Books about the process of learning, and on how to understand complex things
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise is a 2016 science book by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and science …
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Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human …
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Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick
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A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s …
naught101 says: For understanding complex dynamics
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The Information by James Gleick
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From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story …
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