To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
By: Mark O'Connell
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking techno…
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1. The Silent Twins
By: Marjorie Wallace
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with a… read more
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- nonfiction
2. La ferocia
By: Nicola Lagioia
3.41
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In una calda notte di primavera, una giovane donna cammina nel centro esatto della strada statale. … read more
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3. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
By: Bernard Suits , Thomas Hurka
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
By: William Langewiesche
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Gl… read more
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- nonfiction
5. To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
By: Mark O'Connell
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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- futurism
- technology
- artificial intelligence
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- popular science
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6. Heroic Measures
By: Jill Ciment
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Tattoo Artist comes a new novel--taut, moving, accomplished--set in a fraugh… read more
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7. Metaphors We Live By
By: George Lakoff , Mark Johnson
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The now-classic Metaphors We Live Bychanged our understanding of metaphor and its role in language … read more
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8. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
By: Kate Fox
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and fo… read more
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9. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
By: Nick Srnicek , Alex Williams
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity … read more
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10. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- science
11. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
By: Sam Knight
3.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more
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- science
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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- technology
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- artificial intelligence
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13. The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies
By: James Tynion IV
4.24
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Department of Truth battled a secret war against its Soviet counterpart the Ministr… read more
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"Nothing in this world exists on principle. We know for a fact that the world is messy, that people believe in messy things. There aren't rules. What does it do for your life to rip out the ground ben…"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies
14. The Department of Truth, Vol. 3: Free Country
By: James Tynion IV
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Six acclaimed guest artists join Eisner winner JAMES TYNION IV (Something is Killing the Children, … read more
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"Magic is real. It works. It has impact on the world. The human brain is incredibly powerful, and you can rewire it. You let yourself become a symbol, in a whole fucking history of symbols, knowing th…"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol. 3: Free Country
15. Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
By: Limmy
4.34
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique co… read more
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"Back in primary, I had this feeling like I’d missed a day. Not just a normal day where they taught you how to read or write, but where they taught you something else, something more important. Someth…"-Limmy, Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
16. 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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- artificial intelligence
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- technology
"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
17. The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
By: Johan Norberg
4.31
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels we… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna."-Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
18. Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
By: Riccardo Falcinelli
4.47
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Perché le matite gialle vendono di più delle altre? Perché Flaubert veste di blu Emma Bovary? Perch… read more
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"Il colore è spesso un'idea o un'aspettativa. Ovvero certe tinte diventano tutt'uno con gli oggetti che le indossano al punto che è difficile pensarli altrimenti."-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
"Il pensiero critico può iniziare da fatti piccolissimi. Anche dal colore. Magari insegnando ai bambini che il verde si può fare mischiando il blu con il giallo. Si può. Funziona. È una delle grandi c…"-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
"Là fuori in sostanza esiste l'energia elettromagnetica e la fisica può studiarla, esistono precise lunghezze d'onda e la fisica può misurarle, ma non c'è il colore, che esiste solo quando un vivente …"-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
"Quasi sempre tendiamo a guardare il Rinascimento dal punto di vista degli artisti, eppure, se ci sforziamo di pensarci committenti, ci accorgiamo che il rapporto tra i Medici e Botticelli è molto sim…"-Riccardo Falcinelli, Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
19. Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
By: Lee McIntyre
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings hav… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Turite teisę į savo nuomonę, tačiau ne į savo faktus."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information."-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
20. The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing,… read more
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"Network theory confirms the view that information can take on 'a life of its own'. In the yeast network my colleagues found that 40 per cent of node pairs that are correlated via information transfer…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
"To conclude: time doesn’t pass. (I hope the reader is now convinced!) Well, what does pass, then? I shall argue that it is the conscious awareness of the fleeting self that changes from moment to mom…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
"More radically, how can we be sure that the source of consciousness lies within our bodies at all? You might think that because a blow to the head renders one unconscious, the ‘seat of consciousness’…"-Paul C.W. Davies, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
21. Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
By: Kevin Roose
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great lo… read more
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