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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 10, 2023 - Jul 17, 2023

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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' cover

1. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

by Professor Sidney Dekker

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How to Shit in the Woods, 4th Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art cover

2. How to Shit in the Woods, 4th Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art

by Kathleen Meyer

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory cover

3. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber

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Accidents in North American Climbing 2021 (Accidents in North American Climbing, 2-74) cover

4. Accidents in North American Climbing 2021 (Accidents in North American Climbing, 2-74)

by American Alpine American Alpine Club

Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition) cover

5. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated (2nd Edition)

by Pavel Tsatsouline

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First and Final War: A Basic Information Manual on the Effects of Nuclear War Applied to Australia cover

6. First and Final War: A Basic Information Manual on the Effects of Nuclear War Applied to Australia

by David Blair

ADSCAM: How Online Advertising Gave Birth to One of History's Greatest Frauds, and Became a Threat to Democracy cover

7. ADSCAM: How Online Advertising Gave Birth to One of History's Greatest Frauds, and Became a Threat to Democracy

by Bob Hoffman

Advertising For Skeptics cover

8. Advertising For Skeptics

by Bob Hoffman

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business cover

9. Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

by Gino Wickman, Mark C. Winters

The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality) cover

10. The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality)

by Eknath Easwaran

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Living Memory cover

11. Living Memory

by David Walton

The Pc is not a typewriter cover

12. The Pc is not a typewriter

by Robin Williams

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The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition cover

13. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition

by Robin Williams

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us cover

14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

by Ed Yong

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Advances in Financial Machine Learning cover

15. Advances in Financial Machine Learning

by Marcos Lopez de Prado

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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street cover

16. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks

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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

17. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) cover

18. Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

by Stuart Davis

The C Programming Language cover

19. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Game Programming Patterns cover

20. Game Programming Patterns

by Robert Nystrom

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It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals cover

21. It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals

by Suparna Damany, Jack Bellis

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APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book cover

22. APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book

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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

23. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death cover

24. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

by Nick Lane

The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them cover

25. The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

by Euan Angus Ashley

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web cover

26. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology cover

27. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

by Chris Miller

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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower cover

28. Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum

The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures cover

29. The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures

by Danny Schechter

The Internet Directory: A Guide to Internet, Usenet, and Bitnet cover

30. The Internet Directory: A Guide to Internet, Usenet, and Bitnet

by Eric Eugene Braun

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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

31. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff

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The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications) cover

32. The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group (Oxford Science Publications)

by James Binney, J.J. Binney, N. J. Dowrick, A. J. Fisher, M. E. J. Newman, N.J. Dowrick, A.J. Fisher, M.E.J. Newman, J. J. Binney

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Material World cover

33. Material World

by Ed Conway

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 cover

34. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

by Brian Fagan

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