The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
By: Thomas Lin
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Quanta Magazine's stories of mathematical explorations show that "inspiration strikes willy-nilly,"…
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
3. A History of π
By: Petr Beckmann
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is neverthel… read more
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- popular science
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4. Anathem
By: Neal Stephenson
4.17
Format: 937 pages, Hardcover
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians,… read more
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- mathematics
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"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"Linguistics got me into this excellent mess––only physics can get me out."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time."-Neal Stephenson, Anathem
5. Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--and How to Make Them Work for You
By: Sangeet Paul Choudary , Geoffrey G. Parker , Marshall W. Van Alstyne
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launc… read more
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6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
By: Richard Dawkins , V.S. Ramachandran , A.C. Grayling , David G. Myers , David Eagleman , Daniel C. Dennett , John Brockman , Alan Alda , Stewart Brand , Paul J. Steinhardt , David M. Buss , Gerd Gigerenzer , Robert M. Sapolsky , Freeman Dyson , Steven Pinker , Carl Zimmer , Robert R. Provine , Frank Wilczek , None , Leonard Susskind , Matt Ridley , Satyajit Das , Carlo Rovelli , Martin J. Rees , Rebecca Goldstein , Sean Carroll , Susan Blackmore , Richard H. Thaler , George Dyson , Joel Gold , Armand Marie Leroi , Anton Zeilinger , Thomas Metzinger , Jonathan Gottschall , Howard Gardner , Jeremy Bernstein , Clay Shirky , Dan Sperber , Scott Atran , None , Gino Segrè , Hugo Mercier , Judith Rich Harris , None , Shing-Tung Yau , None , None , None , Jennifer Jacquet , None , None
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
In This Explains Everything,John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in nume… read more
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- physics
- essays
- science
10. The Last of August (Charlotte Holmes #2)
By: Brittany Cavallaro
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster. Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a wi… read more
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11. Pushing Ice
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comet… read more
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12. Cryptonomicon
By: Neal Stephenson
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more
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13. 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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14. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
By: Jordan Ellenberg
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world a… read more
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15. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
By: Melvyn Bragg
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
English is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearl… read more
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16. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
By: Dean King
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Rea… read more
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17. Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
By: Gene Kranz
4.60
Format: 200 pages,
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it… read more
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18. Space: 1969
By: Bill Oakley
3.79
Format: 0 pages, Audio CD
What if President John F. Kennedy had survived and rocketed the Space Race of the 1960s into overdr… read more
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19. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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20. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
21. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
By: Hannah Fry
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book P… read more
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"you're not using the product; you are the product"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"And how biased is too biased? At what point do you prioritize the victims of preventable crimes over the victims of the algorithm?"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"He realized that – when whetted in the right way – people’s voracious appetite for an expert’s assessment of themselves could over-ride their desire for privacy. What’s more, they were often willing …"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"Gary Marx, professor of sociology at MIT, put the dilemma well in an interview he gave to the Guardian: ‘The Soviet Union had remarkably little street crime when they were at their worst of their tot…"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
22. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- audiobook
23. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
24. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
By: Gregory Zuckerman
4.03
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the … read more
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25. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
26. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
By: Shane Parrish
4.08
Format: 216 pages, Audiobook
The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has d… read more
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"The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key h…"-Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
27. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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28. Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
By: Frank Close
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, … read more
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29. The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
By: Thomas Lin
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Quanta Magazine's stories of mathematical explorations show that "inspiration strikes willy-nilly,"… read more
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30. 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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