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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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The Power of Myth
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The Act of Creation
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Literary Machines
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The Sciences of the Artificial
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The Social Psychology of Organizing
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Man's Search for Meaning
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Silent Spring
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Connections
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 120,212 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
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Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author)
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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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The Holographic Universe
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 190,353 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 41,366 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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Cosmos
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A Brief History of Time
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes
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Richard E. Cytowic (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 901 ratings
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
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John Medina (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 34,289 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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The Society of Mind
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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Daniel Goleman (Goodreads Author)
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How the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11,170 ratings
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
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Metaphors We Live By
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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
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Games People Play
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I'm OK - You're OK
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Deschooling Society
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Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice
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Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
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The Systems Approach
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General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
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Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
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Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students
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Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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Albert-László Barabási (Goodreads Author)
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
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Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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The Social Life of Information
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The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
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The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture
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The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation)
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Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
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Emergence: From Chaos To Order
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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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Investigations
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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
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