 | Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins
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 | Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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 | Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
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 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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 | THE MAN WHO LOVED ONLY NUMBERS: THE STORY OF PAUL ERDOS AND THE SEARCH FOR MATHEMATICAL TRUTH by Paul Hoffman
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 | The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
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The best book that summarizes the potential of the Internet to revolutionize the creation of new and insightful memes.
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 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
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 | Deschooling Society (Open Forum) by Ivan Illich
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 | Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
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 | Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid
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 | The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann
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 | The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch
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 | Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
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 | The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan
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 | The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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 | Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science by Dean Keith Simonton
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 | Reflections on Reasoning
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 | Mean Genes by Terry Burnham
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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