Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
By: Chris Bernhardt
4.24
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he o…
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By: Simon Singh
4.30
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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2. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
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3. Bad Science
By: Ben Goldacre
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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5. Gödel's Proof
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Ernest Nagel , James Roy Newman
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
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7. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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8. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Dead Souls (Inspector Rebus, #10)
By: Ian Rankin
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
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10. Body by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
By: Jeremy Taylor
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
We think of medical science and doctors as focused on treating conditions--whether it's a cough or … read more
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11. The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
By: William Poundstone
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
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12. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
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13. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. Lock In (Lock In, #1)
By: John Scalzi
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as pag… read more
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16. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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17. Business Adventures
By: John Brooks
4.14
Format: 200 pages,
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18. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
By: Katie Hafner , Matthew Lyon
3.60
Format: 224 pages,
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19. Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.26
Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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20. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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21. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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22. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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23. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
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24. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
By: Mark Richards
4.26
Format: 419 pages, Paperback
Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best … read more
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25. Rogue Force (Troy Stark Thriller #1)
By: Jack Mars
4.28
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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27. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II
By: Harry H. Crosby
4.58
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
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28. Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook
By: Yotam Ottolenghi
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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29. "You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
By: Torie Bosch
3.54
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding th… read more
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30. Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
By: Chris Bernhardt
4.24
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he o… read more
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31. Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
By: Anil Ananthaswamy
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoi… read more
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