airport security
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300 results
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
IN TEXT battery would be called: Murray, 135. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT would be a long time: And, indeed, a long time before airport security measures that made it so lithium-ion batteries were forbidden from being transported in checked luggage. Such rules resulted in the seizure of a rechargeable
Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
by Benjamin Barber · 20 Apr 2010 · 454pp · 139,350 words
the morning of September 12, 2001, America did not call Bill Gates or Michael Eisner to ask for assistance in dealing with terrorism. A privatized airport security system turned out to be fallible because it was more attuned to costs than to safety. Long-neglected public institutions reacquired overnight their democratic legitimacy
Building Microservices
by Sam Newman · 25 Dec 2014 · 540pp · 103,101 words
are no longer needed. Removing tests is sometimes a fraught exercise, and I suspect shares much in common with people who want to remove certain airport security measures. No matter how ineffective the security measures might be, any conversation about removing them is often countered with knee-jerk reactions about not caring
Solitary
by Albert Woodfox · 12 Mar 2019 · 484pp · 155,401 words
down for interviews with anyone who could give us publicity for our case. I knew the travel was exhausting, that he sometimes got stopped by airport security. He never complained. In May 2014, Rep. Cedric Richmond introduced HR 4618, called the Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2014, to study and
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
by Medea Benjamin · 8 Apr 2013 · 188pp · 54,942 words
to a concerted, massive propagation of fear that has become so common as to be unnoticeable, except perhaps when asked to remove your shoes by airport security. Public fear of terrorism is routinely inflamed and amplified by politicians, including President Obama, through never-ending references to 9/11. The official government acceptance
The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding · 28 Mar 2011 · 337pp · 103,273 words
attacks, people around the world felt an emotional engagement with those who did. As a result, enormous political and economic changes were accepted from new airport security measures to changes to legal rights to two wars—because people could relate to the issues in a new way. So the train hurtling toward
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein · 6 Sep 2021
that tags you, your family, and friends) that analyzes our faces, the biometric fingerprinting (our retinas, our thumbprints, our gait) that enables swift passage through airport security or access to our digital devices, and the location tracking in our smartphones that helps us navigate when we drive or call an Uber or
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher · 1 Jul 2009
wealth age_well talented intelligence trustworthy dogfight hire intoxicated –1 Text of questions • • • • • • • • dress_size: What is my dress size? security: If you were an airport security guard, would you search me? outfit: Do you like my outfit? rehab: Will I end up in rehab? haircut: Do you like my hairstyle? age
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021
that play the part of skeptics, competitors, or enemies. Some red teams are tasked with penetrating cyber security systems. Some pretend to be terrorists testing airport security procedures.101 Others scrub intelligence assessments, challenging every assumption, piece of information, hypothesis, and judgment. After 9/11, CIA Director George Tenet created a CIA
The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today
by Thomas E. Ricks · 14 Oct 2012 · 812pp · 180,057 words
serving multiple combat tours while 99 percent of the American population has been asked to sacrifice nothing except its time and privacy when going through airport security checkpoints. Now the Army and the other services are facing a decade or more of budget cuts. The Army will be shaped by young officers
The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
by William Mougayar · 25 Apr 2016 · 161pp · 44,488 words
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words
Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America
by Howard G. Buffett · 2 Apr 2018 · 350pp · 109,521 words
Bureaucracy
by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
by Matthew B. Crawford · 8 Jun 2020 · 386pp · 113,709 words
Explore Everything
by Bradley Garrett · 7 Oct 2013 · 273pp · 76,786 words
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words
The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
by Marc Freedman · 15 Dec 2011 · 233pp · 64,479 words
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by Antonio Garcia Martinez · 27 Jun 2016 · 559pp · 155,372 words
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin · 1 Jan 1998 · 205pp · 18,208 words
The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes
by Todd Downs · 16 Mar 2005 · 630pp · 177,650 words
Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow · 29 Apr 2008 · 398pp · 120,801 words
Give People Money
by Annie Lowrey · 10 Jul 2018 · 242pp · 73,728 words
The Techno-Human Condition
by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz · 15 Feb 2011
Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
by Nicholas Wapshott · 10 Oct 2011 · 494pp · 132,975 words
Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
by Christopher Andrew · 27 Jun 2018
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal · 22 Mar 2022 · 420pp · 135,569 words
