The Model Thinker [March 28, 2020] Scott E. Page
How anyone can become a data ninja From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows...
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts [March 28, 2020] Gary Chapman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? *New York Times* bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and spe...
Insight [March 28, 2020] Tasha Eurich
The first definitive book exploring the science of self-awareness, the meta-skill of the 21st century, Insight is a fascinating journey into everyone's favorite topic: themselves. Do you know who you really are? Do you ever wonder how other people re...
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts [March 28, 2020] Shane Parrish
The old saying goes, ''To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'' But anyone who has done any kind of project knows a hammer often isn't enough.
The more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely you'll use the right tool for t...
Economics in One Lesson [March 28, 2020] Henry Hazlitt
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern "libertarian" economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others.Considered amon...
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming [March 28, 2020] 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...
Walden Two [March 28, 2020] B. F. Skinner
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientifi...
A Man for All Markets [March 28, 2020] Edward O. Thorp
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary...
Hate Inc. [March 28, 2020] Matt Taibbi
Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business In this characteristically turbocharged new book, ce...
The Nature of Technology [March 28, 2020] W. Brian Arthur
The Nature of Technology will change the way you think about this fundamental subject forever. W. Brian Arthur's many years of thinking and writing about technology have culminated in a unique understanding of his subject. Here he examines the nature...
Made to Stick [March 28, 2020] Chip Heath
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Switch. Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy the...
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival [March 28, 2020] John Vaillant
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos [March 28, 2020] Jordan B. Peterson
The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peter...
The Case Against the Fed [March 28, 2020] 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 Laws of Human Nature [March 28, 2020] Robert Greene
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around youRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy int...
A Philosophy of Software Design [March 28, 2020] John Ousterhout
This book addresses the topic of software design: how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently. The book first introduces the fundamental problem in software des...
The Art of Thinking Clearly [March 28, 2020] Rolf Dobelli
Have you ever . . . Invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it? Paid too much in an eBay auction? Continued to do something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or too early? Taken credit for success, but blamed fa...
Tribe [March 28, 2020] Sebastian Junger
We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding -"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before th...
So You Want to Talk About Race [March 28, 2020] Ijeoma Oluo
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has pu...
