How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
By: Nina Jankowicz
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the nonfiction plot in How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz , here is a list of 17 books like this:
1. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
By: Masha Gessen
4.19
Format: 515 pages, Hardcover
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of … read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Masha Gessen's The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- russia
- history
- nonfiction
"...But reason was helpless against demagogy."-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely."-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h…"-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
"At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, ar…"-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
3. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From TheNew York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Daniel J. Levitin's A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- nonfiction
4. Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
By: Arch Tait , Anna Politkovskaya
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journ… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Arch Tait's Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
5. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
6. A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West
By: None
3.19
Format: 384 pages,
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
7. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
By: Calder Walton
4.30
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- russia
- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
8. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
Want to Read $ 14.76Similar categories in Serhii Plokhy's The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- russia
- history
- politics
- war
- ukraine
- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
9. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Erika Fatland's Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- russia
- history
- nonfiction
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
10. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Brian Klaas's Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
11. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- nonfiction
- history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
12. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in David Spiegelhalter's The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- nonfiction
- technology
"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
13. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Eliot Higgins's We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- russia
- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- technology
14. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
Want to Read $ 12.60Similar categories in Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
15. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
By: Luke Harding
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Luke Harding's Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- russia
- history
- politics
- war
- ukraine
- nonfiction
16. Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
By: Lee McIntyre
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings hav… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Lee McIntyre's Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Turite teisę į savo nuomonę, tačiau ne į savo faktus."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
17. How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
By: Nina Jankowicz
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- computers
- international relations
- russia
- history
- politics
- war
- ukraine
- nonfiction
- social issues
- technology
18. Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
By: Yochai Benkler
4.15
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Yochai Benkler's Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- technology
19. Tinnitus. DJ on jumal on DJ
By: Tarmu Kurm
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
2022. aastal möödus Eestis esimese disko tegemisest pool sajandit. Peaaegu sama vana on ka raamatu … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tarmu Kurm's Tinnitus. DJ on jumal on DJ book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
20. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- politics
- russia
- history
- nonfiction
"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.
21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Evan Friss's The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore book and Nina Jankowicz's How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
- nonfiction
- history