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 10 Sep 2018 · 745pp · 207,187 words
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks · 8 Aug 2016 · 548pp · 147,919 words
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
Underground
by Suelette Dreyfus · 1 Jan 2011 · 547pp · 160,071 words
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly · 1 Mar 2006
The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
by Anita Raghavan · 4 Jun 2013 · 575pp · 171,599 words
Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
by John Mueller · 1 Nov 2009 · 465pp · 124,074 words
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words
Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
by Ian Bremmer · 30 Apr 2012 · 234pp · 63,149 words
Protocol: how control exists after decentralization
by Alexander R. Galloway · 1 Apr 2004 · 287pp · 86,919 words
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words
Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer · 13 Jul 2020 · 372pp · 101,678 words
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 5 Oct 2020 · 583pp · 182,990 words
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy · 25 Feb 2021 · 565pp · 134,138 words
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by Amy Webb · 5 Mar 2019 · 340pp · 97,723 words
The Zenith Angle
by Bruce Sterling · 27 Apr 2004 · 342pp · 95,013 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
by Andrew Cockburn · 10 Mar 2015 · 389pp · 108,344 words
Pirate Cinema
by Cory Doctorow · 2 Oct 2012 · 478pp · 146,480 words
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
by Peter Biskind · 6 Nov 2023 · 543pp · 143,084 words
Poverty for Profit
by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 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
The Man Who Was Saturday
by Patrick Bishop · 21 Jan 2019 · 351pp · 108,068 words
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
by Dan Morrison · 11 Aug 2010 · 307pp · 102,734 words
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda
by Ali H. Soufan and Daniel Freedman · 11 Sep 2011 · 624pp · 189,582 words
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms
by Iain Overton · 15 Apr 2015 · 436pp · 125,809 words
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
by Ian Kershaw · 29 Aug 2018 · 736pp · 233,366 words
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption
by Patrick Alley · 17 Mar 2022 · 384pp · 121,574 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
Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
by Stephen Braun and Douglas Farah · 1 Apr 2008 · 459pp · 109,490 words
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
by Morgan Housel · 7 Sep 2020 · 209pp · 53,175 words
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne · 9 Sep 2019 · 482pp · 121,173 words
Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Romeo Dallaire and Brent Beardsley · 9 Aug 2004 · 897pp · 210,566 words
Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World
by Jeffrey Tucker · 7 Jan 2015
The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 22 Oct 2018 · 402pp · 126,835 words
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
by Simone Browne · 1 Oct 2015 · 326pp · 84,180 words
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
by Alexandra Robbins · 31 Mar 2009 · 509pp · 147,998 words
Half Empty
by David Rakoff · 20 Sep 2010 · 181pp · 62,775 words
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011
by Steve Coll · 23 Feb 2004 · 956pp · 288,981 words
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier · 5 Mar 2013 · 304pp · 82,395 words
Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together
by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
Atrocity Archives
by Stross, Charles · 13 Jan 2004 · 404pp · 113,514 words
Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan
by Lynne B. Sagalyn · 8 Sep 2016 · 1,797pp · 390,698 words
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner · 29 Aug 2012 · 317pp · 84,400 words
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic
by John Temple · 28 Sep 2015 · 308pp · 96,604 words
The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . And Where We're Going
by George Friedman · 25 Jan 2011 · 249pp · 79,740 words
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It
by Steven Brill · 28 May 2018 · 519pp · 155,332 words
Against All Enemies
by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep · 13 Jun 2011 · 640pp · 177,786 words
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1988
Debt of Honor
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1994
Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1998
The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1989
The Teeth of the Tiger
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1998 · 553pp · 151,139 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
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath · 3 Mar 2020
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
by James Risen · 15 Feb 2014 · 339pp · 99,674 words
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett · 15 Feb 2000
Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson · 2 Jan 2005 · 541pp · 146,445 words
Reamde
by Neal Stephenson · 19 Sep 2011 · 1,318pp · 403,894 words
Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World
by David Kerrigan · 18 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 80,835 words
News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson · 15 Jul 2003 · 550pp · 160,356 words
Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy
by Lawrence Ingrassia · 28 Jan 2020 · 290pp · 90,057 words
How Money Became Dangerous
