The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.88
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, pl…
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1. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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- history
2. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more
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3. The Book of Evidence
By: John Banville
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more
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4. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
5. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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6. How to Be Idle
By: Tom Hodgkinson
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of do… read more
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7. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
8. 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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"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
9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
10. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
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11. Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
By: Yasha Levine
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.In this fascinating book, i… read more
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12. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- 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
13. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
14. Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
By: Vaclav Smil
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth… read more
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"Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the mod…"-Vaclav Smil, Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
15. 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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"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
16. Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
By: Reeves Wiedeman
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, which tells the remarkable saga of one of the… read more
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17. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- world history
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- economics
18. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too… read more
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19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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21. The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.88
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, pl… read more
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