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Mastering 'Metrics: The Path From Cause to Effect [January 26, 2021]
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
An accessible and fun guide to the essential tools of econometric researchApplied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect ...
Bad Medicine : Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates [January 26, 2021]
David Wootton
We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history o...
Quantum Computing Since Democritus [January 22, 2021]
Scott Aaronson
Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an am...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes [January 22, 2021]
Steven Pinker
'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily MailShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012Wasn't t...
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy [January 22, 2021]
Adam Tooze
An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's sur...
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility [January 22, 2021]
Stewart Brand
Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspir...
Lords of Finance [January 22, 2021]
Liaquat Ahamed
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Secon...
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman [January 22, 2021]
James Gleick
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was...
Star Maker [January 22, 2021]
Olaf Stapledon
This bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, this classic has left its mark n...
Whole Earth Discipline [January 22, 2021]
Stewart Brand
The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that in order to do this, they urgently need to abandon much conventional environmental wisdo...
Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays [January 22, 2021]
James Richardson
Richardson is well-known for his five previous volumes of poetry and for his critical work. Along with new poems, this book includes a large selection of aphorisms, which have brought him a whole new audience. They are witty, profound, and often ver...
Selected Non-Fictions [January 22, 2021]
Jorge Luis Borges
It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prolo...
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street [January 22, 2021]
William Poundstone
In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gu...
Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms [January 22, 2021]
James Richardson
This book gathers under one roof poems from all of Richardson's earlier collections, a number of which are out of print: Reservations (1977), Second Guesses (1984), As If(1992), A Suite for Lucretians (1999), How Things Are (2000), and Vectors: Apho...
How to Measure Anything [January 17, 2021]
Douglas W. Hubbard
Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisionsThis insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure t...
Connectography [January 17, 2021]
Parag Khanna
From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and ...
Viral Loop [January 16, 2021]
Adam L. Penenberg
Here's something you may not know about today's Internet. Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a flourishing business from scratch. No advertising or marketing budget, no need for a sales force, and venture capitalists will f...
Cheat: A Man's Guide to Infidelity [January 13, 2021]
Bill Burr , Joe Derosa , Robert Kelly
MONOGAMY HAS MET ITS MATCH When it comes to scoring on the side, this book is your best friend. Comedians Bill Burr, Joe DeRosa, and Robert Kelly have experienced the rich pleasures and unspeakable risks of romantic infidelity, and survived to tell ...
Applying insights from magic to improve deception in research : The Swiss cheese model [January 13, 2021]
Jay A. Olson , Amir Raz
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92 (2021) 104053. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104053
Generalized Linear Models & Applications in Engineering & the Sciences [January 13, 2021]
Raymond H. Myers, Douglas C. Montgomery, G. Geoffrey Vining
Second Edition   Praise for the First Edition "The obvious enthusiasm of Myers, Montgomery, and Vining and their reliance on their many examples as a major focus of their pedagogy make Generalized Linear Models a joy to read. Every statistician work...
Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion [January 13, 2021]
Joshua D. Angrist , Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Business & Economics, Econometrics   The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods th...
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