Lurking: How a Person Became a User
By: Joanne McNeil
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of vi…
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1. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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2. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
By: Kory Stamper
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "… read more
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3. The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
By: None
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Create a Culture of Belonging! Strong cultures help people support one another, share their passion… read more
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4. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
5. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
7. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
By: James Davies
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. Th… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
8. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- business
- technology
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
9. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- cultural
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- technology
10. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
By: Eric Jay Dolin
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through … read more
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- history
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- audiobook
11. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
By: Marcia Chatelain
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaura… read more
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12. Everything I Need I Get from You
By: Kaitlyn Tiffany
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A thrilling dive into the world of superfandom and the fangirls who shaped the social internet. … read more
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- internet
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"Infatuation is irrational but it can be a precursor to introspection. The experience of bodily joy is an invitation to reconsider the conditions that hold you away from it most of the time. Screaming…"-Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You
13. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
14. I Never Thought of It That Way
By: Monica Guzmán
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more
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15. The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
By: Justin E. H. Smith
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams b… read more
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- internet
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- nonfiction
- technology
16. Lurking: How a Person Became a User
By: Joanne McNeil
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of vi… read more
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- sociology
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- audiobook
17. Enter the Aardvark
By: Jessica Anthony
3.62
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a rip-r… read more
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"... explained to him how nature is not criminal. How common it was for certain African men on expedition to engage in what might be called "reciprocal sex." How it was common for these men to declare…"-Jessica Anthony, Enter the Aardvark
18. A People’s History of Computing in the United States
By: Joy Lisi Rankin
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, wh… read more
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19. Break the Internet: in pursuit of influence
By: Olivia Yallop
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royal… read more
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20. Professor Everywhere
By: Nicholas Binge
3.90
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Chloe Chan is just about to give up on finding any real scholars at University when she starts to h… read more
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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