Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
By: Paulina Rowińska
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Korean War
By: Max Hastings
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more
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2. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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3. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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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5. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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6. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
By: Grace Blakeley
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more
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"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
7. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
8. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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9. In a Flight of Starlings
By: Giorgio Parisi
3.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more
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"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings
10. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defie… read more
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"Huge amounts of blood were shed to make and maintain the Soviet Union. Some of it was the blood of idealists, some of thugs and careerists, but most of it was the blood of ordinary people whose main …"-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
"The Marxist prediction that capitalism would ultimately collapse and be replaced by socialism (Khrushchev’s tactless ‘We will bury you!’) had been a comfort to Soviet Communists as they struggled aga…"-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
11. The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers
By: Andrew Gold
4.08
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From the host of award-winning podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold comes The Psychology of Secrets… read more
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12. Growth: A Reckoning
By: Daniel Susskind
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethin… read more
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13. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
By: Ferris Jabr
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voi… read more
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14. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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15. 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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"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.
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16. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
By: Jonn Elledge
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps … read more
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17. 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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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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19. Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
By: Paulina Rowińska
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote… read more
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20. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more
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21. Fakten sind auch nur Meinungen: Wie wir wissenschaftlich zwischen Wahrheit und Wahrnehmung unterscheiden
By: Jens Foell
4.62
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Was ist Fakt, was ist Fiktion? Ein Fakt ist eine wissenschaftlich überprüfbare Tatsache. Eine Me… read more
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