Internet Archive Concepts

Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind

by Paul Stob · 13 Apr 2026 · 332pp · 101,368 words

the University of Pennsylvania, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Francis A. Countway Library at Harvard University, New York Public Library Digital Collections, and the Internet Archive. I have received indefatigable support from my friends and colleagues at Vanderbilt University, especially Cecelia Tichi, who connected me with Deirdre Mullane and immediately saw

Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

by Noam Scheiber · 6 Apr 2026 · 399pp · 120,332 words

would: “Fact Sheet: President Biden Announces Student Loan Relief for Borrowers Who Need It Most,” White House Statements and Releases, August 24, 2022, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20220831001929/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces

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the store”: Apple, “Steve Jobs Gives a Tour of the First Apple Store in 2001 (AI Upscaled, 60 FPS),” YouTube, May 1, 2023, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230503084708/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exco_rEWwkc. “We are here to enrich lives”: Quoted in

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-procare-one-to-one-and-personal-shopping/; and Apple, Inc., “One to One: Personal Training at the Apple Retail Store,” January 7, 2008, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20080107215352/https://www.apple.com/retail/onetoone. creatives led free group sessions: Apple Newsroom, “‘Today at Apple

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Schultz, “‘Our Best Days Are in Front of Us’: Howard Schultz Shares Vision for Starbucks Future,” remarks to Starbucks employees, April 4, 2022, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20241205131205/https://about.starbucks.com/stories/2022/our-best-days-are-in-front-of-us-howard-schultz

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for the post-pandemic era: Howard Schultz, “Starbucks CEO: Restoring the Trust and Belief of Our Partners,” letter to employees, April 10, 2022, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20241203200556/https://about.starbucks.com/stories/2022/starbucks-ceo-restoring-the-trust-and-belief-of-our-partners

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it’s important to demonstrate to them”: Quoted in Les Carpenter, “Owner Howard Schultz Taking His Shots,” The Seattle Times, October 12, 2003, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20031012/schultz12/owner-howard-schultz-taking-his-shots. Schultz brooded about the difficulty: Carpenter, “Owner Howard Schultz

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/starbucks-workers-scheduling-hours.html. Cupcake Frappuccino, the Red Velvet Cake Frappuccino: “Starbucks Offers Six New Frappuccino Flavors,” Starbucks Corporation, June 8, 2015, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20231002145608/https:/stories.starbucks.com/stories/2015/starbucks-frappuccino-flav-off-contest. It pioneered the However-You

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-Want-It Frappuccino: “Frappuccino Turns 20: The Story Behind Starbucks Beloved Beverage,” Starbucks Corporation, March 15, 2015, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20240529165320/https:/stories.starbucks.com/stories/2015/frappuccino-turns-20. become a billion-dollar-a-year business

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thousand employees: Kevin Johnson, “Courageous Conversations in the Wake of George Floyd’s Murder,” letter to Starbucks U.S. partners, May 30, 2020, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20241206011607/https:/about.starbucks.com/press/2020/letter-from-ceo-courageous-conversations-in-the-wake-of-george

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-union-labor-coffee-historic-campaign. “Each year since 2002”: Starbucks, “Starbucks Pride: A Long Legacy of LGBTQ2+ Inclusion,” press release, May 21, 2020, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230603083735/https://stories.starbucks.ca/stories/2020/starbucks-pride-a-long-legacy-of-lgbtq2-inclusion. forbidden employees

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rules: Vail Kohnert-Yount, “Reformers in the UAW Descend on Detroit for Historic UAW Convention,” Unite All Workers for Democracy, July 21, 2022, at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20221129073325/https://uawd.org/reformers-in-the-uaw-descend-on-detroit-for-historic-uaw-convention. relatively untainted

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the board had changed. by less than half a percentage point: Unite All Workers for Democracy, “2023 UAW Run-Off Elections Live Results,” at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230319124227/https://uawd.org/2023-runoff-results. See also Neal E. Boudette, “President Is Ousted in United

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas

by Janek Wasserman · 23 Sep 2019 · 470pp · 130,269 words

Hayek, Road, 251–52. Marx, Karl. Das Kapital. 3 vols. Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1867–83. ———. “Theses on Feuerbach.” 1845. Translated by Cyril Smith, 2002. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses. März, Eduard. Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher, and Politician. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. Mataja

