24 must-read nonfiction books like The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett

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The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It)

By: Jamie Bartlett

3.91

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

The internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But hav…

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1. Tatăl celuilalt copil

By: Parinoush Saniee , Cristina Ciovarnache

4.40

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Aniversarea a douazeci de ani ii ofera lui Shahab prilejul unei introspectii asupra copilariei sale… read more

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"Едно време ние не бяхме толкова учени като вас, но се разбирахме идеално с децата си. Те нямаха такива проблеми. Растяха някак по-естествено. Знаеш ли, има нещо, което не го пише в учебниците и книги…"

-Parinoush Saniee, Tatăl celuilalt copil

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2. The Epigenetics Revolution

By: Nessa Carey

3.69

Format: 143 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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3. Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

By: John Yorke

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Pentagon's Brain

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • technology
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5. The Panama Papers

By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business

6. Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World's Fittest Athletes

By: None

4.26

Format: None pages,

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7. Them: Adventures with Extremists

By: Jon Ronson

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more

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8. Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World

By: Jamie Bartlett

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and grou… read more

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9. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

By: Noam Chomsky , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … read more

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10. 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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11. The Conquest of Happiness

By: Bertrand Russell , None

4.20

Format: None pages,

The books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. - TIME "The Conquest of Happin… read more

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12. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.84

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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13. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

By: Talia Lavin

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, sma… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

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14. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

By: Tim Harford

4.12

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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15. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

By: Stuart Russell

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"

-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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16. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

17. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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18. Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

By: Christoph Biermann

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Well written and thoughtful. Takes us on a tour of some of Europe's most innovative football thinke… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins

19. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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20. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls

By: Tim Marshall

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

21. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

By: Jaron Lanier

3.58

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the danger… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
"Go to where you are kindest"

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Each of us has an inner troll."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Statistics are reliable, but only as idiot demons."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

"Fake people are a cultural denial-of-service attack."

-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Cover of Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection by Marissa King

22. Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection

By: Marissa King

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about “networking.” Understanding the con… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • business
  • sociology
Cover of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee

23. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

By: Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more

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  • science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

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24. Creativity Code

By: Marcus du Sautoy

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machi… read more

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  • science
  • technology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski

25. The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

By: Adam Kucharski

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From ideas and infections to financial crises and "fake news," why the science of outbreaks is the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy

26. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.11

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more

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  • science
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right by Mark Galeotti

27. We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right

By: Mark Galeotti

3.80

Format: 160 pages, ebook

A The Times best book of 2019 'In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but con… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
"Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those who do regret it have no brain."

-Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right

"Russians can be unhappy, yet still loyal. Putin is to a large extent being rated not as a man, not even as a politician, but as an icon of Russia. To vote for him is not to endorse a program, but to …"

-Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right

"Putin has no ideological commitment to anything, really, and so has no reason to try to impose totalitarianism. Ideologists are, after all, the scariest kinds of rulers, because they want to dictate …"

-Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right

Cover of Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy by Andy Ngo

28. Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

By: Andy Ngo

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Now a #1 National Bestseller!A journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched … read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The word “violence"

-Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

"Some victims are valued more in the eyes of the American media than others."

-Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

"Hour by hour I laid in bed thinking about what would motivate those who say they are defending people of color to brutally beat a person of color."

-Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

"Indeed, if the riots of 2020 prove anything, it’s that a sizable portion of Democratic politicians, intellectuals, academics, and journalists find riots and looting justifiable if committed in the na…"

-Andy Ngo, Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

Cover of The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett

29. The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It)

By: Jamie Bartlett

3.91

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

The internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But hav… read more

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  • audiobook
  • internet
  • science
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung by Dirk Oschmann

30. Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung

By: Dirk Oschmann

3.82

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

»Der Osten hat keine Zukunft, solange er nur als Herkunft begriffen wird.« Was bedeutet es, eine… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O'Brien

31. How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind

By: James O'Brien

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • society
  • audiobook

19 must-read audiobook books like The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett

Transform Your Habits

Tatăl celuilalt copil

Parinoush Saniee , Cristina Ciovarnache

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Daniel H. Pink

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Talia Lavin

3.87

Transform Your Habits

How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

Tim Harford

4.12

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14 must-read history books like The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen

Transform Your Habits

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Enemies: A History of the FBI

Tim Weiner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

3.70

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