Uncommon Knowledge: the Economist Explains
By: Tom Standage
3.53
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
By: Osamu Dazai , Ralph F. McCarthy
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Blue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and… read more
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"When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
"Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
"It seems that when people are in a state of euphoria, they don’t always notice the suffering of others."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
"It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling."-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
2. İnsan Olmak
By: Engin Geçtan
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kan… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
By: Michael Booth
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
4. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
5. Volvo Lastvagnar (Doppler, #2)
By: Erlend Loe , Lotta Eklund
3.58
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Vad har en utflippad 92-årig haschrökande kvinna som gillar reggae och en adlig godsägare gemensamt… read more
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6. What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography
By: Bruce Dickinson
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalis… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Think Like a Freak
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
3.50
Format: None pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden s… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- science
8. I Am Not Your Negro
By: James Baldwin , Raoul Peck
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. A Little History of the World
By: E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich w… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.80
Format: None pages,
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more
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11. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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12. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- popular science
- nonfiction
- science
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
13. Sırça Köşk
By: Sabahattin Ali
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Nicin hep aci seyler yazayim? Dostlar, yufka yurekli dostlar bundan hoslanmiyorlar. 'Hep kotu, sak… read more
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14. Way of the Wolf: Become a Master Closer with Straight Line Selling
By: Jordan Belfort
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Jordan Belfort immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Streetreveals th… read more
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15. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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- nonfiction
"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
16. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
- science
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
17. 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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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
- science
"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
18. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
19. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- popular science
- economics
- science
20. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
4.23
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- science
"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
22. The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
By: David Robson
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else, they may be even more … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"❞ إذا نَشَأْتَ بين أشخاص لا يثقون بالعلماء، فقد تكتسب ميلًا لتجاهل الأدلة التجريبية والوثوق بالنظريات غير المُثبَتة ❝"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
"في أي مهنة، يوجد الكثير من الأفراد منخفضي معدل الذكاء الذين يتفوقون على أشخاص ذوي معدل أعلى بكثير، كما يوجد أشخاص أكثر ذكاءً لا يحسنون استغلال مقدرتهم العقلية، ما يؤكد أن سمات مثل الإبداع والحكم المهن…"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
"Intelligent and educated people are less likely to learn from their mistakes, for instance, or take advice from others. And when they do err, they are better able to build elaborate arguments to just…"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
"❞ رغم أن عقودًا من الأبحاث النفسية وثَّقت ميل البشر إلى اللا عقلانية، فلم يبدأ العلماء إلا مؤخرًا نسبيًّا في قياس مدى اختلاف اللا عقلانية بين الأفراد، ودراسة ما إذا كان ذلك التباين يرتبط بمقاييس الذكاء. وت…"-David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
23. Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır?
By: İlber Ortaylı
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Daha anlamlı yaşamak için İlber Ortaylı’dan tavsiyeler… “Cesur olun. Kendinizi rahat hissettiğin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Nostaljinin fazlası akla zarardır"-İlber Ortaylı, Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır?
"Ben gençlik yıllarımdan beri sabahları çalışmaya gayret ettim. Okuyacaksam sabahları okudum; yazacaksam sabahları yazdım. İnsan sabah okuduğu metinleri asla unutmaz. Bunun da basit bir sebebi var: Zi…"-İlber Ortaylı, Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır?
"Dil çok önemli. İçinde bulunduğunuz çevreyi dilinizle yırtacaksınız, bu sayede değişik muhitlere gireceksiniz. Dil, insanı kafesinden çıkartıyor. Ayrıca bir tane dil bilmek yetmez. Bir dili herkes bi…"-İlber Ortaylı, Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır?
"Ne yaşadıysanız yüzünüze yansır. İnsanın yüzü bir kitap gibi okunabilir. İfadeniz bomboşsa da hiç bir şey yaşamadığınız fark edilir. Bundan kurtulmak mümkündür; yaşayın monotonluktan uzaklaşın, gezin…"-İlber Ortaylı, Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır?
24. That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
By: Marc Randolph
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
26. Space: 10 Things You Should Know
By: Becky Smethurst
4.21
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
This book is for anyone who wants to easily understand the mind-blowing fundamentals of our extraor… read more
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- popular science
- nonfiction
- science
27. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
By: Paul Scharre
3.80
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
28. Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
By: J.P. McEvoy
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics.… read more
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- popular science
- nonfiction
- history
- science
29. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
By: Azam Ahmed
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. Uncommon Knowledge: the Economist Explains
By: Tom Standage
3.53
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become ora… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- popular science
- economics
- science
31. Disaster by Choice: How Our Actions Turn Natural Hazards Into Catastrophes
By: Ilan Kelman
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
