social intelligence
description: Capacity to know oneself and to know others
158 results
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
by James Lovelock · 27 Aug 2019 · 94pp · 33,179 words
2-kilometre radius. At one time I was foolish enough to believe that the tiny brain of a bee could never achieve anything resembling the social intelligence of the human. But I soon found that bees have a relatively complex language and they communicate by dancing. Most extraordinarily, bumblebees have been seen
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intelligence; cyborgs; electronic life humanoid ideas of intelligent beings 90–92, 93–4 intelligence/intelligent life (Cont.) hyperintelligence 29, 117, 122 natural selection for 27 social intelligence of bees 51–2 intentional selection 43, 84, 86, 88–9 intuition 13, 14, 18–20, 22, 38; see also instinct AI 80 computer design
GCHQ
by Richard Aldrich · 10 Jun 2010 · 826pp · 231,966 words
to reflect that the Soviet Communist system that he admired and the British system were really not so very different. SIS gathered plenty of such ‘social intelligence’, since Blake recalls that during the mid-1950s his unit also bugged Polish diplomatic premises in Brussels, the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen, the Bulgarian Embassy
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Smith, F.M. 302 Smith, Ian 3 Smith, Jack 151 Smith, Jacqui 543 Smith, Rupert 474–5 Smiths Industries 495 Snow, Leading Seaman ‘Snowy’ 135 social intelligence 178–9 Solidarity (Polish trade union) 432, 465 Somerville, John 121, 317–18, 419, 420, 428 Sony 480–1 Soothsayer (Army intercept equipment) 537 SOSUS
Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future
by Luke Dormehl · 10 Aug 2016 · 252pp · 74,167 words
company could wind up being one of the big employers of human DJs on the planet. This new focus on human traits like creativity and social intelligence will only become more important as AI gets smarter. Although Artificial Intelligence is becoming better at communicating in a humanlike way and is proving surprisingly
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil · 31 Dec 1998 · 696pp · 143,736 words
Roman Antiquity. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. Drexler, K. Eric. Engines of Creation. New York: Doubleday, 1986. _______. “Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge.” Social Intelligence 1:2 (1991). Dreyfus, Hubert. “Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence,” Rand Technical Report, December 1965. ________. Philosophic Issues in Artificial Intelligence. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1967. ______. What Computers
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do
by Erik J. Larson · 5 Apr 2021
about man and machine. Bletchley was an intelligent system—a coordination of military efforts (including spying and espionage, as well as capture of enemy vessels), social intelligence between the military and the various scientists and engineers at Bletchley, and (as with all of life) sometimes sheer dumb luck. In truth, as a
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, blaming covert spying operations rather than scientific defeat. But the fog of war mixes together not just new technologies but new forms of human and social intelligence. War is not chess. Early in the war, for instance, Polish forces had recovered important fragments of Enigma communications that later provided invaluable clues to
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a simplification of real intelligence. He was getting rid of the concept that had so transfixed him earlier, of intuition. Of guessing. ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE (AN IMPORTANT ASIDE) Social intelligence is also conspicuously left out of Turing’s puzzle-solving view of intelligence. This is of utmost importance for understanding the future development of
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it cannot reach the level of human intelligence. In fact, the idea of programming intuition ignores a fundamental fact about our own smarts. Humans have social intelligence. We have emotional intelligence. We use our minds other than to solve problems and puzzles, however complex (or rather, especially when the problems are complex
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expectation of financial recompense. Wired editor Kevin Kelly (and others) later called Benkler’s paean to online collaboration a hive mind, a nod to the social intelligence of bees, without a whisper of irony or derision. Benkler himself prefaced his academically serious rallying cry to the Web 2.0 world with a
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, 33–35; infinite amount of knowledge in, 54; neocortical theories of, 263–268; as problem solving, 23; singularity as merging with machine intelligence, 47–48; social intelligence, 26–28; Stuart Russell’s definition of, 77, 83; thinking in, 184–186; Turing on, 23, 27–31, 30–32 human language. See natural language
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learning as, 138–140 Singularity, 45–46, 50; Kurzweil on, 47–48; origins of concept, 286n3 Skinner, B. F., 68, 69 social change, 44–45 social intelligence, 26–28 social networks, 220 soundness, 109 Soviet Union, 60–61 spam, classifying, 134–135 speech-driven virtual assistance applications, 227 supercomputers, 249, 250, 276
Catalyst 5.8: The Perl MVC Framework
by Antano Solar John, Jonathan Rockway and Solar John Antano · 15 Nov 2010
biography without any server or proxy and then yet again for developing a Hybrid Search Engine from scratch in 24 hours that uses Machine and Social Intelligence to identify, search, and distill information in contexts you expect! I first like to thank the Catalyst Community without whom this book could have never
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
by Michael Nielsen · 2 Oct 2011 · 400pp · 94,847 words
. [56] Robert Dougans and David Allen Green. Virtual veracity. The Lawyer, July 5, 2010. [57] K. Eric Drexler. Hypertext publishing and the evolution of knowledge. Social Intelligence, 1:87–120, 1991. [58] Jason Dyer. A gentle introduction to the Polymath Project. The Number Warrior (blog), March 25, 2009. http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com
RDF Database Systems: Triples Storage and SPARQL Query Processing
by Olivier Cure and Guillaume Blin · 10 Dec 2014
filtering requirements (inequality test) and an ASK query. The data generated includes blank nodes, containers, and long URIs. No use of inference is necessary. The Social Intelligence BenchMark (SIB; http://www.w3.org/wiki/Social_ Network_Intelligence_BenchMark) includes a benchmark built around popular social networks.The data generator is generating a
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, robust, and distributed (SHARD) Shared-disk architecture, 21 Shared-memory architecture, 21 Shared-nothing architecture, 21 SHER. See Scalable highly expressive reasoner (SHER) SIB. See Social Intelligence BenchMark (SIB) Sideways information passing (SIP), 162 SimpleDB, 34 Simple knowledge organization system (SKOS), 6, 70 SIP. See Sideways information passing (SIP) SKOS. See Simple
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knowledge organization system (SKOS) Social Intelligence BenchMark (SIB), 78 Solid-state drives (SSDs), 9 Spanner system, 39 SPARQL, 53 endpoint, 170 extensions, 223 protocol and RDF Query, 52 queries, 56, 124
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by George Zarkadakis · 7 Mar 2016 · 405pp · 117,219 words
cooperative, competitive and mutualistic relationships, individuals with the ability to predict the behaviour of others will achieve the greatest reproductive success. He coined the term ‘social intelligence’ to describe the mental toolbox that is essential to maintain social cohesion. Therefore, there is selective pressure to have the ability to ‘read’ other people
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a terrible punishment; separation from family and friends a personal tragedy. Our high-level consciousness, or general intelligence, seems to have evolved as part of social intelligence. But what did it mean to be a human before the advent of high-level consciousness? How did it ‘feel’ to be H. habilis? What
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II, Pope 35 Simmons, Dan 160 simulated universe concept 127–9 smart drugs 81 Snow, C. P. xv–xvi Snowden, Edward 124–5, 250–1 social intelligence 11–12 social media 250 social networks 83–4, 124–5 social origins of language 13–15 Socrates 96–7, 99–100, 111–12 speech
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by Jo Marchant · 15 Jan 2020 · 544pp · 134,483 words
in Prehistory, ed. Tracy Henley et al. (New York: Routledge, 2020), 311–31. like “an amalgamation”: Steven Mithen, “Did Farming Arise from a Misapplication of Social Intelligence?,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 362 (2007): 705–18. “neither the idea nor the desire”: Jacques Cauvin, The Birth of the Gods and
Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
by Thomas W. Malone · 14 May 2018 · 344pp · 104,077 words
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
by Charles Murray · 28 Jan 2020 · 741pp · 199,502 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
Emergence
by Steven Johnson · 329pp · 88,954 words
Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby · 23 May 2016 · 347pp · 97,721 words
Robot Futures
by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh · 1 Mar 2013
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
by Daniel C. Dennett · 7 Feb 2017 · 573pp · 157,767 words
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words
The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
by David Robson · 7 Mar 2019 · 417pp · 103,458 words
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by Daniel Susskind · 14 Jan 2020 · 419pp · 109,241 words
Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
by Michael Shermer · 8 Apr 2020 · 677pp · 121,255 words
Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell · 7 Oct 2019 · 416pp · 112,268 words
Carbon: The Book of Life
by Paul Hawken · 17 Mar 2025 · 250pp · 63,703 words
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist · 8 Oct 2012
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
by David Lewis-Williams · 16 Apr 2004
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
The Transhumanist Reader
by Max More and Natasha Vita-More · 4 Mar 2013 · 798pp · 240,182 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
Architects of Intelligence
by Martin Ford · 16 Nov 2018 · 586pp · 186,548 words
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
by Jeremy Lent · 22 May 2017 · 789pp · 207,744 words
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson · 5 Apr 2006 · 250pp · 9,029 words
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich · 27 Oct 2015 · 631pp · 177,227 words
