Some books I've read that fall close to Freakonomics, rely on big data, or that otherwise surprise with information you are unlikely to run into elsewhere.
Big Data and the Unexpected Viešas
Sukūrė Finserra
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Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success is the non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company …
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Billions and billions Carl Sagan
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium is a 1997 book by the …
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The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 Lucy S. Dawidowicz (A Bantam book)
The systematic annihilation of six million Jews during World War II is the single most horrifying event of the twentieth …
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Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why …