Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
By: Gary Smith
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking…
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1. İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
By: Yaşar Kemal
4.48
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
Otuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed'in ve insa… read more
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"memed: “ümmet kardaş, herkesin ektiği toprak, herkesin olursa nasıl olur?"-Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
"Toprak yağlı, ışıl ışıldır. Bire kırk, bire elli vermeye hazırlanmıştır. Sıcacık, yumuşacıktır."-Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
"Görüş sahası ne kadar dar olursa olsun, insan muhayyilesi geniştir. Değirmenoluk köyünden başka hiçbir yere çıkmamış bir insanın bile geniş bir hayal dünyası mevcuttur. Yıldızların ötelerine kadar uz…"-Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 1 (İnce Memed, #1)
2. Cryptonomicon
By: Neal Stephenson
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more
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3. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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4. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
5. Quantum Supremacy
By: Michio Kaku
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more
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6. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
7. 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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8. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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10. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
11. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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12. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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13. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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14. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By: Cory Doctorow
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more
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15. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
16. 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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17. 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
18. 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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19. Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
By: Vaclav Smil
3.87
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its… read more
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20. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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21. The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
By: Renee Dudley
3.88
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersec… read more
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22. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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23. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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24. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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25. Przypadkiem. Jak największe (niezamierzone) odkrycia zmieniły świat
By: Tim James
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Nauka to zwykle świat żmudnych badań i recenzji naukowych, ale czasami zdarza się wpadka lub chwila… read more
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26. Why? The Purpose of the Universe
By: Philip Goff
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, West… read more
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27. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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28. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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29. The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
By: Brody Mullins
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Two veteran investigative journalists trace the rise of the modern lobbying industry through the th… read more
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30. Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
By: Gary Smith
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking… read more
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31. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
By: Marty Makary
4.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Pr… read more
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