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
by Matthew B. Crawford · 8 Jun 2020 · 386pp · 113,709 words
Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
by P. W. Singer · 1 Jan 2010 · 797pp · 227,399 words
Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
by Garett Jones · 15 Feb 2015 · 247pp · 64,986 words
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science
by Norman Doidge · 15 Mar 2007 · 515pp · 136,938 words
Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
by Leonard Shlain · 2 Aug 2004 · 607pp · 168,497 words
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
by Richard Baldwin · 10 Jan 2019 · 301pp · 89,076 words
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
by Roger Bootle · 4 Sep 2019 · 374pp · 111,284 words
AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications
by Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt · 31 Dec 2023 · 321pp · 113,564 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
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
by Robert Elliott Smith · 26 Jun 2019 · 370pp · 107,983 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
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
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
by David Goodhart · 7 Sep 2020 · 463pp · 115,103 words
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman · 2 Sep 2008 · 358pp · 95,115 words
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
by Geoff Colvin · 3 Aug 2015 · 271pp · 77,448 words
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
by Michael Spitzer · 31 Mar 2021 · 632pp · 163,143 words
Alone Together
by Sherry Turkle · 11 Jan 2011 · 542pp · 161,731 words
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
by Annie Jacobsen · 14 Sep 2015 · 558pp · 164,627 words
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Olivia Fox Cabane · 1 Mar 2012 · 287pp · 81,014 words
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words
Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence
by Richard Yonck · 7 Mar 2017 · 360pp · 100,991 words
Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
by John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George · 7 Jan 2014 · 335pp · 104,850 words
Global Catastrophic Risks
by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Dec 2009 · 879pp · 233,093 words
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words
50 Psychology Classics
by Tom Butler-Bowdon · 14 Oct 2007 · 363pp · 109,374 words
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy · 14 Apr 2020
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
by Nicholas A. Christakis · 26 Mar 2019
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright · 28 Dec 2010
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
by Winifred Gallagher · 9 Mar 2009 · 280pp · 75,820 words
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman · 1 Jun 2020 · 578pp · 131,346 words
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
by Robin Dunbar and Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar · 2 Nov 2010 · 255pp · 79,514 words
Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep
by Kamini Desai · 7 Mar 2017
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 Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy
by Tyler Cowen · 25 May 2010 · 254pp · 72,929 words
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks · 8 Mar 2011 · 487pp · 151,810 words
The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
by Robert Wright · 1 Jan 1994 · 604pp · 161,455 words
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 9 Mar 2000 · 1,015pp · 170,908 words
SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 10 Sep 2007 · 698pp · 198,203 words
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
by Paul Bloom · 281pp · 79,464 words
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham · 15 Aug 2010 · 293pp · 76,294 words
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
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by Chris Hedges · 12 Jul 2009 · 373pp · 80,248 words
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
by Rory Sutherland · 6 May 2019 · 401pp · 93,256 words
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner · 20 Feb 2020 · 309pp · 79,414 words
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
by James Suzman · 2 Sep 2020 · 909pp · 130,170 words
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
by Cecilia Heyes · 15 Apr 2018
Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
by Robert Bruce Shaw, James Foster and Brilliance Audio · 14 Oct 2017 · 280pp · 82,355 words
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias · 19 Aug 2019 · 458pp · 116,832 words
Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn · 23 Sep 2013 · 706pp · 237,378 words
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 words
Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
by Scott Barry Kaufman · 6 Apr 2020 · 678pp · 148,827 words
Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself From Harmful People
by Joe Navarro and Toni Sciarra Poynter · 6 Oct 2014 · 261pp · 71,798 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
Autonomia: Post-Political Politics 2007
by Sylvere Lotringer, Christian Marazzi · 2 Aug 2005
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler · 1 Jun 1984 · 286pp · 94,017 words
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
by Jonathan Haidt · 26 Dec 2005 · 405pp · 130,840 words
