Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
By: David Bessis
4.24
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to eve…
Want to Read $ 14.99"We may as well be clear about the first one: no, mathematicians don’t think logically. It is in fact utterly impossible to think logically. Logic doesn’t help at all with thinking. We shall see later on what it is used for."-David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
"Great mathematicians are born with a brain fundamentally different from ours. We may as well be clear about the first one: no, mathematicians don’t think logically. It is in fact utterly impossible to think logically. Logic doesn’t help at all with thinking. We shall see later on what it is used for."-David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
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1. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By: Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
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"Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effect…"-Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
2. Le grand roman des maths : de la préhistoire à nos jours
By: Mickaël Launay
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dans les temps prehistoriques, les maths sont nees pour etre utiles. Les nombres servaient a compte… read more
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3. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that disti… read more
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"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabu…"-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
4. Impro
By: Keith Johnstone , Irving Wardle
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artist… read more
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5. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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6. 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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7. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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8. Où vont les larmes quand elles sèchent
By: Baptiste Beaulieu
3.98
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
" Médecin le jour, écrivain la nuit, Baptiste Beaulieu mêle comme personne le drame et la drôlerie.… read more
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9. Comme un oiseau dans un bocal: Portraits de surdoués
By: Lou Lubie
4.39
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
On parle beaucoup des enfants précoces, mais que deviennent-ils une fois adultes ? Birdo, brillant … read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Os engenheiros do caos
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.25
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
Dans le monde de Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro et Matteo Salvini, chaque jour porte sa maladresse, s… read more
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13. La matematica è politica
By: Chiara Valerio
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
La matematica rivista come prassi politica, e non solo come teoria, è un formidabile esercizio di d… read more
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14. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more
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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
15. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
By: Pascal Boyer
3.92
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psycholo… read more
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"Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work."-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surround…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Deliberation is made possible by our evolved reasoning capacities, and this explains why, as historians and political scientists have along observed, free and open deliberation generally leads to cho…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, f…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
16. Sans transition: Une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie
By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
4.07
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
Voici une histoire radicalement nouvelle de l’énergie qui montre l’étrangeté fondamentale de la not… read more
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17. Vallée du silicium
By: Alain Damasio
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
« Ce qui manque furieusement à notre époque, c’est un art de vivre avec les technologies. Une facul… read more
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18. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
By: Alan Townsend
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more
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19. Ascoltare gli alberi (Italian Edition)
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.79
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
«Una lontana betulla bianca, ritta su una collina contro il cielo bianco e brumoso, sembra, con i s… read more
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20. The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Manu Larcenet
4.49
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic… read more
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21. Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
By: David Bessis
4.24
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to eve… read more
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"We may as well be clear about the first one: no, mathematicians don’t think logically. It is in fact utterly impossible to think logically. Logic doesn’t help at all with thinking. We shall see later…"-David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
"Great mathematicians are born with a brain fundamentally different from ours. We may as well be clear about the first one: no, mathematicians don’t think logically. It is in fact utterly impossible t…"-David Bessis, Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
