Description：We live in an age drowning in answers and starving for real thought. Every day, we're told how to live—by our parents, our industry's "common sense," the experts, the algorithms, the crowd. Most people spend their entire lives on maps other people drew, mistaking the map for reality.First-principles thinking is the intellectual thread that runs from Aristotle to Musk: strip away every borrowed assumption, every inherited analogy, every "it's just how things are"...

Description：Why the Jews?They are 0.2% of the world's population — yet hold 22% of all Nobel Prizes, a quarter of the Forbes 100, seven of the eight original Hollywood studios, and nearly every "too big to fail" name on Wall Street. Expelled from country after country for two thousand years, they kept becoming the richest minority in every land they reached. How?This book skips the magical-realism version of "Jewish wealth" and peels back the legend to look at what's ...

Description：We live in an age of extraordinary capability and extraordinary confusion. We are busier than ever, yet more depleted. More connected, yet more isolated. More informed, yet less certain of what matters. The tools we built to make life easier have, in many ways, made it harder.The answers to this paradox have been waiting for 2,500 years.In The Living Tao, Daniel Wu draws on the Tao Te Ching — one of the most widely read texts in human history — and the bro...

It is said that Jack sold his beloved cow for five magic beans. But were those beans really magic? Jack retells his story and incorporates science to try and verify his tale. Between the huge beanstalk and the scary giant, Jack has a lot to investigate. Thankfully, he can use the scientific method and work through each experiment step by step.

Everybody knows know the classic story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The wolf had no trouble blowing down the houses made from straw and sticks. But wait . . . Why couldn't he blow down the brick house, exactly? The youngest pig retells the classic tale from his point of view. Then he uses the scientific method and multiple experiments to teach his brother and sister the science behind his super-strong house.