How Numbers Work: Discover the Strange and Beautiful World of Mathematics (New Scientist Instant Expert)
By: New Scientist
3.82
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and i…
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1. The Grand Design
By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow
4.06
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE … read more
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"Suntem cu toții plăsmuiri ale visului cuiva."-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
"Suntem produsul fluctuațiilor cuantice din universul foarte timpuriu."-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
"Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws."-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
"Noi creăm istoria prin observațiile noastre, iar nu istoria ne creează pe noi."-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
By: Kevin Dutton
3.75
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the… read more
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"Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back."-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, is…"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
"Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact o…"-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
4. 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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5. The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained
By: Michael E. Wysession
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Audible Audio
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6. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million c… read more
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7. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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8. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
By: Sam Harris
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more
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9. Physics in Minutes
By: Giles Sparrow
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everything you need to know about physics, condensed into 200 key topics. Each idea is explained in… read more
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10. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
By: Joshua D. Greene
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and … read more
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11. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
12. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
By: Ray Dalio
4.28
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more
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13. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
14. 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
15. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
16. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
By: Garth Marenghi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more
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"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
17. The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
By: Ward Farnsworth
4.27
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, h… read more
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18. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
By: Carl T. Bergstrom
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more
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"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
19. The Practicing Stoic
By: Ward Farnsworth
4.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings … read more
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"If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7"-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic
"The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us."-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic
20. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
By: Michael Ignatieff
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, a… read more
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"Whatever we think of Job and his God, we must begin any history of the idea of consolation here, for the story describes the human situation so clearly. Job's story tells us we are fated to endure so…"-Michael Ignatieff, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
21. How Numbers Work: Discover the Strange and Beautiful World of Mathematics (New Scientist Instant Expert)
By: New Scientist
3.82
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and i… read more
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