I 60 libri consigliati da Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Libri Consigliati:

• Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning : Three Volumes Bound As One di A.D. Aleksandrov
• Il club dei filosofi dilettanti di Alexander McCall Smith
• The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance di Anthony Gottlieb
• Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes di Athanasios Papoulis
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less di Barry Schwartz
• The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward di Benoît B. Mandelbrot
• Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper di Bryan Magee
• Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure di Cedric Villani
• The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy di Colin McGinn
• Statistical Models: Theory and Practice di David A. Freedman
• Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools (Springer Series in Synergetics) di Didier Sornette
• Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems di Didier Sornette
• Tartar Steppe di Dino Buzzati
• The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brian Grows Older di Elkhonon Goldberg
• Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life di Emanuel Derman
• Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the controversial Science of Diet and Health di Gary Taubes
• The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War di Graham Robb
• Information: The New Language of Science di Hans Christian Von Baeyer
• Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos di Hardeep Singh Puri
• Gli intellettuali nel Medioevo di Jacques Le Goff
• The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal di James Franklin
• Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics di Jamil Baz
• The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way di Jerry Fodor
• The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets di Johannes Voit
• Penso, dunque rido. L’altra faccia della filosofia di John Allen Paulos
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust di John Coates
• Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals di John Gray
• Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week di John Little
• Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences di Jon Elster
• Thinking and Deciding di Jonathan Baron
• The Opposing Shore di Julien Gracq
• The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice di Leonard C. Maclean
• Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market–and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles di Maggie Mahar
• The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity di Michael Marmot
• No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets di Michael Steinhardt
• Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs di Morton Meyers
• Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook: Assyrian/Syriac di Nicholas Awde, Nineb Limassu e Nicholas Al-Jeloo
• A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness di Nicholas Humphrey
• The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition di Norman Russell
• Modelling Extremal Events: For Insurance and Finance di Paul Embrechts
• How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality di Per Bak
• A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes di Peter Bevelin
• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition di Peter Bevelin
• The Secret of Fatima: A Father Kevin Thrall Thriller di Peter J. Tanous
• A Guide to Econometrics di Peter Kennedy
• Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet di Richard Nikoley
• Mapping the Mind di Rita Carter
• The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century di Robert J. Shiller
• Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind di Robert Kurzban
• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World di Robert Nozick
• Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself di Sheila Bair
• Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People di Stephen Wolfram
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature di Steven Pinker
• Consciousness: An Introduction di Susan Blackmore
• Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts di Terry Burnham e Jay Phelan
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes di Thomas Cathcart
• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious di Timothy D. Wilson
• Kant e l’ornitorinco di Umberto Eco
• The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor di William Easterly
• Social Cognition: Making Sense of People di Ziva Kunda