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

by David Talbot · 5 Sep 2016 · 891pp · 253,901 words

‘loved’”: Ibid., 165. 485“massive recruitment” of Nazi war criminals: Ibid., 106. 485he sat for a remarkable interview: NBC News special, The Science of Spying, Internet archive, www.archive.org. 486“We’d kill him”: Bridgeport (CT) Telegram, Jan. 14, 1975. 486“I shall have to persuade myself”: AWD letter to Cass

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

by John Fabian Witt · 14 Oct 2025 · 735pp · 279,360 words

University, via JSTOR.org; 18: Industrial Workers of the World political sticker, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, via JSTOR.org; 19: Marxists Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/laborage/v11n09-oct-1922-LA.pdf; 20: Bettmann / Getty Images; 21: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack

by Steve Twomey · 1 Nov 2016 · 419pp · 118,414 words

of John H. Dillon, PHA, part 8, 3829. “had been delayed”: Peace and War, 830. “more crowded with”: Ibid., 831. “Cuff’s still going”: The Internet Archive has collected broadcasts from this period at www.archive.org/details/WWII_News_1941. The clip from the Dodgers-Giants game is Number 74. “To

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

by Orlando Figes · 7 Oct 2019

Exposition of 1851 (London, 1851), pp. 42–3. 26. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Review: May–October 1850’, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, cited from Marxist-org Internet Archive. 27. Clare Pettitt, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford, 2004), p. 86. 28. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans

Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

by Earl Swift · 5 Jul 2021 · 410pp · 120,234 words

.gov/Wernher%20VonBraun. It makes interesting reading. General Dornberger’s quote is from Walter Dornberger, V-2 (New York: Bantam Books, 1979), available through the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/v2thebantamwarbo00walt/page/16/mode/2up (accessed July 29, 2020). My passage on the Staveley Road V-2 attack was informed

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

by Anne Applebaum · 30 Oct 2012 · 934pp · 232,651 words

, 2008), p. 55. 3. COMMUNISTS 1. Quoted in Carola Stern, Ulbricht: A Political Biography, trans. Abe Farbstein (New York, 1965), p. 203. 2. See Marxists’ Internet Archive, http://www.marxists.org/archive/bulganin/1949/12/21.htm. 3. Stern, Ulbricht. Unless otherwise noted, the biographical information about Ulbricht comes from Stern’s

American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

by Casey Michel · 23 Nov 2021 · 466pp · 116,165 words

Trump, Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/p/vys5QXikA2/. 49. Despite Ivanka’s best efforts, her alleged involvement with the Azeri project still remains available via Internet Archive: “From Ivanka’s Desk: Trump Hotel Baku,” 11 November 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20150502122726/https:/www.ivankatrump.com/ivankas-office-trump-tower-baku

The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

by Giles Tremlett · 14 Oct 2020 · 2,238pp · 239,238 words

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

by Owen Matthews · 21 Mar 2019 · 589pp · 162,849 words

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words

The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 May 2016 · 824pp · 218,333 words

The Cold War: A World History

by Odd Arne Westad · 4 Sep 2017 · 846pp · 250,145 words

War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis From the Middle East

by Gershom Gorenberg · 19 Jan 2021 · 555pp · 163,712 words

The Wars of Afghanistan

by Peter Tomsen · 30 May 2011 · 1,118pp · 309,029 words

Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

by Claudia Goldin · 11 Oct 2021 · 445pp · 122,877 words

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020

We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

by Eric Garcia · 2 Aug 2021 · 398pp · 96,909 words

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 16 May 2023 · 302pp · 112,390 words

