspired

by Laura Lee Huttenbach

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The Indian army;: Its contribution to the development of a nation cover

8. The Indian army;: Its contribution to the development of a nation

by Stephen P. Cohen

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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

9. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Don Norman

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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

10. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Everything Flows (New York Review Books Classics) cover

11. Everything Flows (New York Review Books Classics)

by Vasily Grossman

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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It cover

12. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

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Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates, 2nd Edition cover

13. Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates, 2nd Edition

by Robert Kourik

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14. 99 Variations on a Proof

by Philip Ording

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Elementary Number Theory: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

15. Elementary Number Theory: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Underwood Dudley

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An Introduction to Number Theory (The MIT Press) cover

16. An Introduction to Number Theory (The MIT Press)

by Harold M. Stark

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The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check cover

17. The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check

by Rob Stadler, Change Tan

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18. The Two Cultures (Canto Classics)

by C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow

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19. Music by Computers

by Heinz Von Foerster, J. W. Beauchamp

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20. The Dream Machine

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society cover

21. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum

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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It cover

22. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

by Marty Makary

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23. The Geometry of Pasta

by Caz Hildebrand, Jacob Kenedy

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Trust Surrender Receive: How MDMA Can Release Us From Trauma and PTSD cover

24. Trust Surrender Receive: How MDMA Can Release Us From Trauma and PTSD

by Anne Other

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Victory Drill Book: A Phonetic Approach to Reading with an Emphasis on Speed cover

25. Victory Drill Book: A Phonetic Approach to Reading with an Emphasis on Speed

by Andrea Carstensen

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

26. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) cover

27. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 8, 2023 - May 15, 2023

Showing 1 - 31 of 31 books

1. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning

2. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

4. Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity

5. The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, 11)

6. Artificial Life II (SANTA FE INSTITUTE STUDIES IN THE SCIENCES OF COMPLEXITY PROCEEDINGS)

7. Running with Raven: The Amazing Story of One Man, His Passion, and the Community He Inspired

8. The Indian army;: Its contribution to the development of a nation

9. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

10. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

11. Everything Flows (New York Review Books Classics)

12. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

13. Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates, 2nd Edition

14. 99 Variations on a Proof

15. Elementary Number Theory: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

16. An Introduction to Number Theory (The MIT Press)

17. The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check

18. The Two Cultures (Canto Classics)

19. Music by Computers

20. The Dream Machine

21. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

22. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

23. The Geometry of Pasta

24. Trust Surrender Receive: How MDMA Can Release Us From Trauma and PTSD

25. Victory Drill Book: A Phonetic Approach to Reading with an Emphasis on Speed

26. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

27. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

28. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

29. Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive Guide

30. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

31. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America