Kanisha's math & economics syllabus
2. 
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by:
Eugenia Cheng
3.63 avg rating β 1,954 ratings 
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
by:
Alex Bellos
4.11 avg rating β 5,583 ratings 
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
by:
Eugenia Cheng
3.81 avg rating β 923 ratings 7. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating β 10,336 ratings 
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
by:
Alex Bellos
4.09 avg rating β 964 ratings 10. 
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
by:
Manil Suri
3.86 avg rating β 280 ratings 
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy 3.88 avg rating β 4,042 ratings
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by:
Jordan Ellenberg
3.95 avg rating β 20,875 ratings 
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The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.17 avg rating β 2,405 ratings 17. 
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Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe 4.29 avg rating β 7,028 ratings
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating β 5,081 ratings
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x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
by:
Eugenia Cheng
3.71 avg rating β 890 ratings 23. 
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul ErdΕs and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by:
Paul Hoffman
4.05 avg rating β 9,905 ratings 24. 
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Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
by:
Charles Seife
3.68 avg rating β 1,569 ratings 27. 
Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development
by:
Michael Storper
3.55 avg rating β 31 ratings 28. 
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by:
Tim Harford
3.81 avg rating β 5,812 ratings 29. 
The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order
by:
David Held
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 30. 
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
by:
Manning Marable
4.36 avg rating β 777 ratings 
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The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy is in Peril
by:
Satyajit Das
3.80 avg rating β 135 ratings 34. 
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems 4.22 avg rating β 14,334 ratings
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Worksβand How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating β 20,007 ratings 36. 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,740 ratings
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by:
Paul Krugman
3.83 avg rating β 8,843 ratings 38. 
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent 3.88 avg rating β 2,013 ratings
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A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics 4.26 avg rating β 538 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,262 ratings 42. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,935 ratings 43. 
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by:
Marc Levinson
3.86 avg rating β 6,744 ratings 44. 
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (The New Economic History of Britain seri)
by:
Joel Mokyr
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 143 ratings 
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The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
by:
Pietra Rivoli
3.69 avg rating β 2,924 ratings 47. 
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
by:
Grace Chang
4.24 avg rating β 243 ratings 48. 
How the city of London works: An introduction to its financial markets 4.18 avg rating β 11 ratings
51. 
Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy
by:
Peter Dicken
3.79 avg rating β 260 ratings 52. 
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by:
Kenneth Pomeranz
3.69 avg rating β 962 ratings 53. 
Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy 3.76 avg rating β 46 ratings
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Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today
by:
Nicholas Crafts
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
57. 
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
by:
Saifedean Ammous
4.17 avg rating β 13,342 ratings 58. 
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating β 30,147 ratings 59. 
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.11 avg rating β 3,311 ratings 60. 
61. 
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
by:
Charles Petzold
4.40 avg rating β 10,330 ratings 62. 
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 4.13 avg rating β 2,422 ratings
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
by:
Paul Freiberger
4.16 avg rating β 1,328 ratings 64. 
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
by:
Steve Wozniak
3.85 avg rating β 17,359 ratings 65. 
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating β 28,489 ratings 66. 
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World
by:
Reshma Saujani
4.06 avg rating β 831 ratings 
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by:
Charles Wheelan
3.96 avg rating β 14,834 ratings 
71. 
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet
by:
John Bryant
3.76 avg rating β 95 ratings 72. 
The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math 3.86 avg rating β 393 ratings
73. 
Euler's Pioneering Equation: The most beautiful theorem in mathematics
by:
Robin J. Wilson
3.80 avg rating β 94 ratings 74. 
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by:
John Derbyshire
4.15 avg rating β 3,734 ratings 
76. 
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
by:
Charles Seife
4.09 avg rating β 918 ratings