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger · 28 Jun 2020

The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting

by Anne Trubek · 5 Sep 2016

Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

by Michael Moss · 2 Mar 2021 · 300pp · 94,628 words

Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents

by Lisa Gitelman · 26 Mar 2014

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

by Michael Benson · 2 Apr 2018 · 614pp · 174,633 words

After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

by Tripp Mickle · 2 May 2022 · 535pp · 149,752 words

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

by Jason Fagone · 25 Sep 2017 · 592pp · 152,445 words

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

by J. David McSwane · 11 Apr 2022 · 368pp · 102,379 words

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

by Ian Johnson · 26 Sep 2023 · 407pp · 119,073 words

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

by Malcolm Gladwell · 1 Oct 2024 · 283pp · 85,644 words

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

by Rachel Plotnick · 24 Sep 2018 · 359pp · 105,248 words

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts

by David Gerard · 23 Jul 2017 · 309pp · 54,839 words

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

by Tom White · 29 May 2009 · 933pp · 205,691 words

The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

by Ruth Defries · 8 Sep 2014 · 342pp · 88,736 words

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words

Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex

by Rachel Feltman · 14 May 2022 · 306pp · 88,545 words

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (In a Big Way)

by Roma Agrawal · 2 Mar 2023 · 290pp · 80,461 words

Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

by Garson O'Toole · 1 Apr 2017 · 376pp · 91,192 words

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

by Cal Newport · 5 Mar 2024 · 233pp · 65,893 words

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words

Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee · 23 May 2016 · 383pp · 81,118 words

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words

Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words

The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences

by Rob Kitchin · 25 Aug 2014

The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

by Frederick Taylor · 16 Sep 2013 · 473pp · 132,344 words

Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

by Karl Fogel · 13 Oct 2005

Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM (Vicky) Brasseur · 266pp · 79,297 words

The Right Side of History

by Ben Shapiro · 11 Feb 2019 · 270pp · 71,659 words

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

by Simone Browne · 1 Oct 2015 · 326pp · 84,180 words

Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data

by Lam Thuy Vo · 21 Nov 2019 · 237pp · 65,794 words

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz · 3 Jun 2024 · 251pp · 68,713 words

Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor

by Glyn Moody · 26 Sep 2022 · 295pp · 66,912 words

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

by Evan Friss · 5 Aug 2024 · 493pp · 120,793 words

Equality

by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words

Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories From the Frontline

by Steven K. Kapp · 19 Nov 2019

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by J. Bradford Delong · 6 Apr 2020 · 593pp · 183,240 words

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It

by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris · 10 Jul 2023 · 338pp · 104,815 words

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words

Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff

by Dinah Sanders · 7 Oct 2011 · 267pp · 78,857 words

Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media

by Tarleton Gillespie · 25 Jun 2018 · 390pp · 109,519 words

In the Flow

by Boris Groys · 16 Feb 2016 · 230pp · 60,050 words

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan · 30 Apr 2018 · 547pp · 148,732 words

The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

by Justin Peters · 11 Feb 2013 · 397pp · 102,910 words

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

by Kelly Weill · 22 Feb 2022

The Great Post Office Scandal: The Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound Scandal Which Put Innocent People in Jail

by Nick Wallis · 18 Nov 2021 · 705pp · 192,650 words

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

by Sally Adee · 27 Feb 2023 · 329pp · 101,233 words

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

by Andy Greenberg · 15 Nov 2022 · 494pp · 121,217 words

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words

Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity

by Lawrence Lessig · 15 Nov 2004 · 297pp · 103,910 words

Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

by Dariusz Jemielniak · 13 May 2014 · 312pp · 93,504 words

The Art of SEO

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola and Rand Fishkin · 7 Mar 2012

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See

by Gary Price, Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan · 2 Jan 2003 · 481pp · 121,669 words

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

by John Brockman · 18 Jan 2011 · 379pp · 109,612 words

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg · 2 Jan 2006 · 394pp · 118,929 words

Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook

by Cherie L. Weible and Karen L. Janke · 15 Apr 2011 · 144pp · 55,142 words

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words

Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (History of Computing)

by Douglas R. Dechow · 2 Jul 2015 · 223pp · 52,808 words

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz · 4 Nov 2016 · 374pp · 97,288 words

The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

by Rush Doshi · 24 Jun 2021 · 816pp · 191,889 words

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words

Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe

by Jared Sullivan · 15 Oct 2024 · 545pp · 147,673 words

China's Good War

by Rana Mitter

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

by Nicholas Carr · 5 Sep 2016 · 391pp · 105,382 words

Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms

by Mehmed Kantardzić · 2 Jan 2003 · 721pp · 197,134 words

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison · 29 Nov 2021 · 382pp · 105,657 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt · 14 Jun 2018 · 531pp · 125,069 words

