The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs
By: Christopher Marquis
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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2. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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3. 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
4. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
5. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
6. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
7. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
By: Stephanie Kelton
4.04
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
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8. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
By: Brendan Ballou
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more
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- economics
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9. 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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- business
10. 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
11. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
By: Mary Childs
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more
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- economics
- business
12. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
13. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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14. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- economics
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
15. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.08
Format: 416 pages, ebook
New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more
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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
16. Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
By: Mariel Buqué
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scient… read more
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"Take the Intergenerational ACES Questionnaire."-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
"Take the Intergenerational ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Questionnaire."-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
"Three core areas became the focus: (1) What happened to you? (2) What happened before you? and (3) What happened around you?"-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
17. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
By: David L. Roll
4.44
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Fra… read more
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18. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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19. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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- economics
20. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
21. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
By: Matt Stoller
4.23
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics,… read more
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- economics
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22. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
By: Byron Tau
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertis… read more
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- business
"Dating back to 2019, Premise had a network of more than 1,000 gig workers in the country (Ukraine) that were being asked to do tasks that they believed were innocuous market research or corporate dat…"-Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
23. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
By: Peter S. Goodman
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more
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- economics
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24. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
25. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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26. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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- economics
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27. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
By: Dan Jones
4.61
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unpa… read more
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28. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
By: Kate Conger
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time … read more
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- business
29. The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs
By: Christopher Marquis
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of how society pays for corporations' "free lunch" and the cost of environmental damage,… read more
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30. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
31. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more
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