Patrick Collison Light Blue Books

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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo 4.32 avg rating — 992,215 ratings
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The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics 4.54 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Men, Machines, and Modern Times 3.85 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 4.25 avg rating — 10,669 ratings
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The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 361 ratings
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The Journalist and the Murderer
The Journalist and the Murderer 3.80 avg rating — 5,579 ratings
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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto 4.11 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,225 ratings
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Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity 4.35 avg rating — 532 ratings
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A Decade of Research: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1970-1980
A Decade of Research: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1970-1980 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World 3.77 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Toward a Theory of Instruction
Toward a Theory of Instruction 4.20 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love 4.31 avg rating — 6,695 ratings
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,139 ratings
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers 4.04 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word 4.14 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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The Hunters
The Hunters 4.11 avg rating — 2,444 ratings
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The Long Way
The Long Way 4.26 avg rating — 3,159 ratings
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Global Catastrophic Risks
Global Catastrophic Risks 3.97 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1) 4.23 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,680 ratings
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan 3.93 avg rating — 560 ratings
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
by: Seneca
4.17 avg rating — 43,020 ratings
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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away 3.85 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming 4.02 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region
Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region 4.37 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Science: A History
Science: A History 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Ocean Flying (Tab Practical Flying Series)
Ocean Flying (Tab Practical Flying Series) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Medieval Technology and Social Change
Medieval Technology and Social Change 3.77 avg rating — 269 ratings
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China Airborne
China Airborne 3.86 avg rating — 618 ratings
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The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley 4.27 avg rating — 441 ratings
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
The Old Way: A Story of the First People 4.29 avg rating — 583 ratings
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo 4.02 avg rating — 3,224 ratings
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China 3.89 avg rating — 742 ratings
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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation 4.13 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp
On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp 4.30 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Matterhorn
Matterhorn 4.27 avg rating — 46,476 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World 4.11 avg rating — 20,498 ratings
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Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? 3.98 avg rating — 687 ratings
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A Course in Mathematical Analysis
A Course in Mathematical Analysis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement 3.91 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 4.10 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Popper Selections
Popper Selections 4.06 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,113 ratings
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The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 4.47 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,422 ratings
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Feynman Lectures On Computation
Feynman Lectures On Computation 4.25 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics 4.38 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization 4.30 avg rating — 601 ratings
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The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
by: T.R. Reid
4.27 avg rating — 882 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,035 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,937 ratings
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 4.15 avg rating — 2,648 ratings
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The Arabs: A History
The Arabs: A History 4.36 avg rating — 4,388 ratings
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Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers 3.96 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea 4.26 avg rating — 954 ratings
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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding 4.21 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel 3.99 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,367 ratings
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Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,721 ratings
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On Intelligence
On Intelligence 4.11 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Quantum Computing Since Democritus 4.15 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars 4.12 avg rating — 20,394 ratings
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The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley 3.88 avg rating — 189 ratings
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze 4.28 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
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A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Business adventures
Business adventures 3.81 avg rating — 24,342 ratings
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Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Computer Lib/Dream Machines 4.43 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4.12 avg rating — 22,828 ratings
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Asimov's New Guide To Science
Asimov's New Guide To Science 4.33 avg rating — 857 ratings