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description: person who participates in human subject research by being the target of observation by researchers

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Ancestral Night

by Elizabeth Bear  · 5 Mar 2019  · 596pp  · 163,351 words

excited about the unprecedented thing we’d discovered. But I didn’t want to be an academic. I really didn’t want to be an experimental subject. And I didn’t want to be stuck in the crowded Core. But I also really didn’t think they’d be letting me just

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Henrich  · 27 Oct 2015  · 631pp  · 177,227 words

whether we follow these rules, and react negatively to violations. • We infer that others care about whether we follow these rules. Figure 11.1. An experimental subject wagging his finger at Max the puppet, who is violating the rules for this context. As in the small-scale societies seen in earlier chapters

payoff should contribute zero. However, most educated Westerners agree that—if asked—players should contribute all the money to the common project. Among the typical experimental subjects (undergraduates), the average contributions are commonly between 40% and 60%, with many people contributing either 100% (cooperators) or 0% (free riders).13 To examine whether

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

at all. His focus on spectacle over basic science had misled him.17 So it came as no surprise to him that none of his experimental subjects—human or animal—were ever shocked back to life. Neither was such an outcome ever his goal for the hanged Forster. “Our object here was

electrometer. After twenty more years of trying to find commensurate signatures in the brain, he finally got his hands on a string galvanometer. His first experimental subject was a seventeen-year-old college student named Zedel, who had been left with a large hole in his skull after the removal of a

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee  · 16 Nov 2010  · 1,294pp  · 210,361 words

women (the disease typically strikes men and women in their twenties and thirties) were often referred to the NCI as hopeless cases—and therefore ideal experimental subjects. In just three years, DeVita and Canellos thus accumulated cases at a furious clip, forty-three patients in all. Nine had been blasted with increasing

The Gene: An Intimate History

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

”). Yanked off the ramps, the twins were marked by special tattoos, housed in separate blocks, and systematically victimized by Mengele and his assistants (ironically, as experimental subjects, twins were also more likely to survive the camp than nontwin children, who were more casually exterminated). Mengele obsessively measured their body parts to compare

transformation, Money advocated “sexual reassignment,” the reorientation of sexual identity through behavioral and hormonal therapy—a decades-long process invented by him that allowed his experimental subjects to emerge with their identities sanguinely switched. Based on Money’s advice, “Brenda” was dressed and treated as a girl. Her hair was grown long

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 25 Apr 2011  · 370pp  · 112,602 words

, which are important in cognitive functioning; in particular, the prefrontal cortex is important in suppression of impulsive responses. It is therefore no surprise that when experimental subjects are artificially put under stressful conditions in the laboratory, they are less likely to make the economically rational decision when faced with choosing among different

Glasshouse

by Charles Stross  · 14 Jun 2006  · 443pp  · 123,526 words

lot of nonplayer characters, zombies run by the Gamesmaster, and for much of the time you'll be interacting with these rather than with other experimental subjects. Everything's laid out in a collection of hab segments linked by gates so they feel like a single geographical continuum, just like a traditional

's where Fiore and Yourdon and their crowd found most of us, by the way. A redaction clinic must be a great place to find experimental subjects who're healthy but who've forgotten everything they knew. People who've come adrift from the patterns of life, and who have minimal social

biggest reason for wanting you to have undergone major memory erasure prior to injection into YFH-Polity is this: I suspect that when the incoming experimental subjects are issued with new bodies, they are filtered through an A-gate infected with a live, patched copy of Curious Yellow. Therefore preemptive memory redaction

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

by J. Craig Venter  · 16 Oct 2013  · 285pp  · 78,180 words

the DNA intact from these cells, so we looked elsewhere. The solution came from the more complex cellular world of the eukaryote and a favorite experimental subject of scientists around the world studying eukaryotic biology: brewer’s yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. For centuries S. cerevisiae has been used for alcohol fermentation as well

Prize for his efforts in 1935. With Hilde Mangold (1898–1924) he conducted the first nuclear-transfer experiments on the newt, which was an ideal experimental subject because of its large, easily manipulated eggs. In 1938 Spemann published the milestone text Embryonic Development and Induction, which described how his experiment rested on

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

by M. D. James le Fanu M. D.  · 1 Jan 1999  · 564pp  · 163,106 words

of disease, and so on – but the distinguishing feature of clinical science is that it is practised by doctors with a unique access to the ‘experimental subjects’ – patients with illnesses. Most clinical science involves observing or measuring in some way the phenomena of disease in a living person, rather than a dead

Beyond Weird

by Philip Ball  · 22 Mar 2018  · 277pp  · 87,082 words

each time. What might happen, then, if the photons in the flashes are placed in a superposition of states? How will that affect what the experimental subjects ‘see’? Would it set up some kind of superposition in the nerve impulse from the rod cell to the brain? Might it even create a

The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

by Eben Kirksey  · 10 Nov 2020  · 599pp  · 98,564 words

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop  · 14 Apr 2001

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold  · 24 Dec 2011

The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History

by Roland Ennos  · 18 Feb 2021

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

by Benjamin Breen  · 16 Jan 2024  · 384pp  · 118,573 words

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

by Adam L. Alter  · 15 Feb 2017  · 331pp  · 96,989 words

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

by Michael Huemer  · 29 Oct 2012  · 577pp  · 149,554 words

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

by Clay Shirky  · 9 Jun 2010  · 236pp  · 66,081 words

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

by Richard E. Nisbett  · 17 Aug 2015  · 397pp  · 109,631 words

The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs Over Self-Interest

by Yochai Benkler  · 8 Aug 2011  · 187pp  · 62,861 words

Among Chimpanzees

by Nancy J. Merrick  · 321pp  · 96,349 words

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

by Richard Wrangham  · 15 Aug 2010  · 293pp  · 76,294 words

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

by Merlin Sheldrake  · 11 May 2020

Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick  · 18 Oct 2011  · 396pp  · 112,748 words

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie  · 1 Mar 2018

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

by Howard Rheingold  · 14 May 2000  · 352pp  · 120,202 words

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins  · 21 Sep 2009

The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations

by Thomas Morris  · 31 May 2017

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral  · 14 Sep 2020  · 475pp  · 134,707 words

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker  · 24 Sep 2012  · 1,351pp  · 385,579 words

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

by Andrew W. Lo  · 3 Apr 2017  · 733pp  · 179,391 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

by Gary Taubes  · 25 Sep 2007  · 936pp  · 252,313 words

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann  · 17 Jun 2019

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries  · 13 Sep 2011  · 278pp  · 83,468 words

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

by Nicholas A. Christakis  · 26 Mar 2019

Irrational Exuberance: With a New Preface by the Author

by Robert J. Shiller  · 15 Feb 2000  · 319pp  · 106,772 words

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen  · 30 Sep 2012  · 669pp  · 195,743 words

Statistics in a Nutshell

by Sarah Boslaugh  · 10 Nov 2012

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World

by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg  · 15 Nov 2010  · 1,535pp  · 337,071 words

The Transhumanist Reader

by Max More and Natasha Vita-More  · 4 Mar 2013  · 798pp  · 240,182 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

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn and Ian Hacking  · 1 Jan 1962  · 314pp  · 91,652 words

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig  · 14 Jul 2019  · 2,466pp  · 668,761 words

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett  · 1 Jan 2009  · 309pp  · 86,909 words

Space 2.0

by Rod Pyle  · 2 Jan 2019  · 352pp  · 87,930 words

Forty Signs of Rain

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 29 May 2004  · 362pp  · 104,308 words

Surfaces and Essences

by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander  · 10 Sep 2012  · 1,079pp  · 321,718 words

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

by Tim Harford  · 3 Oct 2016  · 349pp  · 95,972 words

The Age of Wonder

by Richard Holmes  · 15 Jan 2008  · 778pp  · 227,196 words

Miracle Cure

by William Rosen  · 14 Apr 2017  · 515pp  · 117,501 words

The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

by Richard Wrangham  · 29 Jan 2019  · 473pp  · 130,141 words

AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War

by Tom McNichol  · 31 Aug 2006

The Scientist as Rebel

by Freeman Dyson  · 1 Jan 2006  · 332pp  · 109,213 words

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

by Laura Spinney  · 31 May 2017

What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View

by William MacAskill  · 31 Aug 2022  · 451pp  · 125,201 words

The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals Its Secrets

by Michael Blastland  · 3 Apr 2019  · 290pp  · 82,871 words

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

by Adam Higginbotham  · 14 May 2024  · 523pp  · 204,889 words

Children of Ruin

by Adrian Tchaikovsky  · 13 May 2019  · 471pp  · 147,210 words

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us

by Carole Hooven  · 12 Jul 2021  · 372pp  · 117,038 words

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist  · 8 Oct 2012

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller  · 1 Jan 2009  · 471pp  · 97,152 words

