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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
used as such. However, because so much of the world’s financial markets is dollar based, U.S. Treasury debt is particularly useful. In a seminal paper a decade ago, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Arvind Krishnamurthy estimated the convenience yield to be about half a percent, an order of magnitude we will
The Case Against Sugar
by Gary Taubes · 27 Dec 2016 · 406pp · 115,719 words
in their practices. As late as 1797, the British army surgeon John Rollo could publish “An Account of Two Cases of the Diabetes Mellitus,” a seminal paper in the history of the disease, and report that he had seen these cases nineteen years apart despite, as Rollo wrote, spending the intervening years
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson · 20 Mar 2012 · 547pp · 172,226 words
. 14, discusses the independence of Mexico and the constitution. See Stevens (1991) and Knight (2011) on postindependence political instability and presidents. Coatsworth (1978) is the seminal paper on the evidence on economic decline in Mexico after independence. Haber (2010) presents the comparison of the development of banking in Mexico and the United
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
by Gary Taubes · 25 Sep 2007 · 936pp · 252,313 words
in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis. In 1912, the Chicago physician James Herrick published a seminal paper on the diagnosis of coronary heart disease—following up on the work of two Russian clinicians in Kiev—but only after Herrick used the newly
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Church, and he became a senior attending physician at Los Angeles County General Hospital. But these were not institutions that bestowed credibility. Meanwhile, Newburgh’s seminal paper establishing a perverted appetite as the definitive cause of obesity was published in 1942, and Newburgh rejected the lipophilia hypothesis with the alacrity with which
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1940; Rynearson and Gastineau 1949. Footnote. Interview, Theodore Van Itallie. Bauer’s articles in English: Silver and Bauer 1931; Bauer 1940; Bauer 1941. Newburgh’s seminal paper: Newburgh 1942. “indubitable” and “is also probably present…”: Cahill 1978. “significantly more weight”: Lee and Schaffer 1934. For a similar experiment, see Marx et al
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cycle, see Newsholme and Start 1973:214–34. “so that they are unable…”: Gordon 1970:242. Randle cycle: Randle et al. 1963 is Randle’s seminal paper on the glucose/fatty acid cycle. “even in trace amounts…”: Wertheimer and Shafrir 1960:483. “the principal regulator…” and “only the negative…”: Berson and Yalow
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, Stephen Woods. Le Magnen’s life and career: Le Magnen 2001. Rats ate discrete meals: See Le Magnen 1976. See also Le Magnen 1971, his seminal paper on the physiological psychology of hunger. Two fundamental observations: Le Magnen 1971:213–19. “quantitative deficiencies…”: Adolph 1947:122. “All increase or decrease…”: Le Magnen
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green · 18 Mar 2025 · 158pp · 49,742 words
can’t very well blame others for not finishing their antibiotics when I know how often I’ve failed to finish my own. * * * — In his seminal paper “Social Scientists and the New Tuberculosis,” Partners In Health cofounder Dr. Paul Farmer outlined the story of one “noncompliant” patient, a nineteen-year-old Haitian
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Geoffrey West · 15 May 2017 · 578pp · 168,350 words
as relationships between scale-invariant dimensionless quantities, even though conventionally they are not typically written that way. This was the underlying message of Rayleigh’s seminal paper. His paper elegantly illustrates the technique with many well-chosen examples, including one that provides the scientific explanation for one of the great mysteries of
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were known before the end of the nineteenth century, its modern incarnation is credited to the distinguished physiologist Max Kleiber, who formalized it in a seminal paper published in an obscure Danish journal in 1932.5 I was quite excited when I first came across Kleiber’s law because I had presumed
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. The various technical papers devoted to specific elaborations and ramifications of this framework will be cited in the appropriate places in later chapters. 15. The seminal paper detailing these results is L. M. A. Bettencourt, et al., “Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities,” Proceedings of the National Academy
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by George Zarkadakis · 7 Mar 2016 · 405pp · 117,219 words
