The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
By: W. Brian Arthur
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Leading scientific theorist W. Brian Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and…
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1. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
2. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.10
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more
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"Only the autodidacts are free."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
3. Complexity: A Guided Tour
By: Melanie Mitchell , Melanie Mitchell
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a grou… read more
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4. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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5. Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures
By: David Bach , Joel Bakan , Michael Goodwin , Dan E. Burr
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Stimulus plans: good or bad? Free markets: How free are they? Jobs: Can we afford them? Occupy Wall… read more
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6. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
By: W. Brian Arthur
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
8. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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9. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
By: Geoffrey West
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more
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10. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
4.00
Format: None pages,
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11. The Great Crash of 1929
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Econo… read more
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12. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more
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13. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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14. How to Lie with Statistics
By: Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sa… read more
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15. World After Capital
By: None
2.57
Format: None pages,
Technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. D… read more
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16. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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17. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
18. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
19. 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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20. The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Gift for History Buffs)
By: David M. Rubenstein
4.39
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a… read more
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