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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Naked

Charles Wheelan

282 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

4.5scytale's review
nonfiction business economics science challenging informative medium-paced
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden

The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

Daniel Golden

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.5scytale's review
nonfiction education informative medium-paced
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

William Deresiewicz

245 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

3.0scytale's review
nonfiction education politics sociology informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

432 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

4.0scytale's review
nonfiction sociology challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

391 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0scytale's review
nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

464 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

4.0scytale's review
nonfiction health psychology science challenging informative slow-paced
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight

A Court of Thorns and Roses #3.5

Sarah J. Maas

229 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

3.0scytale's review
fiction fantasy romance emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

256 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

4.5scytale's review
nonfiction psychology science reflective slow-paced
Letters to Milena by Aarno Peromies, Philip Boehm, Franz Kafka, Milena Jesenská

Letters to Milena

Aarno Peromies, Philip Boehm, Franz Kafka, Milena Jesenská

298 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

4.5scytale's review
nonfiction biography classics romance emotional reflective slow-paced
Sensor by Junji Ito

Sensor

Junji Ito

238 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0scytale's review
fiction horror manga dark mysterious fast-paced