by Christopher Varelas · 15 Oct 2019 · 477pp · 144,329 words
After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle · 2 May 2022 · 535pp · 149,752 words
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin · 5 Sep 2011 · 328pp · 100,381 words
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal · 1 Jan 2010 · 427pp · 127,496 words
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
by Michael Chabon · 29 May 2017 · 517pp · 155,209 words
Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn
by Nick Kostov · 8 Aug 2022 · 327pp · 90,013 words
Lonely Planet Colombia (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters and Kevin Raub · 30 Jun 2015
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor
by Tony Bleetman · 2 Oct 2019 · 242pp · 81,001 words
The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (And Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor
by Andy Kessler · 12 Oct 2009 · 361pp · 86,921 words
Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
by Ben Mezrich · 26 Sep 2005 · 303pp · 81,981 words
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia
by Steve Coll · 29 Mar 2009 · 413pp · 128,093 words
Risk: A User's Guide
by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico · 4 Oct 2021 · 489pp · 106,008 words
The Post-American World: Release 2.0
by Fareed Zakaria · 1 Jan 2008 · 344pp · 93,858 words
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson · 14 Sep 2020 · 470pp · 137,882 words
Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism
by Harm J. De Blij · 15 Nov 2007 · 481pp · 121,300 words
Bernie Madoff, the Wizard of Lies: Inside the Infamous $65 Billion Swindle
by Diana B. Henriques · 1 Aug 2011 · 598pp · 169,194 words
Nomad Capitalist: How to Reclaim Your Freedom With Offshore Bank Accounts, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Companies, and Overseas Investments
by Andrew Henderson · 8 Apr 2018 · 403pp · 110,492 words
The Skeptical Economist: Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics
by Jonathan Aldred · 1 Jan 2009 · 339pp · 105,938 words
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War
by Robert Fisk · 1 Jan 1990 · 1,208pp · 364,966 words
Dead or Alive
by Tom Clancy and Grant (CON) Blackwood · 7 Dec 2010 · 795pp · 212,447 words
Frommer's Mexico 2009
by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow, Joy Hepp and Juan Christiano · 2 Sep 2008 · 803pp · 415,953 words
The Wars of Afghanistan
by Peter Tomsen · 30 May 2011 · 1,118pp · 309,029 words
Frommer's London 2009
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince · 25 Aug 2008
Fatherland
by Robert Harris · 5 Jun 1993 · 381pp · 102,966 words
Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World
by Clinton V. Oster, John S. Strong and C. Kurt Zorn · 28 May 1992 · 217pp · 152 words
The Ghost
by Robert Harris · 22 Oct 2007 · 309pp · 92,177 words
We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by Annelise Orleck · 27 Feb 2018 · 382pp · 107,150 words
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words
Frommer's Mexico 2008
by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow and Emily Hughey Quinn · 21 Sep 2007
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby · 10 Oct 2016 · 1,242pp · 317,903 words
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
by Luke Harding · 7 Feb 2014 · 266pp · 80,018 words
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright · 26 Sep 2006 · 604pp · 177,329 words
Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Frommer's Israel
by Robert Ullian · 31 Mar 1998
The Rights of the People
by David K. Shipler · 18 Apr 2011 · 495pp · 154,046 words
Great North Road
by Peter F. Hamilton · 26 Sep 2012 · 1,266pp · 344,635 words
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
by Geoffrey Cain · 28 Jun 2021 · 340pp · 90,674 words
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
by Elizabeth Becker · 16 Apr 2013 · 570pp · 158,139 words
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell · 15 Feb 2009 · 291pp · 77,596 words
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa · 19 Oct 2022
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
by Mckenzie Funk · 22 Jan 2014 · 337pp · 101,281 words
Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It
by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert · 4 Jun 2018 · 244pp · 66,977 words
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis · 21 Jun 2023 · 309pp · 121,279 words
Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire
by Hans Gremeil and William Sposato · 15 Dec 2021 · 404pp · 126,447 words
The Reluctant Spy
by John Kiriakou · 30 Jan 2009 · 188pp · 67,427 words
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sep 2020
Marriage and Lasting Relationships With Asperger's Syndrome: Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors
by Eva A. Mendes · 1 Sep 2015 · 291pp · 75,110 words
Sunfall
by Jim Al-Khalili · 17 Apr 2019 · 381pp · 120,361 words
The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out
by Joe Aston · 27 Oct 2024 · 362pp · 130,141 words
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham · 30 Oct 2009 · 717pp · 150,288 words
Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
by Greg Ip · 12 Oct 2015 · 309pp · 95,495 words
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
by David J. Anderson · 6 Apr 2010 · 318pp · 78,451 words
This Is Not Fame: A "From What I Re-Memoir"
by Doug Stanhope · 5 Dec 2017 · 323pp · 100,923 words
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin · 18 Aug 2014 · 685pp · 203,949 words
California
by Sara Benson · 15 Oct 2010
The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us
by Tim Sullivan · 6 Jun 2016 · 252pp · 73,131 words
