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The Tipping Point

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small
... Read more
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Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund ...

Narrated by Richard Harries ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called "a true inspiration" by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends-what percentage of the world's population live ... Read more

$19.99 USD

For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called "a true inspiration" by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends-what percentage of the world's population live
... Read more
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The Black Swan: Second Edition

The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...

Narrated by Joe Ochman ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Incerto
Unabridged

15 hours 48 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.”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 ... Read more

$25.00 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.”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
... Read more
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Revenge of the Tipping Point

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 25 min

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.Why is Miami ... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.Why is Miami ... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the
... Read more
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The Theory That Would Not Die

How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial
... Read more
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After the Spike

by Michael Geruso, Dean Spears ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a ... Read more

$25.99 USD

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a
... Read more
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The Secret Life of Public Opinion

What people really think about politics

by Stephan Shakespeare, Joel Rogers de Waal ...

Unabridged

**Brought to you by Penguin.The team at YouGov reveal how public opinion really works – and reveal that we’re not as divided as we think.**Are anti-democratic authoritarians really on the rise? Is British politics actually more polarised than ever before? And do Britons genuinely hold strong views on the ‘culture wars’?From reading the news, you’d think the answer to all these questions is a ... Read more

$19.11 USD

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**Brought to you by Penguin.The team at YouGov reveal how public opinion really works – and reveal that we’re not as divided as we think.**Are anti-democratic authoritarians really on the rise? Is British politics actually more polarised than ever before? And do Britons genuinely hold strong views on the ‘culture wars’?From reading the news, you’d think the answer to all these questions is a
... Read more
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Learning From Strangers

The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies

by Robert S. Weiss ...

Narrated by Dan Gallagher ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's 30 years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation - an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's 30 years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation - an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external
... Read more
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Statistics for Beginners: How easy it is to lie with statistics in business, social science, politics, criminology and law

by Bob Mather ...

Narrated by Cliff Weldon ...

Unabridged

3 hours 2 min

Big Brother is watching you. Discover how statistics can be used to control our society.Have you ever wondered what your neighbor does every morning at 8:35 am, when you hear weird sounds coming from his balcony?Did you ever realize that the “likes“ you put on other people´s Instagram account will influence the next summer collection of Zara, H&M, and Nike?Are you aware that whenever you swipe ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Big Brother is watching you. Discover how statistics can be used to control our society.Have you ever wondered what your neighbor does every morning at 8:35 am, when you hear weird sounds coming from his balcony?Did you ever realize that the “likes“ you put on other people´s Instagram account will influence the next summer collection of Zara, H&M, and Nike?Are you aware that whenever you swipe
... Read more
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Numbers Tell Stories

How Data Reveals the Surprising Truths About Our World from the Bestselling Author

by Vaclav Smil ...

Unabridged

Brought to you by Penguin.From the internationally bestselling author, a revealing look at the surprising numbers that uncover the hidden forces shaping our worldWhat do marriage, milk and the black market tell us about the state of humanity? Most people would say, not much at all. But the numbers reveal startling truths about who we are, how we live and where we’re headed. For centuries we’ve ... Read more

$19.11 USD

PRE-ORDER

Brought to you by Penguin.From the internationally bestselling author, a revealing look at the surprising numbers that uncover the hidden forces shaping our worldWhat do marriage, milk and the black market tell us about the state of humanity? Most people would say, not much at all. But the numbers reveal startling truths about who we are, how we live and where we’re headed. For centuries we’ve
... Read more
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Non-Obvious

How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

by Rohit Bhargava ...

Narrated by Tom Zingarelli ...

Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

What do Disney, Bollywood, and "the Batkid" teach us about how to create celebrity experiences for our audiences? How can a vending machine inspire world peace? Can being "imperfect" make your business more marketable? Can a selfie improve one's confidence? When can addiction be a good thing?The answers to these questions may not be all that obvious, and that's exactly the point. For the past four ... Read more

$16.99 USD

What do Disney, Bollywood, and "the Batkid" teach us about how to create celebrity experiences for our audiences? How can a vending machine inspire world peace? Can being "imperfect" make your business more marketable? Can a selfie improve one's confidence? When can addiction be a good thing?The answers to these questions may not be all that obvious, and that's exactly the point. For the past four
... Read more
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The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page ...

Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

Unabridged

15 hours 45 min

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows,
... Read more
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The Logic of Life

The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

by Tim Harford ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions
... Read more
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The Tipping Point

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Abridged

3 hours 4 min

Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend,
... Read more
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The Macat Analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population

by Nick Broten ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

1 hour 40 min

One of the most influential books on economics ever written, An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most controversial, too. Arguing that unchecked population growth will eventually outstrip food availability and lead to famine and disease, this 1798 work inspired naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to develop the theory of natural selection. But it has also ... Read more

$11.99 USD

One of the most influential books on economics ever written, An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most controversial, too. Arguing that unchecked population growth will eventually outstrip food availability and lead to famine and disease, this 1798 work inspired naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to develop the theory of natural selection. But it has also
... Read more
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The Nature of the Beast

by David J. Anderson ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them.In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness.In The ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them.In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness.In The
... Read more
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Democracy's Data

The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

by Dan Bouk ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

11 hours 3 min

The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them.In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them.In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of
... Read more
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What We Ask Google

A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind

by Simon Rogers ...

Narrated by Simon Rogers ...

Unabridged

4 hours 23 min

Ever wondered what goes through other people’s minds—their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes, and dreams?In What We Ask Google, Simon Rogers explores insights from the world’s biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you.Every June, for instance, the world sees a spike in searches for “How to help ... Read more

$18.00 USD

Ever wondered what goes through other people’s minds—their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes, and dreams?In What We Ask Google, Simon Rogers explores insights from the world’s biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you.Every June, for instance, the world sees a spike in searches for “How to help
... Read more
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Open Socrates

The Case for a Philosophical Life

by Agnes Callard ...

Narrated by Agnes Callard ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life’s most important questions.Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life’s most important questions.Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the
... Read more
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Цифры врут. Как не дать статистике обмануть себя

by Дэвид Чиверс, Том Чиверс ...

Narrated by Таня Фельгенгауэр ...

Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) (ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН) ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (Татьяной Фельгенгауэр Владимировной), ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (Татьяна Фельгенгауэр Владимировна). Чтение на ночь сокращает жизнь. Видеоигры провоцируют массовые убийства. Газировка делает людей агрессивными. Что?! Нет! Каждый день медиа пишут о сенсационных открытиях и ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) (ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН) ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (Татьяной Фельгенгауэр Владимировной), ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (Татьяна Фельгенгауэр Владимировна). Чтение на ночь сокращает жизнь. Видеоигры провоцируют массовые убийства. Газировка делает людей агрессивными. Что?! Нет! Каждый день медиа пишут о сенсационных открытиях и
... Read more
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The Logic of Life

The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

by Tim Harford ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

Abridged

6 hours 8 min

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions
... Read more
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Ложь, наглая ложь и статистика. Приемы, которые помогут видеть правду за цифрами

by Тим Харфорд ...

Narrated by Ivan Искусственный интеллект ...

Series series Книги-драйверы
Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

С помощью статистики можно доказать, что детей приносят аисты. Или убедить всех, что Земля плоская! И только 10 простых правил Тима Харфорда помогут не попадаться на удочку искажений истины. Автор уверен, что восприятие информации сильно зависит от наших эмоций, предубеждений и политических взглядов. Не включая критическое мышление, мы бездумно репостим сообщения о новых невероятных открытиях ... Read more

$10.99 USD

С помощью статистики можно доказать, что детей приносят аисты. Или убедить всех, что Земля плоская! И только 10 простых правил Тима Харфорда помогут не попадаться на удочку искажений истины. Автор уверен, что восприятие информации сильно зависит от наших эмоций, предубеждений и политических взглядов. Не включая критическое мышление, мы бездумно репостим сообщения о новых невероятных открытиях
... Read more
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The Precipice

Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord ...

Narrated by Toby Ord ...

Unabridged

8 hours 13 min

From one of the world’s leading moral voices, this urgent and eye-opening book makes the case thatprotecting humanity’s future is the central challenge of our time.If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years—enough time toend disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With ... Read more

$19.99 USD

From one of the world’s leading moral voices, this urgent and eye-opening book makes the case thatprotecting humanity’s future is the central challenge of our time.If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years—enough time toend disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With
... Read more
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Every 90 Seconds

Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women

by Anne P. DePrince ...

Narrated by Susan Bennett ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

Every 90 seconds a woman is sexually assaulted. In that same minute and a half, another is a victim of domestic violence at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. Every sixteen hours, one of those intimate partners shoots and kills a woman. Nearly two in tenwomen are stalked, while one in sixteen is raped during her first sexual experience. Despite these jaw-dropping statistics, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Every 90 seconds a woman is sexually assaulted. In that same minute and a half, another is a victim of domestic violence at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. Every sixteen hours, one of those intimate partners shoots and kills a woman. Nearly two in tenwomen are stalked, while one in sixteen is raped during her first sexual experience. Despite these jaw-dropping statistics,
... Read more

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