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1. Awesome Geek Podcasts
In English
- The Stack Overflow Podcast - A weekly podcast about developers and the Stack Overflow community.
In French
- Visual Studio Talk Show - French podcast talking about development with Microsoft technologies. Hosted by Mario Cardinal and Guy Barrette.
2. Awesome Ruby
CLI Utilities
- Betty (⭐2.6k) - Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty.
Coding Style Guides
- Ruby Operators - A webpage showing awesome names for different Ruby operators.
Documentation
- Gollum (⭐13k) - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
Networking
- RubyDNS (⭐704) - A high-performance DNS server which can be easily integrated into other projects or used as a stand-alone daemon.
State Machines
- MicroMachine (⭐523) - A minimal finite state machine implementation in less than 50 lines of code.
View helpers
- Bh (⭐832) - Bootstrap Helpers for Ruby.
- gon (⭐3k) - If you need to send some data to your js files and you don't want to do this with long way through views and parsing - use gon.
- PluggableJs (⭐53) - Page-specific javascript for Rails applications with the ability of passing data from a controller.
3. Awesome Webgl
GLSL Editors
- GLSLbin - Fragment shader sandbox supporting glslify (⭐2.1k).
- ShaderFrog - WebGL Shader Editor and Composer.
2D / Firefox Specific Tools/Debugger
- Planck.js (⭐4.6k) - 2D physics engine for cross-platform HTML5 game development.
- Stage.js (⭐2.3k) - 2D Library for cross-platform HTML5 game development.
Maps and Visualizations / Particles
- Cesium - Open-source library for world-class 3D globes and maps.
4. Awesome Mac
Developer Tools / Command Line Tools
- Mac-CLI (⭐8.7k) - The ultimate tool to manage your Mac. Automatize the usage of your OS X system.
5. Awesome Crystal
Machine Learning
- ai4cr (⭐27) - Artificial Intelligence (based on https://github.com/SergioFierens/ai4r (⭐712))
6. Bots
Tools For Building Bots
- ChatterBot (⭐13k) - Machine-learning based conversational dialog engine build in Python
- Google Cloud Platform - Use sentiment analysis on a block of text to add decision tree logic for a conversation bot.
Tools For Bot Analytics
- ChatMetrics - Engagement platform for bots. ChatMetrics allows to reactivate inactive users and improve retention by sending "smart" notifications to users.
- Botmetrics - Grow and retain your chatbot customers. Enterprise grade opensource conversational analytics, marketing automation, and CRM rolled into a single snippet of code.
Tools For Bot Conversation Mockups
- Bot Society - Bot conversation Mockups for presentation and demo.
- Bot Sketch - Sketch Chatbot UI (Mac Only)
- Botframe - a playground to design bots (conversation mockups).
- Botmock - Create conversation flows and interactive prototypes from a simple drag and drop editor, then share or test those prototypes and get feedback in one centralized location.
General
- Pandorabots - web service for building and deploying chatbots.
Slack
Discord / Node.js
Discord / C#
Discord / Python
Discord / Java
Discord / Rust
Discord / Lua
Kik / Go
Bot Stores / Go
- There is a bot for that - Search engine for bots
- Teamchat - Bot store by teamchat.
- Discord Bots - An unofficial list of discord bots.
Tutorials / Go
Communities / Go
- Messenger Platform Developer Community - Official Facebook group.
- Chatbots and Conversational Agents - Quora Topic
- Bot Developer Hangouts - Community on Slack for all bot platforms.
Conferences / Go
Developers / Go
- BotMakers - The best place to hire chatbot developers
- Botgig - Hire a top chatbot dev from a vetted talent pool.
7. Awesome4girls
Events/Meetups / Ruby
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Workshops are a free and fun way to get started or level up with Rails, Ruby, and other web technologies. Our events focus on increasing diversity in tech so that people of all backgrounds can feel welcome and comfortable in our industry.
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RailsGirls is a multinational community which provides tools for girls and women to build their ideas.
General / UX
Code Girl - Loc:
- Lang: PT-BR onlyCode Girl is an event featuring motivational talks about overcoming challenges faced by women who work in the technology industry. The event features female speakers who aim to inspire women in the industry.
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The global technology entrepreneurship program for girls. Students work in teams to develop mobile app startups to solve real problems in their communities.
Initiatives/Programs / Academy/Camp
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The focus of Black Girls Code is to increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology.
Initiatives/Programs / Conferences/Talks
SheSharp - Loc:
A Greek community of people dedicated to promoting women's engagement with technology & science. Its main activities consist of free workshops, meetups open to anyone interested, as well as partnerships with other tech communities and local chapters of Thessaloniki.
