Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
By: Donald A. Norman
3.60
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world…
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1. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
By: Nir Eyal
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more
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- psychology
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- technology
2. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more
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"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
3. Design as Art
By: Patrick Creagh , Bruno Munari
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an il… read more
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- art design
- nonfiction
- design
4. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
By: Steve Krug
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since Don't Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers ha… read more
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- business
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- design
- technology
5. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
By: Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , None
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
From three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems… read more
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- business
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- design
6. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
By: Jeff Gothelf , Josh Seiden
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today's web-driven reality. In this i… read more
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- business
- nonfiction
- design
- technology
7. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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8. Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain th… read more
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9. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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10. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath
3.97
Format: 12 pages,
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources an… read more
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11. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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12. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
13. 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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- business
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
"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
14. 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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- economics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- environment
15. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
16. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- business
- design
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
17. Prophet
By: Sin Blaché
3.68
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more
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"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."-Sin Blaché, Prophet
18. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
- technology
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
19. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
By: Jake Knapp
4.08
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, … read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- design
20. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
By: Rob Fitzpatrick
4.37
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say y… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- design
"The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that."-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
"Compliments are the fool’s gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and entirely worthless."-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
"Here’s the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion."-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
"Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it’s fragile."-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
21. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- environment
22. 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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- nonfiction
- business
- technology
23. Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
By: Vaclav Smil
3.87
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its… read more
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- design
- economics
- business
- technology
24. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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- design
- economics
- business
- technology
25. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
By: Cliff Kuang
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant… read more
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- art design
- psychology
- nonfiction
- design
- business
- technology
"Simple as it sounds, that bit of information means the difference between feeling like you’re taking a ride, and feeling like you’ve been taken hostage."-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
"Whether we’re communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world. That’s the point behind both the rules governing polite conversation and how a user-f…"-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
"Being polite means following a conversation, not co-opting it and dragging it in other directions. It means knowing who you’re talking with, and knowing what they know. It’s rude to talk over people,…"-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
26. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- economics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- environment
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
27. 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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- nonfiction
- business
- technology
"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
28. Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers
By: Artiom Dashinsky
4.30
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Practice your product design and UX skills. Prepare for your next job interview. "Redesign the N… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
29. Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects (HBR Handbooks)
By: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects. We're now living in the … read more
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- business
30. Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
By: Donald A. Norman
3.60
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world… read more
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