Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
By: Carissa Véliz
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and…
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1. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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2. Not to Disturb
By: Muriel Spark
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
A storm rages round the towers of the big house near Geneva. Behind the locked doors of the library… read more
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3. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreakingnew book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling … read more
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- philosophy
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- sociology
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4. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
By: Bruce Schneier
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store pu… read more
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5. 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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- audiobook
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6. 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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"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
7. Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
By: Rolf Dobelli
3.71
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
STOP READING THE NEWS is a vital toolkit for managing the upsetting coronavirus news cycle and find… read more
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"News is aimed straight at our mental health. We need to get out of the way."-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
"News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging."-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
"In the past few decades we’ve learned to recognise the many hazards of poor nutrition: insulin resistance, obesity, susceptibility to inflammation and fatigue. All of these factors can contribute to …"-Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
8. Yesterday
By: Juan Emar
3.55
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course… read more
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9. The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
By: Danielle Keats Citron
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once … read more
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10. El sentido de consentir
By: Clara Serra
4.12
Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition
¿Es tan claro e irrefutable como parece el concepto de «consentimiento»? Este libro explora sus mat… read more
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11. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
By: Christopher Wylie
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining… read more
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"We can already see how algorithms competing to maximize our attention have the capacity to not only transform cultures but redefine the experience of existence. Algorithmically reinforced “engagement"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabular. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “communi…"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabulary. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “commun…"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
"If we want to understand why these technology companies behave this way we should listen to the words of those who built them. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist behind Facebook, Palantir, and Paypa…"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
12. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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- audiobook
- science
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- technology
13. Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
By: Titania McGrath
3.81
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social ju… read more
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- politics
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"And say what you will about ISIS, but at least they're not Islamophobic."-Titania McGrath, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
"Let us not forget that white supremacy comes in many forms, and often it can insinuate itself into our culture through microwavable ready-meals."-Titania McGrath, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
"Conventional sex is an act of violence. But there is nothing more sublime than the sight of a Marxist cultural critic shoving chrysanthemums into her twat."-Titania McGrath, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
"As a person of mixed race, Bergdorf is a true victim. It is not her fault that she inadvertently gives the impression of being an irredeemably pampered cunt."-Titania McGrath, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
14. To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism
By: Rob Riemen
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent,… read more
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15. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.27
Format: 172 pages, ebook
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more
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- sociology
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"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
16. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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- audiobook
17. Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies
By: Danny Wallace
4.22
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure s… read more
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18. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
By: Carissa Véliz
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and… read more
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- society
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- business
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19. Smart Until It's Dumb: Why artificial intelligence keeps making epic mistakes—and why the AI bubble will burst
By: Emmanuel Maggiori
4.27
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly st… read more
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20. Stand Out of Our Light
By: James Williams
4.01
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea… read more
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"Do we conjure up an image of a "monster" at whom to direct our blame, and take a path which, while psychologically rewarding, is likely to distract from the goal of enacting change in the real world?…"-James Williams, Stand Out of Our Light
21. El enemigo conoce el sistema
By: Marta Peirano
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
La red no es libre, ni abierta ni democrática. Es un conjunto de servidores, conmutadores, satélite… read more
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