A running collection of tables of contents I love

I have a Thing for tables-of-contents 📖 In this ongoing thread I shall post ones I like, love, or lust after. Nothing is implied whatsoever re endorsing the books' actual contents—or even knowing what the contents are 🙃 Feel free to reply & add your own 😊

Jan 16, 2020

“Understanding Motivation and Emotion” by Johnmarshall Reeve Table of Contents:

Bushra Farooqui 📖 🕯️ @startuployalist · Jan 16, 2020

This table of contents alone 🧠✅

Already Free by Bruce Tift. Loving this book immensely. The table of contents is simple yet attractive and intriguing. In the introduction, he explains the relation of the chapters—something I also quite enjoy when authors do it.

Wow. This book is an impressive convo of technical+rigorous and playful+casual, and the table of contents reveals that immediately.

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean · Oct 16, 2021

Epic table of contents from Scale by Geoffrey West: Tag yourself, I'm integrating the social with the physical.

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Oct 17, 2021

Table of Contents for Per Bak's Self-Organized Criticality is pretty great shows how fundamental an idea he's got by how it applies to sandpiles, earthquakes, black holes, life, exinction, the brain, traffic jams, and economics

Jan 25, 2022

short but sweet

Oshan Jarow @OshanJarow · Nov 2, 2023

Absolutely delighted that @Philip_Goff’s book on consciousness & the purpose of the universe concludes with a short postscript on the question “Is taxation theft?”

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Nov 2, 2023