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman  · 24 Aug 2015  · 786pp  · 195,810 words

Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)

by Thierry Bardini  · 1 Dec 2000

Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future

by Brian Clegg  · 8 Dec 2015  · 315pp  · 92,151 words

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)

by William Poundstone  · 1 Jan 2010  · 519pp  · 104,396 words

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn Leszcz  · 1 Jan 1967

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America

by Annie Jacobsen  · 11 Feb 2014  · 612pp  · 181,985 words

Bad Science

by Ben Goldacre  · 1 Jan 2008  · 322pp  · 107,576 words

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman  · 24 Oct 2011  · 654pp  · 191,864 words

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 1997  · 913pp  · 265,787 words

Influence: Science and Practice

by Robert B. Cialdini  · 1 Jan 1984  · 405pp  · 121,531 words

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris  · 5 Oct 2010  · 412pp  · 115,266 words

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky  · 11 Mar 2015  · 1,737pp  · 491,616 words

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

by Tim Harford  · 2 Feb 2021  · 428pp  · 103,544 words

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

by John T. Cacioppo  · 9 Aug 2009  · 327pp  · 97,720 words

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jan 2008  · 250pp  · 88,762 words

The Broken Ladder

by Keith Payne  · 8 May 2017

What Do You Say After You Say Hello?

by Eric Berne  · 2 Jan 1975  · 450pp  · 147,724 words

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

by Lee McIntyre  · 14 Sep 2021  · 407pp  · 108,030 words

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch  · 21 Jun 2021  · 446pp  · 109,157 words

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

by Tom Chivers  · 6 May 2024  · 283pp  · 102,484 words

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos  · 21 Sep 2015  · 396pp  · 117,149 words

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

by Jonathan Eig  · 12 Oct 2014  · 420pp  · 121,881 words

A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

by Richard Dawkins  · 1 Jan 2004  · 460pp  · 107,712 words

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

by John McMillan  · 1 Jan 2002  · 350pp  · 103,988 words

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature

by Steven Pinker  · 10 Sep 2007  · 698pp  · 198,203 words

The Talent Code: Greatest Isn't Born, It's Grown, Here's How

by Daniel Coyle  · 27 Apr 2009  · 257pp  · 68,203 words

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson  · 6 Feb 2018  · 403pp  · 106,707 words

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

by António R. Damásio  · 1 Jan 1994  · 347pp  · 101,586 words

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

by James Bridle  · 6 Apr 2022  · 502pp  · 132,062 words

Why Buddhism is True

by Robert Wright

Howard Rheingold

by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993)  · 26 Apr 2012

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

by William Davies  · 11 May 2015  · 317pp  · 87,566 words

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

by Bryan Caplan  · 16 Jan 2018  · 636pp  · 140,406 words

Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World

by Greg Milner  · 4 May 2016  · 385pp  · 103,561 words

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins  · 12 Sep 2006  · 478pp  · 142,608 words

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

by Oliver Burkeman  · 1 Jul 2012  · 211pp  · 69,380 words

The Rise of the Network Society

by Manuel Castells  · 31 Aug 1996  · 843pp  · 223,858 words

Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality

by Richard G. Wilkinson  · 19 Nov 1996  · 268pp  · 89,761 words

Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

by Jeremy Bailenson  · 30 Jan 2018  · 302pp  · 90,215 words

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante  · 9 Sep 2019

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes  · 28 Jan 2025  · 359pp  · 100,761 words

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum  · 31 Mar 2002

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

Humankind: A Hopeful History

by Rutger Bregman  · 1 Jun 2020  · 578pp  · 131,346 words

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street

by Aaron Brown and Eric Kim  · 10 Oct 2011  · 483pp  · 141,836 words

The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

by Robin Hanson  · 31 Mar 2016  · 589pp  · 147,053 words

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

by Daniel C. Dennett  · 7 Feb 2017  · 573pp  · 157,767 words

Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages

by Derek Bickerton  · 4 Mar 2008

Executive Orders

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1996

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

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

Children of Time

by Adrian Tchaikovsky  · 31 May 2015  · 528pp  · 157,969 words

I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That

by Ben Goldacre  · 22 Oct 2014  · 467pp  · 116,094 words

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson  · 11 Sep 2013  · 397pp  · 110,130 words

