Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
By: Erica Thompson
3.67
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their…
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1. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (Market Wizards, #1)
By: Jack D. Schwager
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
What separates the world's top traders from the vast majority of unsuccessful investors? Jack Schwa… read more
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- economics
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2. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
By: Tali Sharot
4.27
Format: 260 pages,
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3. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.96
Format: 289 pages, ebook
This book debunks the myth of the State as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facil… read more
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4. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
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5. 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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- philosophy
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6. 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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7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
8. 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
By: Meb Keflezighi
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in … read more
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"To my classmates, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends, and the people in the medical field who encouraged and challenged me to be my best in every aspect of life."-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
"Un mod prin care maratonul se deosebește de alte curse îl reprezintă faptul că lecțiile lui au deseori paralele cu restul vieții tale. Răbdarea necesară ca să stăpânești maratonul este o abilitate tr…"-Meb Keflezighi, 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
9. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
10. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
11. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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- technology
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- economics
- science
12. A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
By: Bruce Schneier
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times… read more
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- technology
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
13. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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- economics
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- science
14. 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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- science
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15. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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- technology
16. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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17. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
18. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
19. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
20. Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System
By: Chet Haase
4.27
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software. But they couldn't get investor… read more
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- science
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- technology
21. What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
By: Minouche Shafik
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better suppo… read more
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- economics
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22. The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
By: Tim Palmer
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Quite possibly the best popular science book I’ve ever read” ( Popular Science ) shows how the too… read more
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23. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
By: Keith Houston
3.87
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped bui… read more
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24. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
By: Donna Leon
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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25. Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
By: Erica Thompson
3.67
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their… read more
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- mathematics
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- computer science
- climate change
- economics
- sociology
- technology
26. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
By: Daniel Chandler
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more
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27. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
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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- economics
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29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- sociology
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30. Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know
By: David Stainforth
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This book is about how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclu… read more
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