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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom
An indispensable handbook to the art of scepticism from two brilliantly contrarian scientists. We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we?Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture eleva...
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - Clean Edition
David Goggins
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight you...
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost is a popular 1887 novella by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. “The Canterville Ghost” is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United States minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. J...
The Case Against the Fed
Murray Newton Rothbard
"By far the most secret and least accountable operation of the federal government is not, as one might expect, the CIA, DIA, or some other super-secret intelligence agency. They are accountable: a Congressional committee supervises these operations,...
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Salinger finally cracked The New Yorker, with a story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," that w...
Causal Inference
Miquel A. Hernan , James M. Robins
Causal inference is a complex scientific task that relies on combining evidence from multiple sources, and on the application of a variety of methodological approaches. Causal Inference: What If is an introduction to causal inference when data are c...
Causal Inference in Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences
Guido W. Imbens , Donald B. Rubin
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for ...
Centuries of Childhood
Philippe Ariès
In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to ...
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Liar's Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder/CEO.The reality is,...
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O’neill and Dan Piepenbring
As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience______________________________A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI’s involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the m...
Characteristics of Games
George Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield and K. Robert Gutschera
Understanding games―whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports―by analyzing certain common traits. Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits―including number of players, rules, degre...
Cheat: A Man's Guide to Infidelity
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 ...
City of Glass
Paul Auster
New York Trilogy [1]: From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A novel – his debut work of fiction, the first volume in his acclaimed “New York Trilogy” series of novels Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City o...
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted soft...
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
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...
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff , Jonathan Haidt
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracyIn September of 2015, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff wrote a cover story for the Atlantic called "The Coddling of the America...
Code Complete, 2nd Edition
Steve Mcconnell
Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell s original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leadin...
The Code of Trust
Robin Dreeke
Robin Dreeke is a 28-year veteran of federal service, including the United States Naval Academy, United States Marine Corps. He served most recently as a senior agent in the FBI, with 20 years of experience. He was, until recently, the head of the Co...
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this in...
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet
David Kahn
The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers—how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage—updated with a new chapter on c...
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Peter Seibel
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work , offering a companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Pete...
Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World
Clive Thompson
'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z.Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’...
Codex Seraphinianus: 40th Anniversary Edition
Luigi Serafini
Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this special edition of the beloved, best-selling cult classic features a new design, new cover illustration, and 15 never-before-seen drawings. Featuring a handsome new p...
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and as an executive at Uber to address how tech's most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem"—by leveraging network...
Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
Bruce C. Greenwald and Judd Kahn
Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his hugely popular course at Columbia Business School, G...
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Alfred V. Aho and Monica S. Lam and Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman
Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools , known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the "Dragon Book," is available in a new edition.  Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, pr...
Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science
Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence. 'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to b...
Concepts of Modern Mathematics
Ian Stewart
Some years ago, "new math" took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to...
Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, Second Edition, A
David A. Moss
In this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics , David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging language. This guidebook covers the essent...
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik
This book introduces the mathematics that supports advanced computer programming and the analysis of algorithms. The primary aim of its well-known authors is to provide a solid and relevant base of mathematical skills - the skills needed to solve co...
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Excerpt: ...he was very well acquainted; and that after the marriage she had vowed him an implacable hatred, as well as all the Genevese. "Although La Popliniere has a friendship for you, do not," said he, "depend upon his protection: he is still in...
Connectography
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 ...
Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
John Mackey , Rajendra Sisodia
Uploaded by [StormRG]The bestselling book, now with a new preface by the authorsAt once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooper...
Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business
John Mackey , Steve Mcintosh , Carter Phipps
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!From Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his coauthors, a follow-up to groundbreaking bestseller Conscious Capitalism—revealing what it takes to lead a purpose-driven, sustainable business.John Mackey started a movement ...
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Ryan Holiday
**An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media c...
Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence
F. A. Hayek and Bruce Caldwell
The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek [9]: In 1931, when the young F. A. Hayek challenged the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, sixteen years his senior, and one of the world's leading economists, he sparked a spirited debate that would influenc...
Corporate Finance, Global Edition
Jonathan Berk and Peter Demarzo
For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. An Emphasis on Core Financial Principles to Elevate Individuals’ Financial Decision Making Using the unifying valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, top researchers Jonathan ...
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi , Fumitake Koga
The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.Marie Claire's best self-help books for 2018The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within y...
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview gives you the interview preparation you need to get the top software developer jobs. This is a deeply technical book and focuses on the software engineering skills to ace your interview. The book...
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition
Geoffrey A Moore
The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins...
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Clotaire Rapaille
Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes. In The Culture Code, internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the...
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of ...
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Helen Pluckrose , James A. Lindsay
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that you shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Are you confused by these ideas and wonder how they have managed to challenge so quickly the very logic of West...
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Muller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann
The harassment of WikiLeaks and other Internet activists, together with attempts to introduce anti-file sharing legislation such as SOPA and ACTA, indicate that the politics of the Internet have reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future th...