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
by Paul M. Barrett · 10 Jan 2012 · 249pp · 77,027 words
Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
Central America
by Carolyn McCarthy, Greg Benchwick, Joshua Samuel Brown, Alex Egerton, Matthew Firestone, Kevin Raub, Tom Spurling and Lucas Vidgen · 2 Jan 2001
Costa Rica
by Matthew Firestone, Carolina Miranda and César G. Soriano · 2 Jan 2008
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by Glenn Greenwald · 12 May 2014 · 253pp · 75,772 words
Frommer's California 2007
by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole · 6 Dec 2006 · 769pp · 397,677 words
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
by Hannah Fry · 17 Sep 2018 · 296pp · 78,631 words
Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11
by Seth G. Jones · 29 Apr 2012 · 649pp · 172,080 words
Southeast Asia on a Shoestring Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet · 30 May 2012
Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
by Cody Wilson · 10 Oct 2016 · 246pp · 70,404 words
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
by Patrick Smith · 6 May 2013 · 309pp · 100,573 words
Some Remarks
by Neal Stephenson · 6 Aug 2012 · 335pp · 107,779 words
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 4 May 2015 · 306pp · 85,836 words
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles
by Fintan O'Toole · 5 Mar 2020 · 385pp · 121,550 words
Frommer's Egypt
by Matthew Carrington · 8 Sep 2008
The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
by John Warrillow · 5 Feb 2015 · 186pp · 49,251 words
Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn · 23 Sep 2013 · 706pp · 237,378 words
Hawaii
by Jeff Campbell · 4 Nov 2009
Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath
by Thomas Sheridan · 1 Mar 2011 · 223pp · 72,425 words
Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
by Julia Watkins · 6 Apr 2020
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 19 Aug 2012
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal · 20 Jan 2011 · 470pp · 128,328 words
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do About It
by Alex Edmans · 13 May 2024 · 315pp · 87,035 words
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativityand Will Det Ermine the Fate of the Human Race
by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long · 13 Aug 2018 · 287pp · 78,609 words
The Deepest Map
by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · 10 Mar 2020 · 257pp · 76,785 words
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher · 2 Jul 2007 · 341pp · 111,525 words
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
by David Weinberger · 14 Jul 2011 · 369pp · 80,355 words
Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs
by Eric Peterson · 1 Jan 2005
Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website
by Matt Blumberg · 13 Aug 2013 · 561pp · 114,843 words
Fifty Degrees Below
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 25 Oct 2005 · 560pp · 158,238 words
Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
by Nicholas Epley · 11 Feb 2014 · 369pp · 90,630 words
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
by Ted Conover · 15 Jan 2010 · 366pp · 123,151 words
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 10 Sep 2007 · 698pp · 198,203 words
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich · 20 May 2019 · 304pp · 91,566 words
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
by Max Blumenthal · 27 Nov 2012 · 840pp · 224,391 words
Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays
by Witold Rybczynski · 7 Sep 2015 · 342pp · 90,734 words
Holdout: A Novel
by Jeffrey Kluger · 2 Aug 2021
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by Matthew B. Crawford · 29 Mar 2015 · 351pp · 100,791 words
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman · 19 Feb 2019 · 339pp · 94,769 words
Emotional Ignorance: Lost and Found in the Science of Emotion
by Dean Burnett · 10 Jan 2023 · 536pp · 126,051 words
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
by Michael Sandel · 26 Apr 2012 · 231pp · 70,274 words
App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream
by Michael Sayman · 20 Sep 2021 · 285pp · 91,144 words
Lonely Planet Brazil
by Lonely Planet · 1,410pp · 363,093 words
How Emotions Are Made: The New Science of the Mind and Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett · 6 Mar 2017
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman · 9 Aug 2021 · 206pp · 68,757 words
Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
British Rail
by Christian Wolmar · 9 Jun 2022 · 337pp · 100,260 words
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less
by Amy Korst · 26 Dec 2012 · 347pp · 88,114 words
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison · 29 Nov 2021 · 382pp · 105,657 words
The Norm Chronicles
by Michael Blastland · 14 Oct 2013
Anything to Declare?: The Searching Tales of an HM Customs Officer
by Jon Frost · 8 Apr 2015 · 279pp · 96,180 words
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone · 14 Oct 2013 · 380pp · 118,675 words
Italy
by Damien Simonis · 31 Jul 2010
Lunar Park
by Bret Easton Ellis · 15 Mar 2005 · 422pp · 119,439 words
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich · 2 Dec 2002
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
by John Lefevre · 4 Nov 2014 · 243pp · 77,516 words
Frommer's Paris 2013
by Kate van Der Boogert · 24 Sep 2012
Frommer's England 2011: With Wales
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince · 2 Jan 2010
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words
American Gods
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