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| ===Science, mathematics and the {{T|philosophy of science}}===
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| {{bookreview|A Grand Design}} - {{author|Stephen Hawking}} <br>
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| {{br|Breaking the Spell}} - {{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos}} - {{author|Roger Lewin}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Consilience}} - {{author|E. O. Wilson}} <br>
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| {{br|Freedom Evolves}} - {{author|Daniel Dennett}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets}} - {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} - {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life}} - {{author|Emanuel Derman}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog}} - {{author|Chad Orzal}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science}} - {{author|Nancy Cartwright}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Lake Views: This World and the Universe}} - {{author|Steven Weinberg}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives}} - {{author|Leonard Mlodinow}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next}} - {{author|Lee Smolin}}
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| {{bookreview|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} - {{author|Thomas Kuhn}} <br>
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| {{br|From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again}} - {{Author|Daniel Dennett}}
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| ===Good books about technology===
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| {{bookreview|Code: Version 2.0}} - {{author|Lawrence Lessig}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves}} - {{author|Brian Arthur}} <br>
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| ===Bad books about technology===
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| {{bookreview|Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization}} – {{author|Parag Khanna}} and {{author|Ayesha Khanna}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Singularity is Near}} - {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} <br>
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| ===Business and process engineering===
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| {{bookreview|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - are the Future of the Entertainment Business }} - {{author|Anita Elberse}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Enterprise 2.0}} – {{author|Andrew MacAfee}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Steve Jobs}} - {{author|Walter Isaacson}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right}} - {{author|Atul Gawande}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage}} - {{author|Roger Martin}} <br>
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| {{br|Rework}} - {{author|Jason Fried}}
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| ===Writing and the law===
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| {{bookreview|How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One}} - {{author|Stanley Fish}} <br>
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| ===Good books about philosophy and psychology===
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| {{bookreview|Man’s Search for Meaning}} - {{author|Viktor Frankl}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}} - {{author|Julian Jaynes}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Thinking, Fast and Slow}} - {{author|Daniel Kahneman}} <br>
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| {{bookreview|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance}} - {{author|Robert M. Pirsig}} <br>
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| ===Bad books about philosophy ===
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| {{bookreview|Affluenza}} - {{author|Oliver James}} <br>
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| {{br|The God Delusion}} - {{author|Richard Dawkins}} <br>
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| {{c|The Jolly Contrarian}}
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