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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 120,895 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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4.08 avg rating — 70,787 ratings
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Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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3.91 avg rating — 31,299 ratings
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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4.09 avg rating — 6,070 ratings
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
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4.21 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
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3.85 avg rating — 11,306 ratings
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Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications
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4.27 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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3.94 avg rating — 6,500 ratings
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Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System
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4.07 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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4.09 avg rating — 57,051 ratings
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
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4.17 avg rating — 9,890 ratings
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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4.20 avg rating — 31,214 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,108 ratings
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A New Kind of Science
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3.62 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop: at Solving the Gordian Knot of Electricity Poverty and Global Warming
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4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster
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4.18 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use
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3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.28 avg rating — 40,628 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 797,829 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,183 ratings
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Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power
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4.31 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Factory Physics
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4.29 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 40,706 ratings
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
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3.97 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
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Fractals Everywhere
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4.08 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
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4.03 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Hallucinations
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3.93 avg rating — 25,094 ratings
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal
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4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms
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4.02 avg rating — 829 ratings
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 15,003 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,414 ratings
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Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
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4.15 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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4.18 avg rating — 4,512 ratings
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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
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4.24 avg rating — 7,751 ratings
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Body by Science: A Research-Based Program for Strength Training, Body Building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week
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4.10 avg rating — 2,477 ratings
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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4.29 avg rating — 6,030 ratings
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The DAO of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
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3.87 avg rating — 1,467 ratings
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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3.86 avg rating — 4,602 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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4.19 avg rating — 25,590 ratings
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Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
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3.85 avg rating — 9,942 ratings
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Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
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4.23 avg rating — 4,100 ratings
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Golding, the Law and Practice of Reinsurance (Monument Series)
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Reinsurance in Practice
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, Second Edition
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3.91 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Modelling Extremal Events: For Insurance and Finance
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Reinsurance Contract Wording
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Good Faith and Insurance Contracts
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A First Course in Probability
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3.94 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes with Errata Sheet
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4.25 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Actuarial Mathematics
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3.59 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
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4.29 avg rating — 180,611 ratings
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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3.94 avg rating — 40,335 ratings
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Bréviaire des politiciens
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3.77 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
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4.28 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 378,867 ratings
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The Politician's Breviary: A Companion to Leaders and Influencers and Those They Seek to Control
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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4.33 avg rating — 8,997 ratings
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Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
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4.30 avg rating — 1,650 ratings
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The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics
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3.87 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 114,490 ratings
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The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy
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3.90 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Propaganda
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3.74 avg rating — 8,874 ratings
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Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
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4.18 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition
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4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
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4.25 avg rating — 11,088 ratings
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Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
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4.27 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
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3.61 avg rating — 508 ratings
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The Endurance of National Constitutions
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4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Music of the Primes
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4.12 avg rating — 5,265 ratings
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
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4.10 avg rating — 430 ratings
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A History of Interest Rates
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4.13 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 30,510 ratings
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Global Payments: And the Fintech Innovations Changing the Industry
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3.83 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional
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4.12 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
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4.30 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs
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3.88 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Risk: A Very Short Introduction
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3.33 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 94,023 ratings
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
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4.16 avg rating — 23,424 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 579,159 ratings
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
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3.95 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
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3.91 avg rating — 2,991 ratings
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
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4.08 avg rating — 21,998 ratings
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Reading/listening to some of these books that weren't on my radar since I'm attending the next RWRI session.