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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 10,291 ratings — published 2017
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 102 ratings — published 1984
The Warrior Monk Philosophy of Trainer Cus D'Amato: The 5 Strategies That Turned Mike Tyson Into a World Champion (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 195 ratings — published
The Chiffon Trenches (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 10,315 ratings — published 2020
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 44,363 ratings — published 2019
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,109 ratings — published 2019
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 414,661 ratings — published 2019
The Night of the Gun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 7,567 ratings — published 2008
The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 559 ratings — published 1967
Diary of a Foreign Minister (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 132 ratings — published 2014
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,383 ratings — published 2014
Escape from Democracy: The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published
The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 177 ratings — published 2016
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 400,933 ratings — published 1980
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 133,258 ratings — published 1993
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 43,751 ratings — published 2003
Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 406 ratings — published 1958
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,081 ratings — published 1979
Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 67 ratings — published
Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.89 — 609 ratings — published 2015
Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 336 ratings — published 2015
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 626,580 ratings — published 2005
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,578 ratings — published 2015
Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment and Immigration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1990
The Tyranny of Experts: Blowing the Whistle on the Cult of Expertise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 1996
Idiot Proof: A Short History Of Modern Delusions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 61 ratings — published 2004
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,005 ratings — published 2006
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,684 ratings — published 2006
Anti-Americanism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 297 ratings — published 2002
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 80 ratings — published 2002
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,090 ratings — published 1992
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2006
The Rothko Book: Tate Essential Artists Series (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 41 ratings — published 2007
101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published 2006
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 878,453 ratings — published 2008
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 9,651 ratings — published 2010
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 22,154 ratings — published 2022
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 120,076 ratings — published 2008
“Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome
The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Player One: What Is to Become of Us
The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Player One: What Is to Become of Us
“If it is education that is brought about in the would-be-stone-throwers, and that might be brought about in us even by just the right little thing, education must have some attributes that we don't ordinarily grant it. For one thing, it is not a "rank," like citizenship or captaincy. It is an inward event, like joy or surprise. It would seem more correct to say, education has sometimes happened to me, than, I am educated. That would also reflect the fact that education is usually temporary, and who is brought to it just now, and in this context, may fall out of it tomorrow, or forget all about it when his belly growls. Thus it can be, for instance, that a highly trained and skillful expert can also be foolish, and utterly uneducated.”
― The Gift of Fire
― The Gift of Fire
