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Cause and effect may seem like the stuff of pure philosophy, but Judea Pearl shows how important causation is to the applications of science, from the technology in our cell phones to the link from smoking to cancer. Pearl, a UCLA computer scientist, presents a personal history of this field using lots of light-hearted thought experiments to illustrate his points. It requires serious concentration, but that concentration is amply rewarded.