Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
By: Carolyn Chen
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Va…
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1. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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2. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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3. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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4. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
By: Evan Osnos
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction … read more
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5. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
By: P.E. Moskowitz
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more
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6. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
7. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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8. 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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9. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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10. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
11. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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12. 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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13. Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
By: Temple Grandin
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of … read more
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14. 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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15. The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
By: Amy-Jill Levine
4.08
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament explore how Jews and Christians can learn from an… read more
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16. A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
By: Jane F. McAlevey
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force c… read more
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"Futility, the tactic union busters use to subtly convince people nothing will change and they should just stay home and not bother voting, is best combatted by having lots of examples at the ready to…"-Jane F. McAlevey, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
17. Keeping Finance Personal: Ditch the “Shoulds” and the Shame and Rewrite Your Money Story
By: Ellyce Fulmore
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An intersectional approach to personal finance from queer, neurodivergent personal finance educator… read more
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18. Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
By: Carolyn Chen
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Va… read more
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19. I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
By: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Will artificial intelligence improve the way we work and live, or will it alienate us? The choice i… read more
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20. The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
By: Michael Kearns
4.12
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful me… read more
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"The insights we can get from this unprecedented access to data can be a great thing: we can get new understanding about how our society works, and improve public health, municipal services, and consu…"-Michael Kearns, The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
