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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea.
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
Unlike the rest of life on the planet (as far as we know), humans have evolved with an insatiable desire to make sense of the world around us. Our senses are not equipped to see the universe as it is, and routinely let us down in that quest.
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground.
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting Results
Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting Results
Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars.
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Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting Results
Future Shock
Future Shock
Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society.
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Future Shock
The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler (1980-11-05)
The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler (1980-11-05)
...casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy.
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The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler (1980-11-05)
Do Epic Shit
Do Epic Shit
Ankur puts together the key ideas that have fuelled his journey – one that began with him wanting to be a space engineer and ended with him creating content that has been seen and read by millions.
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Do Epic Shit
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets will train you to combat your own biases, address your weaknesses, and help you become a better and more confident decision-maker.
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How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
This is the story of Kalam's rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul and Nag-missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning.
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Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorF…
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorF…
By using concrete examples, minimal theory, and two production-ready Python frameworks—Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow—author Aurélien Géron helps you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent systems.
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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorF…
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
You have about 80,000 hours in your 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make. Make the right choices, and you can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems, as well as have a more rewarding, interesting life.
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80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world.
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
All the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages.
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Order of Time
The Order of Time
With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery, inviting us to imagine a world where time is in us and we are not in time.
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The Order of Time
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World
Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements.
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Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit
A team of experts who themselves have helped launch 18 evidence-based charities (and counting) break down what it really takes to build impactful organizations.
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How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it’s a necessary investment—with a blessedly sure rate of return. This revised and updated edition includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade, income inequality, and America’s rising debt.
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
Why does paper money (“fiat currency” if you want to be fancy) even exist? And why do some nations, like Zimbabwe in the 1990s, print so much of it that it becomes more valuable as toilet paper than as currency? In Naked Money, Wheelan tackles all of the above and more, showing us how our banking and monetary systems should work in ideal situations and revealing the havoc and suffering caused in real situations by inflation, deflation, illiquidity, and other monetary effects.
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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System