Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything
By: Rob Eastaway
3.76
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
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1. Bad Science
By: Ben Goldacre
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad … read more
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- popular science
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2. The Undercover Economist
By: Tim Harford
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economic… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
By: Steven H. Strogatz
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more
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- mathematics
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- popular science
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4. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
By: Simon Singh
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more
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5. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
By: None
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a per… read more
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6. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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7. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
By: Jordan Ellenberg
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world a… read more
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8. Surreal Numbers
By: Donald Ervin Knuth
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Shows how a young couple turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness. This title is int… read more
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9. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- mathematics
- humor
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- popular science
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
10. 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
11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
12. 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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- mathematics
- nonfiction
- science
"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
13. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
By: Hannah Fry
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book P… read more
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- mathematics
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"you're not using the product; you are the product"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"And how biased is too biased? At what point do you prioritize the victims of preventable crimes over the victims of the algorithm?"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"He realized that – when whetted in the right way – people’s voracious appetite for an expert’s assessment of themselves could over-ride their desire for privacy. What’s more, they were often willing …"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"Gary Marx, professor of sociology at MIT, put the dilemma well in an interview he gave to the Guardian: ‘The Soviet Union had remarkably little street crime when they were at their worst of their tot…"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
14. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- science
15. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
16. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- science
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
17. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
18. 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
19. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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20. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- self help
21. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- nonfiction
22. DELIO, Phase One (The Hive, #1)
By: R.R. Haywood
4.47
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
When nearly every person on the planet becomes frozen a small group of survivors must navigate the … read more
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23. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
24. Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
By: David J. Lieberman
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Tired of guessing what they're really thinking? Read people in every situation--in person, on a scr… read more
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"Self-esteem is keenly observed as a reflection of one’s relationships and manifests in three main domains: one’s history and patterns, interactions and exchanges, and borders and boundaries."-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"If you give out of fear or guilt, your self-esteem is not enriched; indeed, it is only diminished. You aren’t really giving; the other person is taking. You are being taken advantage of, with your co…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within oursel…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"Passivity manifests in complaining and blaming because these behaviors are both self-focused and correlate to feelings of helplessness. These people are likely to make frequent complaints with the ac…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
25. Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
By: Helen Czerski
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and informed introduction to the world o… read more
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"Nothing that is in equilibrium can be alive."-Helen Czerski, Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
26. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
By: Greg Jenner
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more
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- science
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- reference
27. Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
By: Marcus du Sautoy
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver—and how everyone c… read more
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28. Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything
By: Rob Eastaway
3.76
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
How many cats are there in the world? What's the chance of winning the lottery twice? And jus… read more
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29. A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
By: Michael Wooldridge
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future … read more
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30. The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries
By: Jillian Scudder
4.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An offbeat guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts. Astrophysicist Dr… read more
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