Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
By: Gillian Tett
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm
By: Christian Madsbjerg
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Chr… read more
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2. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
By: Keith H. Basso
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a diffe… read more
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3. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt
3.87
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more
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4. Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically
By: Chantal Mouffe
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and the results are often far from negative. How t… read more
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5. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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6. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Piano Solo)
By: None , Richard Harris
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
This collection brings together music played by Captain Corelli himself and original pieces evoking… read more
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7. Competing Against Luck
By: Clayton M. Christensen , David Duncan , Taddy Hall , Karen Dillon
3.70
Format: 186 pages, ebook
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs t… read more
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9. I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
By: Izzeldin Abuelaish
3.73
Format: None pages,
By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hateis Izzeldin Abuelais… read more
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10. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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11. A History of Thailand
By: Pasuk Phongpaichit , Chris Baker
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Covering the past three centuries of Thai history, this book reveals how a landscape of sparsely po… read more
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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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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
13. 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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14. 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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15. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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16. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
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"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
17. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
18. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
By: Clive Thompson
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with… read more
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"More than introversion or logic, though, coding selects for people who can handle endless frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"When you meet a coder, you're meeting someone whose core daily experience is of unending failure and grinding frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"For years, coders have been programming computers so that they perform repetitive tasks for us. Now they automate our repetitive thoughts."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
19. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
By: Ben Rhodes
4.21
Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition
Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A form… read more
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20. Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---and Prevented Economic Disaster
By: Nick Timiraos
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civ… read more
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21. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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22. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By: Safiya Umoja Noble
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
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23. This Is What Inequality Looks Like
By: You Yenn Teo
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the… read more
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"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
24. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
By: Gillian Tett
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial … read more
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25. The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
By: Jesse Singal
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today's bestselling behavioral science, and a… read more
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26. Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
By: Brett Scott
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Axiom Award Gold Medalist for Business Commentary The reach of Corporations into our lives via card… read more
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27. Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
By: Ashley Mears
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of model… read more
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28. Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages
By: Michael Keen
4.06
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludic… read more
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29. On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border
By: Franck Billé
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border,… read more
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