game design
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Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
by Kristin Ross · 6 Apr 2015 · 175pp · 52,122 words
than is the world of our parents. It seems utterly reasonable to me that younger people today, put off by a career trajectory in video-game design, hedge-fund management, or smart-phone bureaucracy, trying to carve out spaces and ways to live on the edges of various informal economies, testing the
Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Want (And Why They Were Never Going To)
by Chris Grey · 22 Jun 2021 · 334pp · 91,722 words
about this would affect every single area of daily life, from air travel through to nuclear waste disposal, and every industry from fishing to computer game design. So there were huge new, and urgent, questions for the country. What exactly did the government’s white paper Brexit plan, endorsed in the Tory
How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong
by James O'Brien · 2 Nov 2018 · 173pp · 52,725 words
equation sees the punter make regular small wins as he plays, in pretty much the perfect proportion to ensure that he keeps playing. Next, the games’ designers ensure that the gap between wins never becomes big enough to sate his hunger for the next payout. And finally, with the psychological trap so
Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds · 15 Jan 2012
aptitudes that follows is written with multimedia-enhanced presentations in mind. But, you could take the six aptitudes and apply them to the art of game design, programming, product design, project management, health care, teaching, retail, and so on. The slide below summarizes six of the key points found in Pink’s
The Geek Feminist Revolution
by Kameron Hurley · 1 Jan 2016 · 251pp · 76,225 words
guys did. In the churn of comments sections across the internet, someone decided the real problem here was that the young woman was a video game designer, and the man she was accused of sleeping with by her ex-boyfriend was a video game reviewer, and that this was some kind of
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by Jo Marchant · 15 Jan 2020 · 544pp · 134,483 words
the state of our planet and the effect humans are having on it . . . You are standing guard over the whole of our Earth.” After millionaire games designer Richard Garriott became the world’s sixth space tourist in 2008, he sold his SUVs, installed solar panels and began investing in green energy and
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
and activation. We apply for interinstitutional grants, and some of our projects involve creative ventures such as filmmaking on coastal erosion and folklore-inspired video game design. In 2020, “BIPOC” instantaneously became a buzzword to differentiate the unevenness of the experience of people of color in the United States and Canada. Other
Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
by Rose Hackman · 27 Mar 2023
Colom called for is an act that we cannot afford to put off. * * * In 2015, at sex and technology conference Arse Elektronika, Mattie Brice, a game designer and cultural critic, explained the precarious educator role she was forced into taking on after sex.11 As a trans woman who had sex with
Bitcoin: The Future of Money?
by Dominic Frisby · 1 Nov 2014 · 233pp · 66,446 words
the hardware of the computer. This means there are many who don’t go near C++, finding it too complicated, though it remains popular with games designers – and cryptographers. Other coders, such as Wei Dai, think it is ‘a pretty standard choice for anyone wanting to build such a piece of software
Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles
by Mohammed Abdul Qadeer · 10 Mar 2016
opportunities are turning into contractual self-employment, many of which turn into ethnic niches, for example, Latino limo drivers in New York and Taiwanese computer-game designers in Los Angeles. The economic base of cities is increasingly determined by their infrastructure, educational and research institutions, community services, and cultural life. The talent
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell · 14 Apr 2004
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet · 13 Feb 2018 · 493pp · 136,235 words
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by Angela Nagle · 6 Jun 2017 · 122pp · 38,022 words
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by Jessica Bruder · 18 Sep 2017 · 273pp · 85,195 words
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft
by Mike Sacks · 8 Jul 2009 · 588pp · 193,087 words
The Fugitive Game: Online With Kevin Mitnick
by Jonathan Littman · 1 Jan 1996
Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World
by Paul Collier · 30 Sep 2013 · 303pp · 83,564 words
The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and Dennis L. Meadows · 15 Apr 2004 · 357pp · 100,718 words
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by Christopher Miller · 17 Jul 2023 · 469pp · 149,526 words
Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
by Dennis Yi Tenen · 6 Feb 2024 · 169pp · 41,887 words
A Fine Mess
by T. R. Reid · 13 Mar 2017 · 363pp · 92,422 words
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · 8 May 2017 · 337pp · 86,320 words
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
by John Seabrook · 4 Oct 2015 · 388pp · 106,138 words
The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now
by Sergey Young · 23 Aug 2021 · 326pp · 88,968 words
Spike: The Virus vs The People - The Inside Story
