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A History of Economic Thought As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.
Quantum Entanglement An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar
Macroeconomics An accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies.
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World Demystifies the world of quantum science for the layperson, exploring scientific concepts—from particles of light, to probability, to states of matter, to what makes greenhouse gases bad—in considerable depth, but using examples from the everyday world.
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies.
The Laws of Human Nature Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.
The Visual Mba: Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness a quick skimming towards MBA class

Categories → #nonfiction

A History of Economic Thought As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

Quantum Entanglement An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar

Macroeconomics An accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies.

The Laws of Human Nature Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.

The Visual Mba: Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness a quick skimming towards MBA class