8 best-selling philosophy books like Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World by J. Doyne Farmer

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Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

By: J. Doyne Farmer

4.38

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on…

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Cover of At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, William H. Gass

1. At Swim-Two-Birds

By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more

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Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

2. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

3. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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4. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more

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  • social science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll

5. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields

By: Sean Carroll

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

6. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

7. 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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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan

8. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise

9. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

By: Neil Theise

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

10. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. Economics for the Common Good

By: Jean Tirole

3.91

Format: 576 pages, ebook

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in soci… read more

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  • social science
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

12. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • philosophy
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Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

13. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

14. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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15. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

16. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
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Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

17. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

By: J. Doyne Farmer

4.38

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on… read more

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Cover of The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple

19. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

By: William Dalrymple

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

20. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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Cover of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams

21. Money: A Story of Humanity

By: David McWilliams

4.26

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

MONEY.The object of our desires.The engine of our genius.Humanity’s greatest invention. Whether we … read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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20 best-selling nonfiction books like Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World by J. Doyne Farmer

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

Tom Chivers

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields

Sean Carroll

4.18

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher

4.27

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