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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 59,227 ratings — published 2012
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 24,006 ratings — published 2008
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 10,196 ratings — published 2011
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.07 — 10,819 ratings — published 2018
Principles: Life and Work (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.09 — 70,569 ratings — published 2017
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 413,430 ratings — published 2014
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 221,830 ratings — published 1985
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,308,964 ratings — published 2011
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 31,664 ratings — published 1994
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 608,404 ratings — published 2011
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 235,394 ratings — published 2017
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 53,591 ratings — published 1979
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 13,764 ratings — published 2010
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 124,092 ratings — published 2007
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 12,579 ratings — published 2015
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 182,322 ratings — published 1984
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,660 ratings — published 2019
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 205,411 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 293,614 ratings — published 2015
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 14,890 ratings — published 2015
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 17,201 ratings — published 2014
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 72,824 ratings — published 2001
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 959 ratings — published 2005
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,921 ratings — published 2023
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 36,206 ratings — published 1990
The Health And Wealth Paradox: How to Use First Principles Thinking to Achieve Both (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 51 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 444 ratings — published 1969
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 9,636 ratings — published 1963
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 27,152 ratings — published 2019
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,746 ratings — published 2018
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 28,414 ratings — published 1999
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 17,430 ratings — published 1993
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,495 ratings — published 2014
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 214,070 ratings — published 2017
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,491 ratings — published 2016
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,105 ratings — published 2015
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 6,525 ratings — published 2015
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 69,172 ratings — published 2014
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 16,129 ratings — published 2014
The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 129 ratings — published 2015
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,252 ratings — published 2012
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 9,033 ratings — published 2012
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 57,549 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 6,088 ratings — published 1996
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,789 ratings — published 1999
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics)
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avg rating 4.15 — 16,766 ratings — published 1957
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,507 ratings — published 1982
Haskell Programming From First Principles (ebook)
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avg rating 4.32 — 275 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicles 0-4 (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 16 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 510 ratings — published 1973
“If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore, inherent in him as a human being, necessarily remain with him during life; and, however capable of being trampled upon, are incapable of being blotted out, extinguished, annihilated, or separated or eliminated from his nature as a human being, or deprived of their inherent authority or obligation.”
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“More money" will not solve any global issue because it is the root cause of the problem.”
― Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity
― Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity