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King and John Kay  · 5 Mar 2020  · 807pp  · 154,435 words

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon  · 15 Jan 2000  · 1,051pp  · 334,334 words

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

by Charles Montgomery  · 12 Nov 2013  · 432pp  · 124,635 words

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

by Duncan J. Watts  · 1 Feb 2003  · 379pp  · 113,656 words

The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Tim Sullivan  · 6 Jun 2016  · 252pp  · 73,131 words

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

by Eric Siegel  · 19 Feb 2013  · 502pp  · 107,657 words

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport  · 5 Jan 2016

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

by Alec Nevala-Lee  · 22 Oct 2018  · 622pp  · 169,014 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

Atrocity Archives

by Stross, Charles  · 13 Jan 2004  · 404pp  · 113,514 words

The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

by Jonathan Rauch  · 30 Apr 2018  · 277pp  · 79,360 words

Learning to Think: A Memoir

by Tracy King  · 12 Mar 2025  · 248pp  · 84,118 words

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life

by Steven Johnson  · 2 Jan 1999  · 294pp  · 86,601 words

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

by George Marshall  · 18 Aug 2014  · 298pp  · 85,386 words

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

by Robert H. Frank  · 31 Mar 2016  · 190pp  · 53,409 words

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

by Karl Fogel  · 13 Oct 2005

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

by Alexander Stille  · 19 Jun 2023  · 436pp  · 148,809 words

Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom

by Doug Henwood  · 30 Aug 1998  · 586pp  · 159,901 words

The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40

by Jonathon Sullivan and Andy Baker  · 2 Dec 2016  · 742pp  · 166,595 words

Propaganda and the Public Mind

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 31 Mar 2015

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

by H. W. Brands  · 1 Jan 2000  · 961pp  · 302,613 words

Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

by Leonard Shlain  · 2 Aug 2004  · 607pp  · 168,497 words

Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes

by Richard C. Francis  · 14 May 2012

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

Willful: How We Choose What We Do

by Richard Robb  · 12 Nov 2019  · 202pp  · 58,823 words

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

by Chrystia Freeland  · 11 Oct 2012  · 481pp  · 120,693 words

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

by Brink Lindsey  · 12 Oct 2017  · 288pp  · 64,771 words

Talk on the Wild Side

by Lane Greene  · 15 Dec 2018  · 284pp  · 84,169 words

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for Its Life

by Ian Dunt  · 15 Oct 2020

Automating Inequality

by Virginia Eubanks  · 294pp  · 77,356 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

Year's Best SF 15

by David G. Hartwell; Kathryn Cramer  · 15 Aug 2010  · 573pp  · 163,302 words

Money for Nothing

by Thomas Levenson  · 18 Aug 2020  · 495pp  · 136,714 words

The Skeptical Economist: Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics

by Jonathan Aldred  · 1 Jan 2009  · 339pp  · 105,938 words

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 1 Mar 2015  · 479pp  · 144,453 words

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

by William MacAskill  · 27 Jul 2015  · 293pp  · 81,183 words

Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

by Charles Kenny  · 31 Jan 2011  · 272pp  · 71,487 words

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova  · 22 Jun 2020  · 377pp  · 117,339 words

Year 501

by Noam Chomsky  · 19 Jan 2016

How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

by Eric Hobsbawm  · 5 Sep 2011  · 621pp  · 157,263 words

Types and Programming Languages

by Benjamin C. Pierce  · 4 Jan 2002  · 647pp  · 43,757 words

Mars Crossing

by Geoffrey A. Landis  · 15 Jan 2000  · 340pp  · 96,242 words

Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

by Tom Wilkinson  · 21 Jul 2014  · 341pp  · 89,986 words

What Makes Narcissists Tick

by Kathleen Krajco

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 10 Jan 2011  · 416pp  · 118,592 words

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks  · 24 Aug 2015  · 708pp  · 176,708 words

Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough

by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss  · 31 May 2005

Idoru

by William Gibson  · 2 Jan 1996  · 301pp  · 74,571 words

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 5 Jan 2015  · 482pp  · 121,672 words

The Miracle Pill

by Peter Walker  · 21 Jan 2021  · 372pp  · 98,659 words