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* [http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Science-Prediction-ebook/dp/B007V65R54/ The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't] by Nate Silver | * [http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Science-Prediction-ebook/dp/B007V65R54/ The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't] by Nate Silver | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA/ Thinking, Fast and Slow] by Daniel Kahneman | * [http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA/ Thinking, Fast and Slow] by Daniel Kahneman | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Righteous-Mind-Politics-Religion-ebook/dp/B0052FF7YM/ The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion] | * [http://www.amazon.com/The-Righteous-Mind-Politics-Religion-ebook/dp/B0052FF7YM/ The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion] by Jonathan Haidt | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Business-Essentials/dp/006124189X Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion] by Robert Cialdini | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/New-Personality-Self-Portrait-Think-ebook/dp/B00ALBR6X2/ The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do] by John Oldham and Lois Morris | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-ebook/dp/B0052REUW0/ The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined] by Steven Pinker. | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-P-S-Matt-Ridley-ebook/dp/B003QP4BJM/ The Rational Optimist] by Matt Ridley | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Life-You-Save-ebook/dp/B001S59CP0/ The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty] by Peter Singer | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Short-Introduction-Introductions-ebook/dp/B000SEP2T2 Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction] by Timothy Gowers | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Microbe-Hunters-ebook/dp/B004KZOWFA/ Microbe Hunters] by Paul de Kruif | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Invention-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B00CQYAWRY/ Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era] by James Barrat | |||
Revision as of 19:50, 11 October 2013
- Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
- Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do by John Oldham and Lois Morris
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker.
- The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
- The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
- Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers
- Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat