bdu rated Alan Turing: 3 stars
Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) …
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bdu rated 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 5 stars
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative …
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Dennis Boutsikaris
Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes …
bdu rated Bullshit Jobs: 5 stars
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues the existence and societal harm of …
bdu reviewed Factfulness by Hans Rosling
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better …
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bdu rated How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking: 3 stars
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in …
bdu rated Astrophysics for people in a hurry: 4 stars
Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
A short book for almost all ages, it’s simply astrophysics for people in a hurry, taught by acclaimed astrophysicist Neil …
bdu rated Algorithms to live by: 4 stars
Algorithms to live by by Brian Christian
Algorithms to Live By looks at the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve the complex 'human' problems that …
The Stand by Stephen King OG
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will …
bdu rated Ready Player One: 4 stars
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Ernest Cline (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, …
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An …
bdu rated Cryptonomicon: 4 stars
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. …
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, …