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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 26, 2025 - Jun 2, 2025

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Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle cover

1. Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle

by Tina Morris

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West cover

2. The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska

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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) cover

3. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)

by Roger Penrose

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The End of Error cover

4. The End of Error

by John L. Gustafson

Chemical Demonstrations : A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry Vol 1 (Volume 1) cover

5. Chemical Demonstrations : A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry Vol 1 (Volume 1)

by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri

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GPGPU Programming for Games and Science cover

6. GPGPU Programming for Games and Science

by David H. Eberly

Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't cover

7. Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

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Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA cover

8. Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA

by Tim Groseclose

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Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It cover

9. Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It

by Richard Sander, Stuart Taylor Jr., Stuart Taylor

Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

10. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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