The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance (The Information Society Series)
By: Aram Sinnreich
3.93
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportun…
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1. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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2. 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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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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4. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
5. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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- politics
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
6. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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7. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
By: James B. Stewart
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more
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- politics
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8. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
9. 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
10. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
By: Carl Elliott
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, somet… read more
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11. Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at how a radical group of activists — supported by former Pres… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
12. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
13. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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14. Camgirl
By: Isa Mazzei
3.80
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilari… read more
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- nonfiction
15. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker
By: Eve Smith
3.66
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more
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16. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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17. Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
By: Kelly Clancy
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"The problem is not that a paper-clip-maximizing AI will arise in the future and turn the universe into paper clips. The maximizers are already here. Any consequences too subtle to measure--environmen…"-Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
18. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
By: Peter S. Goodman
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more
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19. Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
By: Uri Levine
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Unicorns—companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion—are rare. Uri Levine has built tw… read more
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"Make your mistakes fast"-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
"Product market fit (PMF) or die"-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
"VCs are slow, until they think they're going to lose the deal"-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
20. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
By: Dmitri Alperovitch
4.34
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more
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- politics
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21. The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
By: Carlos Lozada
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power rev… read more
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22. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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23. 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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"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.
24. We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
By: Mara Kardas-Nelson
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Matthew Desmond, Katherine Boo, and Anand Giridharadas comes a deeply reported work … read more
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25. The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance (The Information Society Series)
By: Aram Sinnreich
3.93
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportun… read more
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- politics
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26. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
By: Clayton Page Aldern
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more
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27. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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28. Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
By: Paulina Rowińska
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote… read more
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29. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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30. Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
By: Jason Schreier
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and the gaming industry's preeminent investigative journalist Jas… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
