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Applied Text Analysis With Python: Enabling Language-Aware Data Products With Machine Learning

by Benjamin Bengfort, Rebecca Bilbro and Tony Ojeda  · 10 Jun 2018  · 125pp  · 27,675 words

other terms. In the next section we will explore one-hot encoding, which eliminates this problem. One-Hot Encoding Frequency based encoding methods suffer from the long tail, or Zipfian distribution, that characterizes natural language. Because of this distribution, some features (tokens) are orders of magnitude more “significant” than other less frequent tokens

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan  · 22 Jan 2014  · 271pp  · 52,814 words

is similar, with corporate media properties existing alongside YouTube channels, and individuals uploading their own content to the Web. The value chain has exploded into the long-tail format, and individuals became their own taste makers and quality arbiters. A crucial twenty-first-century skill is that individuals must examine content and think

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

by Erik Brynjolfsson  · 23 Jan 2012  · 72pp  · 21,361 words

spurred over 600,000 people to earn their livings by dreaming up new, improved, or simply different or cheaper products for a worldwide customer base. The Long Tail of new products offered enormous consumer value and is a rapidly growing segment of the economy. Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Marketplace

Data and the City

by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle  · 2 Aug 2017

work desktop, laptops and later on my smartphone. Even though I am only one of 378,000 participants in the project, I am part of the long tail – ranking 20,585 with my top contributions being for FightAIDS@Home and Computing for Clean Water projects. The operation of WCG transformed my volunteering into

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

by Wendy Brown  · 6 Feb 2015

capital, especially the destabilizing effects of the inherent bubbles and other dramatic fluctuations of financial markets. Made vivid by the immediate shock as well as the long tail of the 2008–2009 finance-capital meltdown, these effects are also underscored by the routinely widening discrepancies between the fates of Wall Street and the

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future

by Jeff Booth  · 14 Jan 2020  · 180pp  · 55,805 words

highly valued and sometimes highly leveraged, that themselves become the proverbial noose around the neck. Chris Anderson, former editor of The Economist and author of The Long Tail, hints at some of the changes. In his book, he explains how when distribution costs fall, large incumbents that rely on their power to control

Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank

by Chris Skinner  · 27 Aug 2013  · 329pp  · 95,309 words

transaction a month of low value payments, then the model is questionable. However, I am sure that Square would refute such critique by claiming that the long tail of payments creates enough volume to be profitable. It certainly seems that way, as there are a whole range of other companies competing in this

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

by Scott Murray  · 15 Mar 2013  · 186pp  · 50,651 words

has a pure white head. These birds are known for their tiny size, measuring at around only 13-15 cm in length, including their tail. The long-tail tit is recognized by its stubby bill, contrasted to its long, narrow tail. Females and males are indistinguishable, both undergoing a full moult before their

The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things

by Daniel Kellmereit and Daniel Obodovski  · 19 Sep 2013  · 138pp  · 40,787 words

simplify, figure out a way that companies can do small volumes at a lower cost, or just use similar platforms, because the M2M space is the long tail of most of the economy. But if I was going to invest in Machine-to-Machine, I would probably be investing somewhere in the analytics

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett  · 14 May 2017  · 550pp  · 89,316 words

houses, and theaters and will drive down fixed costs for expenditures such as massages, organic food, and happy hour. Simultaneously, there are enough people that the “long tail” of consumption (economies of scope)—ethnic restaurants, high-end boutiques, and avant-garde theater—will also be in demand. This interplay of significant demand for

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm  · 11 Apr 2022  · 172pp  · 50,777 words

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery

by Andrew Greenway,Ben Terrett,Mike Bracken,Tom Loosemore  · 18 Jun 2018

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

by Will Larson  · 19 May 2019  · 227pp  · 63,186 words

Busy

by Tony Crabbe  · 7 Jul 2015  · 254pp  · 81,009 words

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

by Andrew Yang  · 15 Nov 2021

Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett  · 30 Jun 2013  · 660pp  · 141,595 words

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing

by Lisa Gansky  · 14 Oct 2010  · 215pp  · 55,212 words

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb  · 5 Mar 2019  · 340pp  · 97,723 words

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century

by Robert D. Kaplan  · 6 Mar 2018  · 247pp  · 78,961 words

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

by David Boyle and Andrew Simms  · 14 Jun 2009  · 207pp  · 86,639 words

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

by Arun Sundararajan  · 12 May 2016  · 375pp  · 88,306 words

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb  · 16 Apr 2018  · 345pp  · 75,660 words

Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.

by Mitch Joel  · 20 May 2013  · 260pp  · 76,223 words

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 14 May 2014  · 372pp  · 92,477 words

Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges  · 14 May 2010  · 422pp  · 89,770 words

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made

by Ben Rhodes  · 1 Jun 2021  · 342pp  · 114,118 words

Water: A Biography

by Giulio Boccaletti  · 13 Sep 2021  · 485pp  · 133,655 words

Designing Search: UX Strategies for Ecommerce Success

by Greg Nudelman and Pabini Gabriel-Petit  · 8 May 2011

Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

by Michael J. Mauboussin  · 6 Nov 2012  · 256pp  · 60,620 words

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

by Paul Roberts  · 1 Sep 2014  · 324pp  · 92,805 words

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

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

Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America: A History of Inequality in America

by Jamie Bronstein  · 29 Oct 2016  · 332pp  · 89,668 words

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future

by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson  · 27 Mar 2017  · 293pp  · 78,439 words