there something beyond the metaphor, a deeper insight into the nature and cause of being and becoming? Ever since British mathematician Alan Turing wrote his seminal paper on machines imitating humans, various camps in computer science, robotics and Artificial Intelligence have been demarcated by the dichotomy between materialism and idealism. We cannot
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into binary digits and stored in the memory. Digital information is a long, long sequence of zeros and ones. Shannon’s breakthrough idea in his seminal paper ‘A Mathematical Theory of Communication’25 was to borrow the probabilistic mathematics of thermodynamics and apply them to the new field of telecommunications. Thermodynamics describes
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neurophysiologist who loved writing sonnets and laid the foundations of many contemporary brain theories. In 1943, he collaborated with Walter Pitts, a logician, on a seminal paper about the mathematics of neural cells.5 In this paper, McCulloch and Pitts tried to understand how the brain could produce highly complex patterns by
Masterminds of Programming: Conversations With the Creators of Major Programming Languages
by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden · 21 Mar 2009 · 496pp · 174,084 words
language where you describe what you want, not how to do it. Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce developed SQL based on Codd’s ideas. A Seminal Paper How was SQL designed? Don Chamberlin: In the early 1970s, integrated database systems were just beginning to be widely deployed. Trends in technology and economics
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languages, trying to find ways to improve the languages that were in common usage at the time. In June of 1970, Ted Codd published a seminal paper[21] introducing the relational model of data and describing its advantages for data independence and application development. Codd’s paper attracted a great deal of
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The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 May 2016 · 824pp · 218,333 words
proteins to the structure of DNA. Five thousand miles away, in Cambridge, Watson and Crick could almost feel Pauling breathing down their necks. Pauling’s seminal paper on the protein helix was published in April 1951. Festooned with equations and numbers, it was intimidating to read, even for experts. But to Crick
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. “A youthful arrogance”: Crick, What Mad Pursuit, 64. “The trouble is, you see, that there is”: Watson, Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, 107. Pauling’s seminal paper: L. Pauling, R. B. Corey, and H. R. Branson, “The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chain,” Proceedings of the
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DNA, these RNA molecules were built: Two other scientists, Elliot Volkin and Lazarus Astrachan, had proposed an RNA intermediate for genes in 1956. The two seminal papers published by the Brenner/Jacob group and the Watson/Gilbert group in 1961 are: F. Gros et al., “Unstable ribonucleic acid revealed by pulse labeling
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do
by Matthew Syed · 3 Nov 2015 · 410pp · 114,005 words
lessons that are superficial.”15 Wald’s analysis of bullet-riddled aircraft in World War II saved the lives of dozens of brave airmen. His seminal paper for the military was not declassified until July 1980, but can be found today via a simple search on Google. It is entitled: “A Method
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 23 Sep 2019 · 809pp · 237,921 words
The Infinity Puzzle
by Frank Close · 29 Nov 2011 · 449pp · 123,459 words
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by Robin Wigglesworth · 11 Oct 2021 · 432pp · 106,612 words
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig · 14 Jul 2019 · 2,466pp · 668,761 words
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker · 2 Oct 2017 · 442pp · 127,300 words
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words
Architects of Intelligence
by Martin Ford · 16 Nov 2018 · 586pp · 186,548 words
Mathematics of the Financial Markets: Financial Instruments and Derivatives Modelling, Valuation and Risk Issues
by Alain Ruttiens · 24 Apr 2013 · 447pp · 104,258 words
Machine Translation
by Thierry Poibeau · 14 Sep 2017 · 174pp · 56,405 words
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson · 28 Sep 2001
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
by Anil Ananthaswamy · 15 Jul 2024 · 416pp · 118,522 words
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques: Concepts and Techniques
by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei · 21 Jun 2011
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland · 11 Oct 2012 · 481pp · 120,693 words
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
by Joel Mokyr · 8 Jan 2016 · 687pp · 189,243 words
Is God a Mathematician?
