Gödel, Escher, Bach appears in 14 book lists

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Gödel, Escher, Bach appears in 14 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books to become a great developer

Book cover of Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking Book cover of The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Book cover of Naming and Necessity Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

The best books on Bach, music, and the piano

Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy Book cover of A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano Book cover of Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment Book cover of The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations

The best books to make sense of the I in AI

Book cover of A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of The Soul of Anna Klane Book cover of Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility Book cover of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

The best history books that will wake you up

Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of When We Cease to Understand the World Book cover of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Book cover of The Book of All Books Book cover of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

The best books that teach and inspire the best programmers

Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Gödel's Proof Book cover of Principles of Compiler Design Book cover of The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 1, The: Bitwise Tricks & Techniques; Binary Decision Diagrams Book cover of The C Programming Language

The best books about mind bending scientific discovery and courageous rethinking of conventional wisdom

Book cover of Climbing Mount Improbable Book cover of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention Book cover of The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe

The best books about computer science without coding

Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect Book cover of Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do Book cover of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking Book cover of Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine

The best books about artificial intelligence (and what they tell us about human intelligence)

Book cover of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Machines Like Me Book cover of Klara and the Sun Book cover of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The best fun books for software developers

Book cover of The Imposter's Handbook: A CS Primer for Self-taught Developers Book cover of Programming Pearls Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Book cover of Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship Book cover of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

The best books to find out why math isn’t what you think

Book cover of Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical Book cover of Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved Book cover of Riddles in Mathematics: A Book of Paradoxes Book cover of Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The best books to alter your world view

Book cover of The Secret Book cover of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible Book cover of Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil Book cover of The God Delusion Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The best books on mind-body

Book cover of Q is for Quantum Book cover of The Mind-Body Problem Book cover of Crossing: A Transgender Memoir Book cover of The Center Cannot Hold Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The best books about why people make the decisions they do

Book cover of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Book cover of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Book cover of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less Book cover of Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

The best books on science, mathematics, and philosophy

Book cover of A History of Western Philosophy Book cover of Men of Mathematics Book cover of Einstein's Dreams Book cover of Cosmos Book cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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