You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
By: Adrian Hon
3.81
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse …
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1. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com
By: Aaron Ross , Marylou Tyler
4.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Discover the outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring… read more
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2. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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3. The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
By: Jon Kabat-Zinn , J. Mark G. Williams , John D. Teasdale , Zindel V. Segal
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The Mindful Way through Depressiondraws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned c… read more
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4. Blue Noon (Midnighters, #3)
By: Scott Westerfeld
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The darklings will hunt once again. The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnig… read more
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5. Remnant Population
By: Elizabeth Moon
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time f… read more
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6. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
By: Tim Wu
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every mome… read more
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7. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
8. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
9. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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10. The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now
By: Hilke Schellmann
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results… read more
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11. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
By: Rebecca Giblin
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech a… read more
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12. The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
By: Matt Mochary
4.35
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley… read more
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13. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
By: Tim S. Grover
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
From the elite performance coach who authored the international bestseller Relentless and whose cli… read more
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"But I had no doubt that whatever happened, I’d be fine."-Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
"Confidence is about taking chances, and never doubting the outcome."-Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
"If you can tolerate fear and doubt and loneliness… Winning would like a word with you."-Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
"We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it."-Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)
14. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
15. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
By: Elise Hu
4.10
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more
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16. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
By: Dan Lyons
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about "wellness," millions of w… read more
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"...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing."-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"Real wages (adjusted for inflation) have been flat or down for decades. Millennials earn 20 percent less than their parents did at the same stage of their lives, according to a 2017 study by Young In…"-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"a warning to young entrepreneurs: take money from a venture capitalist, and you’ll end up working for some smug, sarcastic, know-it-all prick like this guy, who will constantly tell you that you’re n…"-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
"Young guys moving west after college no longer hope to become the next Steve Jobs, they want to become the next Mark Andreassen. The Valley has become a Casino where the VCS and Angel Investprs blind…"-Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
17. You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
By: Adrian Hon
3.81
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse … read more
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18. A War Made in Russia
By: Sergei Medvedev
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merel… read more
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"Once again, the Empire of Russia has defeated the nation. It is important to recognize it now, when Russia is suffering a moral, military and, broadly speaking, civilizational defeat in Ukraine. The …"-Sergei Medvedev, A War Made in Russia
"This is a world war, unleashed by Russia to overturn the modern liberal world order. It has many open and hidden global supporters, and there are neutral countries that are watching carefully to see …"-Sergei Medvedev, A War Made in Russia
19. 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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20. The House of Long Shadows (House of Souls, #1)
By: Ambrose Ibsen
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
The house at 889 Morgan Road has been empty almost thirty years. Maybe it should have stayed that w… read more
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21. How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions―and the Art of Knowing When Not To
By: Kit Yates
3.79
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A “vivid, wide-ranging, and delightful guide” (bestselling author Tim Harford) for understanding ho… read more
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