Designing Interfaces

by Jenifer Tidwell  · 15 Dec 2010

Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity

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

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

by Scott Kupor  · 3 Jun 2019  · 340pp  · 100,151 words

Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business

by Arvid Kahl  · 24 Jun 2020  · 461pp  · 106,027 words

Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski  · 18 Apr 2022  · 414pp  · 117,581 words

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters

by Joanna Walsh  · 22 Sep 2025  · 255pp  · 80,203 words

Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee  · 23 May 2016  · 383pp  · 81,118 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

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff  · 14 Oct 2021  · 309pp  · 96,168 words

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase  · 14 May 2015  · 330pp  · 91,805 words

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism

by Matt Mason

Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time

by Steven Osborn  · 17 Sep 2013  · 310pp  · 34,482 words

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

by Clay Shirky  · 9 Jun 2010  · 236pp  · 66,081 words

Free Ride

by Robert Levine  · 25 Oct 2011  · 465pp  · 109,653 words

The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

by James Ball  · 19 Aug 2020  · 268pp  · 76,702 words

The Lights in the Tunnel

by Martin Ford  · 28 May 2011  · 261pp  · 10,785 words

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett  · 12 Jun 2017  · 390pp  · 109,870 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 Googlization of Everything:

by Siva Vaidhyanathan  · 1 Jan 2010  · 281pp  · 95,852 words

What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live

by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers  · 2 Jan 2010  · 411pp  · 80,925 words

The Geek Feminist Revolution

by Kameron Hurley  · 1 Jan 2016  · 251pp  · 76,225 words

The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)

by Jamie Bartlett  · 4 Apr 2018  · 170pp  · 49,193 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

Building Microservices

by Sam Newman  · 25 Dec 2014  · 540pp  · 103,101 words

Hugh's Three Good Things

by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall  · 13 Apr 2015  · 427pp  · 74,344 words

The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting

by Anne Trubek  · 5 Sep 2016

Designing Social Interfaces

by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone  · 30 Sep 2009  · 518pp  · 49,555 words

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

by David Sax  · 8 Nov 2016  · 360pp  · 101,038 words

Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment

by Sangeet Paul Choudary  · 14 Sep 2015  · 302pp  · 73,581 words

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 words

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz  · 4 Nov 2016  · 374pp  · 97,288 words

Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

by John Brockman  · 19 Feb 2019  · 339pp  · 94,769 words

The Broken Ladder

by Keith Payne  · 8 May 2017

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

by Bill Bishop and Robert G. Cushing  · 6 May 2008  · 484pp  · 131,168 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath

by Nicco Mele  · 14 Apr 2013  · 270pp  · 79,992 words

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone  · 14 Oct 2013  · 380pp  · 118,675 words

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

by Scott Belsky  · 31 Mar 2010  · 223pp  · 63,484 words

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama  · 25 May 2015  · 494pp  · 116,739 words

Moonwalking With Einstein

by Joshua Foer  · 3 Mar 2011  · 329pp  · 93,655 words

The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small

by Steve Sammartino  · 25 Jun 2014  · 247pp  · 81,135 words

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff  · 23 May 2011  · 344pp  · 96,690 words

Relevant Search: With Examples Using Elasticsearch and Solr

by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman  · 30 Apr 2016  · 593pp  · 118,995 words

The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

by Andrew Lih  · 5 Jul 2010  · 398pp  · 86,023 words

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

by Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris  · 6 Mar 2007  · 233pp  · 67,596 words

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

by Nicholas Carr  · 5 Sep 2016  · 391pp  · 105,382 words

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

by Cory Doctorow  · 15 Sep 2008  · 189pp  · 57,632 words

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen  · 5 Jan 2015  · 361pp  · 81,068 words

The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems-And Create More

by Luke Dormehl  · 4 Nov 2014  · 268pp  · 75,850 words

Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do

by Brett King  · 26 Dec 2012  · 382pp  · 120,064 words

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You

by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker  · 27 Mar 2016  · 421pp  · 110,406 words

The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry

by John Warrillow  · 5 Feb 2015  · 186pp  · 49,251 words

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang  · 12 Oct 2020  · 196pp  · 61,981 words

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

by David Goodhart  · 7 Jan 2017  · 382pp  · 100,127 words

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang  · 10 Sep 2018  · 745pp  · 207,187 words

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

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

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

by Adam Aleksic  · 15 Jul 2025  · 278pp  · 71,701 words

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble  · 8 Jan 2018  · 290pp  · 73,000 words

Born in Flames

by Bench Ansfield  · 15 Aug 2025  · 366pp  · 138,787 words

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

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

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking

by Mark Bauerlein  · 7 Sep 2011  · 407pp  · 103,501 words

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain  · 27 May 2009  · 629pp  · 142,393 words

