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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you’ll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
How to Lie with Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform.
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How to Lie with Statistics
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload.
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
We think of the Indian Constitution as a founding document, embodying a moment of profound transformation from being ruled to becoming a nation of free and equal citizenship. Yet the working of the Constitution over the last seven decades has often failed to fulfill that transformative promise.
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The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn’t a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval’s own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The Lean Startup (Hardcover) (Em Portugues do Brasil)
The Lean Startup (Hardcover) (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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The Lean Startup (Hardcover) (Em Portugues do Brasil)
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
The author embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of civilization, art, moral values, and the theory of political institutions, Deutsch tracks how we form new explanations and drop bad ones, explaining the conditions under which progress—which he argues is potentially boundless—can and cannot happen.
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein examined the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields--especially those that are complex and unpredictable--generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They're also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can't see.
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
History of the World Map by Map (DK History Map by Map)
History of the World Map by Map (DK History Map by Map)
Maps don't just show us where to go, but also where we've been. If you're interested in finding out more about the biggest events in world history, then this book all about history of the world is perfect for you!
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History of the World Map by Map (DK History Map by Map)
Building A Story Brand
Building A Story Brand
Author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.
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Building A Story Brand
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
A riveting history—the first full account—of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today.
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Transport: The Illustrated Science Encyclopedia
Transport: The Illustrated Science Encyclopedia
An exciting, colorful and information-packed journey into transport and travel. The reader can trace how trains, boats, planes and cars evolved through history, how they revolutionized human life and progress, and also how they work.
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Transport: The Illustrated Science Encyclopedia
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce.
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Ikigai for Teens: Finding Your Reason for Being
Ikigai for Teens: Finding Your Reason for Being
The Japanese people say everybody has an "Ikigai," or a reason to live. Some people have found their Ikigai and are aware of it. Other people have it inside, but have not found it yet. This concept, Ikigai, is one of the secrets for a long, active, and happy life.
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Ikigai for Teens: Finding Your Reason for Being
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Oxford Book of Essays (Oxford Books of Prose)
The Oxford Book of Essays (Oxford Books of Prose)
The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from George Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from E.B. White to Joan Didion.
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The Oxford Book of Essays (Oxford Books of Prose)
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones