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Eric Weinstein's Top Book Recommendations

Managing Director/Thiel Capital

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

4.3
Preview Summary
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation,
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Eric Weinstein

Managing Director/Thiel Capital

If you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and it’s an important truth, this book says here are all the ways you might want to make that work. [source]

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Elon Musk

Founder/SpaceX

Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.” - Elon Mus [source]

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Mark Zuckerberg

Founder/Facebook

This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world. [source]

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss

4.2
Preview Summary
More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, Th
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Tim Draper

Founder/Draper Fisher Jurvetson

With this kind of time management and focus on the important things in life, people should be able to get 15 times as much done in a normal work week. [source]

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Jack Canfield

Co-author/The Success Principles

It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge. [source]

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All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty (O'Rourke, P. J.)

P. J. O'Rourke

4.2
A writer for Rolling Stone and the #1 bestselling author of Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, O'Rourke gives us his hilarious take on the problems of the world. From overpopulation, famine, and plagues to ecological disasters, ethnic hatred and poverty, political correctness will never be the same.
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Vol. 1 book cover4

A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Vol. 1

Michael Spivak

4.1
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Gravitation

Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, David I. Kaiser

4.5
First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the physics of gravitation. Upon publication, Science called it "a pedagogic masterpiece," and it has since become a classic, considered essential reading for every serious student and researcher in the field of relativity. This
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Kirk Borne

#Gravity is the only one of the four fundamental forces of #Physics that doesn’t (yet) have a quantum explanation — learn how our understanding of Gravity has evolved, from Newton’s great insight to Einstein’s: https://t.co/DZJz9OJ9Lv 👇See this gravitationally heavy 3-kg book👇 https://t.co/9whUOUJqxi [source]

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Seamus Blackley

A couple things saved me. One of them I found the other day, slipped into my all time favorite physics book. It was a simple note from my dad, still in it’s envelope. It said that he believed in me, and that things would work out. https://t.co/z48r12w6m6 [source]

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More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics: Physics as Nature's Economics

Philip Mirowski

3.9
This is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. The author traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics, the modern orthodox theory.
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Eric Weinstein

Managing Director/Thiel Capital

Folks frequently ask “What are the books that changed your life?” If I tell them, they are usually radically disappointed. I find that curious. I just cleared out of an office, and these are 4 shelves of spines of books that mattered enough to me to bring home. So here they are. [source]

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Michael Mauboussin

2/Phil Mirowski's book, More Heat than Light, is 30 years old but still fascinating. A complementary read to @ole_b_peters work on https://t.co/J0R37kUY1F. "the progenitors of neoclassical economic theory boldly copied the reigning physical theories in the 1870s." [source]

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Elements of Information Theory

Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas

4.2
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material


The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains the book's tradition of clear, thought-provoking instruction. Readers are provided once again with an instructive mix of mathematics, physics, statistics, and information theory.

All the essential topics in information theory are covered in detail, including ent
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Eric Weinstein

Managing Director/Thiel Capital

Folks frequently ask “What are the books that changed your life?” If I tell them, they are usually radically disappointed. I find that curious. I just cleared out of an office, and these are 4 shelves of spines of books that mattered enough to me to bring home. So here they are. [source]

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

René Girard

4.3
An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the reader compelled to respond,
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Peter Thiel

Entrepreneur, Investor

He’s the one writer who has influenced me the most … . Girard gives a sweeping view of the whole human experience on this planet — something captured in the title of his masterwork, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World — but it’s not just an academic philosophy. Once you learn about it, his view of imitation as the root of behavior is something you will see every day, not just in people around you but in yourself. [source]

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer

4.4
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, T
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Jessica Stern

This is a brilliant book. Hoffer points out that zealots can be attracted to zealotry itself. Leaders of revolutionary movements go after people who are so dissatisfied with the status quo, and with themselves, that they are willing to put everything at risk, to create a new, better, purer world. The trick is to provide them with an identity as part of something bigger than themselves. One of the fascinating things Hoffer does is to look at how the Nazi and Communist Parties were recruiting from the same pool. [source]

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Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Blake Snyder

4.3
This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!
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Bill Liao

The human world occurs in language so best get good at it! [source]

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Neville Medhora

It takes you through 11 different 'archetypes' of screenplays you can write, and the exact elements each needs to be a great story. [source]

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

John Maynard Keynes

4.0
Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes critiqued the laissez-faire policies of his day, particularly the proposition that a normally functioning market economy would bring full e
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Eric Weinstein

Managing Director/Thiel Capital

Folks frequently ask “What are the books that changed your life?” If I tell them, they are usually radically disappointed. I find that curious. I just cleared out of an office, and these are books that mattered enough to me to bring home. So here they are. [source]

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Mark Blyth

This is an incredibly important book because it shows us that Adam Smith was only right in a special case. [source]

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Paul Krugman

It is a difficult book, because it’s the first book that tries to figure this stuff out. You don’t teach Keynesian economics from Keynes anymore. Keynes was actually working on The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money before the Great Depression, but, obviously, the Great Depression gave it urgency. It’s a first stab – it’s one hell of a first stab – but because it is a first stab, it’s got all the awkwardnesses that go with that. He goes off on tangents that seemed important to him at the time, but don’t seem so important now. It’s not an easy read. [source]

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Accounting for Tastes

Gary S. Becker

4.2
Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there's no accounting for tastes. Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this lively new collection he confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behavior. He argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks: personal and social. He then applies these co
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Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist

George J. Stigler

4.0
In this witty and modest intellectual autobiography, George J. Stigler gives us a fascinating glimpse into the little-known world of economics and the people who study it. One of the most distinguished economists of the twentieth century, Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982 for his work on public regulation. He also helped found the Chicago School of economics, and many of his fellow Chica
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Peddling Prosperity

Paul Krugman

4.0
The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the United States. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for policy influence. Above all, they have been the age of the policy entrepreneur - the economic snake-oil salesman, right or left, who offers easy answers to hard problems. It started with the conservative economists - Milton F
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Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

4.2
Discover how empirical researchers today actually consider and apply econometric methods with the practical approach in Wooldridge's INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS: A MODERN APPROACH, 6E. Unlike traditional texts, this book uniquely demonstrates how econometrics has moved beyond a set of abstract tools to become genuinely useful for answering questions in business, policy evaluation, and forecasting. I
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A History of Economic Theory: Classic Contributions, 1720-1980

Jürg Niehans

4.2
A History of Economic Theory offers a comprehensive account of the builders and building blocks of modern mainstream economics. Jurg Niehans shows how the analytical tools used by economists have evolved from the eighteenth century to the present. Niehans first surveys the development of classical economics from the scholastic and mercantilist traditions to Marx. He then follows the progress of ma
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Differential Topology

Victor Guillemin, Alan Pollack

4.0
Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
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General Relativity

Norbert Straumann

3.6
This book provides a completely revised and expanded version of the previous classic edition General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics . In Part I the foundations of general relativity are thoroughly developed, while Part II is devoted to tests of general relativity and many of its applications. Binary pulsars our best laboratories for general relativity are studied in considerable detail.
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Supermanifolds

Bryce DeWitt

4.5
This is an updated and expanded second edition of a successful and well-reviewed text presenting a detailed exposition of the modern theory of supermanifolds, including a rigorous account of the super-analogs of all the basic structures of ordinary manifold theory. The exposition opens with the theory of analysis over supernumbers (Grassman variables), Berezin integration, supervector spaces and t
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The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists

G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd

4.3
This is the second edition of a book that has already been well received as a clear and readable introduction to particle physics. It bridges the gap between traditional textbooks on the subject and the popular accounts which assume little or no background in the physical sciences on the part of the reader. The first edition has been carefully revised throughout to provide an up-to-date and compre
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Introduction to Gauge Field Theories

Masud Chaichian and Nikolai F. Nelipa

4.5
In recent years, gauge fields have attracted much attention in elementary par ticle physics. The reason is that great progress has been achieved in solving a number of important problems of field theory and elementary particle physics by means of the quantum theory of gauge fields. This refers, in particular, to constructing unified gauge models and theory of strong interactions between the elemen
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The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

4.3
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and
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Antonio Eram

This book was recommended by Antonio when asked for titles he would recommend to young people interested in his career path. [source]

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Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature

Erwin Chargaff

4.0
The eminent biochemist reflects on his life and work in Vienna and in America, shedding light on his DNA research and the work and opinions that led to his reputation as a maverick.
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The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession

Chandler Burr

4.1
The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell busine
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

Graham Farmelo

4.4
'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn

The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, h
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Marcus Chown

Graham Farmelo said that he’d never met anyone – even in Bristol where Paul Dirac grew up and lived – who’d ever heard of him: the greatest English physicist since Newton! [source]

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Pedro G Ferreira

Out of a fascination with mathematical beauty Dirac discovered the natural world. [source]

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

4.4
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature.

Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books--with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedle
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Jean Webb

An imaginative, clever and fun fantasy story that satirises nineteenth century England at the same time as celebrating academic thinking. [source]

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Larry Doyle

You’d have to be a zombie to miss the humour in it – it’s hilarious. Although the book is ancient, the humour feels modern [source]

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Einstein's Dreams

Alan Lightman

4.2
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In ano
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Walter Isaacson

Author

This is a work of fiction that weaves in the whimsy of Einstein’s days as a patent clerk in Switzerland and the types of dreams he may have had. They are little fables that come from his dreams. [source]

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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

4.5
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leav
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Antony Beevor

This book is about…the Stalinist repression of the areas known as the borderlands, which Snyder has termed the bloodlands. Snyder is looking at the deliberate mass murder of civilians in a particular zone of Europe between about 1930, at the start of the second Ukraine famine, and 1945. [source]

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Edward Lucas

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin offers the best account of the most important and terrible years of the last century, when Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler jointly consigned the territories and people between their two empires to the meat-grinder. [source]

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Daemon (Daemon, #1)

Daniel Suarez

4.3
A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order

Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire w
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100 Great Operas and Their Stories: Act-by-Act Synopses

Henry W. Simon

4.3
An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the early seventeenth century masterworks of Monteverdi and Purcell to the modern classics of Menotti and Britten. Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much more.
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Thirty Six Lectures in Biology

S. E Luria

4.1
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 2

Michael Spivak

4.5
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 3

Michael Spivak

4.2
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 4

Michael Spivak

4.7
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Volume 5

Michael Spivak

4.8
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A Guide to LATEX: Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users book cover36

A Guide to LATEX: Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users

Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly

4.1
Fully revised to cover the most up-to-date versions of LATEX, this accessible and practical tutorial contains all of the information you will need to get up and running with LATEX, and is an essential reference tool to users at all levels. With this book you will: master the basics of LATEX and explore more advanced topics, including user-defined extensions; get up to speed with the latest LATEX e
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A Literary Companion to Science

Walter Gratzer

4.3
This collection consists of over 200 extracts linked together by Gratzer's lively and informative commentary. Grouped under six headings, they introduce the giants of science, explore science's impact on the world, share the thrill of discovery, and capture the ambiguity of science.
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut: Twenty-Five Years of P.J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke

3.5
America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist was at one time a raving pinko, with the scab on his bleeding heart to prove it. Through 25 years of his writing, this collection traces O'Rourke's development, from a self-described nightmare of the bourgeoisie to the staunch conservative who threatens to aim his shotgun at any revival of the '60s.
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An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory

K Moriyasu

4.4
Gauge theory is now recognized as one of the most revolutionary discoveries in physics since the development of quantum mechanics. This primer explains how and why gauge theory has dramatically changed our view of the fundamental forces of nature. The text is designed for the non-specialist. A new, intuitive approach is used to make the ideas of gauge theory accessible to both scientists and stude
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Analysis, Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette

4.3
This reference book, which has found wide use as a text, provides an answer to the needs of graduate physical mathematics students and their teachers. The present edition is a thorough revision of the first, including a new chapter entitled ``Connections on Principle Fibre Bundles'' which includes sections on holonomy, characteristic classes, invariant curvature integrals and problems on the geome
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Basic Algebra I: Their Sensory Evaluation

Nathan Jacobson

4.1
The second edition of a book designed to introduce mathematics students to abstract algebra.
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Calculus On Manifolds: A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus

Michael Spivak

4.3
This little book is especially concerned with those portions of ”advanced calculus” in which the subtlety of the concepts and methods makes rigor difficult to attain at an elementary level. The approach taken here uses elementary versions of modern methods found in sophisticated mathematics. The formal prerequisites include only a term of linear algebra, a nodding acquaintance with the notation of
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Colloquial Turkish: The Complete Course for Beginners

Ad Backus, Jeroen Aarssen

4.2
Colloquial Turkish provides a step-by-step course in Turkish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Turkish in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.



Key features include:



- progressive covera
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Concepts of Particle Physics: Volume I

Kurt Gottfried, Victor F. Weisskopf

5.0
A splendid review of subnuclear phenomena ... Physicists of all stripes have reason to look forward to Volume II with considerable enthusiasm.'___ Physics Today .
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Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology

Raoul Bott, Loring W. Tu

4.8
Developed from a first-year graduate course in algebraic topology, this text is an informal introduction to some of the main ideas of contemporary homotopy and cohomology theory. The materials are structured around four core areas: de Rham theory, the Cech-de Rham complex, spectral sequences, and characteristic classes. By using the de Rham theory of differential forms as a prototype of cohomology
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Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics

P. J. O'Rourke

4.1
America's most famous satirist is back with his latest New York Times best-seller and 1998 Notable Book of the Year, Eat the Rich is a hilarious and provocative look at economics.
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Elements of the Theory of Computation

Harry Lewis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

3.8
Lewis and Papadimitriou present this long awaited Second Edition of their best-selling theory of computation. The authors are well-known for their clear presentation that makes the material accessible to a a broad audience and requires no special previous mathematical experience. In this new edition, the authors incorporate a somewhat more informal, friendly writing style to present both class
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals): Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology

Norriss S. Hetherington

5.0
The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the various responses to the basic questions of cosmology through the ages, as well as referencing important scientific theories.

Just as the recognition of social conventions in other cultures can lead to a more productive per
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Encyclopedia of Physics

Rita Lerner

4.2
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Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (Texts and Monographs in Physics)

Wolfgang Rindler

4.2
In retrospect, the first edition of this book now seems like a mere sketch for a book. The present version is, if not the final product, at least a closer approximation to it. The table of contents may show little change. But that is simply because the original organization of the material has been found satisfactory. Also the basic purpose of the book remains the same, and that is to make relativ
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Everyday Indonesian

Thomas Oey

3.8
More than just a phrase book, more than just a travel guide, "Everyday Indonesian" is a completely illustrated introduction to the language and culture of Indonesia. Whether you're planning a vacation or a business trip to Indonesia or studying its language and culture, you won't want to be without this compact and useful book!
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Father to Son, Revised Edition: Life Lessons on Raising a Boy

Harry H. Harrison Jr.

4.3
Warm and fuzzy, anchored in values, and filled with simple words of wisdom, this beloved, bestselling book for parents speaks to the important business of raising sons, and distills their timeless lessons into one nugget of wisdom per page some lighthearted, some serious, some practical, and some intangible, and all supported by a strong moral backbone.

Freshly updated, the book begins with the Fiv
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General Relativity for Mathematicians

R.K. Sachs

4.8
This is a book about physics, written for mathematicians. The readers we have in mind can be roughly described as those who: I. are mathematics graduate students with some knowledge of global differential geometry 2. have had the equivalent of freshman physics, and find popular accounts of astrophysics and cosmology interesting 3. appreciate mathematical elarity, but are willing to accept physical
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Give War A Chance: Eyewitness Accounts Of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, And Alcohol Free Beer

P. J. O'Rourke

4.1
O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores received rave reviews, was the #1 national bestseller on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists, and firmly established him as a pre-eminent political humorist. Now he does for the rest of the world--and a few select Americans--what he did for the U.S. government in Parliament of Whores.
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I Always Look Up the Word "Egregious"

Maxwell Nurnberg

4.3
Armed with a red pencil, scissors, tape, and index cards, author Maxwell Nurnberg spent years scouring The New York Times, the The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, with the aim of creating a new kind of vocabulary book. The result is a veritable panoply of words -- drawn from the real-life context of written and spoken language.
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Introduction to Econometrics

James Stock

3.8
In this new textbook by distinguished econometricians James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson, real-world questions and data from actual empirical studies open a window through which the vitality and relevance of econometrics come into clear focus. The breadth of topics - including an introduction to program evaluation, panel data methods, instrumental variables regression, and regression with time seri
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Introduction to Linear Algebra

Gilbert Strang

4.2
Linear algebra is something all mathematics undergraduates and many other students, in subjects ranging from engineering to economics, have to learn. The fifth edition of this hugely successful textbook retains all the qualities of earlier editions while at the same time seeing numerous minor improvements and major additions. The latter include: - A new chapter on singular values and singular vect
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Introduction to Superstrings

Michio Kaku

4.1
This comprehensive tutorial introduces the development of, and current trends in, superstring theory, a significant and still controversial attempt to unify general relativity and quantum field theory. Intended for graduate students with a year of quantum mechanics and familiarity with relativistic methods, the book makes these exciting developments available to physicists, mathematicians, and oth
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Lie Algebras In Particle Physics: from Isospin To Unified Theories

Howard Georgi

4.1
Howard Georgi is the co-inventor (with Sheldon Glashow) of the SU(5) theory. This extensively revised and updated edition of his classic text makes the theory of Lie groups accessible to graduate students, while offering a perspective on the way in which knowledge of such groups can provide an insight into the development of unified theories of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions.
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61

Makam: Modal Practice In Turkish Art Music

Karl L. Signell PhD

3.8
A full length treatment of the modal system used in Turkish art music including the music of the Whirling Dervishes. An invaluable aid to students of Turkish music and ethnomusicologists
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics

Gordon Kane

4.3
This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowledge about quantum theory is needed. The text provides a pedagogical description of the theory, and incorporates the recent Higgs boson and top quark discoveries. With its clear and engaging style, this new edition retains its essential simplicity. Long a
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Modern Geometry -- Methods and Applications: Part I: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields book cover63

Modern Geometry -- Methods and Applications: Part I: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields

B.A. Dubrovin, A.T. Fomenko, S.P. Novikov, R.G. Burns

4.3
This is the first volume of a three-volume introduction to modern geometry which emphasizes applications to other areas of mathematics and theoretical physics. Topics covered include tensors and their differential calculus, the calculus of variations in one and several dimensions, and geometric field theory. This new edition offers substantial revisions, and the material is written in concrete lan
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies book cover64

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Noam Chomsky

4.1
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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law book cover65

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law

Peter Woit

4.1
At what point does theory depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble something like aesthetic speculation, or even theology? The legendary physicist Wolfgang Pauli had a phrase for such ideas: He would describe them as "not even wrong," meaning that they were so incomplete that they could not even be used to make predictions to compare with observations to see whether they were w
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Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Albert Einstein

4.1
Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a fascinating and moving look at one of the twentieth century's leading minds.

Covering a fifteen year period from 1934 to 1950, the contents of this book have been drawn from Einstein's articles, addresses, letters and assorted papers. Through his wo
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Pattern Classification

Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork

4.0
The first edition, published in 1973, has become a classic reference in the field. Now with the second edition, readers will find information on key new topics such as neural networks and statistical pattern recognition, the theory of machine learning, and the theory of invariances. Also included are worked examples, comparisons between different methods, extensive graphics, expanded exercises and
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Perfumes: The Guide 2018

Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez

4.3
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics

Ramamurti Shankar

4.4
Reviews from the First Edition:

"An excellent text ... The postulates of quantum mechanics and the mathematical underpinnings are discussed in a clear, succinct manner." (American Scientist)

"No matter how gently one introduces students to the concept of Dirac's bras and kets, many are turned off. Shankar attacks the problem head-on in the first chapter, and in a very informal style suggests that th
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Qed and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga

Silvan S. Schweber

4.4
In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis. There appeared to be no way to reconcile the new theory of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity. Several approaches had been tried and had failed. In the post-World War II period, four eminent physicists rose to the challenge and developed a calculable version of quantum electrodynamics (QED), probably the most successful theory in physics.
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Quantum Field Theory and Topology

Albert S. Schwarz, E. Yankowsky, et al.

4.5
In recent years topology has firmly established itself as an important part of the physicist's mathematical arsenal. It has many applications, first of all in quantum field theory, but increasingly also in other areas of physics. The main focus of this book is on the results of quantum field theory that are obtained by topological methods. Some aspects of the theory of condensed matter are also di
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Leonard Susskind

4.5
From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum mechanics.

First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.

In this follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Theoretical M
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73

Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America

Scott Beekman

3.3
Despite its status as one of the oldest and most enduringly popular sports in history, wrestling has been pushed to the background of the current American sports scene. Most people today would have a hard time even considering wrestling (with some of its modern theatrics) in the same terms as track and field or boxing. But until the 1920s, wrestling stood as a legitimate professional sport in this
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Shelter Island II: Proceedings of the 1983 Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Field Theory and the Fundamental Problems of Physics

Roman Jackiw, Nicola N. Khuri, et al.

