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===Bad books about philosophy ===
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Science, mathematics and the philosophy of science

A Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos - Roger Lewin
Consilience - E. O. Wilson
Freedom Evolves - Daniel Dennett
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life - Emanuel Derman
How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog - Chad Orzal
Lake Views: This World and the Universe - Steven Weinberg
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again - Daniel Dennett

Good books about technology

Code: Version 2.0 - Lawrence Lessig
The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves - Brian Arthur

Bad books about technology

Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology CivilizationParag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna
The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil

Business and process engineering

Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - are the Future of the Entertainment Business - Anita Elberse
Enterprise 2.0Andrew MacAfee
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage - Roger Martin

Writing and the law

How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One - Stanley Fish


Good books about philosophy and psychology

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig


Bad books about philosophy

Affluenza - Oliver James
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

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