The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
By: Ben Cohen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at…
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1. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
By: David Epstein
4.20
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wonde… read more
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"The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it."-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people…"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.' Foster's point is that, despite the …"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
2. When to Rob a Bank
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
3.64
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collect… read more
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3. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
4. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
By: Jacquie McNish , Sean Silcoff
4.30
Format: 324 pages,
In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is one percent. Wha… read more
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5. Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
By: Mark Titus
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation… read more
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6. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.48
Format: None pages,
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more
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7. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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8. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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9. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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10. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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11. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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12. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
By: Thomas Gryta
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden… read more
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13. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
14. The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
By: Ben Fritz
4.02
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and co… read more
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15. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
By: Billy Walters
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more
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16. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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17. Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA
By: Kirk Goldsberry
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco… read more
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18. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution
By: Ryan O'Hanlon
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more
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19. Smarter Not Harder: The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want
By: Dave Asprey
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
World-renowned biohacker and bestselling author Dave Asprey reveals how to maximize your well-being… read more
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20. The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
By: Ben Cohen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at… read more
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21. The Midrange Theory
By: Seth Partnow
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
At its core, the goal of any basketball team is relatively take and make good shots while preventi… read more
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