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The Best Books of Hacker News
This Week

• Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (New Directions in Social Psychology)

  Richard E. Nisbett, Dov Cohen · 3 HN comments

• Quick Start Training for IBM z/OS Application Developers, Volume 1

  Robert Wingate · 1 HN comments

• IBM COBOL A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

  Gerardus Blokdyk · 1 HN comments

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

  Dr. Dan Ariely · 17 HN comments

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

  Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 10 HN comments

• 40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to Innovation [Extended Edition]

  Genrich Altshuller, Dana W. Clarke, Uri Fedoseev, Steve Rodman, Lev Shulyak, Leonid Lerner · 1 HN comments
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• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

  Alfie Kohn · 8 HN comments

• The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce Orsini, Diana Deming Cahill · 2 HN comments

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

  William Zinsser · 28 HN comments

• Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

  Daniel C. Dennett, Jeff Crawford · 3 HN comments

• Why Information Grows

  César Hidalgo · 2 HN comments

• Spc at the Esquire Club

  Donald J. Wheeler · 1 HN comments

• Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move!

  Keith Peters · 1 HN comments

• The Art of Thinking Clearly

  Rolf Dobelli · 5 HN comments

• Basic Economics

  Thomas Sowell · 15 HN comments

• Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus

  Andre Lamothe, John Ratcliff, Denise Tyler · 3 HN comments

• Building a 3D Game Engine in C++

  Brian Hook · 2 HN comments

• Danger Uxb: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams

  James Owen · 1 HN comments

• A Life of One's Own

  Marion Milner, Rachel Bowby · 1 HN comments

• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

  Henry Hazlitt · 12 HN comments

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 3 HN comments

• Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

  Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetic · 1 HN comments

• Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press)

  Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack · 1 HN comments

• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

  Abigail Shrier · 5 HN comments

• It's Better to Be a Good Machine Than a Bad Person: Speech Recognition and Other Exotic User Interfaces at the Twilight of the Jetsonian Age

  Bruce Balentine, Leslie Degler · 1 HN comments

• Dr. Z's Beat the Racetrack

  William T. Ziemba, Donald B. Hausch · 4 HN comments

• The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

  Steven Kotler · 1 HN comments

• Hip Pressure Cooking: Fast, Fresh, and Flavorful

  Laura D.A. Pazzaglia · 1 HN comments

• The Three Treasures: An Exploration of Jing 精, Qi 氣 and Shen 神 Focusing on Huangdi Neijing

  Jong Kook Baik · 1 HN comments

• Quantum Computing Since Democritus

  Scott Aaronson · 11 HN comments