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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Aug 14, 2023 - Aug 21, 2023

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Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools cover

1. Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools

by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

2. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne

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All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms cover

3. All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms

by David Arora

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization cover

4. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

by Peter Zeihan

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Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong cover

5. Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong

by Giles Yeo

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II cover

6. A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

by Simon Parkin

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

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

by Harvey Silverglate

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Clean Code in JavaScript: Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript cover

8. Clean Code in JavaScript: Develop reliable, maintainable, and robust JavaScript

by James Padolsey

Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life cover

9. Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life

by Rolf Dobelli

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Turning the Mind Into an Ally cover

10. Turning the Mind Into an Ally

by Sakyong Mipham

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Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead cover

11. Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown

No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

12. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov

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The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat cover

13. The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

by Stephan J. Guyenet

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Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism cover

14. Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism

by Herman Pontzer

The critic's hornbook: Reading for interpretation cover

15. The critic's hornbook: Reading for interpretation

by William C. Dowling

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

16. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Kevin P. Murphy

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The Intentional Stance cover

17. The Intentional Stance

by Daniel Clement Dennett

Erneuerbare Energien zum Verstehen und Mitreden cover

18. Erneuerbare Energien zum Verstehen und Mitreden

by Christian Holler, Joachim Gaukel, Harald Lesch, Florian Lesch

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II cover

19. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who RIsked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

by Robert Kurson

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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (FSG Classics) cover

20. To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (FSG Classics)

by Edmund Wilson

The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages cover

21. The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages

by Om Swami

Nero: Emperor and Court cover

22. Nero: Emperor and Court

by J. F. Drinkwater

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives cover

23. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

by Siddharth Kara

Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective cover

24. Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

by Ben Cook

Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession cover

25. Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession

by Udo Ulfkotte

Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists) cover

26. Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

by George Brant Bridgman

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius cover

27. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

by Donald J. Robertson