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by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie • May 15, 2018 • Computers & Technology
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and wil...
by Garth Ennis • April 2, 2019 • Comics & Graphic Novels
This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's g...
by J. D. Williams • May 1, 1986 • Humor & Entertainment
When J. D. Williams wrote this entertaining, witty introduction for the nonscientist, game theory was still a somewhat mysterio...
by Neal Stephenson • May 2, 2000 • Literature & Fiction
Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary wr...
by Robin Hanson • January 2, 2018 • Politics & Social Sciences
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather,...
by Matt Ridley • October 25, 2016 • Business & Money
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneo...
by David Deutsch • August 1, 1998 • Science & Math
A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse – as referenced in t...
by Richard P. Feynman • January 4, 2011 • Science & Math
The legendary introduction to physics from the subject's greatest teacher
"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Ric...
by Friedrich Nietzsche • January 12, 1974 • Politics & Social Sciences
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to ...
by Roger Zelazny • March 30, 2010 • Literature & Fiction
“A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen.” —George R....
by Osho • January 1, 1993 • Religion & Spirituality
Osho continues to inspire millions of people worldwide in their search to define a new approach to individual spirituality that...
by T. K. V. Desikachar • March 1, 1999 • Health, Fitness & Dieting
The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted t...
by Jack Vance • January 30, 2007 • Literature & Fiction
Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantas...
by Ariel Durant and Will Durant • February 16, 2010 • History
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research f...
by Ted Chiang • September 11, 2021 • Literature & Fiction
What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract acti...
by J. R. R. Tolkien • February 15, 2012 • Literature & Fiction
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times ...
by Guy Kawasaki • August 1, 1989 • Computers & Technology
Briefly looks at the development of the Macintosh computer, explains how the Apple Computer company is managed, and discusses t...
by Carlo Rovelli • December 10, 2019 • Science & Math
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling bo...
by Matt Ridley • April 1, 1998 • Health, Fitness & Dieting
If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in coop...
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