Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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2. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
3. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
4. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
5. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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6. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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7. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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8. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
By: Zoë Schiffer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more
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9. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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10. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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11. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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12. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more
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13. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
14. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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15. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
16. Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)
By: Marianne Bellotti
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with soun… read more
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17. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
By: Melissa S. Kearney
3.88
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more
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18. Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
By: Marina Nitze
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“A deeply empowering and practical book: for anyone, anywhere, who just wants to GET STUFF DONE.”--… read more
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19. A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
By: Cyd Harrell
4.39
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
This friendly guide is for technology people who work, or want to work, in the public sector. In it… read more
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20. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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21. Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
By: Tom A. Wheeler
3.60
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech" and Kirkus Reviews… read more
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