| 1. |  | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
from Random House
Price: $16.20
Customer Review:
Most of the criticisms of Taleb and this book seem sensible:
- His confidence sometimes seems to reach the level of condescending arrogance.
- With a wave of the hand, he dismisses those he disagrees with, even Nobel prize winners. And perhaps he oversimplifies their positions in order to... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
from Amber-Allen Publishing
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
I READ ALOT AND I HAVE EVERYONE OF HIS BOOKS. HE IS A GREAT AUTHOR AND WRITER. I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU WRITE AND OFFER TO THE WORLD. MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Virtue of Selfishness
from Signet
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
I am a great fan of the writing of Ayn Rand. I was very surprised when I looked this book up on Amazon and found, by way of description, only a review of the book by The Liberal Journal. Anyone with the least sense of logic and awareness of what Ayn Rand writes about should see the glaring flaw in... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
from St. Martin's Griffin
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
"It's not what ya don't know that causes most problems. It's what ya know for sure that just ain't so." Humorist and aphorist Josh Billings warned us a Century and-a-half ago about the danger of determined, intransigent certainty in human affairs.
With this critical book, neuroscientist and... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. | ![]() | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
from Open Court Pub Co
Customer Review:
This review mostly concerns the Enquiry. The Letter is primarily a defense of Hume's earlier Treatise of Human Nature, while his Abstract is an anonymous review of the Treatise. It strikes me as very funny, though not surprising, that Hume would review his own work. Funny because any author would... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $10.16
Customer Review:
This takes time to digest no matter how smart you are. But it's worth it, make the journey through time and see how a ranting madmamn/genius sees the world and mankind! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | The Denial of Death
from Free Pr
Customer Review:
Reading the reviews of this book are both humorous and intriguing. Among them there are widely varying explanations of what this book is about. I won't summarize my own view, for fear of inventing something new, but instead refer you to the back, inside flap and preface, which summarize the book... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
from Free Press
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
I always used to wonder why "Out-of-the-box" was such a powerful phrase in the west, while as an idiomatic expression it had little sway over me. This books goes on the explain the western inclination to codify, compartmentalize, devise rules & laws & a general love of "orderliness". In... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
from Vintage
Price: $10.85
Customer Review:
Allows those who are layman in the hard sciences to connect new methodologies to their chosen fields. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | When God Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life[UNABRIDGED]
from Audio Literature
Price: $17.60
Customer Review:
I read this book and then got a copy for myself. It is well worth the read, | 4.0 / 5.0
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