Scale
By
Geoffrey B. West
Geoffrey B. West
2017 • 479 pages

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31 books

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The Scientist as Rebel
Deep Simplicity
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
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Leonardo's Notebooks
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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Economics

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Economic Science Fictions
Who Owns the Future?
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

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126 books

Science

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Wonderful life
Packing for Mars
The River of Consciousness
Lake Views

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21 books

Physics

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The First War of Physics
The Second Creation
Marie Curie
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
The Road to Reality

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Deep Learning
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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106 books

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The Illustrated Walden
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Everybody Lies
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Heavens on Earth

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Brief History of Time
The Ancestor's Tale
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Magic of Reality
Cosmos
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
The Dragons of Eden

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Clockwork Lives
Murder on the Orient Express
The Demon Crown
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Norse Mythology
A Fever of the Blood

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31 books

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Iron Council
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Seveneves
Cloud Atlas
The Emperor's Blades

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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Scale
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Convex Optimization
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

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Life in Code
The Best We Could Do
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Everybody Lies
Alex + Ada
My Absolute Darling
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Men Explain Things to Me
When Breath Becomes Air
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Thank You for Being Late
Lab Girl
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
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Lessons in Chemistry

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Science

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Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science
Six Easy Pieces
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
The Gene
The Order of Time
Lost in Math

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Systems

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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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Limits to Growth
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Thinking in systems : a primer
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Systems

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