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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.07 — 10,568 ratings — published 2018
Principles: Life and Work (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.10 — 68,978 ratings — published 2017
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 404,814 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 58,385 ratings — published 2012
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 219,389 ratings — published 1985
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,283,103 ratings — published 2011
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 23,062 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 597,462 ratings — published 2011
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 230,674 ratings — published 2017
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,892 ratings — published 1979
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 31,251 ratings — published 1994
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 13,622 ratings — published 2010
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 12,444 ratings — published 2015
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 179,310 ratings — published 1984
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 9,960 ratings — published 2011
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 2,620 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 — 203,506 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 290,410 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 — 14,680 ratings — published 2015
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 16,876 ratings — published 2014
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 36,081 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 4.16 — 50 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 439 ratings — published 1969
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 9,530 ratings — published 1963
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 26,775 ratings — published 2019
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,698 ratings — published 2018
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 28,190 ratings — published 1999
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 17,364 ratings — published 1993
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,355 ratings — published 2014
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 209,977 ratings — published
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,338 ratings — published 2016
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,027 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 — 6,492 ratings — published 2015
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 67,745 ratings — published 2014
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 15,752 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 — 3,212 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 — 8,928 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 — 56,720 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 6,000 ratings — published 1996
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,669 ratings — published 1999
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics)
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avg rating 4.14 — 16,606 ratings — published 1957
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,488 ratings — published 1982
Haskell Programming From First Principles (ebook)
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avg rating 4.33 — 270 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
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 524 ratings — published 1969
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 579 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 462,341 ratings — published 1997
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 48,857 ratings — published 2024
“All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.”
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“The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond is opaque How if you saw through the garden too?...If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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