by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja · 15 Jan 2021 · 245pp · 71,886 words
Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction
by Chris Bailey · 31 Jul 2018 · 272pp · 66,985 words
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden · 20 Sep 2021 · 375pp · 102,166 words
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan · 1 Jan 2004 · 452pp · 110,488 words
MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words
The English
by Jeremy Paxman · 29 Jan 2013 · 364pp · 103,162 words
Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the Coming Robotopia
by Frederik L. Schodt · 31 Mar 1988 · 361pp · 83,886 words
Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally · 26 Jul 2011 · 171pp · 54,334 words
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman · 6 Apr 2014 · 302pp · 74,878 words
Infomocracy: A Novel
by Malka Older · 7 Jun 2016 · 346pp · 102,666 words
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich · 20 May 2019 · 304pp · 91,566 words
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
by Garett Jones · 4 Feb 2020 · 303pp · 75,192 words
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by Talia Lavin · 14 Jul 2020 · 231pp · 71,299 words
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by Sabine Hossenfelder · 11 Jun 2018 · 340pp · 91,416 words
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith · 3 Apr 2006 · 409pp · 138,088 words
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha · 14 Feb 2012 · 176pp · 55,819 words
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Doto Get More of It
by Kelly McGonigal · 1 Dec 2011 · 354pp · 91,875 words
Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History
by Alexis Stenfors · 14 May 2017 · 312pp · 93,836 words
Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
by Scott Kelly and Margaret Lazarus Dean · 14 Aug 2017 · 411pp · 140,110 words
Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life
by Susan Senator · 4 Apr 2016 · 298pp · 93,083 words
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
by M. Nolan Gray · 20 Jun 2022 · 252pp · 66,183 words
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
by Adam Greenfield · 14 Sep 2006 · 229pp · 68,426 words
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
by David McRaney · 29 Jul 2013 · 280pp · 90,531 words
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982
by Chris Nashawaty · 251pp · 86,553 words
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug · 1 Jan 2000 · 170pp · 45,121 words
Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work
by Sarah Kessler · 11 Jun 2018 · 246pp · 68,392 words
Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
by Graham Allison · 29 May 2017 · 518pp · 128,324 words
Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley
by Atsuo Inoue · 18 Nov 2021 · 295pp · 89,441 words
Born in Flames
by Bench Ansfield · 15 Aug 2025 · 366pp · 138,787 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
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino · 5 Aug 2019 · 305pp · 101,743 words
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
by Nicholas Schmidle · 3 May 2021 · 342pp · 101,370 words
The Data Journalism Handbook
by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers and Liliana Bounegru · 9 May 2012
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
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport · 5 Feb 2019 · 279pp · 71,542 words
The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen · 30 Dec 2014 · 252pp · 70,424 words
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner · 20 Feb 2020 · 309pp · 79,414 words
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime
by Julian Guthrie · 15 Nov 2019
Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds · 1 Jan 2000 · 804pp · 212,335 words
Paintwork
by Tim Maughan · 28 Jul 2011 · 106pp · 30,173 words
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
by Cixin Liu · 11 Nov 2014 · 420pp · 119,928 words
Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future
by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman · 8 Jul 2024 · 207pp · 65,156 words
Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff
by Dinah Sanders · 7 Oct 2011 · 267pp · 78,857 words
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt · 10 May 2021 · 291pp · 80,068 words
The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips · 23 Jun 2015 · 210pp · 56,667 words
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts · 1 Sep 2014 · 324pp · 92,805 words
Freedom
by Daniel Suarez · 17 Dec 2009 · 427pp · 112,549 words
Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby · 23 May 2016 · 347pp · 97,721 words
4th Rock From the Sun: The Story of Mars
by Nicky Jenner · 5 Apr 2017 · 294pp · 87,986 words
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman · 19 Feb 2013 · 407pp · 109,653 words
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco
by Matthew Richard Poole · 17 Mar 2006 · 255pp · 90,456 words
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink · 1 Jan 2008 · 204pp · 54,395 words
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
by Brigid Schulte · 11 Mar 2014 · 455pp · 133,719 words
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985
by Jordan Mechner · 26 Dec 2012 · 314pp · 46,664 words
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 words
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings · 19 Sep 2011 · 367pp · 99,765 words
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · 10 Mar 2020 · 257pp · 76,785 words
