Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
By: Aubrey Clayton
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is …
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1. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
By: Paul Hoffman
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul… read more
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2. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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3. Gödel's Proof
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Ernest Nagel , James Roy Newman
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Princi… read more
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4. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
By: William Zinsser
4.24
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It … read more
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"Less is more."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Truth needs no adornment."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Don't be kind of bold. Be bold."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Writers are the custodians of memory..."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
5. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the … read more
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6. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more
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7. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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8. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … read more
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9. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
By: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with… read more
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10. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
11. Draft No. 4
By: John McPhee
4.34
Format: 640 pages,
A superb essay on the difficulties and joys of composition. read more
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12. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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13. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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14. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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15. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
16. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
17. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more
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18. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more
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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
19. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
20. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
21. Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
By: Russell "Russ" Roberts
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the host of EconTalk, a guide to decision-making when you can't crunch the numbers Algorith… read more
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"Exploring can turn out much better than a planned itinerary."-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
"Spend more time getting used to the darkness and less time looking to expand the light."-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
"If the important things are hard to measure, and the measurable things misleading, what kind of decision framework is left? This book is my answer to that question."-Russell "Russ" Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
22. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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23. Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
By: Aubrey Clayton
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is … read more
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- nonfiction
- history of science
- popular science
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24. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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25. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
By: Michael Strevens
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
• Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of … read more
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26. On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: William Germano
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of revision. So you’ve just finis… read more
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27. General Relativity
By: Leonard Susskind
4.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The latest volume in the New York Times bestselling physics series explains Einstein's the general … read more
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28. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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29. Causal Inference
By: Paul R. Rosenbaum
3.24
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health,… read more
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