Hacker News Books for 2013

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Hacker News Books for 2013

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2013.

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The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs cover

401. The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs

by Antonella Cupillari

Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II cover

402. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

by Stephen Budiansky

Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages: A Laboratory Based Approach cover

403. Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages: A Laboratory Based Approach

by Kenneth Slonneger, Barry L. Kurtz

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The Female Brain cover

404. The Female Brain

by Louann Brizendine

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Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice cover

405. Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice

by Alan Weiss

The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books) cover

406. The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)

by Frank O'Brien

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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes cover

407. How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

by Peter D. Schiff, Andrew J. Schiff

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Getting Started with Amazon Redshift cover

408. Getting Started with Amazon Redshift

by Stefan Bauer

Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery) cover

409. Make: Electronics (Learning by Discovery)

by Charles Platt

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The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates cover

410. The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

by Daniel Golden

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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy cover

411. Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

by Matthew R. Simmons

Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World cover

412. Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World

by Steve Kemper

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Free Will (Key Concepts in Philosophy) cover

413. Free Will (Key Concepts in Philosophy)

by Joseph Keim Campbell

JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns cover

414. JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns

by Stoyan Stefanov

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How Economics Shapes Science cover

415. How Economics Shapes Science

by Paula Stephan

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies cover

416. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond

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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking cover

417. Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

by R. Buckminster Fuller

The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1) cover

418. The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1)

by Leo Frankowski

The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) cover

419. The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)

by Joseph Tainter

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

420. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success cover

421. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton

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Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition cover

422. Database Management Systems, 3rd Edition

by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke

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Code cover

423. Code

by Charles Petzold

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Code cover

424. Code

by Charles Petzold

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The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation cover

425. The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

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The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2) cover

426. The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities (Volume 1 of 2)

by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

Debt: The First 5,000 Years cover

427. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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Lisp cover

428. Lisp

by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Horn

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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition cover

429. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

by Jon Erickson

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers cover

430. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

by Geoffrey A. Moore

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Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens cover

431. Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

by Nicholas Shaxson

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Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

432. Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by Mark D. Hill

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income cover

433. ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

by Darren Rowse

Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community cover

434. Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community

by Joy Deangdeelert Cho

The Garbage Collection Handbook (

435. The Garbage Collection Handbook ("International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society")

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain cover

436. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

by Antonio Damasio

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Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak) cover

437. Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak)

by Michael Spivak

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ARM System-on-Chip Architecture cover

438. ARM System-on-Chip Architecture

by Stephen B. Furber

The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries) cover

439. The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Nick Harkaway

Programming in Prolog: Using The Iso Standard cover

440. Programming in Prolog: Using The Iso Standard

by William F. Clocksin, Christopher S. Mellish

The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

441. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction cover

442. Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

by Colin Ward

Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids cover

443. Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids

by Michael J. S. Belton, Thomas H. Morgan, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Donald K. Yeomans

Logicomix: An epic search for truth cover

444. Logicomix: An epic search for truth

by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets – An Essential Primer on How Breakthrough Innovation Gets Funded from Industrial Revolution to Wall Street cover

445. How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets – An Essential Primer on How Breakthrough Innovation Gets Funded from Industrial Revolution to Wall Street

by Andy Kessler

Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition cover

446. Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

by Arnold Robbins

Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History) cover

447. Science, Strategy and War (Strategy and History)

by Frans P. B. Osinga

ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!) cover

448. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!)

by Hadley Wickham

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An Island to Oneself cover

449. An Island to Oneself

by Tom Neale

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

450. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

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Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude cover

451. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition cover

452. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set: The New Millennium Edition

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

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Great Danes (B.E.S. Dog Bibles Series) cover

453. Great Danes (B.E.S. Dog Bibles Series)

by Rachel Cawley, John Cawley

Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications cover

454. Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications

by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno

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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

455. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick

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SPIN Selling cover

456. SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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Polywater cover

457. Polywater

by Felix Franks

The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

458. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism cover

459. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism

by Hernando De Soto

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) cover

460. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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STAY OF EXECUTION A -SORT OF MEMOIR A sort of memoir cover

461. STAY OF EXECUTION A -SORT OF MEMOIR A sort of memoir

by Stewart Alsop

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton cover

462. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

by Jerome Karabel

Programming in C cover

463. Programming in C

by Stephen G. Kochan

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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web cover

464. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

by Scott Murray

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C++ Programming Language, The cover

465. C++ Programming Language, The

by Martin Krieger

Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach cover

466. Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT cover

467. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

by Russ Harris, Steven Hayes

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The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men cover

468. The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men

by Christina Hoff Sommers

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany cover

469. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

by Adam Fergusson

Connections cover

470. Connections

by Burke, James

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On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp cover

471. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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The State Against Blacks cover

472. The State Against Blacks

by Williams, Walter E.

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier cover

473. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser

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Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution cover

474. Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution

by Steve Lohr

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) cover

475. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

by Daniel L. Everett

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The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design cover

476. The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

by Galen Cranz

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal cover

477. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

by Oren Klaff

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A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 cover

478. A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900

by T. K. Derry

Graph Databases cover

479. Graph Databases

by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Emil Eifrem

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World cover

480. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules cover

481. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

by Steve McConnell

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Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena cover

482. Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena

by Jon Barwise, Lawrence Moss

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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution cover

483. The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

by T.R. Reid

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

484. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations cover

485. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations

by Karl Eugene Wiegers

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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

486. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan

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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

487. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing cover

488. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

by Davis, Martin

Team Geek cover

489. Team Geek

by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick

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Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end cover

490. Single Page Web Applications: JavaScript end-to-end

by Michael Mikowski, Josh C. Powell

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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

491. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan

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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series) cover

492. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series)

by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most cover

493. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk) cover

494. Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk)

by Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek

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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

495. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

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xkcd: volume 0 cover

496. xkcd: volume 0

by Randall Munroe

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Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models cover

497. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models

by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill

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Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics) cover

498. Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics)

by Paul Johnson

High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication cover

499. High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication

by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Baron Schwartz. Peter Zaitsev. Vadim Tkachenko. Jeremy D. Zawodny. Arjen Lentz. Derek J. Balling

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming cover

500. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi

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