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We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 13 Apr 2026  · 225pp  · 76,418 words

stress. It’s a blitz our nervous systems were never designed to withstand. The fallout is both predictable and global: depression, exhaustion, burnout—on a planetary scale. In fact, if you try to quantify the wrecking ball of overload in bits and bytes, the standard metrics of information, well, once again, there

. Algorithms. Labs. Market forces. All of them converged on the same target: the human brain. It’s a full-force rewiring of pleasure on a planetary scale. Social media was the first wave. Billed as a connection tool, it became an attention predator. Platforms built to facilitate communication became tools to supercharge

for anti-fragility, and in our survival-of-the-speediest world, it’s our compass. We built tools of mythic power: AI, robotics, synthetic biology, planetary-scale networks. Yet we’re steering them with software tuned to life on the savanna. Logic helps, but lateral thinking, those strange intuitive leaps between distant

leap in capability—from vision recognition to multimodal reasoning—has been powered by more computation, driving innovations in GPUs, tensor processors, and distributed training at planetary scale. The feedback loop is self-accelerating: Greater compute enables smarter models, which in turn design better chips and algorithms. Intelligence is no longer capped by

The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration

by Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees  · 18 Apr 2022  · 192pp  · 63,813 words

to our current installation at the South Pole, though operating under much harsher circumstances. Some enthusiasts regard this as a preliminary stage in a grand, planetary-scale project to turn Mars into a planet more hospitable to human habitation, potentially capable of supporting a population equal to Earth’s. Although Mars has

Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System

by Ray Jayawardhana  · 3 Feb 2011  · 257pp  · 66,480 words

the Earth is special among its brethren in the solar system as the only planet with liquid water on its surface and life on a planetary scale. But there’s no reason to think that our solar system is unique in the Galaxy, given its hundreds of billions of stars. Unfolding Story

Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System

by Natalie Starkey  · 29 Sep 2021  · 309pp  · 97,320 words

understand the inner workings of planets, then looking at what happens on the surface is a great place to begin. It’s a case of planetary-scale bookkeeping, documenting past events in order to piece together their history. Active planetary bodies literally spew out their insides, which offers a glimpse of what

had a lesser effect on planetary evolution. During the time that aluminium-26 was active and generating heat, it was an incredibly effective source of planetary-scale warming. The heat produced was enough, in fact, to melt the planetesimals within which it was contained, turning their rocky interiors into molten rock, or

be capable of fuelling significant geological processes at its surface. A planet that is cold inside, with no volcanism, is a dead one. Nevertheless, without planetary-scale cooling in the first place, we would never have seen volcanic features on these bodies either. In terms of making a life-giving, geologically interesting

Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars

by Lee Billings  · 2 Oct 2013  · 326pp  · 97,089 words

“primordial soup” of organic compounds—sugars, lipids, and even amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. Acting over millions of years on a planetary scale, such reactions could easily synthesize the organic ingredients for life from inorganic chemical precursors. On our own planet, the fossil record suggested that life must

Moon, the Martian moon Phobos, and Mars. The prominent astronomer Fred Whipple suggested that Earth’s population would have stabilized at 100 billion, and that planetary-scale engineering of Mars would have altered the Red Planet’s climate to allow its 700,000 inhabitants to be self-sufficient. The director of NASA

scales differences between living things and their inanimate environs became indistinct, and the world could rightly be viewed as a complex system analogous to a planetary-scale organism. He called this union of the biosphere and the rest of the Earth “Gaia” after the goddess of Mother Earth in Greek mythology. With

The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans

by Mark Lynas  · 3 Oct 2011  · 369pp  · 98,776 words

divine. God’s power is now increasingly being exercised by us. We are the creators of life, but we are also its destroyers. On a planetary scale, humans now assert unchallenged dominion over all living things. Our collective power already threatens or overwhelms most of the major forces of nature, from the

itself, and hence our own survival as a species. To avert this increasing danger, we must begin to take responsibility for our actions at a planetary scale. Nature no longer runs the Earth. We do. It is our choice what happens from here. This book aims to demonstrate how our new task

world, probably has a direct effect on the region’s monsoon.7 Due to the globe-girdling reach of modern human civilization, these regional and planetary-scale changes are perhaps unsurprising, for humanity has always had an umbilical connection with rivers and fresh water. Imperial capitals throughout history have lined major watercourses

