Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
By: A.C. Grayling
3.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common Interests Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries;…
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1. 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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2. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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3. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- nonfiction
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
5. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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6. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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7. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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8. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
- space
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
9. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
10. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
11. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- nonfiction
12. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
By: Dana Mattioli
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
14. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- space
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
15. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
16. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
17. 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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- nonfiction
18. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Sheep's Clothing
By: Celia Dale
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Grace meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Once both women are released, Janice quickly becomes accompl… read more
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"Janice watched him go with astonishing regret"-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
"But while pleased to surrender to Grace's authority, Janice enjoyed resenting it."-Celia Dale, Sheep's Clothing
20. Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
By: Brigid Delaney
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Gu… read more
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- nonfiction
"You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain."-Brigid Delaney, Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
21. The Deed
By: Susannah Begbie
4.12
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A a body wr… read more
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22. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
By: Byron Tau
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more
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- nonfiction
"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
23. Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
By: Robert Hannigan
3.83
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solve… read more
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24. 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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- 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.
25. Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks
By: Geoff White
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How a new generation of money launderers are plundering the world and why we need to stop them T… read more
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26. Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
By: A.C. Grayling
3.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common Interests Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries;… read more
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- nonfiction
- space
27. Gabriel's Moon
By: William Boyd
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more
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28. Dead in the Water: The AUKUS Delusion (Australian Foreign Affairs, #20)
By: Jonathan Pearlman
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Canberra's strategic illusions are the ultimate cause of our AUKUS debacle, but politics is involv… read more
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29. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more
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- nonfiction
30. The Japanese Porn Industry Unmasked: An Insider’s Guide by Kaho Shibuya
By: Kaho Shibuya
3.81
Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition
Kaho Shibuya became a sports reporter covering professional baseball after graduating from college,… read more
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31. The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration
By: Donald Goldsmith
3.25
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A History Today Book of the Year A world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make t… read more
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