Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
By: Tyler Cowen
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Co…
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1. 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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- business
2. 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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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
- business
3. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
By: Scott Adams
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you've ever met or anyone you've even hear… read more
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4. Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
By: David D. Friedman
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taughteconomics at UCLA. … read more
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5. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
By: Bryan Caplan
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Hardcover
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobby… read more
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6. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
By: Julia Galef
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Ju… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
"At the end of the day, we're a bunch of apes whose brains were optimized for defending ourselves and our tribes, not for doing unbiased evaluations of scientific evidence. So why get angry at humanit…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
"The scout isn’t indifferent. A scout might hope to learn that the path is safe, that the other side is weak, or that there’s a bridge conveniently located where his forces need to cross the river. Bu…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
7. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
8. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Second Mountain
By: David Brooks
3.76
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning an… read more
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- sociology
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"If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters."-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
"The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal"-David Brooks, The Second Mountain
10. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
By: Ben Horowitz
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- buisness
"Without trust, communication breaks. Here’s why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust."-Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
11. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
By: Carlo M. Cipolla
3.86
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
"A masterly book" --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan"A classic" --Simon Kuper, Finan… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
- sociology
"A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person."-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"احتمالية أن يكون شخص ما غبيا، مستقلة عن أي سمة أخرى يتصف بها هذا الشخص"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
"If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!"-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
12. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
By: Tali Sharot
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
13. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
By: Luke Burgis
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
14. The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
By: William Deresiewicz
4.01
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work―the mus… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
15. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
By: Kathryn Paige Harden
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) A provocative and timely case for how the science of gene… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"We are living in a golden age of genetic research, with new technologies permitting the easy collection of genetic data from millions upon millions of people and the rapid development of new statisti…"-Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
16. Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
By: Tyler Cowen
3.57
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Co… read more
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- politics
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- buisness
- economics
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
17. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
By: Bryan Caplan
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"Once everyone can enrich their souls for free, government subsidies for enrichment forfeit their rationale. To object, 'But most people don't use the Internet for spiritual enrichment' is actually a …"-Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
18. A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold (Peter L. Bernstein's Finance Classics)
By: Peter L. Bernstein
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- business
19. Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies
By: Kristian Niemietz
4.06
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred … read more
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- economics
- history
- nonfiction
20. Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better
By: Bryan Caplan
3.62
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling auth… read more
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