little trace behind as their once unconquerable cities were reclaimed by sand or forest. Today we face the danger of overusing water resources on a planetary scale, and the consequences for our advanced civilization may be just as significant in the long run. TURNING ON THE TAP It would be foolish to

our planet will subtly change color—to a darker hue, perhaps with a greenish tint where photosynthesizing algae take over from their calcifying brethren, another planetary-scale visual change that might be detected from space. Scientific studies seem to confirm that coccolithophores are sensitive to ocean acidification: Those organisms exposed to high

by the national pledges currently on the table at Copenhagen would warm by four degrees, perhaps more. We all knew what this meant. It meant planetary-scale destruction and perhaps a mortal threat to civilization. Much of the hothouse atmosphere at the negotiations arose because everyone knew how desperately important they were

Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World

by Oliver Morton  · 15 Feb 2003  · 409pp  · 129,423 words

biota, at once so enduring and so seemingly fragile, that lives in the imagination most fully, establishing a new bridge between the books’ personal and planetary scales. There’s a seeming contradiction here. The surface of Mars is extraordinarily ancient; the High Sierras are relatively young mountains, and the postglacial fell-fields

on Mars, Parker saw half a dozen shorelines parallel to each other. Most of them, though, could not be traced for long distances. At the planetary scale there were just two: “Contact 1,” which kept close to the highland-lowland boundary, and “Contact 2,” which was farther out into the lowlands. Parker

distinct slope, with the south pole about six miles higher than the northern plains. So if the water were to find its level on a planetary scale, that level could easily be deep beneath the southern highlands—and a few miles above the northern plains. The ocean’s shore would mark the

system for Sojourner. Boston threw herself into studying the complex interactions within biospheres in order to make sense of what biology could do on a planetary scale; she was one of the people who got the American Geophysical Union to take its first serious look at Jim Lovelock’s Gaia theory, which

delicate bridges leaping the narrower parts of Valles Marineris in a single span. A Martian railway network could be a work of art on a planetary scale. But it might not be the only one. The Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, perhaps most famous today for his furniture design, worked in his

the state of the technological art than used to be the case. But at the same time, our technology has become capable of operating at planetary scales. Humankind had never really seen a planet-wide weather phenomenon before Mariner 9 sent back images of the great dust storm of 1971; within a

to suppose it is near its end. And if it persists to twice its present age, it will be through designing those environments on a planetary scale with both greater care and greater ambition, protecting them from bolts from the blue and changes in the climate and other calamities that would once

Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System

by Natalie Starkey  · 8 Mar 2018  · 284pp  · 89,477 words

changes in their long history since formation. They have been melted and re-formed many times over, experiencing violent impacts from space and then undergoing planetary-scale processing such as plate tectonics, of which we’ll learn more later. In fact, because of these processes, the planets have almost completely hidden away

to, with some being energetically closer than the Moon, requiring less rocket thrust to reach them. The relatively small size of comets and asteroids on planetary scales also gives them a low surface gravity which makes them easier to leave than the Moon, requiring less energy to blast back off their surfaces

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

by Jim Bell  · 24 Feb 2015  · 310pp  · 89,653 words

even including exotic, low-temperature ices other than water ice. And its strange backward orbit suggested that it may have been through some sort of planetary-scale trauma, such as being captured by Neptune, or had its course changed by some sort of giant impact. It was a great way to end

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

by Carl Sagan  · 8 Sep 1997  · 356pp  · 102,224 words

. And so, due to the almost mythic powers of our technology (and the prevalence of short-term thinking), we are beginning—on Continental and on planetary scales—to pose a danger to ourselves. Plainly, if these problems are to be solved, it will require many nations acting in concert over many years

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth  · 22 Mar 2017  · 403pp  · 111,119 words

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

by Rebecca Boyle  · 16 Jan 2024  · 354pp  · 109,574 words

Cosmos

by Carl Sagan  · 1 Jan 1980  · 404pp  · 131,034 words

Case for Mars

by Robert Zubrin  · 27 Jun 2011  · 437pp  · 126,860 words

The Moon: A History for the Future

by Oliver Morton  · 1 May 2019  · 319pp  · 100,984 words

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

by James Lovelock  · 27 Aug 2019  · 94pp  · 33,179 words

Judas Unchained

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 1 Jan 2006  · 1,386pp  · 379,115 words

