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MeditationsThe Misbehavior of Markets
Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Modern Lives
The Russian Revolution
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise
On Natural Selection
The Things We Do and Why We Do Them
The Opposing Shore
Bureaucrats: How to Annoy Them (The Twitmarsh Files)
On History & Other Essays
Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Secret of Fatima
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
The Sunday Philosophy Club
The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
The Count of Monte Cristo
Kant and the Platypus
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
The End of the Affair
Utz
Journey to the End of the Night
Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World
Ferdydurke
Enemies of Promise
The Poetics of Space
Villa Triste
Flaubert's Parrot
The Magic Mountain
Amerika
Tristes Tropiques
Mythologies
The Divine Comedy
On Sacrifice
Wilhelm Tell
Aeneid
Metamorphoses
The Decameron
Walden
Axion Esti
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works
Ogilvy on Advertising
How to Make Your Advertising Make Money
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Foundations Of Ethics
The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
The Idea of A University
On Education
The Innovation Algorithm:TRIZ, systematic innovation and technical creativity
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Bestseller
At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Code of Hammurabi
The Ship of Fools
Living with Uncertainty: The Moral Significance of Ignorance
The Travels of Marco Polo
Parzival
The Tale of Genji
The Pillow Book
Confessions
Annals of Imperial Rome
The Histories
The Odyssey
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized
Pensées
Emile, or On Education
The Story of My Life
Quo Vadis
Heart of Darkness
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Iphigenia
Hamlet
The Seventh Letter: A Philosophical Mystery at Plato's Academy
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science
Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age
Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life
As a man Thinketh
Out of Africa
The Pleasant Comedy of Old Fortunatus: "What I have sworn, I will not violate."
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Before Writing
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure
The Nature of Order
My Life as an Indian
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality
The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life
The Discovery of the Past
The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination
Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe
Conservatism among the Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve
Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
We
Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan
The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain
Labor in the Ancient World
The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization
The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History
Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory
Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures
The Indian Village Community
Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean
God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)
History of the Peloponnesian War
Fahrenheit 451
The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis La Flesche
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism: the Anti-Monarchical Conspiracy
Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
Patterns Of Culture
Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States
In and Out of Each Other's Bodies: Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social
Kwakiutl Tales
Brave New World
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior
Urbanization without Cities: Rise and Fall of Citizenship
Prehistoric Men
Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond
The Making of the Middle Sea
Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990
Crowds and Power
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
Man and the Sacred
1984
Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual and Ritual Interaction
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
General Chemistry
A History of Western Philosophy
The Art of Computer Programming
Calculus Made Easy
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing
Gravitation
Lord of the World: A Novel
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications
Course of Theoretical Physics
Elements of Information Theory
Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus
Universal Economics
Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine
A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
Design as Art
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Collected Essays
Works and Days
The Nature of Things
Report to Greco
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Meaning of Hitler
The Subjection of Women
Lying for Money
Democracy in America
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers
Sociophysics: A Physicist's Modeling of Psycho-political Phenomena
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Scum of the Earth
Defying Hitler: A Memoir
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union
The Principle of Federation
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents
The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor
Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
The Greeks: A Global History
Freedom and Death
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453 1924
The French Revolution & What Went Wrong
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Deep Learning
Rational Decisions
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
The Scapegoat
The Collected Poems
The Poetry of Rilke
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Justinian's Men: Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, 518-610
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century
Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction
The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Tales told by old fountains of Thessaloniki
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths
Tears and Saints
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
The Alexiad
COVID-19: A Complex Systems Approach
Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
The Dawn of Everything
Seven Types of Atheism
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Hopping over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Against Method
Science in a Free Society
Essays
Propaganda
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads
How to be a conservative
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Governing the Commons
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion
Seeing Like a State
Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts
The Tartar Steppe
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism And Cynicism
Ignorance: On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge
The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
The Last Empire of Iran
The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment
Medieval Civilization 400-1500
Salt: A World History
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Coal: A Human History
Butter: A Rich History
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
A New Kind of Science
Pox: An American History
Quackery (A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything)
Making Things Work
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
Gulag: A History
Paper: Paging Through History
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace
The Prophet
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère
Essays and Aphorisms
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Notes on Nationalism
The Fabric of Reality
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral
The Worst Poverty: A History of Debt and Debtors
The Evolution of Technology
Gray's Anatomy
Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
The Myths of Innovation
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
About The Size Of It: The Common Sense Approach To Measuring Things
The Unknown Socrates
The Discovery of France
Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past
Risk Management for Design and Construction
Size and Democracy
The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Barcelona
Tartuffe
Don Quixote
Tristram Shandy
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the world
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
Art and Scholasticism
Beauty and Other Forms of Value
Beauty Restored
Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry, and Music
Epigrams
Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte
Wiener Werkstätte
Bird in a Cage
Alchemy: The Magic of Original Thinking in a World of Mind-Numbing Conformity
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
The Prince
Fictions
In Defense of Civilization
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The World of Yesterday
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
On Bullshit
Fooled by Randomness
A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness
The Cheese and the Worms
The Mismeasure of Man
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Feline Philosophy
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
The Architecture of Community
Letters from a Stoic
Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
The Normal and the Pathological
The Black Swan
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else
The New Leviathans
The Truth about Writing: An essential handbook for novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters
On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile: A life-saving manual for writers
The Characters
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Judgment and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Reader
The Problem of Knowledge
Antifragile
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
A New Stoicism
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy
Randomness
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution
Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos
Black Mass
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Market Volatility
The Alchemy of Finance
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Naming and Necessity
Luxury Fever: Weighing the Cost of Excess
The Great Crash 1929
Filters against Folly
Skin in the Game
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
The Social Construction of What?
The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Agent: Personalities, Politics, and Publishing
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Sceptical Essays
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
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