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

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

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

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu  · 2 Nov 2010  · 418pp  · 128,965 words

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

by Steven Levy  · 23 Oct 2006  · 297pp  · 89,820 words

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future

by Noreena Hertz  · 13 May 2020  · 506pp  · 133,134 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

You Are Not a Gadget

by Jaron Lanier  · 12 Jan 2010  · 224pp  · 64,156 words

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

by Robert H. Frank  · 31 Mar 2016  · 190pp  · 53,409 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

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis  · 15 Feb 2009  · 299pp  · 91,839 words

That Used to Be Us

by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum  · 1 Sep 2011  · 441pp  · 136,954 words

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky  · 28 Feb 2008  · 313pp  · 95,077 words

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

by Samuel Arbesman  · 18 Jul 2016  · 222pp  · 53,317 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

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

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

by Adam Fisher  · 9 Jul 2018  · 611pp  · 188,732 words

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz  · 1 Mar 2013  · 567pp  · 122,311 words

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande  · 6 Oct 2014  · 270pp  · 85,450 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley  · 17 May 2010  · 462pp  · 150,129 words

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher  · 1 Jul 2009

Miracle Cure

by William Rosen  · 14 Apr 2017  · 515pp  · 117,501 words

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

by Henry Jenkins  · 31 Jul 2006

Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation Is Reshaping Our WorldÑFor the Better

by Andrew Palmer  · 13 Apr 2015  · 280pp  · 79,029 words

Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman  · 20 Nov 2012  · 307pp  · 92,165 words

Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet

by Charles Arthur  · 3 Mar 2012  · 390pp  · 114,538 words

Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide

by Martin S. Fridson and Fernando Alvarez  · 31 May 2011

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

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

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World

by Scott Galloway  · 2 Oct 2017  · 305pp  · 79,303 words

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

by Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom  · 3 Aug 2020

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change

by Bharat Anand  · 17 Oct 2016  · 554pp  · 149,489 words

How Democracy Ends

by David Runciman  · 9 May 2018  · 245pp  · 72,893 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

by Clint Watts  · 28 May 2018  · 324pp  · 96,491 words

First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time

by Emma Chapman  · 23 Feb 2021  · 265pp  · 79,944 words

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies  · 5 Oct 2020  · 741pp  · 164,057 words

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka  · 15 Jan 2024  · 321pp  · 105,480 words

The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline

by Russell Jones  · 15 Jan 2023  · 463pp  · 140,499 words

Why the Allies Won

by Richard Overy  · 29 Feb 2012  · 624pp  · 191,758 words

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

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

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares  · 15 Sep 2025  · 215pp  · 64,699 words

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

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

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

by Liz Pelly  · 7 Jan 2025  · 293pp  · 104,461 words

Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis

by Kevin Mellyn  · 30 Sep 2009  · 225pp  · 11,355 words

Beautiful Visualization

by Julie Steele  · 20 Apr 2010

Lonely Planet Nicaragua (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton and Greg Benchwick  · 30 Jun 2013

The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 1 Jan 2019  · 1,909pp  · 531,728 words

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor  · 4 Mar 2014  · 283pp  · 85,824 words

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

by Daniel Gardner  · 23 Jun 2009  · 542pp  · 132,010 words

Makers

by Chris Anderson  · 1 Oct 2012  · 238pp  · 73,824 words

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900

by David Edgerton  · 7 Dec 2006  · 353pp  · 91,211 words

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

by Mark Honigsbaum  · 8 Apr 2019  · 529pp  · 150,263 words

We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

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

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-To-5

by Taylor Pearson  · 27 Jun 2015  · 168pp  · 50,647 words

Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War

by Robert Fisk  · 1 Jan 1990  · 1,208pp  · 364,966 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

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do

by Erik J. Larson  · 5 Apr 2021

What Technology Wants

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

All the Devils Are Here

by Bethany McLean  · 19 Oct 2010  · 543pp  · 157,991 words

438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

by Jonathan Franklin  · 17 Nov 2015  · 231pp  · 75,147 words

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

by Samuel Arbesman  · 31 Aug 2012  · 284pp  · 79,265 words

A Short, Sharp Shock

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 6 Jul 1990  · 109pp  · 36,390 words

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

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

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

by Tom Slee  · 18 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 69,310 words

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

Television disrupted: the transition from network to networked TV

by Shelly Palmer  · 14 Apr 2006  · 406pp  · 88,820 words

Beautiful security

by Andy Oram and John Viega  · 15 Dec 2009  · 302pp  · 82,233 words

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

by John Seabrook  · 4 Oct 2015  · 388pp  · 106,138 words

#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 7 Mar 2017  · 437pp  · 105,934 words

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

by Steven Johnson  · 18 Oct 2006  · 304pp  · 88,773 words

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield  · 29 Mar 2020  · 1,380pp  · 190,710 words

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 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

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

by Matthew Hindman  · 24 Sep 2018

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler  · 14 May 2006  · 678pp  · 216,204 words

Hull Zero Three

by Greg Bear  · 22 Nov 2010  · 290pp  · 77,962 words

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert  · 11 Feb 2014  · 308pp  · 94,447 words

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

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

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

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

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