Initiatives/Programs / Mentorship
Chick Tech - Loc:
We facilitate hands-on technology-centric events to empower, support, and increase the confidence of women and girls. Through our events, we build community, empower participants to see themselves as leaders and provide networking and mentoring opportunities in the rapidly growing high-tech industry.
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OS4W is a resource for connecting all women, including women of color and transgender women, to open source projects that are welcoming, inclusive, and appreciative of diversity in their contributors. The site features a directory for finding mentors and pair partners as well as a curated list of open source projects with codes of conduct.
Other Initiatives / Awards
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The Ada Awards are an initiative of the Digital Leadership Institute, a Brussels-based international NGO with a mission to bridge the gender gap and digital divide worldwide. The Awards aim to recognize outstanding girls and women in tech, and the organizations who support them in Europe, Africa and beyond.
Other Initiatives / Content
Code it Like a Girl - Loc:
Code it Like a Girl is a digital media collective that creates content intended to inspire people who self-identify as female to follow their dreams. From technology news and how-to’s to remarkable stories of people all around the world, articles on feminism or just whatever we feel like talking-writing-filming about, we’ll be sharing our POV on anything that can be proven empowering, valuable, informative or entertaining to our audience.
Other Initiatives / Documentaries/Movies
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The Documentary (12 min: TV-14 DL; Released April 1, 2013) introduces the world of technology by following the stories of smart, creative, and trailblazing good girls gone geek.
Other Initiatives / Jobs
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Outreach Program for Women has been helping women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people get involved in free and open source software. It provides a supportive community for beginning to contribute anytime throughout the year and offers focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.
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Connecting women with jobs that actually lead to work-life balance. Specializing in remote work for women. In addition to job boards, it contains information about time-management, self-efficacy etc.
8. Mind Expanding Books
Startups and Business
Name: High Output Management
Author: Andy Grove
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Author: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Author: Ben Horowitz
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2014
Name: Outliers: Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 2008
Name: The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable
Author: Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2005
Name: Hackers and Painters
Author: Paul Graham
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2004
Name: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't
Author: Jim Collins
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2001
Name: The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses
Author: Eric Ries
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Author: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Author: Atul Gawande
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2009
Name: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Author: Tony Hsieh
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Year Published: 2010
Name: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Author: Michael E. Gerber
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 1995
Name: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Author: Steven D. Litt
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Ten Faces of Innovation
Author: Tom Kelley
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Paypal Wars
Author: Eric M. Jackson
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2010
Name: Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Goodreads Rating: 3.94
Year Published: 2013
Name: ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 2010
Name: The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding
Author: Laura Ries and Al Ries
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 1998
Name: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Goodreads Rating: 3.93
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2002
Name: The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Author: Steve Blank
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Curse of the Mogul
Author: Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2009
Name: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 2013
Name: Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
Author: Adam Werbach
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2007
Name: Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Author: Jonah Berger
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2013
Name: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change
Author: Louis V Gerstner, Jr
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2003
Name: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Author: Chris Guillebeau
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2012
Name: Too Big to Fail
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Author: Barry Shwartz
Goodreads Rating: 3.84
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2004
Name: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Author: Kenneth Cukier
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Author: Ben Mezrich
Goodreads Rating: 3.50
Year Published: 2009
Philosophy And Psychology
Name: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Author: Gregory Boyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.41
Year Published: 2010
Name: Education and the Significance of Life
Author: Krishnamurti
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 2008
Name: Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Goodreads Rating: 4.33
Year Published: 2006
Name: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Author: Tor Norretranders
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1999
Name: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Author: Christopher McDougall
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 2009
Name: The Concise 48 Laws of Power
Author: Robert Greene
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Author: Joseph Campbell
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1972
Name: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Author: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published:
Name: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Author: Robert B. Cialdini
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2006
Name: Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations
Author: Matthew Stewart
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Year Published: 1997
Name: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 1998
Name: Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
Author: Shakti Gawain
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2002
Name: Bulfinch's Mythology
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 1998
Name: Ego Is the Enemy
Author: Ryan Holiday
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 2016
Name: Predictably Irrational
Author: Dan Ariely
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2008
Name: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 1990
