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description: a manner of solving problems and generating new ideas that involves looking at the problem from a unique or different perspective

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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

by Thomas E. Ricks  · 30 Jul 2007  · 516pp  · 1,220 words

that I would do everything in my power to prevent that [sort of strategic loss] from happening again. 362 FIASCO Here I am, 30 years later, thinking we will win every fight and lose the war, because we don't understand the war we're in." One Army general predicted the Army

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

by Benn Steil  · 14 May 2013  · 710pp  · 164,527 words

deeply misguided and dangerous. His account of the development of Europe’s economy from 1870 to the start of the war was remarkable, given his later thinking on the importance of national economic planning and, in particular, monetary management, for its emphasis on the immense and widespread material benefits that sprang from

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

by Ozan Varol  · 13 Apr 2020  · 389pp  · 112,319 words

), 61. 14. Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2012). 15. Shane Snow, Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking (New York: HarperBusiness, 2014), 180, Kindle. 16. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “Facebook Investor Wants Flying Cars, Not 140 Characters,” Business Insider, July 301, 2011, www.businessinsider

-apollo-gemini-nasa. 6. FailCon, “About FailCon,” http://thefailcon.com/about.html; FuckUp Nights, https://fuckupnights.com. 7. Shane Snow, Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking (New York: HarperBusiness, 2014), Kindle. 8. Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (New York: Simon

is based on the following sources: Tim Fernholz, Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018); Snow, Lateral Thinking; Chris Bergin, “Falcon I Flight: Preliminary Assessment Positive for SpaceX,” Spaceflight.com, March 24, 2007, www.nasaspaceflight.com/2007/03/falcon-i-flight-preliminary-assessment

.html; Tom Junod, “Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will,” Esquire, November 15, 2012, www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16681/elon-musk-interview-1212. 33. Snow, Lateral Thinking. 34. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (1934; repr., New York: Scribner’s, 1977). 35. Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography (New York: Vintage Books

Glasshouse

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

conversational interfaces are not only arcane, they're feeble-minded. To put one over on these professional paranoids is going to take skill, cunning, and lateral thinking. And my thinking is this: If Fiore and the Bishop Yourdon and their fellow experimenters have one weak spot, it's their dedication to the

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

by Josh Kaufman  · 2 Feb 2011  · 624pp  · 127,987 words

. 3. Coordination Paralysis—Nothing can be done without checking with a host of interconnected units. 4. Nothing New—There are no radical ideas, inventions, or lateral thinking—a general lack of initiative. 5. Pseudo-Problems—Minor issues become magnified out of all proportion. 6. Embattled Center—The center battles for consistency and

May We Be Forgiven

by A. M. Homes  · 14 Jun 2012

. For a couple days, I practice separating the mother and her kittens by taking the kittens away and then bringing them back a few hours later—thinking it’s somehow less stressful than a sudden and permanent absence. When the day comes, I bring the plastic cat-crate up from the basement

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

lengthwise and then tied the two halves together to give him enough length to reach the ground in one piece. But it took some creative, lateral thinking. And this is where things get interesting. Of those who imagined themselves as the prisoner, only 48 per cent solved the problem. Of those who

Executive Orders

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1996

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson  · 23 Oct 2011  · 915pp  · 232,883 words

was time to throw away some of what he had been. Perhaps it was time to say “Bye, I have to go,” and then reemerge later, thinking differently. Exodus Andy Hertzfeld had taken a leave of absence after the Macintosh came out in 1984. He needed to recharge his batteries and get

Culture and Imperialism

by Edward W. Said  · 29 May 1994  · 549pp  · 170,495 words

Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

by Temi Oh  · 15 Mar 2019  · 486pp  · 138,878 words

Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street

by John Brooks  · 6 Jul 2014  · 452pp  · 150,785 words

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram  · 21 Nov 2002  · 548pp  · 174,644 words

