Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
By: Christopher Mims
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from …
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By: Marc Levinson
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
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2. Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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Format: None pages, Hardcover
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5. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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10. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
By: Christopher Mims
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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11. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
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4.41
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13. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
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3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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14. Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
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4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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4.19
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16. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
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17. There Are No Accidents
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4.33
Format: None pages, None
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18. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
By: Peter S. Goodman
4.25
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19. Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following
By: Gabrielle Bluestone
3.32
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20. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
By: Renee DiResta
4.17
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bes… read more
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21. Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America
By: Shad White
4.10
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
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