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The Anatomy of Human DestructivenessThroughout history, humans have shown an incredible talent for destruction as well as creation. Aggression has driven us to great heights and brutal lows.
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Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and BeingAn electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from cells to human beings, ecosystems, the known universe and beyond—that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness.
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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental ModelsThe world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models.
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Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For LifeIn 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives.
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The Laws of Human NatureOur 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.
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on ItNever Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most – when people’s lives were at stake.
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You ThinkFactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and ScienceIn A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning math and science—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier.
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead PhilosophersThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss 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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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to ChaosWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.