Iron Sunrise

by Stross, Charles  · 28 Oct 2004  · 462pp  · 142,240 words

Revelation Space

by Alastair Reynolds  · 1 Jan 2000  · 804pp  · 212,335 words

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

by Carl Sagan  · 11 May 1998  · 272pp  · 76,089 words

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  · 6 Nov 2023  · 490pp  · 132,502 words

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

by Michio Kaku  · 15 Mar 2011  · 523pp  · 148,929 words

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

by James E. Lovelock  · 1 Jan 2009  · 239pp  · 68,598 words

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 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

Ancestral Night

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

Accelerando

by Stross, Charles  · 22 Jan 2005  · 489pp  · 148,885 words

The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

by Ruth Defries  · 8 Sep 2014  · 342pp  · 88,736 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

by Alan Weisman  · 23 Sep 2013  · 579pp  · 164,339 words

Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community

by Karen T. Litfin  · 16 Dec 2013  · 322pp  · 89,523 words

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

by Robert Wright  · 28 Dec 2010

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

by Oliver Morton  · 26 Sep 2015  · 469pp  · 142,230 words

House of Suns

by Alastair Reynolds  · 16 Apr 2008  · 635pp  · 186,208 words

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic  · 2 Jul 2008

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism

by John Elkington  · 6 Apr 2020  · 384pp  · 93,754 words

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg  · 14 Feb 2023  · 651pp  · 162,060 words

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince  · 22 Aug 2022  · 302pp  · 92,206 words

What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly  · 14 Jul 2010  · 476pp  · 132,042 words

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

by Gaia Vince  · 19 Oct 2014  · 505pp  · 147,916 words

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

by David Christian  · 21 May 2018  · 334pp  · 100,201 words

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Dec 2009  · 879pp  · 233,093 words

The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life

by Robert Wright  · 1 Jan 1994  · 604pp  · 161,455 words

Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

by Vaclav Smil  · 2 Mar 2021  · 1,324pp  · 159,290 words

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein  · 15 Sep 2014  · 829pp  · 229,566 words

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

by Timothy Ferris  · 30 Jun 1988  · 661pp  · 169,298 words

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal  · 20 Jan 2011  · 470pp  · 128,328 words

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

by David C. Korten  · 1 Jan 2001

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 13 May 2013  · 317pp  · 98,745 words

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold  · 24 Dec 2011

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord  · 24 Mar 2020  · 513pp  · 152,381 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

by David Graeber  · 13 Aug 2012  · 284pp  · 92,387 words

Humankind: Solidarity With Non-Human People

by Timothy Morton  · 14 Oct 2017  · 225pp  · 70,180 words

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper  · 15 Jan 2020  · 285pp  · 86,858 words

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly  · 6 Jun 2016  · 371pp  · 108,317 words

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

by Stephen Graham  · 30 Oct 2009  · 717pp  · 150,288 words

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham  · 8 Nov 2016  · 519pp  · 136,708 words

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz  · 20 Mar 2018  · 328pp  · 96,141 words

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

by Vaclav Smil  · 23 Sep 2019

Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot

by Mark Vanhoenacker  · 1 Jun 2015  · 319pp  · 105,949 words

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

by Franklin Foer  · 31 Aug 2017  · 281pp  · 71,242 words

The Rise of the Network Society

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

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane  · 1 May 2019  · 489pp  · 136,195 words

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield  · 29 May 2017  · 410pp  · 119,823 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

Losing Earth: A Recent History

by Nathaniel Rich  · 4 Aug 2018  · 148pp  · 45,249 words

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham  · 17 Jan 2020  · 207pp  · 59,298 words

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

by Paul Cooper  · 31 Mar 2024  · 583pp  · 174,033 words

What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

by John Brockman  · 5 Oct 2015  · 481pp  · 125,946 words

Bureaucracy

by David Graeber  · 3 Feb 2015  · 252pp  · 80,636 words

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey  · 20 Jul 2015  · 417pp  · 109,367 words

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World

by Michal Zalewski  · 11 Jan 2022  · 337pp  · 96,666 words

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

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

Engineering Infinity

by Jonathan Strahan  · 28 Dec 2010  · 360pp  · 101,636 words

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 5 Nov 2013  · 501pp  · 145,943 words

Jennifer Morgue

by Stross, Charles  · 12 Jan 2006

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

by Jeff Goodell  · 10 Jul 2023  · 347pp  · 108,323 words

The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life

by Paul Davies  · 31 Jan 2019  · 253pp  · 83,473 words

The God Delusion

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

The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

by Steven Johnson  · 26 Dec 2008  · 200pp  · 60,987 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