by Mario Livio · 6 Jan 2009 · 315pp · 93,628 words
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
by Jeremy Lent · 22 May 2017 · 789pp · 207,744 words
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · 18 Dec 2007 · 1,041pp · 317,136 words
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt
by Sinan Aral · 14 Sep 2020 · 475pp · 134,707 words
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words
How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite
by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter · 30 Jun 2007
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
by Brian Christian · 5 Oct 2020 · 625pp · 167,349 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport · 5 Jan 2016
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest
by Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster · 16 Aug 2021 · 542pp · 145,022 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
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
by Brian Krebs · 18 Nov 2014 · 252pp · 75,349 words
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
by Paul Sen · 16 Mar 2021 · 444pp · 111,837 words
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
by Toby Ord · 24 Mar 2020 · 513pp · 152,381 words
Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
by Amir D. Aczel · 6 Jan 2015 · 204pp · 60,319 words
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson · 9 Mar 2021 · 700pp · 160,604 words
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
by Scott Kupor · 3 Jun 2019 · 340pp · 100,151 words
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words
Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus · 10 Mar 2009 · 454pp · 107,163 words
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World
by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · 20 Apr 2015 · 294pp · 82,438 words
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
by Simon Winchester · 1 Jan 2003 · 582pp · 136,780 words
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by Barbara Oakley Phd · 20 Oct 2008
Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
by William MacAskill · 31 Aug 2022 · 451pp · 125,201 words
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
by Adam Greenfield · 14 Sep 2006 · 229pp · 68,426 words
Monadic Design Patterns for the Web
by L.G. Meredith · 214pp · 14,382 words
Beyond the 4% Rule: The Science of Retirement Portfolios That Last a Lifetime
by Abraham Okusanya · 5 Mar 2018 · 130pp · 32,279 words
The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
by Kariappa Bheemaiah · 26 Feb 2017 · 492pp · 118,882 words
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman · 15 Jan 2007 · 292pp · 94,324 words
Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane · 14 Oct 2005 · 369pp · 153,018 words
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
by Kevin Davies · 5 Oct 2020 · 741pp · 164,057 words
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
by T. R. Reid · 18 Dec 2007 · 293pp · 91,110 words
The Knowledge Illusion
by Steven Sloman · 10 Feb 2017 · 313pp · 91,098 words
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by Cordelia Fine · 13 Jan 2017 · 312pp · 83,998 words
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play
by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant · 7 Nov 2019
The Clash of the Cultures
by John C. Bogle · 30 Jun 2012 · 339pp · 109,331 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
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
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
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
by Molly Scott Cato · 16 Dec 2008
Code Complete (Developer Best Practices)
by Steve McConnell · 8 Jun 2004 · 1,758pp · 342,766 words
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime
by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden · 24 Oct 2022 · 392pp · 114,189 words
The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions
by Victor Haghani and James White · 27 Aug 2023 · 314pp · 122,534 words
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
by Paulina Rowinska · 5 Jun 2024 · 361pp · 100,834 words
Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson · 11 Sep 2023 · 562pp · 201,502 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
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert · 11 Feb 2014 · 308pp · 94,447 words
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, From Atoms to Economies
by Cesar Hidalgo · 1 Jun 2015 · 242pp · 68,019 words
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox · 29 May 2009 · 461pp · 128,421 words
Decoding Organization: Bletchley Park, Codebreaking and Organization Studies
by Christopher Grey · 22 Mar 2012
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 words
Espresso Tales
by Alexander McCall Smith · 1 Jan 2005 · 419pp · 119,368 words
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson · 26 Aug 2013 · 465pp · 103,303 words
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
by Matthew Syed · 19 Apr 2010 · 304pp · 84,396 words
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by Katharina Pistor · 27 May 2019 · 316pp · 117,228 words
Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
by Paul Halpern · 13 Apr 2015 · 282pp · 89,436 words
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 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 Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt · 8 Apr 2025 · 260pp · 82,629 words
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie · 1 Mar 2018
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
by Jacob Ward · 25 Jan 2022 · 292pp · 94,660 words
Mastering Blockchain, Second Edition
by Imran Bashir · 28 Mar 2018
AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications
by Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt · 31 Dec 2023 · 321pp · 113,564 words
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes · 17 Sep 2012 · 1,437pp · 384,709 words
