Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
By: Alex Rosenblat
3.56
Format: 226 pages, ebook
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An Ameri…
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1. The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
By: Will Storr
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist,… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new i…"-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
"It might weigh little over a kilogram but, taken on its own scale, the brain is unimaginably vast. One cubic millimetre contains between twenty and twenty-five thousand neurons. It has eighty-six bil…"-Will Storr, The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
2. Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation
By: Sharan B. Merriam
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Praise for the Third Edition of Qualitative Research : "Sharan B. Merriam synthesizes twenty years … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Kathi Weeks
4.19
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labo… read more
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- labor
- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which th…"-Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
4. 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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- economics
- nonfiction
- business
- technology
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- nonfiction
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6. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
By: Jon Kabat-Zinn , Judson Brewer
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"How we relate to our thoughts and feelings makes all the difference."-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
"Until we define happiness for ourselves, clearly seeing the difference between excitement and joy, for example, our habits will likely not change. We will keep returning to the fruits of our desires."-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
"The self itself isn't a problem, since remembering who we are when we wake up each morning is very helpful. Instead, the problem is the extent to which we get caught up in the drama of our lives and …"-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
"We read stories and see YouTube videos about people who, distracted by their smartphones, walk into traffic and off piers into the ocean. Perhaps not surprisingly, a report in 2013 found that pedest…"-Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits
8. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
By: Dan Olsen
3.86
Format: 368 pages,
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9. Cracking the Tech Career: Insider Advice on Landing a Job at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or any Top Tech Company
By: Gayle Laakmann McDowell
3.33
Format: 300 pages,
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10. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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11. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
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12. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- business
- technology
13. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- business
- technology
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
14. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
By: Jonathan Karl
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
***THE INSTANT New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and IndieBound BESTSELLER*** An NP… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
By: Matthew C. Klein
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
16. Poster Girl
By: Veronica Roth
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For… read more
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"Trades rely on trust, the belief that if you give what you agree to give, you will receive what is promised."-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
"If your every choice is in defiance of a system, you are as much a servant of that system as someone who obeys it."-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
"It is the symptom of a disease that still infects our population--the desire to make everything easy, to sacrifice autonomy and privacy for convenience. That's what technology is, Ms. Kantor. A conce…"-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
"Just because you're not committing a crime now, by going where you go, by seeing who you see, doesn't mean that another government, another set of people with another set of priorities, won't come al…"-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl
17. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- economics
- business
- audiobook
18. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- business
- technology
"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
19. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
By: Kevin Simler
3.98
Format: 408 pages, ebook
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more
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- economics
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
20. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
By: Mike Isaac
4.14
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presen… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- business
- audiobook
21. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- technology
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
22. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
23. Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
By: Jon Yablonski
4.35
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An understanding of psychology—specifically the psychology behind how users behave and interact wit… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- technology
"minimise choices when response time is critical to decrease decision time"-Jon Yablonski, Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
"As designers, we have a responsibility to remove inherent complexity from our interfaces, or else we ship that complexity to our users. This can result in confusion, frustration and a bad user experi…"-Jon Yablonski, Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
24. The Dreamers
By: Karen Thompson Walker
3.63
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more
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"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
"But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired."-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers
25. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
By: Virginia Eubanks
4.01
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and hum… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- technology
26. Without Saying a Word: Master the Science of Body Language and Maximize Your Success
By: Kasia Wezowski
3.47
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
One wrong move can undercut your message.Believe it or not, our bodies speak louder than our words.… read more
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- business
- audiobook
27. Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
By: John Whalen
3.67
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Understanding the mind of a customer is essential for any product or service designer. True, some d… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- technology
28. The Intelligent Brain
By: Richard J. Haier
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
No feature of the mind is as important, controversial, and mysterious as intelligence. It is the ep… read more
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29. On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
By: David Badre
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions―and how this shapes our ever… read more
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- audiobook
30. Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
By: Alex Rosenblat
3.56
Format: 226 pages, ebook
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An Ameri… read more
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- audiobook
- ethnography
- the united states of america
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- labor
- economics
- sociology
- business
- technology
31. How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump
By: Robert Dallek
3.53
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian considers the vast array of triumphs and fa… read more
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- audiobook
