Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
By: Barton Gellman
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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1. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
By: Kim Zetter
4.17
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at… read more
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- audiobook
- espionage
- science
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- technology
"The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called S…"-Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
2. The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
By: Thomas Piketty , Teresa Lavender Fagan , Gabriel Zucman
3.97
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majo… read more
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- politics
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"In the end, the taxes that are evaded have to be compensated for by higher taxes on the law-abiding, often middle class households, in the United States, Europe and developing countries. Nothing in t…"-Thomas Piketty, The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
"Ogni Paese ha il diritto di scegliere la propria politica tributaria. Ma quando il Lussemburgo offre accordi fiscali su misura alle multinazionali, quando le Isole Vergini britanniche autorizzano chi…"-Thomas Piketty, The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
3. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
By: Glenn Greenwald
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
No Place to Hide is a groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who br… read more
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4. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
By: David E. Hoffman
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more
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- espionage
- history
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- nonfiction
5. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
By: Peter L. Bernstein
4.10
Format: None pages,
With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
6. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
By: Jeremy Scahill , The Staff of The Intercept
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Major revelations about the US government's drone program--bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and hi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Donnie Brasco
By: Richard Woodley , Joseph D. Pistone
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious s… read more
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9. Who Rules the World?
By: Noam Chomsky
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the… read more
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10. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- american history
- biography
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Permanent Record
By: Edward Snowden
4.30
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill… read more
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"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
12. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- technology
13. The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
By: Matthew Connelly
3.83
Format: 540 pages, Hardcover
A captivating study of US state secrecy that examines how officials use it to hoard power and preve… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- science
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- politics
- nonfiction
- technology
14. Missionaries
By: Phil Klay
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the National Book Award-winning short story collection Redeployment comes an ast… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"You can see a person's soul in the eyes, they say, but you can also see them in the hands."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
"Life," he says, grinning at his joke. "It's a terrible condition. It's got a one-hundred-percent mortality rate."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
"Men are weak. Don't ask if they're good or bad. We're all sinful. Ask if they're better or worse than the times they lived in."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
"fear became something in the background, like the heat of summer, something you acknowledge and sometimes even complain about but which you do not expect to change."-Phil Klay, Missionaries
15. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
By: Andy Greenberg
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more
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- audiobook
- science
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- nonfiction
- technology
16. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- science
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- politics
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- technology
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
17. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
By: Gordon Corera
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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- science
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- technology
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
19. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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- science
- history
- technology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By: William J. Burns
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
21. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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- science
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- technology
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
22. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
3.64
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
“Extraordinary.… A feast of history, an expert tour through thousands of years of war and conquest.… read more
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- history
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"With only rare exceptions, history shows that while strategy and bravery can win a battle, the frontiers of science and technology must be exploited to win a war."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
"America may be losing a competitive edge in many enterprises, from cars to space, riffed National Public Radio host Scott Simon in the summer of 2010, "but as long as we can devise a five-bladed, min…"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
23. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more
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- politics
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- journalism
- audiobook
24. Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
By: Barton Gellman
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . . a marvelous narrator for this p… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- journalism
- science
25. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST
By: Martin Baron
4.20
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more
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- audiobook
27. Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
By: Patrick Winn
4.40
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state — and America’s … read more
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- espionage
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
29. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
By: Amy B. Zegart
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more
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- espionage
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- technology
30. Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
By: Laurent Richard
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Featuring an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of P… read more
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31. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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