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Suggested Books
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| The Art of Thinking
Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
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A large number of
well-explained reasoning problem stories
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| Thinking edited by
John Brockman
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An anthology of short
pieces by some of the most important contemporary
thinkers on thinking
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| Thinking Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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The bestseller by the
Nobel-Prize winner
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| How Not to Be Wrong
by Jordan Ellenberg
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Well written and
amusing snippets on reasoning correctly
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| Damned Lies and
Statistics by Joel Best |
Well written and
explained fallacious statistical techniques and
conclusions |
| More Damned Lies and
Statistics by Joel Best |
more of the same |
| A Mathematician Reads the
Newspaper by John Allen Paulos |
A large number of
fallacies due to ignorance of math |
| Innumeracy by John
Allen Paulos |
More Paulos |
| Bad Science by Ben
Goldacre |
debunking
pseudo-scientific claims...funny |
| Bad Pharma by
Ben Goldacre |
Sequel to Bad Science |
| The Humor Code by
Peter McGraw and Joel Warner
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A world-wide road trip
trying to find key to humor
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| Standard Deviations
by Gary Smth |
Full of examples of
popular mangling of statistics |
| The Power of Habit
by Charles Duhigg |
How much of everyday
decision-making is habit-based. Best-seller. |
| Metamagical Themas
by Douglas Hofstadter
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A collection of
Hofstadter's articles in Scientific American magazine -- some
brilliant, all written for the general public
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| Godel Escher Bach
by Douglas Hofstadter
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National Book Award and
Pulitzer Prize winner. A remarkable and playful
journey into mind.
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| The
Mind's I edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel
Dennett |
An anthology of
famous and great essays on consciousness interspersed with
science fiction short stories of interesting philosophical
import. One of the really great books on thinking. |
| The Drunkard's Walk by
Leonard Mlodinow
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Well written essays on various
problems involving randomness -- for the general public.
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| Freakonomics by Steven
Levitt and Stephen Dubner
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The best-seller about the
curious and clever explanations of various social phenomena.
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| Superforecasting by
Philip Tetlock
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How people who are really good
at forecasting do it.
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| Invention
by Design by Henry Petroski |
Engineering
design as told by a great designer (if you want to be an
engineer, read this book) |
| How the
Mind Works by Stephen Pinker |
A remarkable book
by a really talented writer/scientist and proponent of
evolutionary psychology |
| The
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone |
a very well written popular account of the history of game
theory, its applications |
| The
Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod |
a wonderful book on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, wth
examples of cooperation arrising spontaneously in areas of
conflict |