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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House
Random House
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The...
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The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills
Amber-Allen Publishing
Amber-Allen Publishing
The Voice of Knowledge is the fourth book in the Toltec Wisdom series by the best-selling author of The Four Agreements. Don Miguel Ruiz explores the concept of "impeccability of the word" as a simple yet potent prescription for countering the...
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Robert Burton
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
You recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001--you know these things, well, because you just do. In On...
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
Richard Nisbett
Free Press
Free Press
When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on the background environment -- and the different...
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson
Vintage
Vintage
"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." -- The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants --gives us a...
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Knowledge And Decisions
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books
Basic Books
With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Annointed , Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in...
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Objectivity
Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison
Zone Books
Zone Books
Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show how the concept differs from its alternatives,...
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On Truth
Harry G. Frankfurt
Knopf
Knopf
Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently...
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The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Mark Johnson
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
In The Meaning of the Body , Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By . Johnson uses recent research into infant...
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