Strategy: A History

by Lawrence Freedman  · 31 Oct 2013  · 1,073pp  · 314,528 words

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

by Alwyn W. Turner  · 4 Sep 2013  · 1,013pp  · 302,015 words

Spin

by Robert Charles Wilson  · 2 Jan 2005  · 541pp  · 146,445 words

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

by Richard Dawkins  · 1 Jan 2004  · 734pp  · 244,010 words

The Best of Best New SF

by Gardner R. Dozois  · 1 Jan 2005  · 1,280pp  · 384,105 words

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

by John Barton  · 3 Jun 2019  · 904pp  · 246,845 words

The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters

by Eric J. Johnson  · 12 Oct 2021  · 362pp  · 103,087 words

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

by Brian Dear  · 14 Jun 2017  · 708pp  · 223,211 words

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

by Rob Copeland  · 7 Nov 2023  · 412pp  · 122,655 words

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

by Alec Nevala-Lee  · 1 Aug 2022  · 864pp  · 222,565 words

Real World Haskell

by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Stewart and Donald Bruce Stewart  · 2 Dec 2008  · 1,065pp  · 229,099 words

The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak

by Rosie Wilby  · 26 May 2021  · 227pp  · 67,264 words

Legacy of Empire

by Gardner Thompson  · 427pp  · 114,531 words

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn King  · 3 Mar 2016  · 464pp  · 139,088 words

The Music of the Primes

by Marcus Du Sautoy  · 26 Apr 2004  · 434pp  · 135,226 words

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

by Nick Offerman  · 30 Sep 2013  · 292pp  · 99,273 words

Pandora's Brain

by Calum Chace  · 4 Feb 2014  · 345pp  · 104,404 words

In the Age of the Smart Machine

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 14 Apr 1988

Calypso

by David Sedaris  · 28 May 2018  · 201pp  · 62,452 words

When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures

by Richard D. Lewis  · 1 Jan 1996

Matter

by Iain M. Banks  · 14 Jan 2011  · 348pp  · 185,704 words

The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity

by Byron Reese  · 23 Apr 2018  · 294pp  · 96,661 words

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries

by Peter Sims  · 18 Apr 2011  · 207pp  · 57,959 words

For the Win

by Cory Doctorow  · 11 May 2010  · 624pp  · 180,416 words

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

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

O Jerusalem

by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre  · 31 Dec 1970  · 784pp  · 229,648 words

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time

by Maria Konnikova  · 28 Jan 2016  · 384pp  · 118,572 words

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

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

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

by Linda Yueh  · 15 Mar 2018  · 374pp  · 113,126 words

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice

by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi  · 16 Oct 2017  · 1,544pp  · 391,691 words

Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

by James Vlahos  · 1 Mar 2019  · 392pp  · 108,745 words

Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley

by Atsuo Inoue  · 18 Nov 2021  · 295pp  · 89,441 words

After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

by Tripp Mickle  · 2 May 2022  · 535pp  · 149,752 words

Adam Smith: Father of Economics

by Jesse Norman  · 30 Jun 2018

Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

by Tim Mackintosh-Smith  · 2 Mar 2019

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

by Linda Yueh  · 4 Jun 2018  · 453pp  · 117,893 words

API Design Patterns

by Jj Geewax  · 19 Jul 2021  · 725pp  · 168,262 words

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece

by Kevin Birmingham  · 16 Nov 2021  · 559pp  · 155,777 words

Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story

by Rachel Clarke  · 14 Sep 2017  · 255pp  · 80,190 words

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber  · 29 Oct 2024  · 292pp  · 106,826 words

The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 24 Apr 2006  · 605pp  · 169,366 words

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

by Charles Leadbeater  · 9 Dec 2010  · 313pp  · 84,312 words

Lessons-Learned-in-Software-Testing-A-Context-Driven-Approach

by Anson-QA

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

by Hubert Joly  · 14 Jun 2021  · 265pp  · 75,202 words

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal  · 21 Feb 2017  · 407pp  · 90,238 words

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

by Joseph Jebelli  · 30 Oct 2017  · 294pp  · 87,429 words

Early Retirement Extreme

by Jacob Lund Fisker  · 30 Sep 2010  · 346pp  · 102,625 words

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown  · 14 Apr 2014  · 202pp  · 62,199 words

Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court

by Ralph E. Warner  · 2 Jan 1978

The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

by Ruchir Sharma  · 5 Jun 2016  · 566pp  · 163,322 words

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

by Simon Winchester  · 7 May 2018  · 449pp  · 129,511 words

QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition

by Lloyd, John and Mitchinson, John  · 7 Oct 2010  · 624pp  · 104,923 words

The Making of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr  · 16 May 2007  · 618pp  · 180,430 words

