Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories

6 best books like Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories (John Allen Paulos): Something Wicked This Way Comes, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Cranford, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, An Introduction to Jung's Psychology, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Author	Ray Bradbury
ISBN	0380729407

A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Author

Steve Silberman

A New York Times bestseller

Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction

A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.
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Cranford

Author	Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN	0141439882

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters...

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0679725229

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time,...

An Introduction to Jung's Psychology

Author	Frieda Fordham
ISBN	0140202730

An extremely disappointing book to start the year with!
Frieda Fordham was a training Jungian analyst (when such a thing existed), and she published this book in the 50's during the same period that Jacques Lacan was a rising star in France, Erich Fromm and Karen Horney were bringing Freudian revisionism...

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Author	Simon Singh
ISBN	1620402777

You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures. That they exist, Simon Singh reveals,...