A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
By: Kartik Hosanagar
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are s…
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1. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
By: Adam M. Grant
3.96
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of beco… read more
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"Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new."-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"Dissenting opinions are useful, even when they are wrong."-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives"-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers"-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
2. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.10
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more
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"Only the autodidacts are free."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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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- computer science
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4. 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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5. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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6. The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
By: Daniel Coyle , John Farrell
3.46
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A New York Times bestselling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent comes… read more
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- business
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7. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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8. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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9. A History of the World in 100 Objects
By: Neil MacGregor
3.00
Format: 31 pages,
Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human his… read more
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10. Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , None
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Taming the Tiger Withinis a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmati… read more
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11. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
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12. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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13. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
By: Bruce Schneier
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store pu… read more
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14. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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15. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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16. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
17. 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
18. Permanent Record
By: Edward Snowden
4.30
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill… read more
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"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
19. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
20. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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21. The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
By: Nate Zinsser
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Believe and be unshakable. The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares th… read more
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"Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously."-Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
22. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
23. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
By: Henry Kissinger
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more
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24. 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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25. Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
By: Vaclav Smil
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth… read more
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"Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the mod…"-Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
26. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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27. Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
By: David J. Lieberman
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Tired of guessing what they're really thinking? Read people in every situation--in person, on a scr… read more
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"Self-esteem is keenly observed as a reflection of one’s relationships and manifests in three main domains: one’s history and patterns, interactions and exchanges, and borders and boundaries."-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"If you give out of fear or guilt, your self-esteem is not enriched; indeed, it is only diminished. You aren’t really giving; the other person is taking. You are being taken advantage of, with your co…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within oursel…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
"Passivity manifests in complaining and blaming because these behaviors are both self-focused and correlate to feelings of helplessness. These people are likely to make frequent complaints with the ac…"-David J. Lieberman, Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
28. Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
By: Mo Gawdat
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for enginee… read more
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29. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
By: Matthew L. Ball
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ― United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China ( Wall Street Journal, … read more
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30. A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
By: Kartik Hosanagar
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are s… read more
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31. Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
By: Hemant Taneja
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundame… read more
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