Free e-books and audio books

Posted by Justin on Dec 29, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, books | 0 comments My sources for free e-books and audiobooks are -Project Gutenberg:Google E-bookstoreInternet ArchiveOpen LibraryMany BooksLibriVox (audiobooks)Can anyone suggest any more?PS: I omitted one of my favourites: Memoware
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"Risk" by Dan Gardner

Posted by Justin on Jun 21, 2009 in Abaddons Musings, books, logic, risk | 0 comments A good analysis of how we, as a society, perceive risk, and how we should perceive it and deal with it. We worry amount relatively small risks, but become blase about much bigger ones, due to various biases – the Von Rorkoff effect, optimism bias, hindsight bias, etc – and errors of logic.Our initial reaction to a given situation is based on gut instinct – our hard-wiring; if...
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