The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit
By: Aja Raden
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do you believe what you believe? You’ve been lied to. Probably a lot. We’re always stunned whe…
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1. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
By: Brian Krebs
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data,… read more
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- history
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2. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more
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3. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
By: Bee Wilson , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. I… read more
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4. The Social Animal
By: Elliot Aronson
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Newly revised and up-to-date, this edition of The Social Animalis a brief, compelling introduction … read more
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5. Jewels: A Secret History
By: Victoria Finlay
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred wr… read more
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6. The Art of Thinking Clearly
By: Rolf Dobelli
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
By: John C. Bogle
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
“There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good – though in the short run, it’s … read more
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"Simplicity beats complexity"-John C. Bogle, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
"Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!"-John C. Bogle, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
"Your index fund should not be your manager’s cash cow. It should be your own cash cow."-John C. Bogle, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
"While illusion (the momentary prices we pay for stocks) often loses touch with reality (the intrinsic values of our corporations), it is reality that rules in the long run."-John C. Bogle, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
8. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
9. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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- economics
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
10. A Luminous Republic
By: Andrés Barba
3.89
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in … read more
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"Puede que los muertos nos traicionen al abandonarnos, pero nosotros también los traicionamos para vivir."-Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic
"But trees have no interest in good and evil, insects and plant roots have no interest in the reasons of man, much less his longing, and there is something comforting about that."-Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic
11. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
12. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
By: Kashmir Hill
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more
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- science
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- audiobook
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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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"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. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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- history
- politics
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- audiobook
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
15. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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- history
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- sociology
- audiobook
16. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- history
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17. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By: Sohom Das
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more
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- psychology
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18. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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- economics
- science
19. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
20. The War of the Poor
By: Éric Vuillard
3.38
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ W… read more
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"For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust."-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"El martirio es una trampa para los oprimidos, sólo es deseable la victoria. Yo la contaré."-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"And even if you don't give a shit whether or not the Chinese painter of rocks and birds had some mysterious kinship of the soul with the Landgrave of Hesse, fantasies are nonetheless one path to the …"-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"No me creo nada. En esas leyendas infames, la cerviz de los renegados sólo se doblega en el momento en que se les retira la palabra. Esas leyendas sólo pretenden que resuene en nosotros la voz que no…"-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
21. Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
By: Edward Slingerland
3.81
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround ou… read more
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"Evolution is not stupid, and works much faster than most people realize."-Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
"Humans transform the world through our creative technologies, and we cannot survive without them."-Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
"Our desire for alcohol is not an evolutionary mistake. There are good reasons for why we get drunk."-Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
"Our dependence on culture means that our minds need to be open to others, so that we can learn from them."-Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
22. Kill Show
By: Daniel Sweren-Becker
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more
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"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show
23. Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka dla ludzi.
By: Andrzej Dragan
4.16
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wyobrażenia o wszechświecie formułowane od wieków okazały się zbiorem przybliżeń lub nonsensów. Mów… read more
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- audiobook
24. Being Lolita: A Memoir
By: Alisson Wood
4.20
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high … read more
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"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be bot…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal k…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
25. Prezydent. Aleksander Kwaśniewski w rozmowie z Aleksandrem Kaczorowskim
By: Aleksander Kwaśniewski
4.37
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Pierwszy wywiad rzeka z Aleksandrem Kwaśniewskim – prezydentem, który przeprowadził Polskę przez na… read more
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26. Careering
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more
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27. Gównodziennikarstwo
By: Paulina Januszewska
3.33
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Słyszą, że są beztalenciami, pracują zbyt wolno albo generują za mało kliknięć. Ale i tak z jakiego… read more
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28. Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following
By: Gabrielle Bluestone
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, Vice… read more
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29. The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit
By: Aja Raden
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do you believe what you believe? You’ve been lied to. Probably a lot. We’re always stunned whe… read more
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30. Masz się łasić. Mobbing w Polsce
By: Katarzyna Bednarczykówna
4.02
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Nie ma żadnych wiarygodnych danych, które mogłyby pokazać prawdziwą skalę mobbingu w Polsce. Jeśli … read more
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31. Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s
By: Bridie Jabour
3.31
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An oddly optimistic, witty and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miser… read more
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