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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

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

Survival of the Richest ESCAPE FANTASIES OF THE TECH BILLIONAIRES DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF For Mark Filippi, Michael Nesmith, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Wish you were here. Contents Introduction:  Meet The Mindset 1        The Insulation Equation

assumption that most humans are essentially worthless and unthinkingly self-destructive. Let’s either change them or get away from them, forever. Thus, we get tech billionaires launching electric cars into space —as if this symbolizes something more than one billionaire’s capacity for corporate promotion. And if a few people do

Investment. The rhetoric of Silicon Valley—whether in the pitch decks of young developers, the talks by TED speakers, or the Joe Rogan interviews with tech billionaires—always bears the same hallmarks as these business plans. Progress. The future. Optimism. Transformation. Winning. But usually these are just euphemisms for conquest, colonization, domination

and progress. It’s about more than even just growth for growth’s sake. It’s reaching toward something beyond victory itself: total domination. The tech billionaires have already accumulated more wealth than they or their grandchildren could ever spend. Jeff Bezos has a yacht with a helipad that serves as a

adds their own facts, however contradictory, into the canon. Still, the Great Awakening they hope to ignite bears more than a passing resemblance to the tech billionaire fantasies they believe they are resisting. There’s nothing incremental, no theory of change, no adaptation, and no compromise. Just enthusiastic anticipation of a cleansing

Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

by Carissa Véliz  · 21 Apr 2026  · 503pp  · 129,255 words

of the way or very actively endorsed him. When Trump announced that he was running with JD Vance, a previous Silicon Valley venture capitalist, other tech billionaires like Marc Andreessen who had previously supported Democrats flipped sides. After the editorial board of The Washington Post had drafted an endorsement of the Democratic

the election,” posted Musk.[38] Once elected, Trump announced that Musk would lead the new Department of Government Efficiency. At Trump’s presidential inauguration, the tech billionaires were seated in front of Trump’s own cabinet. One of Trump’s first announcements was a $500 billion investment in private AI infrastructure, with

The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

by Christian Davenport  · 20 Mar 2018  · 390pp  · 108,171 words

nice, at least in public. Their Twitter spat had touched off an irresistible media frenzy that pitted the pair against each other—a pair of tech billionaires fighting for cosmic domination—a made-for-large-font headline neither wanted. For someone who cultivated his image as meticulously as Bezos, it wasn’t

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

by James Crabtree  · 2 Jul 2018  · 442pp  · 130,526 words

Nilekani, the company’s best-known cofounders, were admired as models of social mobility and ethical practice, as well as being among India’s first tech billionaires. It was a throwaway phrase by Nilekani—“Tom, the playing field is being levelled”—that inspired American journalist Thomas Friedman to write The World Is

SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World

by Sandra Navidi  · 24 Jan 2017  · 831pp  · 98,409 words

come into great wealth by building enormously successful companies, sometimes over the span of several generations. Among them are old industrial dynasties, nouveau industrialists, or tech billionaires. Some families consist of fewer than a dozen members, while others encompass hundreds. The priority of family offices is wealth preservation. According to a saying

and sexist as the rest of the financial industry, as numerous lawsuits have unearthed; especially when fund-raising, women often face misogynistic and inappropriate behavior. Tech billionaires, the history-making “industrialists” of our time, are exclusively male. In the venture capital industry, deep relationships are of utmost importance to source deals and

The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value

by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen  · 30 Dec 2014  · 252pp  · 70,424 words

the software market. Microsoft became known not only for the Windows operating system but also for its consumer electronics and computers. In 2000, the American tech billionaire established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gate stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in 2008 to dedicate himself to the foundation. Terry Gou b. 1950

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire

by Tim Schwab  · 13 Nov 2023  · 618pp  · 179,407 words

’s grand experiment in philanthropy, we are long overdue for a reappraisal of the world’s most powerful humanitarian, especially as a new generation of tech billionaires begins to follow in his footsteps. Jeff Bezos and his ex-spouse, MacKenzie Scott, have both pledged to give away most of their fortunes, more

, a company he views as having been an engine of social progress, inspiring a computer revolution. Villanueva told me this view is fairly common among tech billionaires, the idea that “‘We haven’t harmed anyone.’ Regardless, you have to take into account, when you look at folks who have been able to

