A Guide for the Young Economist
By: William Thomson
3.66
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing the…
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1. A Room of One’s Own
By: Virginia Woolf
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more
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"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
2. Thinking, Fast and Slow
By: Daniel Kahneman
4.18
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more
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"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
3. The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.49
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime … read more
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"Yet dawn is ever the hope of men."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)
"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)
"Are we riding far tonight, Gandalf?"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)
"The treacherous are ever distrustful."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (Middle Earth, #3)
4. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
By: Peter Attia
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more
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5. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
6. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more
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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
7. A Guide for the Young Economist
By: William Thomson
3.66
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing the… read more
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