The Book of Why

The Book of Why

By
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl,
Dana Mackenzie
Dana Mackenzie
2018 • 432 pages

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31 books

Science

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Michael
The Scientist as Rebel
Deep Simplicity
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
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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60 books

Tr Science

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Luiz Gonzaga
On the Origin of Stories
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Enigma of Reason
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Statistics Done Wrong
In Pursuit of the Unknown
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

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359 books

Nonfiction

Nowenen
Alexander
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

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61 books

Philosophy

Nowenen
Alexander
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Time Reborn
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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283 books

Science

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Steven Rongley
Domesticated
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Privileged Planet : How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution

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398 books

Library

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Beto
Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
Among Thieves
It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Chess Artist
Rule 34

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50 books

Owned

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evergreensnow
Cryptonomicon
The Quantum Thief
Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction
Halting State
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Foundation

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3 books

Consciousness

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evergreensnow
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
The Hidden Spring
The Book of Why

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417 books

High Priority

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Volenord
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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1st Reference

Diogenes
Diogenes
Shadowstorm
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Beatles Anthology
The Startup Owner's Manual
Hard to be a god
Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition

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52 books

To Read 2021

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
The Four Winds
Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life
Democracy
Becoming Steve Jobs

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44 books

Non Fiction

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Jared
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Ways of Seeing
The Art of Loving
Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
The Lie About the Truck: Survivor, Reality TV, and the Endless Gaze
The Revolution was Televised

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4 books

Didn T Finish

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Kevin
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Red Dust Road
The Book of Why

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359 books

An Ebook

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Rajesh Pabari
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Getting (More of) What You Want: How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life
The Science of Sleep: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

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142 books

Audiobook Available

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Rajesh Pabari
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Gifts of Imperfection
Principles: Life and Work
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Dark Money
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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60 books

Science

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Ali
The Selfish Gene
The Great Ideas of Psychology
Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
The Study of Language
Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception
Science Fiction: The Literature Of The Technological Imagination

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8 books

Statistics

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Ali
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
Standard Deviations
The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset
The Book of Why
The Truthful Art

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17,841 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
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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224 books

On My Shelf

Raphael
Raphael
A Wild Sheep Chase
Scud, the Disposable Assassin
Oblivion: Stories
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
It
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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621 books

Owned

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Eva
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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122 books

2019

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Eva
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Die unsterbliche Familie Salz
Der Vogelgott
Feuerbote
White Rapids
N'essuie jamais de larmes sans gants: L'amour
Ninety Percent of Everything

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249 books

Non Fiction

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Eva
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
Hackerlar

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26 books

Science

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Eva
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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326 books

Nonfiction

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Adam
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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16 books

Mathematics

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Adam
Logicomix
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Lady Tasting Tea
Math with Bad Drawings
Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures
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