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
by Mark W. Moffett · 31 Mar 2019 · 692pp · 189,065 words
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by David Wootton · 7 Dec 2015 · 1,197pp · 304,245 words
Together
by Vivek H. Murthy, M.D. · 5 Mar 2020 · 405pp · 112,470 words
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by António R. Damásio · 1 Jan 1994 · 347pp · 101,586 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
Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods · 13 Jul 2020
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
by Nicholas Epley · 11 Feb 2014 · 369pp · 90,630 words
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson · 6 May 2007 · 420pp · 98,309 words
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
by Ruth Defries · 8 Sep 2014 · 342pp · 88,736 words
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson · 2 Jan 1999 · 294pp · 86,601 words
Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer
by Duncan J. Watts · 28 Mar 2011 · 327pp · 103,336 words
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford Delong · 6 Apr 2020 · 593pp · 183,240 words
Living Well on the Spectrum
by Valerie L. Gaus · 4 Feb 2011
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston · 18 Apr 2016 · 338pp · 92,465 words
My Start-Up Life: What A
by Ben Casnocha and Marc Benioff · 7 May 2007 · 207pp · 63,071 words
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin · 18 Aug 2014 · 685pp · 203,949 words
Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis
by David Boyle · 15 Jan 2014 · 367pp · 108,689 words
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt · 13 Mar 2012 · 539pp · 139,378 words
Equality
by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words
The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
by Daniel Gardner · 23 Jun 2009 · 542pp · 132,010 words
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
by William Davies · 11 May 2015 · 317pp · 87,566 words
Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank
by Chris Skinner · 27 Aug 2013 · 329pp · 95,309 words
Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving With the Self-Absorbed
by Wendy T. Behary · 1 Jul 2013 · 173pp · 59,825 words
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D. · 7 Sep 2015 · 600pp · 174,620 words
The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
by Susan Pinker · 30 Sep 2013 · 404pp · 124,705 words
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans · 12 Sep 2016 · 202pp · 64,725 words
The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare · 11 Jan 2011
SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully
by Jane McGonigal · 14 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 147,008 words
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
by George Monbiot · 13 May 2013 · 424pp · 122,350 words
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
by Edward O. Wilson · 19 Mar 2019
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff · 23 May 2011 · 344pp · 96,690 words
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
by Simon Baron-Cohen · 14 Aug 2020
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - the First 2,000 Years
by Tom Standage · 14 Oct 2013 · 290pp · 94,968 words
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women
by Hanna Rosin · 31 Aug 2012 · 320pp · 96,006 words
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
by Samuel R. Delany · 1 Jan 1999
The Broken Ladder
by Keith Payne · 8 May 2017
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
American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie · 3 Oct 2009 · 410pp · 115,666 words
The Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World's Most Important Number (Bloomberg)
by Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch · 22 Nov 2016
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
by Richard Florida · 22 Apr 2010 · 265pp · 74,941 words
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
by Edward Slingerland · 31 May 2021
Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism
by Temple Grandin · 10 Jan 2006 · 291pp · 92,406 words
Forty Signs of Rain
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 29 May 2004 · 362pp · 104,308 words
Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by Peter Fleming · 14 Jun 2015 · 320pp · 86,372 words
The Other Half of Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder): A Guide to Living in an Intimate Relationship With a Partner Who Is on the Autism Spectrum Second Edition
by Maxine Aston · 21 Feb 2014 · 126pp · 35,044 words
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
by William Poundstone · 1 Jan 2010 · 519pp · 104,396 words
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
The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
by Jasmin Lee Cori · 13 Sep 2010
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
by Martin Sandbu · 15 Jun 2020 · 322pp · 84,580 words
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres
by Jamie Woodcock · 20 Nov 2016
The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
by Joshua Green · 17 Jul 2017 · 296pp · 78,112 words
Data for the Public Good
by Alex Howard · 21 Feb 2012 · 25pp · 5,789 words
The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)
by Michael R. Strain · 25 Feb 2020 · 98pp · 27,609 words
The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg · 14 Jun 2023 · 295pp · 87,204 words
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History
by Greg Woolf · 14 May 2020