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
drew a blank. No one—not one—could remember the first time they’d heard the word “piracy.” The Fraunhofer team were no strangers to the Internet, but the Internet they knew was a collaborative tool for research and commerce, not some grimy subculture of anonymous teenage hackers. In their naiveté, they had
No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July · 30 Oct 2008 · 162pp · 49,269 words
followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily; I woke up early in the guest room; he stayed up late chatting with Buddhist strangers on the Internet. Like college roommates, we instinctively used different shelves in the refrigerator for the foods we now bought separately. It turned out we didn’t
HWFG: Here We F**king Go
by Chris McQueer · 8 Nov 2018 · 252pp · 65,990 words
maw told one person, they told someone else and so on and so on until everybody in my life, my pals, my family, even strangers on the internet and you reading this book were all in on this big joke at my expense. Well, fucking get it up ye. Interview with the
Retire Before Mom and Dad
by Rob Berger · 10 Aug 2019 · 239pp · 60,065 words
deception we’ve come to believe about money and happiness comes from many sources. It comes from TV commercials, our parents, our friends, complete strangers, magazines, and the internet. Sometimes the lies are explicit, and sometimes they are subtle. But they never stop. I call them “The Five Lies.” Lie #1: Financial
Lonely Planet Maldives (Travel Guide)
by Planet, Lonely and Masters, Tom · 31 Aug 2015 · 449pp · 85,924 words
the most part, speak great English and have a real passion for showing foreigners the very best of their country. Many guesthouses are still strangers to the internet, and many emails can go unanswered. For easy booking, try www.guesthouses-in-maldives.com, a website that arranges stays on local islands with
Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt · 15 Dec 2000 · 936pp · 85,745 words
", cd_seek, 2); rb_define_method(cCDPlayer, "seek_time", cd_seek_time, 0); } Report erratum Chapter 20 Ruby and the Web Ruby is no stranger to the Internet. Not only can you write your own SMTP server, FTP daemon, or web server in Ruby, but you can also use Ruby for more
Mining Social Media: Finding Stories in Internet Data
by Lam Thuy Vo · 21 Nov 2019 · 237pp · 65,794 words
, consult Stack Overflow’s handy guide for other best practices for asking questions on the forum: https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask/. Asking strangers on the internet for help may seem daunting, but it can yield wonderful results if you make it a point to ask politely and with respect for
Stake Hodler Capitalism: Blockchain and DeFi
by Amr Hazem Wahba Metwaly · 21 Mar 2021 · 80pp · 21,077 words
marketplace. Don't You Need A Lot of Money To Run A Bank? This is true, and on DeFi, this money comes primarily from strangers on the internet. That's why it provides a smart way for these decentralized banking apps to attract empty HODLers. Liquidity is a major issue for all
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream
by Alissa Quart · 14 Mar 2023 · 304pp · 86,028 words
do so, which was why many are at least partly getting by on what they are able to collect from friends and even near-strangers on the internet. It’s part of what I call the “dystopian social safety net.” The dystopian social safety net includes nonprofits throughout the country that are
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann · 16 Mar 2017 · 1,237pp · 227,370 words
and ignore outliers. Nevertheless, it’s somewhat worrying to bet the correctness of your systems on the time that you were told by a stranger on the internet. Leap seconds result in a minute that is 59 seconds or 61 seconds long, which messes up timing assumptions in systems that are not
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab · 16 Mar 2021 · 325pp · 67,076 words
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann · 17 Apr 2017
For the Love of Autism: Stories of Love, Awareness and Acceptance on the Spectrum
by Tamika Lechee Morales · 23 Apr 2022 · 209pp · 64,635 words
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
by Maya Dusenbery · 6 Mar 2018 · 504pp · 147,722 words
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards
by Yu-Kai Chou · 13 Apr 2015 · 420pp · 130,503 words
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams · 19 Mar 2019 · 364pp · 100,898 words
Principles of Corporate Finance
by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen · 15 Feb 2014
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman · 1 Jun 2020 · 578pp · 131,346 words
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
by Phoebe Robinson · 14 Oct 2021 · 265pp · 93,354 words
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni · 22 Feb 2022 · 505pp · 161,581 words
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger · 1 Jan 2009 · 263pp · 75,610 words
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan · 1 Mar 2016 · 383pp · 105,021 words
Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance
by Matthew Brennan · 9 Oct 2020 · 282pp · 63,385 words
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in Histroy
by Ben Mezrich · 11 Jul 2011 · 301pp · 96,359 words
Emails From an Asshole: Real People Being Stupid
by John Lindsay · 31 Mar 2010
Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar
by Kelly Oxford · 20 Aug 2012 · 328pp · 91,474 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
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton · 15 Mar 2017 · 349pp · 109,304 words
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson · 12 Sep 2016 · 176pp · 54,784 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
Everything's Trash, but It's Okay
by Phoebe Robinson · 15 Oct 2018 · 257pp · 90,857 words
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
by Steve Pavlina · 14 Oct 2008
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg · 15 Nov 2022 · 494pp · 121,217 words
The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
by Ben Mezrich · 6 Sep 2021 · 239pp · 74,845 words
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 1999
The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
by Brian Christian · 1 Mar 2011 · 370pp · 94,968 words
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous
by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words
Laziness Does Not Exist
by Devon Price · 5 Jan 2021 · 362pp · 87,462 words
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier · 28 Jun 2020 · 345pp · 87,534 words
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg · 5 Nov 2019 · 363pp · 105,039 words
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss · 14 Jun 2017 · 579pp · 183,063 words
Bitcoin for the Befuddled
by Conrad Barski · 13 Nov 2014 · 273pp · 72,024 words
I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
by Luvvie Ajayi · 12 Sep 2016 · 232pp · 78,701 words
The Dark Net
by Jamie Bartlett · 20 Aug 2014 · 267pp · 82,580 words
The Geek Feminist Revolution
by Kameron Hurley · 1 Jan 2016 · 251pp · 76,225 words
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
by Scaachi Koul · 7 Mar 2017 · 178pp · 61,242 words
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
by Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom · 3 Aug 2020
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World
by Michal Zalewski · 11 Jan 2022 · 337pp · 96,666 words
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
by Kelly Weill · 22 Feb 2022
The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last
by Jimmy Wales · 28 Oct 2025 · 216pp · 60,419 words
Future Sex
by Emily Witt · 10 Oct 2016 · 197pp · 64,958 words
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul · 14 Oct 2021 · 194pp · 54,355 words
The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
by Donna Freitas · 13 Jan 2017 · 428pp · 136,945 words
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
by Brad Stone · 30 Jan 2017 · 373pp · 112,822 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
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives
by Chris Stedman · 19 Oct 2020 · 307pp · 101,998 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
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
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words