The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real ...Show more
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view gi ...Show more
God is Good for You - A Defence of Christianity in Troubled Times by Greg Sheridan
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Category: Social Thought
Second- hand, paperback in as new condition. The Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation for more than 2000 years, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of the West where Christianity has become a minority faith ...Show more
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
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Category: Social Thought
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere and few things are surroun ...Show more
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United St ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more