On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border
By: Franck Billé
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border,…
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1. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
By: Henry Marsh
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more
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2. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
By: Sam Quinones
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more
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3. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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4. Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.16
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cuttin… read more
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"They also,"-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
"Do you want to work with us?"-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
"Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?"-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
"I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk."-Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
5. Cryptonomicon
By: Neal Stephenson
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more
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6. I racconti di Pietroburgo
By: Nikolai Gogol , Pietro Zveteremich
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nei racconti del ciclo pietroburghese la capitale (che all'ucraino Gogol appare come una citta non … read more
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7. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
By: Anna Reid
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Inspired and informed by the author's own experiences in Ukraine, this is a history of a politicall… read more
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8. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
9. 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
10. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
11. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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- politics
- russia
- history
- nonfiction
12. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
13. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
By: Desmond Shum
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more
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- history
- asia
- politics
- nonfiction
- china
17. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
18. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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19. Grey Bees
By: Andrey Kurkov
4.07
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more
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20. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- asia
22. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- history
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
24. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
25. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"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
26. Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
By: Jeanna Smialek
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood American institutions… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
28. Putin: His Life and Times
By: Philip Short
4.32
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more
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- russia
- history
- nonfiction
29. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
By: Gillian Tett
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
30. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
By: Gideon Rachman
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new national… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
31. On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border
By: Franck Billé
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border,… read more
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