Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
By: Matthew J. Salganik
4.08
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age In just the past se…
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1. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
3. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition
By: Dan Jurafsky , James H. Martin
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
This book offers a unified vision of speech and language processing, presenting state-of-the-art al… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- science
- technology
5. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
By: Sönke Ahrens
3.42
Format: 320 pages,
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- nonfiction
6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
7. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- politics
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
8. Our Iceberg Is Melting
By: Spencer Johnson , John P. Kotter , Peter Mueller , Holger Rathgeber
3.79
Format: 368 pages,
"This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal … read more
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9. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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10. On Beauty
By: Zadie Smith
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-s… read more
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11. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
12. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
By: Vicki Myron , Bret Witter
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for … read more
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13. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World
By: Jon Kleinberg , None
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of … read more
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14. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
By: Joshua D. Angrist , Jörn-Steffen Pischke
4.21
Format: None pages,
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15. Foundation (Foundation, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.17
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more
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"Past glories are poor feeding."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
16. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
17. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
18. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- science
"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
20. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- science
"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
21. 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
"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
22. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- social science
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
23. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- science
"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
24. Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
By: Lauren Fleshman
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her… read more
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- nonfiction
"It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected."-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attac…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consist…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
"Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the s…"-Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
25. Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
By: John Gray
3.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
The author of Straw Dogs , famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Morality has many charms. What could be more captivating than a vision of everlasting justice? Yet visions of justice are as immutable as styles in shoes."-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"All these philosophies(Stoicism,Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism)have a common failing. They imagine life can be ordered by human reason. Either the Mind can devise a way of life that is secure from loss ,or…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"Cats have no need of philosophy. Obeying their nature, they are content with the life it gives them. In humans, on the other hand, discontent with their nature seems to be natural. With predictably t…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
"Instead of being a sign of their inferiority, the lack of abstract thinking among cats is a mark of their freedom of mind. Thinking in generalities slides easily into a superstitious faith in languag…"-John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
26. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
27. Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
By: Matthew J. Salganik
4.08
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age In just the past se… read more
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- technology
- politics
- grad school
- nonfiction
- social media
- sociology
- science
28. The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World
By: Jennifer Jacquet
3.79
Format: None pages, ebook
'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinforma… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- science
29. Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation
By: Alan Gerber
4.29
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences. Written by two… read more
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- science
30. The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
By: Sinan Aral
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A landmark insider's tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in w… read more
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- technology
- politics
- social media
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
"In the Hype Machine, everyone is a digital marketer, whether we’re fighting for ideas or for consumer dollars."-Sinan Aral, The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
"Social media is designed for our brains. It interfaces with the parts of the human brain that regulate our sense of belonging and social approval. It rewards our dopamine system and encourages us to …"-Sinan Aral, The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
"content. But at the same time, these signals are much more transformative—they are hypersocializing our society, scaling mass persuasion, and creating a tyranny of trends. They do this by injecting t…"-Sinan Aral, The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
"During our research, we discovered what I still, to this day, consider some of the scariest scientific results I have ever encountered. We found that false news diffused significantly farther, faster…"-Sinan Aral, The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
31. Population-Based Survey Experiments
By: Diana C. Mutz
3.95
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling… read more
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