.” What Murray did not clearly disclose was that he himself planned to run this new organization. He first secured a promise of $115 million from tech billionaire (and onetime Bill Gates adversary) Larry Ellison to start his new research institute at Harvard. For reasons that are not totally clear, Ellison abandoned the

billionaires should even exist. All around us, the signs are clearly pointing to gathering distrust in and distaste for oligarchy and the false promises of tech billionaire philanthropists. Look at the Covid-19 pandemic, which exposed how grotesquely inefficient and inequitable our economic system is, prioritizing the needs of the rich over

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

people who built tech companies as even more deserving than the wealth that accrues to billionaires in, say, finance. If anything, the immense wealth of tech billionaires, the thinking goes, is dwarfed by the social, economic, and scientific progress they have created. Moreover, wealth creation in technology is seen as not a

can loosely be categorized as technology. Eight of the top 10 billionaires in the Forbes 2023 list of the world’s 400 richest people were tech billionaires—Musk, Bezos, Ellison, Page, Gates, Brin, Zuckerberg, and Steve Ballmer. Each had an estimated net worth of more than $100 billion. Their collective net worth

fifty-fourth on the list of countries based on their gross domestic product, coming in just below Iraq but ahead of Ukraine. The divorces of tech billionaires too have created new and enormous fortunes, including those of MacKenzie Scott from Bezos and of Melinda French Gates. Tech fortunes have eclipsed many of

the biggest on Wall Street, including the founders of hedge funds and private equity firms. Also, tech billionaires have accumulated their wealth far more swiftly than billionaires in other industries. The financial dominance and overwhelming importance of the technology sector has conferred upon

Omidyar, “How I Did It: EBay’s Founder on Innovating the Business Model of Social Change,” Harvard Business Review, September 2011. 37. David Gelles, “How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes with a Philanthropic Loophole,” The New York Times, August 3, 2018. Chapter 8: The Gates Keepers This chapter draws partly from my

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

to keep more people from dying. In time, the resentment over Covid protocols helped catalyze an antisocial worldview that saw baroque conspiracies around every corner. Tech billionaires led the growing backlash against urban homelessness and criminal justice reform. They funneled money to right-wing politicians and bloggers trying to breathe life into

, which eventually led to a rift between the tech industry’s most famous right-wing venture capitalist and the president. An impression formed that the tech billionaire who had bucked his liberal peers to give a defiant speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention had had enough of politics. Yet while Thiel

often aren’t allowed in rank-and-file unions. A general lack of class consciousness meant that some still subscribed to the fiction that a tech billionaire could be a populist threat to the establishment, just as Trump supposedly was. As a result, a range of political and cultural figures treated Musk

attendance at one of them: Michael Milken, Steven Mnuchin, Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, and Travis Kalanick. The group represented the alliance of bitterly anti-Biden tech billionaires and financiers coalescing behind Trump. Their combined fortunes would be a huge asset for Trump in the general election. So would the media assets at

Twitter’s management learned about the spy ring from the FBI, Al Asaker tweeted a photo of Dorsey meeting with MBS in New York. The tech billionaire and the dictator shook hands and grinned. For Al Ahmed, the relationship was difficult to explain. “If somebody was spying on my company, would I

inequality—were the same being faced by cities across the country. But San Francisco had become not just a political testing ground for Silicon Valley tech billionaires. It had become part of a broader national struggle over how the country would be governed and what values it would pursue. “I thought I

the company and locals had deteriorated into open conflict. Mistrust bloomed, as people with century-old connections to the area wondered why a bunch of tech billionaires wanted a piece of their county. People worried about water rights, vehicle traffic, promises of jobs, and the unknown designs of

tech billionaires. Residents of nearby towns demanded answers of California Forever officials at local town halls. The US government wanted answers, too. Members of Congress asked the

heroic struggle against an obvious enemy. Against this depressing political horizon, it seemed to voters like me that the stakes were fascism—underwritten by the tech billionaires—or another exhausting round of electoral politicking that might delay the country’s backslide into authoritarian rule. Even as the swapping out of Joe Biden

