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Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
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#72I've given Flatland: an adventure in many dimensions on some occasions.
I think it's a wonderful and amusing book, full of philosophical and political meaning that can be read at almost any age.
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#73For the under-4 set: The House In The Night. It's a perfect new-baby book.
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#74"I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi ( http://amzn.to/2aF1vjF ). It's a fantastic, easy read that takes you step-by-step into automating your finances and making smart decisions toward not necessarily being rich, but being rich er and having some financial security on a month to month basis. Every once in awhile, I'll have a conversation with friends about finances, and they'll complain about how much work it…
How much of this book applies in a non-US context? Is it worth reading anyway?
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#75"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer. It's a classic history book of our century which, despite its title, primarily focuses on Hitler's raise to power in the early 30s and the long, painful and ultimately futile international attempts at avoiding WW2 in the late 30s. It's a book I wish everyone would read, particularly everyone in a public office and the media. It's…
Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich is a good accompaniment, too.
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#76When I've had friends interested in learning to play chess, I've given Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan. It's great at explaining what to think about when playing the different phases of the game, with no emphasis on memorizing particular lines.
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#77Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach
I tried to read this book but never quite understood it. What's it really about?
Strange loops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop
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#78The 48 Laws of Power
You've worked with a sociopath haven't you ;)
It's a great book.
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#79The Mythical Man-Month
I gave this to my colleagues when I joined the my current development project, the lessons about trying to scale development teams remain pretty sound.
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#80I always have copies of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" to give out. As I get older, I love seeing younger people flip out when they read it and see how applicable it is in modern life.