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The Best Books of Hacker News
This Week

• The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

  Neil Strauss · 7 HN comments

• Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations

  Tomoko Fuse · 1 HN comments

• Literate Programming (Lecture Notes)

  Donald E. Knuth · 1 HN comments

• Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places

  Derek M. Powazek · 2 HN comments

• Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

  Peter van der Linden · 3 HN points · 26 HN comments

• Turn Left at Orion (Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them)

  Guy Consolmagno · 1 HN comments
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• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool (The ParentData Series)

  Emily Oster · 1 HN comments

• Real Astronomy with Small Telescopes: Step-by-Step Activities for Discovery (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)

  Michael Gainer · 1 HN comments

• Kelly: More Than My Share of It All

  Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith · 5 HN comments

• RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World

  Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby · 3 HN comments

• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

  Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron · 11 HN comments

• From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback

  Robyn Davidson, Rick Smolan · 2 HN comments

• How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great)

  Jim Collins · 3 HN comments

• Mastering Kubernetes: Large scale container deployment and management

  Gigi Sayfan · 1 HN comments

• The Good for Nothing Button! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!, 3)

  Mo Willems, Charise Mericle Harper · 1 HN comments

• Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

  La Leche League International, Diane Wiessinger, Diana West, Linda J. Smith, Teresa Pitman · 1 HN comments

• Egregores: The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny

  Mark Stavish, James Wasserman · 1 HN comments

• The Reasoned Schemer, second edition (The MIT Press)

  Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, Jason Hemann, Duane Bibby · 2 HN comments

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

  Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins · 2 HN comments

• Macroeconomics

  William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts · 2 HN comments

• Basic Economics

  Thomas Sowell · 10 HN comments

• Macroeconomics

  N. Gregory Mankiw · 1 HN comments

• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

  Robert Coram · 11 HN comments

• Training the Best Dog Ever: A 5-Week Program Using the Power of Positive Reinforcement

  Larry Kay, Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz · 2 HN comments

• OpenGL Superbible: Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference

  Graham Sellers, Richard Wright Jr., Nicholas Haemel · 1 HN comments

• Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press)

  Clemens Szyperski · 7 HN comments

• How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves

  Dr. Sophia Yin DVM MS · 1 HN comments

• What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Edge Question Series)

  John Brockman · 2 HN comments

• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

  Eric Schlosser · 15 HN comments