-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B 28 https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/thephoenixpapers 29 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/12/san-francisco-tech-billionaires-political-influence 30 https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/thephoenixpapers 31 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/12/san-francisco

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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

the filings became public. “A good place to start is voting for Ron Paul.” * * * — paul and those close to him found the idea of a tech billionaire throwing his weight behind their campaign thrilling—and a little perplexing. Paul had no major supporters in the business world—though that was part of

Thiel’s money—and the legitimacy it conferred on Trump—as well as about the potential to use Thiel as a conduit to reach other tech billionaires. For his part, Thiel hadn’t instantly appreciated Trump’s value either. After the convention, Thiel enjoyed his boundary-breaking role—he had been the

, 2016, https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/might-an-anti-gawker-benefactor-be-covering-hulk-hogans-legal-bills/. a public service: Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker,” The New York Times, May 25, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-thiel

-tech-billionaire-reveals-secret-war-with-gawker.html. bully media outlets: Marina Hyde, “Peter Thiel’s Mission to Destroy Gawker Isn’t ‘Philanthropy.’ It’s a Chilling

Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

by Alex Cuadros  · 1 Jun 2016  · 433pp  · 125,031 words

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall  · 2 Oct 2017  · 451pp  · 115,720 words

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles

by Michael Gross  · 1 Nov 2011  · 613pp  · 200,826 words

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

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

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

by Henry Sanderson  · 12 Sep 2022  · 292pp  · 87,720 words

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

by Ingrid Robeyns  · 16 Jan 2024  · 327pp  · 110,234 words

Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax

by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks  · 3 Mar 2026  · 291pp  · 83,422 words

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

by Naomi Klein  · 12 Jun 2017  · 357pp  · 94,852 words

All the Money in the World

by Peter W. Bernstein  · 17 Dec 2008  · 538pp  · 147,612 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

Private Equity: A Memoir

by Carrie Sun  · 13 Feb 2024  · 267pp  · 90,353 words

Notes From an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

by Mark O'Connell  · 13 Apr 2020  · 213pp  · 70,742 words

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

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

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac  · 17 Sep 2024

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

by Kashmir Hill  · 19 Sep 2023  · 487pp  · 124,008 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

Left Behind

by Paul Collier  · 6 Aug 2024  · 299pp  · 92,766 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

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone  · 10 May 2021  · 569pp  · 156,139 words

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following

by Gabrielle Bluestone  · 5 Apr 2021  · 329pp  · 100,162 words

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

by Peter Geoghegan  · 2 Jan 2020  · 388pp  · 111,099 words

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe  · 12 Apr 2021  · 712pp  · 212,334 words

Facebook: The Inside Story

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

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper  · 20 Nov 2018  · 417pp  · 97,577 words

Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck  · 14 Sep 2020  · 339pp  · 103,546 words

Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

by Mollie Hemingway  · 11 Oct 2021  · 595pp  · 143,394 words

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson  · 5 Feb 2019  · 788pp  · 223,004 words

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul

by Kurt Wagner  · 20 Feb 2024  · 332pp  · 127,754 words

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

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

Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

by Zoë Schiffer  · 13 Feb 2024  · 343pp  · 92,693 words

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben  · 15 Apr 2019

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

by Ashlee Vance  · 8 May 2023  · 558pp  · 175,965 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor  · 15 Aug 2022  · 829pp  · 187,394 words

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

by Andrew Keen  · 1 Mar 2018  · 308pp  · 85,880 words

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

by Tamara Kneese  · 14 Aug 2023  · 284pp  · 75,744 words

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein  · 11 Sep 2023

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

by Christopher Caldwell  · 21 Jan 2020  · 450pp  · 113,173 words

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

by Keach Hagey  · 19 May 2025  · 439pp  · 125,379 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao  · 19 May 2025  · 660pp  · 179,531 words

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

by Paul Kingsnorth  · 23 Sep 2025  · 388pp  · 110,920 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World

by Timothy Ferriss  · 14 Jun 2017  · 579pp  · 183,063 words

Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

by Bregman, Rutger  · 9 Mar 2025  · 181pp  · 72,663 words

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow  · 6 Oct 2025  · 313pp  · 94,415 words

