Patrick Collison

7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate and qu...

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve yo...

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
An Economist Best Book of ...

Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that ...

A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the conti...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the cou...

In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinge...

In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanc...

Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use compute...

From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the pr...

Now in paperback, an intimate, elegant account of a society in turmoil: the most important book in a generation about the Chine...

Paradigms of AI Programming is the first text to teach advanced Common Lisp techniques in the context of building major AI sy...

Poor Charlie's Almanack contains the wit and wisdom of Charlie Munger: his talks, lectures and public commentary. And, it has b...

_A revolutionary and timely proposal for reinvigorating transformative scientific discovery, written by a preeminent leader in ...

A biography of Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer. Covers his wealthy childhood, his career in physics, his work with his ...

Highly effective thinking is an art that engineers and scientists can be taught to develop. By presenting actual experiences an...

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this...

A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream...

The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships―and how it influenced modern thought

David Hume is widely regard...