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Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan

Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created …

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what …

Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick

If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the …

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

Seeing voices by Oliver Sacks

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the …

Dr. Dean Ornish's program for reversing heart disease. by Dean Ornish

The fight for English : how language pundits ate, shot, and left by David Crystal

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte

Only now, with the bottled water industry trading in billions of dollars, have we begun to question the environmental and …

The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry