GameTek
By: Geoffrey Engelstein
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
What games can teach us about life, the universe and ourselves. If you shuffle a deck of cards what…
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1. Sarah Canary
By: Karen Joy Fowler
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating hi… read more
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"Without our listening, all the stories are the same story."-Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
"Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come."-Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
"A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it."-Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
"He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed."-Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
By: Charles Petzold
4.39
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CO… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick."-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
"Yes, the earth is a massive conductor of electricity, but it can also be viewed as both a source of electrons and a repository for electrons. The earth is to electrons as an ocean is to drops of wate…"-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
"Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carry…"-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
3. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
By: Martha Wells
4.15
Format: 144 pages, ebook
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more
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"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
4. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
5. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
By: Elliot Aronson , Carol Tavris
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
7. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more
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8. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
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9. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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10. The Soul of a New Machine
By: Tracy Kidder
4.33
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today's news… read more
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11. A Gamut of Games
By: None
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A genuine milestone in the literature of both games and mathematical recreations." -- Martin Gardn… read more
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12. The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design
By: Mike Selinker
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider's view on how to make a game that people… read more
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13. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- nonfiction
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
14. Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
By: Jane McGonigal
3.93
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,… read more
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15. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
By: Bernard Bailyn
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, Fulfillment, as a Postscrip… read more
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16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By: Michael Chabon
3.95
Format: None pages,
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more
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17. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
By: Camille Fournier
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more
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18. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
19. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
20. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
21. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- science
22. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
23. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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- science
24. Veridian Sterling Fakes It
By: Jennifer Gooch Hummer
3.78
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this colorful and humorous tale, a hopeful young painter finds herself embroiled in the world of… read more
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25. The High Sierra: A Love Story
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
26. Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)
By: Debra Webb
4.07
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
Someone’s found the skeleton in the closet, and it’s not the only one. Wall Street Journal bestsell… read more
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27. The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2)
By: Tade Thompson
3.98
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. T… read more
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28. The Beauty of Games
By: Frank Lantz
4.10
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.A… read more
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- game design
- games
- nonfiction
29. Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
By: Marcus du Sautoy
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver—and how everyone c… read more
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- mathematics
- nonfiction
- science
30. GameTek
By: Geoffrey Engelstein
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
What games can teach us about life, the universe and ourselves. If you shuffle a deck of cards what… read more
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- game design
- mathematics
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- games
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