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant From Two Centuries of Controversy
by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne · 16 May 2011 · 561pp · 120,899 words
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
by Alanna Collen · 4 May 2015 · 372pp · 111,573 words
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
by Bruce Schneier · 10 Nov 1993
P53: The Gene That Cracked the Cancer Code
by Sue Armstrong · 20 Nov 2014 · 260pp · 84,847 words
A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar · 11 Jun 1998 · 998pp · 211,235 words
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by Shane Snow · 8 Sep 2014 · 278pp · 70,416 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 Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2
by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan · 27 Aug 2014 · 757pp · 193,541 words
Autotools
by John Calcote · 20 Jul 2010 · 555pp · 119,733 words
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by Antti Ilmanen · 4 Apr 2011 · 1,088pp · 228,743 words
Open for Business Harnessing the Power of Platform Ecosystems
by Lauren Turner Claire, Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier · 14 Oct 2017 · 240pp · 78,436 words
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore · 16 Oct 2017 · 335pp · 89,924 words
Understanding Asset Allocation: An Intuitive Approach to Maximizing Your Portfolio
by Victor A. Canto · 2 Jan 2005 · 337pp · 89,075 words
The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
by Joseph Mazur · 20 Apr 2020 · 283pp · 85,906 words
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake · 11 May 2020
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
Beyond: Our Future in Space
by Chris Impey · 12 Apr 2015 · 370pp · 97,138 words
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry
by Martin Campbell-Kelly · 15 Jan 2003
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
Vassal State
by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu · 2 Nov 2010 · 418pp · 128,965 words
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by Clay Shirky · 9 Jun 2010 · 236pp · 66,081 words
The Fissured Workplace
by David Weil · 17 Feb 2014 · 518pp · 147,036 words
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson · 5 Oct 2010 · 298pp · 81,200 words
The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit
by Marina Krakovsky · 14 Sep 2015 · 270pp · 79,180 words
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
by George Monbiot · 13 May 2013 · 424pp · 122,350 words
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante · 9 Sep 2019
Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
by Nessa Carey · 7 Mar 2019 · 182pp · 45,873 words
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
by Marcus Du Sautoy · 18 May 2016
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by Amy Webb · 5 Mar 2019 · 340pp · 97,723 words
Case for Mars
by Robert Zubrin · 27 Jun 2011 · 437pp · 126,860 words
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . And Are Ready to Do It Again
by Nicholas Dunbar · 11 Jul 2011 · 350pp · 103,270 words
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
by Will Larson · 19 May 2019 · 227pp · 63,186 words
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller · 1 Jan 2009 · 471pp · 97,152 words
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by Russell Gold · 7 Apr 2014 · 423pp · 118,002 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
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
by Stephen Hawking · 28 Mar 2007
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki · 1 Jan 2004 · 326pp · 106,053 words
War Without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR
by John Dower · 11 Apr 1986 · 516pp · 159,734 words
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
Think Complexity
by Allen B. Downey · 23 Feb 2012 · 247pp · 43,430 words
House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi · 11 May 2014 · 249pp · 66,383 words
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
by Raghuram Rajan · 24 May 2010 · 358pp · 106,729 words
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do About It
by Alex Edmans · 13 May 2024 · 315pp · 87,035 words
Capital Ideas Evolving
by Peter L. Bernstein · 3 May 2007
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon · 1 Jan 1996 · 352pp · 96,532 words
What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix It
by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson · 30 Apr 2016 · 304pp · 80,965 words
Database Design and Relational Theory
by C.J. Date · 19 Apr 2012 · 534pp · 118,459 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
Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
by Ben Goldacre · 22 Oct 2014 · 467pp · 116,094 words
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement
by Eric Redmond, Jim Wilson and Jim R. Wilson · 7 May 2012 · 713pp · 93,944 words
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
by Judith Grisel · 15 Feb 2019 · 213pp · 68,363 words
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
by Bandy X. Lee · 2 Oct 2017 · 369pp · 105,819 words
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything
by Rob Eastaway · 18 Sep 2019 · 150pp · 43,467 words
Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism
by Barb Cook and Samantha Craft · 20 Aug 2018 · 335pp · 94,578 words
The Future of Technology
by Tom Standage · 31 Aug 2005
The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
by Diane Mulcahy · 8 Nov 2016 · 229pp · 61,482 words
Philanthrocapitalism
by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton · 29 Sep 2008 · 401pp · 115,959 words
Designing Interfaces
by Jenifer Tidwell · 15 Dec 2010
The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever · 2 Apr 2017 · 181pp · 52,147 words
Python for Algorithmic Trading: From Idea to Cloud Deployment
by Yves Hilpisch · 8 Dec 2020 · 1,082pp · 87,792 words
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