Books like Blockhead by Joseph D'Agnese

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

The Power of Habit shows how tiny habits shape our lives and how they can be transformed to achieve personal and organizational success.

Rolf Dobelli presents 99 concise chapters that explain everyday cognitive biases, showing how awareness can sharpen decision‑making at work and in life.

Explore how hidden psychological forces shape our economic decisions, from personal finance to the 2008 crisis, with Dan Ariely’s behavioral economics insights.

A deep dive into how behavioral economics reshaped our understanding of decision making through pioneering Israeli psychological research and its impact on evidence‑based policy.

In Steven Kellogg’s picturebook, Chicken Little and his feathered friends think the sky is falling and quickly fall victim to the sly Foxy Loxy, who poses as a police officer and lures them into his truck.

n Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history. But was the call really that bad? Or did Carroll actually make a great move that was ruined by bad luck? Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there is always information that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion turned business consultant, draws on examples from business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most people, it's difficult to say "I'm not sure" in a world that values and, even, rewards the appearance of certainty. But professional poker players are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don't always lead to great outcomes and bad decisions don't always lead to bad outcomes. By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don't, you'll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision making. You'll become more confident, calm, compassionate and successful in the long run.

Describes some of the well-known as well as the lesser-known details of Paul Revere's life and exciting ride.

Discover the fundamentals of blockchain technology, its operation, and its impact on data integrity and security for businesses.

Describes the French Resistance, the underground movement which through undetected acts of sabotage, intelligence gathering, and willingness to risk their lives, insured countless German defeats and strongly influenced the outcome of World War II.

From NPR's Math Guy, the story of Leonardo of Pisa, the medieval mathematician who introduced Arabic numbers to the West and helped launch the modern era. In 1202, a young Italian published one of the most influential books of all time, introducing modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Leonardo of Pisa (better known today as Fibonacci) had learned the Hindu-Arabic number system when as a teenager he traveled with his father, a customs official for Pisa, to North Africa, then one of the principal mercantile centers of Europe. Devised in India in the seventh and eighth centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system (featuring the numerals 0 through 9) offered a much simpler method of calculation than the then-popular finger reckoning and cumbersome Roman numerals. Though written in scholarly Latin, Fibonacci's book Liber Abbaci (The Book of Calculation) was the first to recognize the power of the 10 numerals, and to aim them at the world of commerce. It spawned generations of popular math texts in colloquial Italian and other languages that made it possible for ordinary people to buy and sell goods, convert currencies, and keep accurate records more readily than ever before—helping transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and large-scale international commerce. Liber Abbaci and Fibonacci's other books made him the greatest mathematician of the Middle Ages. Yet despite the ubiquity of his discoveries, Leonardo of Pisa has largely slipped from the pages of history. He is best known today for discovering the "Fibonacci sequence" of numbers that appears with great regularity in biological structures throughout nature, and is used by some to predict the rise and fall of financial markets. Keith Devlin re-creates the life and enduring legacy of an overlooked genius, and in the process makes clear how central numbers and mathematics are to our daily lives. - Publisher.

A boy’s first-hand recollection of post‑war Britain, detailing victory bonfires, rationing, prefab houses, and beach rescues, while showing his growth as an artist amid the nation’s rebuilding.

War Boy is an illustrated memoir by English artist Michael Foreman, recounting his childhood experiences during World War II in Britain.

Psychologist Christopher Chabris opens a window into the hidden biases of everyday perception, revealing how our minds routinely miss facts that surround us.