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone · 14 Oct 2013 · 380pp · 118,675 words
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by Tyler Cowen · 11 Sep 2013 · 291pp · 81,703 words
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee · 20 Jan 2014 · 339pp · 88,732 words
Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
by Ali Tamaseb · 14 Sep 2021 · 251pp · 80,831 words
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Dec 2010 · 836pp · 158,284 words
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
by Helaine Olen · 27 Dec 2012 · 375pp · 105,067 words
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Meadows. Donella and Diana Wright · 3 Dec 2008 · 243pp · 66,908 words
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
by Cory Doctorow, Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman · 18 Nov 2014 · 170pp · 51,205 words
Designing for Emotion
by Aarron Walter · 4 Oct 2011 · 89pp · 24,277 words
Early Retirement Extreme
by Jacob Lund Fisker · 30 Sep 2010 · 346pp · 102,625 words
You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
by Hiawatha Bray · 31 Mar 2014 · 316pp · 90,165 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
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
by Susan Pinker · 30 Sep 2013 · 404pp · 124,705 words
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by Emily Chang · 6 Feb 2018 · 334pp · 104,382 words
Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow · 29 Apr 2008 · 398pp · 120,801 words
With a Little Help
by Cory Efram Doctorow, Jonathan Coulton and Russell Galen · 7 Dec 2010 · 549pp · 116,200 words
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson · 16 Oct 2017 · 799pp · 187,221 words
Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco
by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing · 31 Aug 2012
The Hacker Crackdown
by Bruce Sterling · 15 Mar 1992 · 345pp · 105,722 words
Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
by Justin E. H. Smith · 22 Mar 2022 · 198pp · 59,351 words
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia · 20 Mar 2024 · 336pp · 91,806 words
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
by Ethan Mollick · 2 Apr 2024 · 189pp · 58,076 words
Wanderers: A Novel
by Chuck Wendig · 1 Jul 2019 · 1,028pp · 267,392 words
JPod
by Douglas Coupland · 30 Apr 2007 · 487pp · 95,085 words
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova · 22 Jun 2020 · 377pp · 117,339 words
A Half-Built Garden
by Ruthanna Emrys · 25 Jul 2022 · 431pp · 127,720 words
IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives
by Chris Stedman · 19 Oct 2020 · 307pp · 101,998 words
Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning
by James Pustejovsky and Amber Stubbs · 14 Oct 2012 · 502pp · 107,510 words
If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Jan 2007 · 426pp · 105,423 words
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 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
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
by Samuel Arbesman · 18 Jul 2016 · 222pp · 53,317 words
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson · 5 Apr 2006 · 250pp · 9,029 words
The Simulation Hypothesis
by Rizwan Virk · 31 Mar 2019 · 315pp · 89,861 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
Ninefox Gambit
by Yoon Ha Lee · 13 Jun 2016 · 360pp · 100,063 words
Doing Data Science: Straight Talk From the Frontline
by Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt · 8 Oct 2013 · 523pp · 112,185 words
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan · 1 Mar 2016 · 383pp · 105,021 words
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US
by Rana Foroohar · 5 Nov 2019 · 380pp · 109,724 words
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland · 14 Feb 1995
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
by Mo Gawdat · 29 Sep 2021 · 259pp · 84,261 words
The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth · 14 Jan 2020 · 180pp · 55,805 words
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez · 1 Dec 2006 · 562pp · 146,544 words
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
Halting State
by Charles Stross · 9 Jul 2011 · 350pp · 107,834 words
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
by James Rickards · 10 Nov 2011 · 381pp · 101,559 words
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby · 22 Nov 2013 · 165pp · 45,397 words
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain · 24 Jan 2012 · 377pp · 115,122 words
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (History of Computing)
by Douglas R. Dechow · 2 Jul 2015 · 223pp · 52,808 words
Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
by Neal Stephenson · 3 Jun 2019 · 993pp · 318,161 words
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
by Nicholas Carr · 5 Sep 2016 · 391pp · 105,382 words
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein · 1 Mar 2019 · 406pp · 109,794 words
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by Douglas Rushkoff · 21 Mar 2013 · 323pp · 95,939 words
Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment
by Sangeet Paul Choudary · 14 Sep 2015 · 302pp · 73,581 words
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker · 14 May 2018 · 301pp · 90,362 words
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
by Michael Lewis · 2 Oct 2023 · 263pp · 92,618 words
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz · 404pp · 118,036 words
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet
Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets
