Murli's bookshelf part 1

1.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,684 ratings
2.
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth 4.26 avg rating — 53,109 ratings
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The Act of Creation
The Act of Creation 4.25 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Literary Machines
Literary Machines 4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
5.
The Sciences of the Artificial
The Sciences of the Artificial 4.30 avg rating — 644 ratings
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The Social Psychology of Organizing
The Social Psychology of Organizing 4.43 avg rating — 65 ratings
7.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,667 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,326 ratings
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies 4.04 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,314 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 3.96 avg rating — 614,750 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,897 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science 4.03 avg rating — 40,243 ratings
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
The Fractal Geometry of Nature 4.23 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,879 ratings
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Connections
Connections 4.25 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,096 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,877 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.96 avg rating — 119,258 ratings
20.
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds 3.82 avg rating — 24,614 ratings
21.
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution 3.77 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World 4.10 avg rating — 2,855 ratings
23.
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement 4.08 avg rating — 81,113 ratings
24.
The Holographic Universe
The Holographic Universe 4.09 avg rating — 10,270 ratings
25.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering 4.01 avg rating — 14,862 ratings
26.
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual 3.83 avg rating — 3,923 ratings
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations 3.78 avg rating — 7,139 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,239 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 4.03 avg rating — 29,126 ratings
30.
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher 4.08 avg rating — 1,854 ratings
31.
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,069 ratings
32.
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design 4.09 avg rating — 41,146 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life 4.07 avg rating — 16,863 ratings
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge 3.98 avg rating — 4,953 ratings
35.
Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating — 155,634 ratings
36.
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time 4.21 avg rating — 467,076 ratings
37.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,871 ratings
38.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 4.05 avg rating — 239,842 ratings
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes
The Man Who Tasted Shapes 3.88 avg rating — 902 ratings
40.
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD) 4.01 avg rating — 34,188 ratings
41.
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 4.27 avg rating — 20,283 ratings
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Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences 3.96 avg rating — 2,638 ratings
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The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind 4.04 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
44.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ 4.05 avg rating — 131,740 ratings
45.
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works 3.99 avg rating — 20,874 ratings
46.
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature 3.91 avg rating — 11,145 ratings
47.
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design 4.23 avg rating — 198 ratings
48.
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas 4.31 avg rating — 843 ratings
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future 3.92 avg rating — 29,508 ratings
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Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By 4.09 avg rating — 6,740 ratings
51.
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf 3.96 avg rating — 353 ratings
52.
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language 3.88 avg rating — 498 ratings
53.
Games People Play
Games People Play 3.73 avg rating — 40,207 ratings
54.
I'm OK - You're OK
I'm OK - You're OK 3.76 avg rating — 19,317 ratings
55.
Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society 3.99 avg rating — 3,414 ratings
56.
Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice
Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice 3.99 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
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Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track 4.09 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns 3.86 avg rating — 1,877 ratings
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The Systems Approach
The Systems Approach 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings
60.
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications 3.87 avg rating — 427 ratings
61.
Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management
Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management 4.20 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization 3.93 avg rating — 35,788 ratings
63.
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology 4.40 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students
Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice 4.13 avg rating — 110 ratings
66.
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking 3.95 avg rating — 666 ratings
67.
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks 3.81 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life 3.94 avg rating — 5,194 ratings
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age 3.90 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
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Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness 3.88 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order 4.07 avg rating — 3,262 ratings
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The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information 3.84 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
73.
The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information
The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information 2.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web 3.87 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software 3.95 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos 4.05 avg rating — 3,093 ratings
77.
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen 3.89 avg rating — 689 ratings
78.
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos 3.85 avg rating — 315 ratings
79.
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture 3.75 avg rating — 87 ratings
80.
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex 3.65 avg rating — 88 ratings
81.
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another 3.89 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
82.
Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation)
Swarm Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Evolutionary Computation) 3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence 3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
84.
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books) 3.89 avg rating — 388 ratings
85.
Emergence: From Chaos To Order
Emergence: From Chaos To Order really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 267 ratings
86.
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution 4.18 avg rating — 278 ratings
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity 4.02 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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Investigations
Investigations 4.07 avg rating — 151 ratings
89.
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 200 ratings
90.
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering 4.38 avg rating — 1,511 ratings