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

by James Rickards  · 15 Nov 2016  · 354pp  · 105,322 words

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global

by Rebecca Fannin  · 2 Sep 2019  · 269pp  · 70,543 words

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant  · 25 Sep 2023  · 524pp  · 154,652 words

The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life

by Nick Maggiulli  · 22 Jul 2025

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang  · 6 Feb 2018  · 334pp  · 104,382 words

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World

by James Ashton  · 11 May 2023  · 401pp  · 113,586 words

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

by Extinction Rebellion  · 12 Jun 2019  · 138pp  · 40,525 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

The Capitalist Manifesto

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The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran  · 14 Jul 2021  · 326pp  · 91,532 words

Open Space: From Earth to Eternity--the Global Race to Explore and Conquer the Cosmos

by David Ariosto  · 24 Mar 2026  · 433pp  · 116,344 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

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

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 Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 7 Oct 2024  · 336pp  · 104,899 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

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

by Dan Lyons  · 4 Apr 2016  · 284pp  · 92,688 words

Team Human

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 22 Jan 2019  · 196pp  · 54,339 words

How the World Ran Out of Everything

by Peter S. Goodman  · 11 Jun 2024  · 528pp  · 127,605 words

Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson  · 19 May 2015  · 945pp  · 292,893 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

Give People Money

by Annie Lowrey  · 10 Jul 2018  · 242pp  · 73,728 words

The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

by William Poundstone  · 3 Jun 2019  · 283pp  · 81,376 words

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms  · 2 Apr 2018  · 416pp  · 100,130 words

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by Erik Baker  · 13 Jan 2025  · 362pp  · 132,186 words

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by Richard Watson  · 5 Nov 2013  · 219pp  · 63,495 words

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

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by James D. Miller  · 14 Jun 2012  · 377pp  · 97,144 words

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

by Mark O'Connell  · 28 Feb 2017  · 252pp  · 79,452 words

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by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

by Eben Kirksey  · 10 Nov 2020  · 599pp  · 98,564 words

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by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

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by Dan Conway  · 8 Sep 2019  · 218pp  · 68,648 words

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by Michael Shellenberger  · 11 Oct 2021  · 572pp  · 124,222 words

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 27 Sep 2011  · 443pp  · 112,800 words

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

by Andrew Yang  · 15 Nov 2021

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by Jaron Lanier  · 6 May 2013  · 510pp  · 120,048 words

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by Annalee Newitz  · 3 Jun 2024  · 251pp  · 68,713 words

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by Lucy Corne  · 1 Sep 2015  · 1,203pp  · 124,556 words

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by Jon Ronson  · 9 Mar 2015  · 229pp  · 67,869 words

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

by Fintan O'Toole  · 22 Jan 2018  · 200pp  · 64,329 words

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by Fintan O'Toole  · 2 Oct 2019

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by Celeste Headlee  · 10 Mar 2020  · 246pp  · 74,404 words

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by Rufus Pollock  · 29 May 2018  · 105pp  · 34,444 words

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by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 7 Nov 2017  · 346pp  · 89,180 words

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by Nancy Jo Sales  · 17 May 2021  · 445pp  · 135,648 words

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by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer  · 13 Jul 2020  · 372pp  · 101,678 words

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by Vincent Ialenti  · 22 Sep 2020  · 224pp  · 69,593 words

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by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff  · 8 Jul 2024  · 272pp  · 103,638 words

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by Jeanette Winterson  · 15 Mar 2021  · 256pp  · 73,068 words

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by Sara Gibbs  · 23 Jun 2021  · 263pp  · 89,341 words

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by Nick Frost  · 7 Oct 2015  · 292pp  · 97,911 words

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

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

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by Guy Branum  · 29 Jul 2018  · 301pp  · 100,597 words

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by Lonely Planet  · 30 Sep 2015  · 190pp  · 50,133 words

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by John Temple  · 28 Sep 2015  · 308pp  · 96,604 words

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by Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt  · 31 Dec 2023  · 321pp  · 113,564 words

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by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words

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by Scott J. Shapiro  · 523pp  · 154,042 words

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr  · 28 Jan 2025  · 231pp  · 85,135 words