by Michael W. Covel · 19 Mar 2007 · 467pp · 154,960 words
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier · 1 Jan 2000 · 470pp · 144,455 words
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown · 12 Apr 2010 · 319pp · 89,477 words
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline · 15 Feb 2011 · 458pp · 137,960 words
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 22 Oct 2018 · 402pp · 126,835 words
Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
by Jeff Atwood · 3 Jul 2012 · 270pp · 64,235 words
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh · 17 Mar 2015 · 238pp · 75,994 words
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg · 1 Jan 2011 · 455pp · 116,578 words
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · 1 Mar 2013 · 567pp · 122,311 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words
Clojure Programming
by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper and Christophe Grand · 15 Aug 2011 · 999pp · 194,942 words
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans · 12 Sep 2016 · 202pp · 64,725 words
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
by Alex Bellos · 3 Apr 2011 · 437pp · 132,041 words
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman · 22 Nov 2016 · 602pp · 177,874 words
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
by Matt Parker · 7 Mar 2019
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 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
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
by Jordan Mechner · 30 Jan 2012 · 256pp · 58,652 words
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
by Derek Thompson · 7 Feb 2017 · 416pp · 108,370 words
Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois · 23 Jun 2009 · 1,263pp · 371,402 words
San Francisco
by Lonely Planet
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
by Christopher Summerfield · 11 Mar 2025 · 412pp · 122,298 words
The Evolution of God
by Robert Wright · 8 Jun 2009
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen · 5 Sep 2022 · 642pp · 141,888 words
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
by Parmy Olson · 284pp · 96,087 words
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction
by Adrian Hon · 5 Oct 2020 · 340pp · 101,675 words
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions
by Brett Stern · 14 Oct 2012 · 486pp · 132,784 words
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
by Emmanuel Goldstein · 28 Jul 2008 · 889pp · 433,897 words
We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production
by Charles Leadbeater · 9 Dec 2010 · 313pp · 84,312 words
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
by Ed Finn · 10 Mar 2017 · 285pp · 86,853 words
HTML5 Canvas
by Steve Fulton and Jeff Fulton · 2 May 2013 · 1,881pp · 178,824 words
Computer: A History of the Information Machine
by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Nathan Ensmenger · 29 Jul 2013 · 528pp · 146,459 words
Emergence
by Steven Johnson · 329pp · 88,954 words
The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Any Top Tech Company
by Gayle Laakmann Mcdowell · 25 Jan 2011 · 242pp · 71,938 words
Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook
by Michael Lopp · 20 Jul 2010 · 336pp · 88,320 words
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
by Thomas Rid · 27 Jun 2016 · 509pp · 132,327 words
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown · 24 Apr 2017 · 344pp · 96,020 words
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
by Virginia Eubanks · 1 Feb 2011 · 289pp · 99,936 words
The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
by Steve Sammartino · 25 Jun 2014 · 247pp · 81,135 words
Statistics hacks
by Bruce Frey · 9 May 2006 · 755pp · 121,290 words
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
by Tim Harford · 3 Oct 2016 · 349pp · 95,972 words
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest · 17 Oct 2014 · 292pp · 85,151 words
The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed
by Carl Honore · 29 Jan 2013 · 266pp · 87,411 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
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
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
Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing
by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman · 20 Nov 2012 · 307pp · 92,165 words
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal · 26 Dec 2013 · 199pp · 43,653 words
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Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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Commodore: A Company on the Edge
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Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play
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Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards
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Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
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Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
by Bruce Nussbaum · 5 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 101,761 words
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
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You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
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Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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