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Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike

by Eugene W. Holland  · 1 Jan 2009  · 265pp  · 15,515 words

the original text. While most proofreaders check just a few pages, some have done literally tens of thousands.90 The result is a total of over nine thousand proofread digitized volumes sub­ mitted to Project Gutenberg for online preservation in the past six years. Like NASA, with its volunteer clickworkers, and Project Gutenberg

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

by Cal Newport  · 2 Mar 2021  · 350pp  · 90,898 words

his time from partners and listeners increased, he made inbox 100 his new goal. Then one day he noticed his unread messages had ballooned to over nine thousand. He was trying to run a business but had instead become a professional email manager. His solution was to hire a full-time executive assistant

Mexico - Mexico City

by Rough Guides  · 267pp  · 74,238 words

populated cities, with an unenviable list of major social and physical problems, including an extreme vulnerability to earthquakes – the last big one, in 1985, killed over nine thousand people, made one hundred thousand homeless and left many of the city’s buildings decidedly skewed. For details on getting to Mexico City and travelling

The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990

by Mary Fulbrook  · 14 Oct 1991  · 934pp  · 135,736 words

a day, although individual transports were never quite that large. When all the gas chambers and crematoria were in operation it was possible to kill over nine thousand people within twenty-four hours a figure achieved one day in the summer of 1944. 6 'Selections' of those fit to work, and those designed

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

by Douglas B. Laney  · 4 Sep 2017  · 374pp  · 94,508 words

The Engine of Information Monetization Mobilink is Pakistan’s leading provider of voice and data services, based in Islamabad, with thirty-eight million subscribers communicating over nine thousand cell sites and 6,500 kilometers of fiber optic backbone. But as with most telecommunication providers, and many other kinds of businesses, its leadership is

Dead Companies Walking

by Scott Fearon  · 10 Nov 2014  · 232pp  · 71,965 words

straight money-losing quarters and was on its way to a fourth. It wasn’t hard to figure out why. The company was saddled with over nine thousand brick-and-mortar store locations and tens of thousands of employees, at the same time that Netflix—a web-based, ruthlessly efficient competitor with a

Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America

by Writers For The 99%  · 17 Dec 2011  · 173pp  · 54,729 words

the massive anthology, before cops shoved him out of the park, and he watched them dump books into the backs of trucks. “Our library had over nine thousand books, and a little less than five thousand were taken that night,” he said, adding that the rest of the books were stored in a

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

by Tom McNichol  · 31 Aug 2006

by his corps of chemists and experimenters. He was seated at this bench testing, figuring, and planning. I then learned that he had thus made over nine thousand experiments in trying to devise this new type of storage battery, but had not produced a single thing that promised to solve the question. In

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

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

of shares went toward the purchase of additional books for shareholders to enjoy. Today, such a model of sharing is well-accepted practice. There are over nine thousand public libraries in the United States alone in addition to university and private libraries. For decades and in some cases centuries, these institutions have purchased

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

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

for the incident. Tricking a celebrity into acknowledging the existence of Anonymous was funny, but doing it under the pretense of a fake army of over nine thousand organized pedophiles was considered an epic win for the trolls. I often wonder if anyone told poor Oprah afterwards that she’d been had. Troll

The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village

by Gillian Tindall  · 1 Oct 2002  · 286pp  · 95,372 words

The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low

by Richard Jurek  · 2 Dec 2019  · 431pp  · 118,074 words

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 1 Sep 2020  · 134pp  · 41,085 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

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

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

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

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

Misspent Youth

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 1 Jan 2002  · 391pp  · 106,394 words

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

by Emily Levesque  · 3 Aug 2020

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--And Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer Md  · 15 Nov 2022  · 402pp  · 107,908 words

The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

by Blake J. Harris  · 19 Feb 2019  · 561pp  · 163,916 words

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells  · 19 Feb 2019  · 343pp  · 101,563 words

Carbon: The Book of Life

by Paul Hawken  · 17 Mar 2025  · 250pp  · 63,703 words

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

by Joy Lisi Rankin

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

by William Cronon  · 2 Nov 2009  · 918pp  · 260,504 words

The Rough Guide to New York City

by Rough Guides  · 21 May 2018

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

by David S. Landes  · 14 Sep 1999  · 1,060pp  · 265,296 words

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

by Noa Tishby  · 5 Apr 2021  · 338pp  · 101,967 words

Straphanger

by Taras Grescoe  · 8 Sep 2011  · 428pp  · 134,832 words

GCHQ

by Richard Aldrich  · 10 Jun 2010  · 826pp  · 231,966 words

Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

by H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz and Steven Woloshin  · 18 Jan 2011  · 302pp  · 92,546 words

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol  · 6 Jan 2015  · 588pp  · 131,025 words

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

by Samuel R. Delany  · 1 Jan 1984  · 450pp  · 138,729 words

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao  · 19 May 2025  · 660pp  · 179,531 words

Why the Allies Won

by Richard Overy  · 29 Feb 2012  · 624pp  · 191,758 words

Andrew Carnegie

by David Nasaw  · 15 Nov 2007  · 1,230pp  · 357,848 words

The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 1 Jan 2019  · 1,909pp  · 531,728 words

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

by Craig Nelson  · 25 Mar 2014  · 684pp  · 188,584 words

The Rough Guide to Mexico

by Rough Guides  · 15 Jan 2022

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder  · 1 Sep 2008  · 1,336pp  · 415,037 words

Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death From the ER

by Pamela Grim  · 1 Jan 2000  · 349pp  · 101,538 words

The Cable

by Gillian Cookson  · 19 Sep 2012  · 136pp  · 42,864 words

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

by Linda Tirado  · 1 Oct 2014  · 135pp  · 49,109 words

The Old Patagonian Express

by Paul Theroux  · 23 Sep 1979

Permanent Record

by Edward Snowden  · 16 Sep 2019  · 324pp  · 106,699 words

Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Ray Jayawardhana  · 10 Dec 2013  · 203pp  · 63,257 words

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth

by Chris Goodall  · 30 Jan 2020  · 154pp  · 48,340 words

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

by Anthony Scaramucci  · 30 Apr 2012  · 162pp  · 50,108 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 9 Sep 2019  · 327pp  · 84,627 words

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman  · 17 Jul 2017  · 415pp  · 114,840 words

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts  · 13 Oct 2009

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

by Parmy Olson  · 5 Jun 2012  · 478pp  · 149,810 words

Great American Railroad Journeys

by Michael Portillo  · 26 Jan 2017

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

by Mark Pendergrast  · 2 Jan 2000  · 564pp  · 153,720 words

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

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

Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis

by James Rickards  · 10 Nov 2011  · 381pp  · 101,559 words

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down

by Tom Standage  · 27 Nov 2018  · 215pp  · 59,188 words

A People's History of Poverty in America

by Stephen Pimpare  · 11 Nov 2008  · 468pp  · 123,823 words

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

by Justin McGuirk  · 15 Feb 2014  · 246pp  · 76,561 words

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

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

by William Blum  · 31 Mar 2002

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market

by John Allen Paulos  · 1 Jan 2003  · 295pp  · 66,824 words

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies  · 4 Sep 2019  · 412pp  · 128,042 words

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall  · 2 Oct 2017  · 451pp  · 115,720 words

London: The Autobiography

by Jon E. Lewis  · 25 Aug 2009  · 655pp  · 151,111 words

Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education

by Liza Picard  · 1 Jan 2000  · 505pp  · 137,572 words

The Art of SQL

by Stephane Faroult and Peter Robson  · 2 Mar 2006  · 480pp  · 122,663 words

The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay

by Guy Standing  · 13 Jul 2016  · 443pp  · 98,113 words

Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls

by Tim Marshall  · 8 Mar 2018  · 256pp  · 75,139 words

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

by Neil Sheehan  · 21 Sep 2009  · 589pp  · 197,971 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

A History of France

by John Julius Norwich  · 30 Sep 2018  · 482pp  · 149,807 words

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

by Guy Standing  · 27 Feb 2011  · 209pp  · 89,619 words

An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000

by John Steele Gordon  · 12 Oct 2009  · 519pp  · 148,131 words

740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

by Michael Gross  · 18 Dec 2007  · 601pp  · 193,225 words

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

by Pieter Hintjens  · 11 Mar 2013  · 349pp  · 114,038 words

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz  · 2 Feb 2021  · 290pp  · 82,220 words

Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

by Sean Naylor  · 1 Mar 2005  · 615pp  · 191,843 words

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

by Lawrence G. Mcdonald and Patrick Robinson  · 21 Jul 2009  · 430pp  · 140,405 words

Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth

by Nick Maggiulli  · 15 May 2022  · 287pp  · 62,824 words

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann  · 1 Dec 2015  · 1,213pp  · 376,284 words

The Library: A Fragile History

by Arthur Der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree  · 14 Oct 2021  · 457pp  · 173,326 words

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson  · 5 May 2003  · 654pp  · 204,260 words

Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives

by Christopher Bartlett  · 11 Apr 2010  · 543pp  · 143,135 words

The Origins of the British

by Stephen Oppenheimer  · 1 Jul 2007  · 852pp  · 157,181 words

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

by Robert Bryce  · 16 Mar 2011  · 415pp  · 103,231 words

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar  · 19 Oct 2017  · 416pp  · 106,532 words

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

by Michael S. Barr  · 20 Mar 2012

Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy J. Siegel  · 18 Dec 2007

To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010

by T M Devine  · 25 Aug 2011

The Power Elite

by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe  · 1 Jan 1956  · 568pp  · 174,089 words

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas  · 19 Jan 2010  · 492pp  · 70,082 words

Big Debt Crises

by Ray Dalio  · 9 Sep 2018  · 782pp  · 187,875 words

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt

by Kwasi Kwarteng  · 12 May 2014  · 632pp  · 159,454 words

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

by Judith Flanders  · 14 Oct 2012  · 683pp  · 203,624 words

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

by Geoffrey Parker  · 29 Apr 2013  · 1,773pp  · 486,685 words

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy Siegel  · 7 Jan 2014  · 517pp  · 139,477 words

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

by Richard J. Evans  · 31 Aug 2016  · 976pp  · 329,519 words

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett  · 31 Oct 1994  · 1,293pp  · 357,735 words

The Rough Guide to Chile

by Melissa Graham and Andrew Benson  · 11 May 2003

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities

by Eric Kaufmann  · 24 Oct 2018  · 691pp  · 203,236 words

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

by James Mahaffey  · 15 Feb 2015

Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq

by Ashley Jackson  · 15 May 2018  · 714pp  · 188,602 words

Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her

by Rowland White and Richard Truly  · 18 Apr 2016  · 570pp  · 151,609 words

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  · 23 Sep 2019  · 809pp  · 237,921 words

Mbs: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

by Ben Hubbard  · 10 Mar 2020

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

by Nicholas A. Christakis  · 27 Oct 2020  · 475pp  · 127,389 words