Alex's Adventures in Numberland

by Alex Bellos  · 3 Apr 2011  · 437pp  · 132,041 words

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 21 Mar 2013  · 323pp  · 95,939 words

Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

by John Gribbin  · 1 Mar 2012  · 287pp  · 87,204 words

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

by David Wootton  · 7 Dec 2015  · 1,197pp  · 304,245 words

Inside British Intelligence

by Gordon Thomas

Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid  · 2 Feb 2000  · 791pp  · 85,159 words

The Mind Is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind

by Nick Chater  · 28 Mar 2018  · 263pp  · 81,527 words

Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work

by Iain Gately  · 6 Nov 2014  · 352pp  · 104,411 words

50 Psychology Classics

by Tom Butler-Bowdon  · 14 Oct 2007  · 363pp  · 109,374 words

Hawaii

by Jeff Campbell  · 4 Nov 2009

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

by Juli Berwald  · 4 Apr 2022  · 495pp  · 114,451 words

All Tomorrow's Parties

by William Gibson  · 2 Jan 1999  · 341pp  · 84,752 words

Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance

by Paul Wilmott  · 3 Jan 2007  · 345pp  · 86,394 words

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand  · 15 Mar 2009  · 422pp  · 113,525 words

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business

by David J. Anderson  · 6 Apr 2010  · 318pp  · 78,451 words

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

by Stephen Westaby  · 9 Feb 2017  · 467pp  · 92,081 words

Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years

by Richard Watson  · 1 Jan 2008

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom

by Martin Jacques  · 12 Nov 2009  · 859pp  · 204,092 words

Pattern Recognition

by William Gibson  · 2 Jan 2003  · 385pp  · 99,985 words

GCHQ

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

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

by William Poundstone  · 4 Jan 2012  · 260pp  · 77,007 words

The Retreat of Western Liberalism

by Edward Luce  · 20 Apr 2017  · 223pp  · 58,732 words

The Trouble With Billionaires

by Linda McQuaig  · 1 May 2013  · 261pp  · 81,802 words

Language and Mind

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Jan 1968

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

by Danielle Ofri  · 3 Jun 2013  · 263pp  · 78,433 words

How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman  · 15 Jan 2007  · 292pp  · 94,324 words

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood  · 5 May 2003

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late

by Michael Ellsberg  · 15 Jan 2011  · 362pp  · 99,063 words

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper  · 24 Feb 2004  · 193pp  · 98,671 words

The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray  · 18 Jan 1997

House of God

by Samuel Shem  · 1 Jan 1978  · 436pp  · 131,430 words

DIY Investor: How to Take Control of Your Investments & Plan for a Financially Secure Future

by Andy Bell  · 12 Sep 2013  · 348pp  · 82,499 words

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister  · 2 Jan 1987  · 261pp  · 16,734 words

Meantime: The Brilliant 'Unputdownable Crime Novel' From Frankie Boyle

by Frankie Boyle  · 20 Jul 2022  · 286pp  · 86,480 words

The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential

by David Adam  · 6 Feb 2018  · 258pp  · 79,503 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 BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Photography

by Jim Miotke  · 9 Feb 2011

USA's Best Trips

by Sara Benson  · 23 May 2010  · 941pp  · 237,152 words

Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya

by Nicholas Best  · 9 Aug 2013  · 267pp  · 81,108 words

Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds

by Dominique Mielle  · 6 Sep 2021  · 195pp  · 63,455 words

The Rough Guide to Egypt (Rough Guide to...)

by Dan Richardson and Daniel Jacobs  · 1 Feb 2013

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas  · 19 Oct 1999  · 509pp  · 92,141 words

Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe

by Greg Ip  · 12 Oct 2015  · 309pp  · 95,495 words

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz  · 1 Mar 2013  · 567pp  · 122,311 words

Antarctica

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 6 Jul 1987  · 607pp  · 185,228 words

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

by Shane Snow  · 8 Sep 2014  · 278pp  · 70,416 words

How the Mind Works

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

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt  · 13 Mar 2012  · 539pp  · 139,378 words

The Idea of Decline in Western History

by Arthur Herman  · 8 Jan 1997  · 717pp  · 196,908 words

Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

by Jonathan Haslam  · 21 Sep 2015  · 525pp  · 131,496 words

Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

by Matthew Syed  · 9 Sep 2019  · 280pp  · 76,638 words

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

by Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto  · 30 Sep 2007  · 1,302pp  · 289,469 words

Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto

by Mark Helprin  · 19 Apr 2009  · 272pp  · 83,378 words

People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams

by Jono Bacon  · 12 Nov 2019  · 302pp  · 73,946 words

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

by Vauhini Vara  · 8 Apr 2025  · 301pp  · 105,209 words

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

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

by Thomas Morris  · 31 May 2017

The Martian

by Andy Weir  · 1 Jan 2011  · 410pp  · 103,421 words

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle  · 1 Jan 1997  · 212pp  · 64,724 words

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss  · 6 Dec 2016  · 669pp  · 210,153 words

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein  · 1 Mar 2019  · 406pp  · 109,794 words

The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

by Simon Baron-Cohen  · 14 Aug 2020

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

by Edward Slingerland  · 31 May 2021

Greater: Britain After the Storm

by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis  · 19 May 2021  · 516pp  · 116,875 words

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

by Christopher Summerfield  · 11 Mar 2025  · 412pp  · 122,298 words

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

by Daniel Gardner  · 23 Jun 2009  · 542pp  · 132,010 words

David Mitchell: Back Story

by David Mitchell  · 10 Oct 2012  · 335pp  · 114,039 words

The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

by Steven Kotler  · 4 Mar 2014  · 330pp  · 88,445 words

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

by Rory Stewart  · 1 Jan 2005  · 407pp  · 123,587 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

Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals

by John Lefevre  · 4 Nov 2014  · 243pp  · 77,516 words

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell  · 1 Jan 2005  · 264pp  · 90,379 words

Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement

by Robert Clyatt  · 28 Sep 2007

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann  · 17 Jun 2019

Dinosaurs Rediscovered

by Michael J. Benton  · 14 Sep 2019

The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt

by Russell Napier  · 19 Jul 2021  · 511pp  · 151,359 words

Die With Zero: Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life

by Bill Perkins  · 27 Jul 2020  · 200pp  · 63,266 words

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

by Jo Marchant  · 15 Jan 2020  · 544pp  · 134,483 words

Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

by James Suzman  · 2 Sep 2020  · 909pp  · 130,170 words

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

by Tom Vanderbilt  · 5 Jan 2021  · 312pp  · 92,131 words

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

by Bee Wilson  · 14 Sep 2012  · 376pp  · 110,321 words

This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone  · 15 Jul 2019  · 132pp  · 37,391 words

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

by Garr Reynolds  · 14 Aug 2010

The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How to Say Something Funny About Anything

by Sally Holloway  · 2 Nov 2010  · 161pp  · 38,039 words

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

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

A Crack in the Edge of the World

by Simon Winchester  · 9 Oct 2006  · 482pp  · 147,281 words

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

by Simon Winchester  · 1 Jan 2003  · 582pp  · 136,780 words

The Blind Watchmaker; Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

by Richard Dawkins  · 1 Jan 1986  · 420pp  · 143,881 words

The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever

by Christian Wolmar  · 30 Sep 2009  · 447pp  · 126,219 words

Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps

by Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham  · 14 Aug 2011  · 145pp  · 40,897 words

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

by Matt Alt  · 14 Apr 2020

Tackling TypeScript

by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer  · 14 Apr 2020

Comedy Writing Secrets

by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz  · 14 Sep 2005

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins  · 1 Jan 1976  · 365pp  · 117,713 words

Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons From Modern Life

by David Mitchell  · 4 Nov 2014  · 354pp  · 99,690 words

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

by John Kay  · 30 Apr 2010  · 237pp  · 50,758 words

The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting

by Anne Trubek  · 5 Sep 2016

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

by Eliot Higgins  · 2 Mar 2021  · 277pp  · 70,506 words

The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance From Scratch

by Thomas Thwaites  · 27 Sep 2011

The End of Nice: How to Be Human in a World Run by Robots (Kindle Single)

by Richard Newton  · 11 Apr 2015  · 94pp  · 26,453 words

Simple Matters: Living With Less and Ending Up With More

by Erin Boyle  · 12 Jan 2016  · 127pp  · 38,674 words

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

by Elaine Morgan  · 3 Jan 2011  · 197pp  · 53,476 words