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

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

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

by Stephen Cave  · 2 Apr 2012  · 299pp  · 98,943 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

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

by Andrew J. Bacevich  · 7 Jan 2020  · 254pp  · 68,133 words

EcoVillage at Ithaca Pioneering a Sustainable Culture (2005)

by Liz Walker  · 20 May 2005

The Global Minotaur

by Yanis Varoufakis and Paul Mason  · 4 Jul 2015  · 394pp  · 85,734 words

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

by Jeff Goodell  · 23 Oct 2017  · 292pp  · 92,588 words

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott  · 4 Jul 2022  · 308pp  · 85,850 words

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

by Ruchir Sharma  · 8 Apr 2012  · 411pp  · 114,717 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

Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

by Duncan J. Watts  · 28 Mar 2011  · 327pp  · 103,336 words

Turing's Cathedral

by George Dyson  · 6 Mar 2012

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

Danube (Panther)

by Claudio Magris  · 10 Jan 2011  · 459pp  · 154,280 words

The Rare Metals War

by Guillaume Pitron  · 15 Feb 2020  · 249pp  · 66,492 words

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

by Jonathan Crary  · 3 Jun 2013  · 102pp  · 33,345 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

Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One

by Debora MacKenzie  · 13 Jul 2020  · 266pp  · 80,273 words

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

by Kevin Roose  · 9 Mar 2021  · 208pp  · 57,602 words

We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

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

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

by Silvia Federici  · 4 Oct 2012  · 277pp  · 80,703 words

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies  · 26 Feb 2019  · 349pp  · 98,868 words

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

by Peter Lunenfeld  · 31 Mar 2011  · 239pp  · 56,531 words

Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

by Michel Aglietta  · 23 Oct 2018  · 665pp  · 146,542 words

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson  · 28 Sep 2014  · 243pp  · 65,374 words

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman  · 20 May 2020  · 562pp  · 153,825 words

The Techno-Human Condition

by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz  · 15 Feb 2011

Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

by Ed Conway  · 15 Jun 2023  · 515pp  · 152,128 words

The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet

by Arthur Turrell  · 2 Aug 2021  · 297pp  · 84,447 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

by Michael Spitzer  · 31 Mar 2021  · 632pp  · 163,143 words

Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

by Matthew Sweet  · 13 Feb 2018  · 493pp  · 136,235 words

Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web

by Paul Adams  · 1 Nov 2011  · 123pp  · 32,382 words

The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

by Simon Clark and Will Louch  · 14 Jul 2021  · 403pp  · 105,550 words

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson  · 14 Apr 2020  · 491pp  · 141,690 words

ZeroZeroZero

by Roberto Saviano  · 4 Apr 2013  · 442pp  · 135,006 words

Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio  · 18 Sep 2017  · 516pp  · 157,437 words

Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman  · 2 Mar 2021  · 332pp  · 100,245 words

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

by Nesrine Malik  · 4 Sep 2019

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez  · 11 Apr 2016  · 532pp  · 162,509 words

The Strange Order of Things: The Biological Roots of Culture

by Antonio Damasio  · 6 Feb 2018  · 289pp  · 87,292 words

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson  · 14 Jul 2012  · 184pp  · 53,625 words

Smart Machines: IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing (Columbia Business School Publishing)

by John E. Kelly Iii  · 23 Sep 2013  · 118pp  · 35,663 words

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

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

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell

by Neal Stephenson  · 3 Jun 2019  · 993pp  · 318,161 words

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

by Pankaj Mishra  · 26 Jan 2017  · 410pp  · 106,931 words

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

by Matthew Cobb  · 15 Nov 2022  · 772pp  · 150,109 words

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

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

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

California

by Sara Benson  · 15 Oct 2010

The Locavore's Dilemma

by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu  · 29 May 2012  · 329pp  · 85,471 words

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson  · 8 Sep 2010  · 331pp  · 106,256 words

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

by Anil Seth  · 29 Aug 2021  · 418pp  · 102,597 words

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini  · 17 Oct 2022  · 328pp  · 96,678 words

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

by Adam Tooze  · 15 Nov 2021  · 561pp  · 138,158 words

PostGIS in Action, 2nd Edition

by Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu  · 2 May 2015

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson  · 26 Mar 2019  · 499pp  · 144,278 words

PostGIS in Action

by Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu  · 2 May 2015