The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
By: Cailin O'Connor
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho…
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1. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2. The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
By: Stephon Alexander
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected th… read more
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3. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
By: Tom Nichols
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more
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4. Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads th… read more
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5. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
By: Martin Bunton
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles… read more
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6. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and re… read more
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7. The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
By: Julia Shaw
3.96
Format: 433 pages,
Think you have a good memory? Think again. Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on … read more
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8. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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9. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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10. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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11. Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election
By: Michael Isikoff
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From veteran award-winning investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, the epic … read more
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12. How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
By: Lee McIntyre
3.86
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronaviru… read more
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"Nadie se autoidentifica como negacionista de la ciencia. A menudo se ven a sí mismos como más científicos que los científicos. Lo que uno de nosotros piense de ellos, muchos de ellos lo pensarán de n…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Quizá sea tan difícil que un negacionista de la ciencia cambie de opinión a base de evidencia porque, en cierto sentido, la evidencia no es realmente lo que fundamenta sus creencias. Puede que el con…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Aunque el contenido de los sistemas de creencias varíe, todo negacionismo de la ciencia parece fundamentarse en un reducido conjunto de errores del razonamiento humano. [...] 1)Evidencia basada en un…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"En su libro tremendamente útil How to Have Impossible Conversations, el filósofo Peter Boghossian y el matemático James Lindsay nos proporcionan un sorprendente consejo para tratar de convencer a alg…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
13. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
By: Sander van der Linden
4.03
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Winner of the 2024 APA William James Book Award • Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book Prize •… read more
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"Whereas lies and fake news tend to be simple and sticky, science is often presented as nuanced and complex."-Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
14. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
15. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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16. Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
By: Gloria Mark
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD, WALL STREET JOURNAL , NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE **A COS… read more
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"…it is time to rethink our relationship with our personal technologies. We need to reframe our goal from that of maximizing human productivity with our devices, to instead using them in maintaining a…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
"We know from project management that there is usually slippage, and tasks almost always take longer than what one envisions. There is also no room for fitting human well-being into task schedules. We…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
"Design your day thinking that you have limited mental resources, knowing that taking time to replenish them will not only help you be less stressed and better able to resist distractions, but also mo…"-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
17. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
By: Cailin O'Connor
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more
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18. Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
By: Lee McIntyre
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings hav… read more
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"Turite teisę į savo nuomonę, tačiau ne į savo faktus."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
19. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
By: Thomas Rid
4.15
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deceptio… read more
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20. Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics―and How to Cure It
By: Richard L. Hasen
3.58
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving Am… read more
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21. The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
By: Daniel W. Drezner
3.79
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
“[An] avalanche of repeated presidential absurdity. The reader realizes that this pattern is not pa… read more
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