Name: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2011
Name: Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2003
Name: Grit
Author: Angela Duckworth
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2016
Name: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Author: Michael Pollan
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2008
Name: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 2003
Name: The History of Western Philosophy
Author: Bertrand Russell
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2008
Name: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Author: Michio Kaku
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2014
Name: Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
Author: James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2007
Name: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
Author: Charles Duhigg
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2005
Name: Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities
Author: Dean Radin
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 2007
Name: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Year Published: 1999
Name: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 2009
Name: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Author: Deborah Tannen
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published: 2007
Name: Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy
Author: Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2011
Name: What the Dog Saw: and other adventures
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2009
Name: This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Author: John Brockman
Goodreads Rating: 3.81
Year Published: 2012
Name: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 2014
Name: Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Author: Jim Holt
Goodreads Rating: 3.77
Year Published: 2012
Name: The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
Author: Michael S. Gazzaniga
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2006
Name: Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid
Author: Robert J Sternberg
Goodreads Rating: 3.68
Year Published: 2003
Name: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others
Author: Sherry Turkle
Goodreads Rating: 3.62
Year Published: 2011
Name: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Author: Madsen Pirie
Goodreads Rating: 3.55
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression
Author: Debra Fine
Goodreads Rating: 3.36
Year Published: 2005
Autobiographies and Biographies
Name: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 2010
Name: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Author: Richard Feynman
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
Year Published: 1997
Name: Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Author: Ashlee Vance
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2015
Name: The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2008
Name: Freedom in Exile
Author: Dalai Lama XIV
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1991
Name: Wings of Fire
Author: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2011
Name: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Author: Chris Hadfield
Goodreads Rating: 4.14
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 1993
Name: Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Issacson
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 2011
Name: My Experiments with Truth
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1993
Name: The Story of My Life
Author: Helen Keller
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1990
Name: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography
Author: Richard Branson
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 1999
Name: Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Author: Kevin Mitnick
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2011
Name: An Autobiography: Toward Freedom
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 1989
Name: iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Author: Steve Wozniak
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2007
History
Name: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Goodreads Rating: 4.42
Year Published: 2014
Name: The Discoverers
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Goodreads Rating: 4.34
Year Published: 2012
Name: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Author: Michael Dobbs
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2008
Name: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Author: Jacques Barzun
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 2001
Name: The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1986
Name: God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History
Author: Stephen Hawking
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published:
Name: Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II
Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2010
Name: El Tiempo Entre Costuras
Author: María Dueñas
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Year Published: 2009
Name: Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 2005
Name: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
Author: Matt Ridley
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2010
Name: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Author: Kevin Poulson
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Author: Lawrence James
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 1997
Name: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Author: Tim Wu
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
Year Published: 2010
Name: Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson
Author: Niall Ferguson
Goodreads Rating: 3.78
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Goodreads Rating: 3.68
Year Published: 2012
Name: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Goodreads Rating: 3.66
Year Published: 2006
Science and Medicine
Name: The Little Schemer
Author: Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published: 1995
Name: Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science
Author: Dean Keith Simonton
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 1988
Name: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Author: Kevin Kelly
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 1998
Name: A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking
Goodreads Rating: 4.12
Year Published: 1998
Name: Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Author: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published: 2009
Name: The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Author: Elkhonon Goldberg
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published:
Name: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Year Published: 1999
Name: Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Author: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 2003
Name: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 2004
Name: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Author: Kevin Kelly
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2016
Name: The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Author: Noson S. Yanofsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Year Published: 2013
Name: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
Year Published: 1996
Name: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Author: Stuart Kauffman
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Author: Yochai Benkler
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2006
Name: Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
Author: Hans Moravec.
