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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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    79
  • Performance
    59
  • Story
    59

"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill Gates 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. Vaclav...

  • It Helps To Understand Numbers

  • By Anonymous on 2023-03-03
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  • How the World Really Works

  • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
  • Written by: Vaclav Smil
  • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
  • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    148
  • Performance
    123
  • Story
    122

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington Post An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes...

  • How the World Really Works [For Oligarchs]

  • By CoreDev on 2024-04-14
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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
  • Overall
    241
  • Performance
    186
  • Story
    184

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes. Set against...

  • 9 hours of mindless blabbering

  • By Bryden Panchyshyn on 2019-04-04
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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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5
  • Performance
    4
  • Story
    4

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....

  • Just get the print version

  • By Amanda on 2018-08-08
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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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1
  • Performance
    1
  • Story
    1

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...

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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
  • Overall
    317
  • Performance
    249
  • Story
    248

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything | Read by author Stephen J. Dubner! Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?...

  • Only For Young People

  • By Zane Gates on 2021-01-28
Numbers Don't Lie cover art
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    79
  • Performance
    59
  • Story
    59

"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill Gates 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. Vaclav...

  • It Helps To Understand Numbers

  • By Anonymous on 2023-03-03
How the World Really Works cover art
  • How the World Really Works

  • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
  • Written by: Vaclav Smil
  • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
  • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    148
  • Performance
    123
  • Story
    122

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington Post An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes...

  • How the World Really Works [For Oligarchs]

  • By CoreDev on 2024-04-14
Fooled by Randomness cover art
  • 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
  • Overall
    241
  • Performance
    186
  • Story
    184

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes. Set against...

  • 9 hours of mindless blabbering

  • By Bryden Panchyshyn on 2019-04-04
The Art of Strategy cover art
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5
  • Performance
    4
  • Story
    4

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....

  • Just get the print version

  • By Amanda on 2018-08-08
The Model Thinker cover art
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1
  • Performance
    1
  • Story
    1

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...

Freakonomics cover art
  • Freakonomics

  • Revised Edition
  • Written by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
  • Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
  • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    317
  • Performance
    249
  • Story
    248

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything | Read by author Stephen J. Dubner! Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?...

  • Only For Young People

  • By Zane Gates on 2021-01-28
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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
  • Unabridged
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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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  • Hidden Games

  • The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
  • Written by: Erez Yoeli, Moshe Hoffman
  • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
  • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    3
  • Performance
    2
  • Story
    2

Two  MIT economists  show  how  game theory—the ultimate theory of rationality—explains irrational behavior   We like to think of ourselves as rational. This idea is the foundation for classical economic analysis of human behavior, including the awesome achievements of game...

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  • Love and Math

  • The Heart of Hidden Reality
  • Written by: Edward Frenkel
  • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
  • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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A "powerful, passionate, and inspiring" (New York Times) journey through the beauty and power of mathematics New York Times Bestseller What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso...

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  • Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written

  • How to Beat the Odds and Make Better Decisions
  • Written by: Haim Shapira
  • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
  • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    1
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    0
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    0

Taking an amusing and digestible look at the usually dry world of probability and statistics, this is the ultimate guide to how you can incorporate them into everyday life, from one of the world’s most sought-after experts in game theory.

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  • Factfulness

  • Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
  • Written by: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
  • Narrated by: Richard Harries
  • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    505
  • Performance
    425
  • Story
    424

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 carrying only opinions for which you have strong...

  • Helping you clear your head of the NOISE.

  • By Anthony I on 2018-11-30
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  • A Beautiful Mind

  • Written by: Sylvia Nasar
  • Narrated by: Anna Fields
  • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    12
  • Performance
    8
  • Story
    8

John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians....

  • I can’t say

  • By Kathryn Siracky on 2024-09-01
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  • The Misbehavior of Markets

  • A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
  • Written by: Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson
  • Narrated by: Jason Olazabal
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    29
  • Performance
    23
  • Story
    23

A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never...

  • Very Good

  • By Cal on 2021-01-23
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  • Infinite Powers

  • How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
  • Written by: Steven Strogatz
  • Narrated by: Bob Souer
  • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    34
  • Performance
    25
  • Story
    25

Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket. Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven...