5.0
Since Robert Oppenheimer called the first Shelter island conference in 1947 to consolidate the advances in theoretical physics made during the war and to chart a course for the development of a "pure" physics far removed from defense applications, physics appears once again to have reached a critical juncture. "Shelter Island II" held at that same remote inn off the Eastern tip of Long Island docu
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75

Spoken And Written Hindi

Bal Govind Misra, G.H. Fairbanks

4.5
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Symmetry

Hermann Weyl

4.0
Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions, and gradually departs to examine its more abstract varieties and manifestations--as bilateral, translatory, rotational, ornamental, and cr
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Hindi (Teach Yourself)

Rupert Snell, Simon Weightman

3.6
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78

The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Jagdish Mehra

4.2
This definitive book deals with the life & scientific work of arguably the greatest American-born theoretical physicist of the 20th century. He was a great teacher, a born showman, bongo drummer, buffoon & iconoclast; a scientific magician capable of transcendental leaps of the imagination. During his career he was drawn into research on the atomic bomb before working out his path-integral formula
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79

The Diary of Anais Nin (Box Set) Complete in 4 Volumes

Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

4.1
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80

The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose

S. A. Huggett, L. J. Mason, K. P. Tod, S. T. Tsou, N. M. J. Woodhouse

4.3
This collection has been inspired by the work of Roger Penrose. It gives an overview of current work on the interaction between geometry and physics, from which many important developments in research have emerged. This volume collects together the contributions of many important researchers, including Sir Roger himself, and gives an overview of the many applications of geometrical ideas and techn
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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Stephon Alexander

4.0
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music.

Physi
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82

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

Stephen W. Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis, P. V. Landshoff, D. R. Nelson, D. W. Sciama, S. Weinberg

4.7
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly, that there will exist singularities in space-time itself. These singularities are places where space-time begins or ends, and the presently known law
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The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

Frederick Bodmer, Lancelot Thomas Hogben

4.4
It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages—Teutonic, Romance, Greek—helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabular
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84

The Penguin Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners

J. L. I. Fennell

2.5
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

Leonard Susskind

4.3
A master teacher presents the ultimate introduction to classical mechanics for people who are serious about learning physics
"Beautifully clear explanations of famously 'difficult' things," --Wall Street Journal

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013

If you ever regretted not taking physics in college--or simply want to know how to think like a physicist--this is the book for you. In this bestsell
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report book cover86

The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report

Timothy Ferris

4.2
From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole.
Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the que
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Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation

Richard E. Crandall

3.8
The major differences between this book and richard's previous title published with TELOS in Jan. '94, are that a) in "Projects" theory was stated, then projects listed as exercises. In "Topics" there will be a set of problems. while the author will refer to some of the more useful algotithms in the "Prjects" text, most algorithms in the "Topics" vilume will be distincly new. Also, b) while "Prjec
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Topology And Analysis: The Atiyah Singer Index Formula And Gauge Theoretic Physics

B. Booss D. D. Bleecker

5.0
The Motivation. With intensified use of mathematical ideas, the methods and techniques of the various sciences and those for the solution of practical problems demand of the mathematician not only greater readi- ness for extra-mathematical applications but also more comprehensive orientations within mathematics. In applications, it is frequently less important to draw the most far-reaching conclus
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Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime

Stephen A. Fulling

4.8
This introduction to the theory of quantum fields in curved spacetime, intended for mathematicians, arose from a course taught to graduate students and is designed for self-study or advanced courses in relativity and quantum field theory. The style is informal and some knowledge of general relativity and differential geometry is assumed, yet the author does supply background material on function a
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Gauge Theories Of Strong, Weak, And Electromagnetic Interactions

Chris Quigg

4.8
This monograph presents a coherent and elementary introduction to Gauge theories of the fundamental interactions and their applications to high-energy physics. It deals with the logic and structure of local Gauge symmetries and Gauge theories, from quantum electrodynamics through unified theories of the interactions among leptons and quarks. Many explicit calculations provide the reader with pract
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Science Since Babylon: Enlarged Edition

Derek De Solla Price

4.3
Professor Price has enlarged his widely known and influential study of science and the humanities to include much new material, extraordinarily broad in its range: from ancient automata, talismans and symbols, to the differences of modern science and technology. Science since Babylon is now more fascinating and useful than ever to anyone concerned with the humanistic understanding of science.



Origi
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