Chaos
By
James Gleick
James Gleick
1987 • 342 pages

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285 books

Brain

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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year With the Criminally Insane
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Nonfiction Gen

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Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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Sci Med

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Lab Girl
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
H is for Hawk
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

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Unread

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Death Of A Blue Movie Star
The Body Farm
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The stranger you seek a novel
Hot Water
The Cardinal of the Kremlin

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Science

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Kunstformen der Natur - Kunstformen aus dem Meer
Chaos
Kódkönyv: A rejtjelezés és rejtjelfejtés története

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Math

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Hyperspace
Flatland
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Infinite Powers
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

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Uncat

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Sarah
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Atlas Shrugged
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: Lavishly Illustrated with Interactive Elements
Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Stone of Farewell
BattleTech Legends: Wolf Pack

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My Library

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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Non Fiction

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Outliers: The Story of Success
Losing My Virginity: 1950-1993
The Last Lecture
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

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Abandoned

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Far From the Madding Crowd
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Catch-22
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The Lives of Others

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Non Fiction Science And Technology

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A Short History of Chemistry
American Kingpin
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Road to Reality
An Immense World
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Cosmos

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High Fidelity
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Near to the Wild Heart
La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
H is for Hawk
My Absolute Darling
Coders

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Science

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Last Chance to See
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Cosmos
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality

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Real Book

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Childhood's End
Last Chance to See
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game Of You
2061: Odyssey Three
The Bone Clocks

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103 books

Ebooks

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Infinite Jest
Bleeding Edge
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Producing Open Source Software
The Difference Engine: A Novel
PHP Reference: Beginner to Intermediate PHP5

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Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages
The Alloy of Law
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Nonfiction

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Hidden Reality
Stealing Fire
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
The Tangled Tree
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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Popular Science

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
The Book of Why
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
The Story of Physics

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327 books

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The Old Man and the Sea
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Genius
The Alchemist
Crime and Punishment
The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge

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The Eternal Champion: Book 1 of Erekosë Trilogy
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Speak Easy
The Sorcerer's House
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Read In 2012

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Guards! Guards!
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
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Math Stats

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The Art of Statistics
Infinite Powers
A Mind For Numbers
Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
How to Lie with Statistics
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

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Physics

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Feynman Lectures On Computation
The Manga Guide to Electricity
Chaos
Time Travel: A History
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
The Theory Of Everything

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272 books

Science And Engineering

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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