Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet
By: Matthew Crain
3.61
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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1. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study
By: Milton Rokeach
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
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2. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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3. 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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"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
4. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
By: Tim Wu
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every mome… read more
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5. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Steven Marcus
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sexual Abberations Infantile Sexuality Transformations of P… read more
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6. A Curious History of Sex
By: Kate Lister
4.17
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more
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"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex
7. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
8. The War on the West
By: Douglas Murray
4.28
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more
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"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
9. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
10. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
11. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
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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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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"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. QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults
By: Van Badham
4.16
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, u… read more
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15. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
By: Saifedean Ammous
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digi… read more
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"According to Cantillon, the beneficiaries from the expansion of the money supply are the first recipients of the new money, who are able to spend it before it has caused prices to rise. Whoever recei…"-Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
16. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
17. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
18. 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
19. 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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20. The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
By: Danielle Keats Citron
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once … read more
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21. How Religion Evolved
By: Robin I.M. Dunbar
3.98
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our incr… read more
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"Religion is simply the cost that had to be paid in order to maximize evolutionary fitness."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
"The world of science and the world of everyday experience do not always connect especially well."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
"Intense religious experiences and crisis conversions seem to be a common response when the contradictions and tragedies of life create existencial threats."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
"Belief that invisible forces are responsible for what happens in the world, and especially injurious things, is widespread in all cultures and times, and remains prevalent even today."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
22. Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
By: Jaron Lanier
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong… read more
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"I was immediately obsessed with the potential for multiple people to share such a place, and to achieve a new type of consensus reality, and it seemed to me that a “social version"-Jaron Lanier, Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
"I was immediately obsessed with the potential for multiple people to share such a place, and to achieve a new type of consensus reality, and it seemed to me that a “social version"-Jaron Lanier, Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
23. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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24. Why? The Purpose of the Universe
By: Philip Goff
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, West… read more
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25. Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix
By: Dade Hayes
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment bus… read more
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26. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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27. The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly
By: Ian D. Gow
3.45
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms – Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoop… read more
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28. Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success
By: Gary Vaynerchuk
3.81
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
USA Today Bestseller In his sixth business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor G… read more
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"People you meet on the way up, are the people you see on the way down."-Gary Vaynerchuk, Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success
"You don’t want what other people want, so why do you care about what they have?"-Gary Vaynerchuk, Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success
"When you understand how unimportant business is in the grand scheme of your life, you can get better at it."-Gary Vaynerchuk, Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success
29. The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
By: Spencer Jakab
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The saga of GameStop and other meme stocks is revealed with the skill of a thrilling whodunit. Jaka… read more
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30. The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
By: Jacob Ward
3.77
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence revea… read more
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"Let's imagine we're standing together on the launch pad at NASA's Cape Canaveral facility near Orlando, and staring up at the stars together. As I write this, the last constellation above the horizon…"-Jacob Ward, The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
31. Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet
By: Matthew Crain
3.61
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet’s de… read more
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