Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
By: Tim Fernholz
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of th…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.27
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more
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"Partners,"-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
"Trashy people puke,"-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
"Tell me everything it explains,"-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
3. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
By: Kim Zetter
4.17
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at… read more
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"The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called S…"-Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
4. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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5. Spin (Spin, #1)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more
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6. The Pentagon's Brain
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of t… read more
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7. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
By: James S.A. Corey
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more
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8. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
By: John Scalzi
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from… read more
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9. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
By: Chris Hadfield
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours … read more
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10. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
By: Wil Wheaton , David Kushner
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
Masters of Doomis the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack a… read more
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11. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
By: None , Ben R. Rich
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more
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12. The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
By: Robert Zubrin
4.19
Format: 496 pages,
Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream--the stuff of legends, gods, a… read more
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13. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By: Walter Isaacson
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people k… read more
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14. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
15. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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16. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
17. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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18. Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
3.64
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digita… read more
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"Tech, for the most part, wasn't progress. It was just business."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"if personalised playlists were full of sad singers and song writers, I could only blame myself for getting algorithm depressed."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"The platforms designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data inspired infinite scroll...people were saying nothing and saying it all the time."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"I felt rising frustration and resentment. I was frustrated because I felt stuck, and I was resentful because I was stuck in an industry that was chipping away at so many things I cared about."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
19. Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
By: David Frum
3.96
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Trumpocracy poses the essential question facing America to… read more
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"We want things to return to normal, back to a world in which we do not have to waste time rebutting demented conspiracy theories and fact-checking farcical lies every single day. We want a government…"-David Frum, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
20. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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21. Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
By: Daniel Suarez
4.19
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneer… read more
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">> "is this cup half empty or half full, Mr. Tighe?" << "It's completely full if you include the air" —James Tighe"-Daniel Suarez, Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
22. Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
By: Daniel Suarez
4.16
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private … read more
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"Sorry. Just paralyzed by the indescribable beauty of the cosmos. We'll get to work."-Daniel Suarez, Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
"Well, for once in my life, I not only know why I’m here, at this place, I finally know why I exist. I’ve always wondered why I was so odd. What possible evolutionary purpose could a person like me se…"-Daniel Suarez, Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
23. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
By: Janelle Shane
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever... according to an arti… read more
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"Then [the AI] guesses that o is often followed by ck. Gold. It has made some progress. Behold its idea of the perfect joke: Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock"-Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
24. Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
By: Jason Schreier
4.05
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scene… read more
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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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"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. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
By: Michael Shellenberger
4.18
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’… read more
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27. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
By: Eric Berger
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too… read more
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28. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
29. The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
By: Christian Davenport
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals an… read more
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30. Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
By: Tim Fernholz
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of th… read more
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31. Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
By: Eric Berger
4.70
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
How did a shaky startup that barely got its first rocket off the ground defy expectations to become… read more
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