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Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety

by Dalton Conley  · 27 Dec 2008  · 204pp  · 67,922 words

Handbook of Modeling High-Frequency Data in Finance

by Frederi G. Viens, Maria C. Mariani and Ionut Florescu  · 20 Dec 2011  · 443pp  · 51,804 words

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle  · 15 Apr 2019  · 199pp  · 56,243 words

The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

by Lance Fortnow  · 30 Mar 2013  · 236pp  · 50,763 words

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Eighth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers

by Kate L. Turabian  · 14 Apr 2007  · 863pp  · 159,091 words

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

by Scott Patterson  · 5 Jun 2023  · 289pp  · 95,046 words

to the less-respectable genres of fantasy and science fiction. Literary fiction has as its domain the little life, the daily comings and goings and small-world problems of middle-class characters such as Flaubert’s Emma Bovary and James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom. (Outliers to this phenomenon might include epics such as

Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg  · 8 Mar 2016  · 401pp  · 119,488 words

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community

by Marc J. Dunkelman  · 3 Aug 2014  · 327pp  · 88,121 words

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 20 Feb 2018  · 306pp  · 82,765 words

The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling

by Adam Kucharski  · 23 Feb 2016  · 360pp  · 85,321 words

of the First Wearable Computer.” Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (1998), 4. 13participants were asked to help: Milgram, Stanley. “The Small-World Problem.” Psychology Today 1, no. 1 (May 1967): 61–67. 13an average of 3.74 degrees of separation: Backstrom, Lars, Paolo Boldi, Marco Rosa, Johan Ugander

Statistics hacks

by Bruce Frey  · 9 May 2006  · 755pp  · 121,290 words

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

by Charles Murray  · 28 Jan 2020  · 741pp  · 199,502 words

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

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

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver  · 12 Aug 2024  · 848pp  · 227,015 words

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

by Jordan Ellenberg  · 14 May 2021  · 665pp  · 159,350 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

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

by Didier Sornette  · 18 Nov 2002  · 442pp  · 39,064 words

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

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

Facebook: The Inside Story

by Steven Levy  · 25 Feb 2020  · 706pp  · 202,591 words

Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

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

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King and John Kay  · 5 Mar 2020  · 807pp  · 154,435 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

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

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

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker  · 24 Sep 2012  · 1,351pp  · 385,579 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

Future Shock

by Alvin Toffler  · 1 Jun 1984  · 286pp  · 94,017 words

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor

by John Kay  · 24 May 2004  · 436pp  · 76 words

Complexity: A Guided Tour

by Melanie Mitchell  · 31 Mar 2009  · 524pp  · 120,182 words

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

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

Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought

by Barbara Tversky  · 20 May 2019  · 426pp  · 117,027 words

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

by Nicholas Lemann  · 9 Sep 2019  · 354pp  · 118,970 words

Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity

by Currid  · 9 Nov 2010  · 332pp  · 91,780 words