Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
By: Jim Albert
3.92
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseb…
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1. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
By: Tom M. Tango , Mitchel Lichtman , None
4.08
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James… read more
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2. Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
By: Jonathan Rauch
4.45
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Tracing attacks on free speech from Plato's Republic to America's campuses and newsrooms, Jonathan … read more
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3. 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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4. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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5. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more
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6. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
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7. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By: Ben Lindbergh
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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8. Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
By: Jim Albert
3.92
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseb… read more
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