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

by Claire L. Evans · 6 Mar 2018 · 371pp · 93,570 words

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

by Brian Christian · 5 Oct 2020 · 625pp · 167,349 words

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad · 27 Sep 2021 · 661pp · 185,701 words

How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

by Mehrsa Baradaran · 5 Oct 2015 · 424pp · 121,425 words

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

by Christian Caryl · 30 Oct 2012 · 780pp · 168,782 words

The Data Journalism Handbook

by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers and Liliana Bounegru · 9 May 2012

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks · 8 Aug 2016 · 548pp · 147,919 words

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words

Clock of the Long Now

by Stewart Brand · 1 Jan 1999 · 194pp · 49,310 words

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

by Stephen Witt · 15 Jun 2015 · 315pp · 93,522 words

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

by Lawrence Lessig · 2 Jan 2009

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology (Voices That Matter)

by Golden Krishna · 10 Feb 2015 · 271pp · 62,538 words

What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed

by Robert Skidelsky · 3 Mar 2020 · 290pp · 76,216 words

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

by Scott J. Shapiro · 523pp · 154,042 words

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

by Elle Reeve · 9 Jul 2024

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac · 17 Sep 2024

The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto

by Benjamin Wallace · 18 Mar 2025 · 431pp · 116,274 words

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · 4 Apr 2016 · 523pp · 143,139 words

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang · 12 Oct 2020 · 196pp · 61,981 words

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words

Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science

by Michael Nielsen · 2 Oct 2011 · 400pp · 94,847 words

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency

by Micah L. Sifry · 19 Feb 2011 · 212pp · 49,544 words

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger · 1 Jan 2009 · 263pp · 75,610 words

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis · 27 Aug 2001

Data Mining the Web: Uncovering Patterns in Web Content, Structure, and Usage

by Zdravko Markov and Daniel T. Larose · 5 Apr 2007

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble · 8 Jan 2018 · 290pp · 73,000 words

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married

by Abby Ellin · 15 Jan 2019 · 340pp · 91,745 words

Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

by Robert A. Sirico · 20 May 2012 · 267pp · 70,250 words

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu · 14 May 2016 · 515pp · 143,055 words

In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

by Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster · 16 Aug 2021 · 542pp · 145,022 words

This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words

Work Rules!: Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

by Laszlo Bock · 31 Mar 2015 · 387pp · 119,409 words

Undoing Border Imperialism

by Harsha Walia · 12 Nov 2013 · 258pp · 69,706 words

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan · 22 Jan 2014 · 271pp · 52,814 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky · 28 Feb 2008 · 313pp · 95,077 words

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink

by Michael Blanding · 14 Jun 2010 · 385pp · 133,839 words

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

by Cole Stryker · 14 Jun 2011 · 226pp · 71,540 words

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets

by David J. Leinweber · 31 Dec 2008 · 402pp · 110,972 words

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston · 14 Aug 2008 · 468pp · 233,091 words

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy · 12 Apr 2011 · 666pp · 181,495 words

Network Security Through Data Analysis: Building Situational Awareness

by Michael S Collins · 23 Feb 2014 · 446pp · 102,421 words

How to Do Nothing

by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words

Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth

by Dan McCrum · 15 Jun 2022 · 361pp · 117,566 words

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

by Jimmy Soni · 22 Feb 2022 · 505pp · 161,581 words

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 words

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood · 9 May 2005 · 306pp · 78,893 words

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

by Cory Doctorow · 15 Sep 2008 · 189pp · 57,632 words

HTML5 Cookbook

by Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson · 13 Sep 2011 · 435pp · 62,013 words

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

by Nicholas Ostler · 23 Nov 2010 · 484pp · 120,507 words

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider · 10 Sep 2018 · 326pp · 91,559 words

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters

by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words

A Man on the Moon

by Andrew Chaikin · 1 Jan 1994 · 816pp · 242,405 words

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World

by Scott Galloway · 2 Oct 2017 · 305pp · 79,303 words

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

by Christopher Leonard · 11 Jan 2022 · 416pp · 124,469 words

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