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Science and statistics
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1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond

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	"The most scarily coherent argument for why we need to change - soon"

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2. The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker

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	"Fascinating insight into how and why we communicate"

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3. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

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	"Stories around statistics that make the trends and patterns stick in your mind"

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4. Super Crunchers: How Anything Can Be Predicted by Ian Ayres

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	"Examples of how some things correlate with others..."

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5. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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	"...but then sometimes the predictions don't work any more"

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6. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

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	"I loved the anecdotes in this book, particularly about subway crime"

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7. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few by James Surowiecki

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	"If you look at the amazon 'average' reviews, you already believe in the wisdom of crowds"

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8. A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking

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9. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins

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	"I can't agree with him about everything, but this is fantastic"

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10. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Matt Ridley

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Discussion	Replies	Latest Post
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything forum return policy?	1	15 Mar 2012
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes forum Hawking's 'Brief History' ... any similar books out there?	4	1 Sep 2011
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable forum Implications of the Black Swan for Management	0	7 Jun 2009