  • Narration borders on unlistenable

  • By Brandon on 2019-11-09
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  • Paradox

  • The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
  • Written by: Jim Al-Khalili
  • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
  • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    8
  • Performance
    6
  • Story
    6

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that...

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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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    69
  • Performance
    57
  • Story
    57

The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us...

  • Meant for general public, slow to get to point

  • By Steven on 2021-05-11
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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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    158
  • Performance
    137
  • Story
    133

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” “Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable...

  • Missing something from the physical book

  • By A on 2020-02-01
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  • A Mind for Numbers

  • How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
  • Written by: Barbara Oakley PhD
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    11
  • Performance
    7
  • Story
    7

The companion book to COURSERA's wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" 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...

  • Extremely valuable

  • By Luis Jaimes on 2024-08-24
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  • Proof

  • The Art and Science of Certainty
  • Written by: Adam Kucharski
  • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
  • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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    0
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An award-winning mathematician—he "made me smile and made me feel clever" (Peter Frankopan)—shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that...

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  • Speed

  • How It Explains the World
  • Written by: Vaclav Smil
  • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
  • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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A data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed—exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technology In a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is valued as highly as being fast. Some of our greatest achievements include building planes that...

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  • Le grand roman des maths

  • De la préhistoire à nos jours
  • Written by: Mickaël Launay
  • Narrated by: Emmanuel Lemire
  • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    11
  • Performance
    10
  • Story
    10

La plupart des gens aiment les maths. L'ennui, c'est qu'ils ne le savent pas. Dans les temps préhistoriques, les maths sont nées pour...

  • Une belle surprise.

  • By sylvain madran on 2021-08-25
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  • Escape from Model Land

  • How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
  • Written by: Erica Thompson
  • Narrated by: Kirsty Dillon
  • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    2
  • Performance
    1
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    1

Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us understand the world around us every day. But models aren’t a...

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  • Numbers Tell Stories

  • How Data Reveals the Surprising Truths About Our World
  • Written by: Vaclav Smil
  • Length: Not yet known
  • Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the internationally bestselling author, a revealing look at the surprising numbers that uncover the hidden forces shaping our world What do marriage, milk and the black market tell us about the state of humanity? Most people would say, not much at all. But the...

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  • Is Math Real?

  • How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
  • Written by: Eugenia Cheng
  • Narrated by: Eugenia Cheng
  • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
  • Unabridged
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One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answers.

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  • Who Gets What - And Why

  • The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
  • Written by: Alvin E. Roth
  • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
  • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    6
  • Performance
    4
  • Story
    4

A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities - both mundane and life-changing - in which money may play little or no role....

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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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5
  • Performance
    5
  • Story
    5

Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. 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...

  • interesting

  • By LeAnna Kolbuch on 2021-04-20
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  • Game Theory

  • Understanding the Mathematics of Life
  • Written by: Brian Clegg
  • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
  • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    2
  • Performance
    2
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    2

Clegg delves into game theory’s colorful history and significant findings and shows what we can all learn from this oft-misunderstood field of study....

  • Enjoyed the author. Buy the Kindle instead.

  • By Rockyroost on 2022-07-02
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  • Math Without Numbers

  • Written by: Milo Beckman
  • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
  • Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4
  • Performance
    3
  • Story
    3

An audio tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" This is an audiobook about math, but it contains no numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be...

  • A wonderful book about everything

  • By Efik on 2025-01-05
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  • Statistics for the Rest of Us

  • Mastering the Art of Understanding Data Without Numbers (Advanced Thinking Skills, Book 5)
  • Written by: Albert Rutherford
  • Narrated by: Russell Newton
  • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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Statistics is used in almost every field and industry imaginable. From healthcare to finance to marketing, statistics are used to make important decisions, identify patterns and trends, and predict future outcomes....

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  • Everything Is Predictable

  • How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
  • Written by: Tom Chivers
  • Narrated by: Tom Chivers
  • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4
  • Performance
    4
  • Story
    4

A “fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting” (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy. At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem...

  • Great book but might be better in print form?

  • By the5chord on 2024-08-18
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