Books that I've listened to for my #AcademicRunPlaylist
AcademicRunPlaylist Public
Created by Ben Waber
Books that I've listened to for my #AcademicRunPlaylist
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4 stars
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such …
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The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter
4 stars
From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty
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5 stars
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation
Menstruation is something half the world …
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The Measure of Progress by Diane Coyle
5 stars
The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were …
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The other slavery by Andrés Reséndez
5 stars
A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time …
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3 stars
A scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of …
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4 stars
From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how …
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The Franklin Stove by Joyce Chaplin
5 stars
The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a …
