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The Best Books of Hacker News
Apr / May 2021

• Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes, 2nd Edition (International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

  George F. Simmons, John S. Robertson · 1 HN comments

• The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math)

  Boris A. Kordemsky · 1 HN comments

• Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

  Paul Collier · 1 HN comments

• Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It

  Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman · 2 HN comments

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

  Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 6 HN comments

• A Philosophy of Software Design

  John Ousterhout · 3 HN points · 11 HN comments
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• Project MARS: A Technical Tale

  Dr. Wernher von Braun · 1 HN comments

• Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

  Alexander A. Cooley Ph.D., John Heathershaw · 1 HN comments

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

  Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling · 8 HN comments

• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

  Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · 8 HN comments

• Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun

  Dave Thomas · 1 HN comments

• By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia

  Barry Cunliffe · 1 HN comments

• And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)

  Paul Blustein · 1 HN comments

• Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

  Jessa Crispin · 1 HN comments

• To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey

  Parker J. Palmer · 1 HN comments

• They Say You're Crazy

  Paula Caplan · 1 HN comments

• T. rex and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library)

  Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer · 1 HN comments

• Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair

  Daniel P. Brown PhD, David S. Elliott PhD · 3 HN comments

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love

  Amir Levine, Rachel Heller · 1 HN comments

• Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment

  Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks · 1 HN comments

• The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page

  Patrick G Riley · 3 HN comments

• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

  Liaquat Ahamed · 5 HN comments

• Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

  Robert Bilott · 1 HN comments

• Motel Brasil - Uma Antropologia Contemporanea (Em Portugues do Brasil)

  Jerome Souty · 1 HN comments

• Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections

  Stephen Harrod Buhner · 1 HN comments

• Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

  Michael Collins, Charles A. Lindbergh · 4 HN comments

• Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

  Andrew Smith · 2 HN comments

• How to Build a Car: A high-speed adventure of mechanics, teamwork, and friendship (Technical Tales)

  Martin Sodomka, Saskia Lacey · 1 HN comments

• Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: A Teach Yourself Guide

  Donald Robertson · 2 HN comments

• Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

  Simon Reynolds · 1 HN comments