27 best-selling nonfiction books like Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre

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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books An award-winning defense expert tells the story …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre , here is a list of 27 books like this:

1. War in Human Civilization

By: Azar Gat

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of wa… read more

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2. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

By: Dave Grossman

3.63

Format: 56 pages,

The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundre… read more

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3. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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4. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
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5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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6. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
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7. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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8. 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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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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9. Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

By: Evan Thomas

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a cru… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
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10. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • artificial intelligence
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11. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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12. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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14. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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15. 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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  • science
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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16. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • history
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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

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18. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

19. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • technology
"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

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20. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • china
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21. The Fourth Turning Is Here:

By: Neil Howe

3.96

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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22. Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books An award-winning defense expert tells the story … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
  • technology
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23. The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers

By: Andrew F. Krepinevich

4.23

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challeng… read more

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  • science
  • history
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  • war
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster

24. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart

25. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy by Michael G. Vickers

26. By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

By: Michael G. Vickers

4.17

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • war
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27. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder

28. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

By: Ernest Scheyder

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

29. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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30. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • china
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj Shah

31. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

By: Raj Shah

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known… read more

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24 Best history books like Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre

Transform Your Habits

Quantum Supremacy

Michio Kaku

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

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16 best-selling audiobook books like The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher

4.27

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