What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
By: John Brockman
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
By: Kevin Kelly
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological i… read more
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- technology
- artificial intelligence
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3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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- philosophy
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"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
4. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more
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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
5. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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- technology
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- science
6. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
7. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Semi-Finalist in the Science & Technology category in the Choice Awards. Foreword by Steven Pinker,… read more
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8. A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more
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9. What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
By: John Brockman
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman's latest addition to the accl… read more
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10. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
By: Martin E.P. Seligman
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more t… read more
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11. The Doors of Perception
By: Aldous Huxley
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First publi… read more
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12. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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13. The Character of Physical Law
By: Richard P. Feynman , James Gleick
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University & recorded for TV by the BBC,… read more
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14. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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- science
"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
15. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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- artificial intelligence
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- science
"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
16. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
By: Peter H. Diamandis
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for te… read more
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- artificial intelligence
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17. Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
By: Mo Gawdat
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for enginee… read more
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18. Making Sense
By: Sam Harris
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more
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"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"-Sam Harris, Making Sense
19. System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
By: Rob Reich
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero … read more
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20. 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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- nonfiction
- business
"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
21. What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
By: Dan Rather
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love Ame… read more
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- essays
"We are a nation not only of dreamers, but also of fixers. We have looked at our land and people, and said, time and time again, "This is not good enough; we can be better."-Dan Rather, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
"What sticks with me more than even that act of kindness was how my mother talked to me about it... So I asked my mother why we gave those families gifts at Christmas when we ourselves didn't have muc…"-Dan Rather, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
"We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is…"-Dan Rather, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
"Simply put, we have more people talking about news and less original reporting. Whether on television or online, there is no shortage of analysis. But analysis is only as good as the information that…"-Dan Rather, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
