Best Sellers
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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....
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9 hours of mindless blabbering
- By Bryden Panchyshyn on 2019-04-04
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A Man for All Markets
- From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- Written by: Edward O. Thorp, Nassim Nicholas Taleb - foreword
- Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer....
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The Most Important and Useful Book of My Life
- By The Old Knife Man on 2022-11-28
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A Mind for Numbers
- How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
- Written by: Barbara Oakley
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material....
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- Written by: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....
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Profound Insight, Poorly Written
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-23
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The Signal and the Noise
- Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
- Written by: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....
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Very interesting if you're into statistics/data
- By Robert on 2018-04-29
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- Written by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....
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Only For Young People
- By Zane Gates on 2021-01-28
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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....
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9 hours of mindless blabbering
- By Bryden Panchyshyn on 2019-04-04
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A Man for All Markets
- From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- Written by: Edward O. Thorp, Nassim Nicholas Taleb - foreword
- Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer....
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The Most Important and Useful Book of My Life
- By The Old Knife Man on 2022-11-28
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A Mind for Numbers
- How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
- Written by: Barbara Oakley
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material....
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
- Written by: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....
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Profound Insight, Poorly Written
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-23
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The Signal and the Noise
- Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
- Written by: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....
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Very interesting if you're into statistics/data
- By Robert on 2018-04-29
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- Written by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....
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Only For Young People
- By Zane Gates on 2021-01-28
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The Model Thinker
- What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
- Written by: Scott E. Page
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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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....
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How to Lie with Statistics
- Written by: Darrell Huff
- Narrated by: Bryan DePuy
- Length: 3 hrs
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Darrell Huff's celebrated classic How to Lie With Statistics is a straightforward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information....
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Crappy
- By Anonymous User on 2019-08-06
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All Things Being Equal
- Why Math Is the Key to a Better World
- Written by: John Mighton
- Narrated by: Todd Van Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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For two decades, John Mighton has developed strategies for fostering intellectual potential in all children through learning math. Math, Mighton says, provides us with mental tools of incredible power. When we learn math we learn to see patterns, to think logically and systematically....
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You don't know, what you don't know.
- By KenP on 2022-12-10
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Numbers Don't Lie
- 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Ben Prendergast
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world - exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production....
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It Helps To Understand Numbers
- By Anonymous User on 2023-03-03
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Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12
- 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning
- Written by: Peter Liljedahl
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom....
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- Written by: Steven Strogatz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight....
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interesting
- By LeAnna Kolbuch on 2021-04-20
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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- Written by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how....
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Meant for general public, slow to get to point
- By Steven on 2021-05-11
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Naked Statistics
- Stripping the Dread from the Data
- Written by: Charles Wheelan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy"....
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narrow minded
- By Haithem M. Abdelaty on 2021-07-15
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Storytelling with Data
- A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
- Written by: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Narrated by: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data....
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Descriptive, informative, brilliant resource for learning data visualization.
- By l on 2024-01-17
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Playing with Reality
- How Games Have Shaped Our World
- Written by: Kelly Clancy
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 12 hrs
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Playing with Reality reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing....
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Humble Pi
- When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
- Written by: Matt Parker
- Narrated by: Matt Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world....
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Missing something from the physical book
- By A on 2020-02-01
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A Beautiful Question
- Finding Nature's Deep Design
- Written by: Frank Wilczek
- Narrated by: Frank Wilczek
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question"....
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A refreshingly spiritual work of science
- By Paul R. on 2022-10-03
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- Written by: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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It's about time we heard this wonderful story
- By France on 2018-02-23
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- Written by: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution....
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The Art of Strategy
- A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
- Written by: Barry J. Nalebuff, Avinash K. Dixit
- Narrated by: Matthew Dudley
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you....
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Just get the print version
- By Amanda on 2018-08-08
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Bernoulli's Fallacy
- Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
- Written by: Aubrey Clayton
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....
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Eye opening
- By Lexloco on 2023-05-08
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The Logician and the Engineer
- Written by: Paul J. Nahin
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use - from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances....
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Math-ish
- Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics
- Written by: Jo Boaler
- Narrated by: Jo Boaler
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Mathematics is a fundamental part of life, yet every one of us has a unique relationship with learning and understanding the subject. Working with numbers may inspire confidence in our abilities or provoke anxiety and trepidation....
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- Written by: Hannah Fry
- Narrated by: Hannah Fry
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and more....
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Really level headed book about algorithms
- By Paul R. on 2022-11-25
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The Golden Ratio
- The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
- Written by: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of an ancient mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887....
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Incerto, Book 1
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur has penned a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill....
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Excellent book with a great narrator.
- By Al on 2019-04-19
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
- Written by: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to listeners drowning in the illogic of contemporary life....
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Numerology and Astrology for Beginners
- A Soul's Journey Through the Magical World of Numbers, Zodiac Signs, Horoscopes and Self-Discovery
- Written by: Crystal Hathaway
- Narrated by: Whitney Ann Jenkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Do you sometimes question if you are on the right path or if you are wasting your time on something you are not supposed to do? Do you repeatedly see numbers all around you? Listen to find out more....
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Drinking the whole time!
- By Dianna Nelson on 2024-04-12
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Shape
- The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
- Written by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Be Wrong - himself a world-class geometer - comes a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything....