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* [https://www.amazon.com/Double-Helix-Personal-Discovery-Structure/dp/074321630X Double Helix] by James D. Watson | * [https://www.amazon.com/Double-Helix-Personal-Discovery-Structure/dp/074321630X Double Helix] by James D. Watson | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Heraclitean-Fire-Sketches-Before-Nature-dp-0874700299/dp/0874700299 Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature] by Erwin Chargaff | * [https://www.amazon.com/Heraclitean-Fire-Sketches-Before-Nature-dp-0874700299/dp/0874700299 Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Chargaff Erwin Chargaff] | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671225405 The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology] by Horace Freeland Judson | * [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671225405 The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Freeland_Judson Horace Freeland Judson] | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary-Landmark-Science-dp-0198788606/ The Selfish Gene] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins] | |||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Extended-Phenotype-Oxford-Landmark-Science/dp/0198788916 The Extended Phenotype] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins] | |||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Perfume-Obsession-Mystery-ebook/dp/B000FBFMR0 The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Burr Chandler Burr] | * [https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Perfume-Obsession-Mystery-ebook/dp/B000FBFMR0 The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Burr Chandler Burr] | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Switch-Third-Lambda-Revisited/dp/0879697164/ A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited] by Mark Ptashne | * [https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Switch-Third-Lambda-Revisited/dp/0879697164/ A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ptashne Mark Ptashne] | ||
*[https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lectures-Biology-Salvador-Edward/dp/0262120682 36 Lectures in Biology] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Luria S. E. Luria] | * [https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lectures-Biology-Salvador-Edward/dp/0262120682 36 Lectures in Biology] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Luria S. E. Luria] | ||
* [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51306.Mutual_Aid Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin Pyotr Kropotkin] | |||
Extracted from [https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/ Episode 472 of the James Altucher podcast] @43:03 : | |||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Encyclopedia-Human-Evolution-Reference/dp/0521467861/ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution] by Stephen Jones | |||
==History of Science== | ==History of Science== | ||
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* [[Science Since Babylon]] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek J. de Solla Price] | * [[Science Since Babylon]] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek J. de Solla Price] | ||
==Economics== | ==Economics== | ||
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* [https://www.amazon.com/More-Heat-than-Light-Perspectives-ebook-dp-B00I5QWBX0/dp/B00I5QWBX0 More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)] by Philip Mirowski | * [https://www.amazon.com/More-Heat-than-Light-Perspectives-ebook-dp-B00I5QWBX0/dp/B00I5QWBX0 More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)] by Philip Mirowski | ||
*[[The Physics of Wall Street]] by James Weatherall | *[[The Physics of Wall Street]] by James Weatherall | ||
* [https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/71275/frontmatter/9781108471275_frontmatter.pdf Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy] by Bill Janeway | |||
== Other == | |||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Prison-Diary-Jayaprakash-Narayan/dp/0295956135 "Prison Diary"] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayaprakash_Narayan Jayaprakash Narayan] | |||
==From Eric's bookshelves== | ==From Eric's bookshelves== | ||
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*[https://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Econometrics-Modern-Approach-MindTap/dp/1337558869 Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach] by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge | *[https://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Econometrics-Modern-Approach-MindTap/dp/1337558869 Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach] by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge | ||
*[https://www.amazon.com/Peddling-Prosperity-Diminished-Expectations-Paperback/dp/0393312925 Peddling Prosperity] by Paul Krugman | *[https://www.amazon.com/Peddling-Prosperity-Diminished-Expectations-Paperback/dp/0393312925 Peddling Prosperity] by Paul Krugman | ||
*[https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Unregulated-Economist-Modernity-Paperback/dp/0226774406 Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist] by George J. Stigler | *[https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Unregulated-Economist-Modernity-Paperback/dp/0226774406 Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist] by [[George Stigler|George J. Stigler]] | ||
*[https://www.amazon.com/Accounting-Tastes-Gary-S-Becker/dp/0674543572 Accounting for Tastes] by Gary S. Becker | *[https://www.amazon.com/Accounting-Tastes-Gary-S-Becker/dp/0674543572 Accounting for Tastes] by Gary S. Becker | ||
*[https://www.amazon.com/More-Heat-than-Light-Perspectives/dp/0521426898 More Heat than Light] by Philip Mirowski | *[https://www.amazon.com/More-Heat-than-Light-Perspectives/dp/0521426898 More Heat than Light] by Philip Mirowski | ||
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== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
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|content=@GordoRabinowitz I loved it so much my mom destroyed it deliberately so she would never have to read it again. | |||
“Do you like my hat?”</br> | |||
“I do not.” | |||
The raw honesty of canine interlocutors was spell binding. | |||
And that fasciliated the dog party in the tree which, w/o honesty, would be impossible.;-) | |||
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|content=What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? | |||
Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: | |||
A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse.</br> | |||
B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill</br> | |||
C) Science Since Babylon by Price. | |||
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|content=Tell us why in the replies if you can? Thx! | |||
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|content=@mister_duva Because it is a well written book that introduced me to a people, culture and civilization that enriched my life forever through their excruciatingly beautiful and logical language. | |||
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