Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World
By: Guru Madhavan
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An ode to systems engineers―whose invisible work undergirds our life―and an exploration of the wick…
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4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4.00
Format: 384 pages,
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3.64
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3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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6. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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7. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
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4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
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3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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11. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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4.04
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4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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3.84
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4.15
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3.73
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16. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
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4.11
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3.67
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4.02
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4.01
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20. Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World
By: Guru Madhavan
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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3.84
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