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 1990
Name: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Author: Nicholas Carr
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2011
Name: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Author: Richard Wrangham
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Year Published: 2009
Name: Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age
Author: Bart Kosko
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Year Published: 2000
Name: Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact
Author: Steven Kotler
Goodreads Rating: 3.80
Year Published: 2015
Name: Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
Author: Dean Keith
Goodreads Rating: 3.74
Year Published: 1999
Name: Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno
Goodreads Rating: 3.45
Year Published: 2007
Logic and Problem Solving
Name: What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2011
Name: A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You Flunked Algebra
Author: Barbara Oakley
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 2014
Name: Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Author: William Poundstone
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Year Published: 1989
Politics
Name: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published:
Name: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
Year Published: 2012
Name: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Author: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Goodreads Rating: 4.10
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Author: Bryan Caplan
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2007
Name: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author: Barack Obama
Goodreads Rating: 3.70
Year Published: 2006
Economics
Name: Origin of Wealth
Author: Eric D. Beinhocker
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published: 2006
Name: Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy
Author: Mark Broadie
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Year Published: 2014
Name: Economic Facts and Fallacies
Author: Thomas Sowell
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2008
Name: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Author: David Graeber
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 2011
Name: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas Piketty
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Year Published: 2014
Name: Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
Author: James Rickards
Goodreads Rating: 3.96
Year Published: 2011
Name: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Author: Paul Collier
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
Year Published: 2007
Name: The Thank You Economy
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Year Published: 2011
Name: A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World
Author: Gregory Clark
Goodreads Rating: 3.67
Year Published: 2007
Sexuality
Name: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern
Author: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2010
Name: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Author: Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Year Published: 2004
Education
Name: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Author: Seymour A. Papert
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 1993
Name: How Children Fail
Author: John Holt
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Year Published: 1995
Name: Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Author: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 1971
Name: Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
Author: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
Year Published: 1995
Name: The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Author: Josh Waitzkin
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Year Published: 2016
Name: Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
Author: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 2009
Name: Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Author: John Brockman
Goodreads Rating: 3.72
Year Published: 2005
Writing
Name: Clear and Simple as the Truth
Author: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 1996
Name: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Author: Steven Pinker
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
Year Published: 2014
Theater and Film
Name: Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh
Author: Mike Alfreds
Goodreads Rating: 4.69
Year Published: 2008
Name: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Author: Keith Johnstone
Goodreads Rating: 4.27
Year Published:
Name: The Actor and the Target
Author: Declan Donnellan
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Year Published: 2006
Name: In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Author: Walter Murch
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 1995
Name: Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair
Author: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
Year Published:
Name: How to Stop Acting
Author: Harold Guskin
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
Year Published: 2003
Name: A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Author: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Year Published: 1986
Shakespeare
Name: Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard
Author: Barry Edelstein.
Goodreads Rating: 4.62
Year Published:
Name: Hamlet and Revenge
Author: Eleanor Prosser
Goodreads Rating: 4.50
Year Published: 1971
Name: Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Author: George T. Wright
Goodreads Rating: 4.39
Year Published: 1991
Name: Hamlet in Purgatory
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 2002
Fiction / Classics
Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 1963
Fiction / Fantasy
Name: The Kingkiller Chronicle
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Goodreads Rating: 4.55
Year Published: 2007
Name: A Song of Ice and Fire
Author: George R.R. Martin
Goodreads Rating: 4.45
Year Published: 2005
Name: Harry Potter
Author: J.K. Rowling
Goodreads Rating: 4.44
Year Published: 1997
Name: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 2015
Name: Discworld
Author: Terry Pratchett
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
Year Published: 2001
Name: The Chronicles of Narnia
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2002
Fiction / Humor
Name: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Author: Tucker Max
Goodreads Rating: 3.51
Year Published: 2006
Fiction / Mystery
Name: Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1998
Name: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Author: Agatha Christie
Goodreads Rating: 4.20
Year Published: 2006
Name: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Year Published: 2015
Name: The Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Goodreads Rating: 3.79
Year Published: 2006
Fiction / Science Fiction
Name: Ender's Game - Saga
Author: Orson Scott Card
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
Year Published: 1994
Name: The Player of Games
Author: Iain M. Banks
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Year Published: 1997
Name: The Diamond Age
Author: Neal Stephenson
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
Year Published: 2000
Name: Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2004
Name: Snow Crash
Author: Neal Stephenson
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Year Published: 2000
Name: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
Year Published: 2006
Fiction / Horror
Name: House of Leaves
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2000
Name: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Year Published: 1986
Name: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Year Published: 2003
Fiction / Miscellaneous
Name: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Year Published:
Name: The Bone People
Author: Keri Hulme
Goodreads Rating: 4.06
Year Published: 1986
Name: Cat's Eye
Author: Margaret Atwood
Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Year Published: 1998
Name: Xeelee Sequence
Author: Stephen Baxter
Goodreads Rating: 3.69
Year Published: 1992
Name: Ghost Fleet
Author: P.W. Singer and August Cole
Goodreads Rating: 3.62
Year Published: 2015
Name: Future Crimes
Author: Marc Goodman
Goodreads Rating: 3.42
Year Published: 1990
Health / Miscellaneous
Name: Convict Conditioning
Author: Paul Wade
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Year Published: 2012
Name: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Author: Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
Goodreads Rating: 3.95
Year Published: 2012
Name: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Author: Andrew Weil
Goodreads Rating: 3.86
Year Published:
Design / Miscellaneous
Name: Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author: Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
Goodreads Rating: 4.38
Year Published: 1977
Name: Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Author: Steve Krug
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Year Published: 2014
Name: The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald Norman
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Year Published: 2002
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