Complexity and Chaos
By: Roger White
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
In the regular, clock-like world of Newtonian physics, randomness was equated with incomplete kno…
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1. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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- biology
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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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- science
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- audiobook
"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
3. Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
By: Matthew Syed
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Creativity is, in many respects, a response."-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
"Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organizational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic Nationa…"-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
4. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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- science
- history
- mathematics
- nonfiction
- popular science
- physics
- audiobook
5. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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- audiobook
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6. Natural Science and the Planet Earth
By: Edwin Newman , Jack Sommer
3.91
Format: 360 pages, ebook
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- history
- science
7. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
8. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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9. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.48
Format: None pages,
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more
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10. 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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11. An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
By: Richard Dawkins
4.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Here, for the first time is an intimate look into the childhood and intellectual development of the… read more
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12. The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
By: Grant Cardone
3.60
Format: None pages,
Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams!While most people operate with… read more
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13. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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14. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize ho… read more
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15. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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16. Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
By: Brian Greene
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Audiobook
Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene … read more
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17. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
18. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
19. The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
3.90
Format: 220 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 31 minutes How did communism become such a pervasive economic and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
21. Bargain Hunters, Contrarians, Cycles and Waves (Secrets of the Great Investors)
By: Janet Lowe
3.59
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Jean Paul Getty and John Templeton are great examples of "bargain hunters" or "contrarians," who se… read more
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22. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
By: Stephen Fry
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Green fingers are better than gold."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
23. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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- history
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"She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it."-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest form of unde…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doin…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it compl…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
24. Understanding Complexity
By: Scott E. Page
4.15
Format: 155 pages, None
Recent years have seen the introduction of concepts from the new and exciting field of complexity s… read more
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"Only through understanding do we have any hope of harnessing the enormous potential that the world possesses."-Scott E. Page, Understanding Complexity
25. Exploring and Mapmaking
By: Ian Jackson
3.41
Format: None pages, Audio CD
While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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26. Complexity and Chaos
By: Roger White
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
In the regular, clock-like world of Newtonian physics, randomness was equated with incomplete kno… read more
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27. Isaac Newton's New Physics (Science & Discovery)
By: Gordon Brittan
3.51
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Newton was a natural philosopher (the word ?scientist? had not yet been coined) who described a pla… read more
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28. Chemistry and the Enlightenment (Science & Discovery)
By: Ian Jackson
3.38
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Eart… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
29. A New Understanding of the Atom (Science & Discovery)
By: John T. Sanders
3.59
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have de… read more
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30. Science of Friendship
By: Kyler Shumway
3.66
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 22 minutes Loneliness isn’t our natural state. As relationship-oriented creatur… read more
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31. The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes
By: Benjamin Schumacher
4.30
Format: 362 pages, The Great Courses
The science of information is the most influential, yet perhaps least appreciated field in science … read more
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