The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
some of the awesome heat that large volumes of computer processing generated, and it was ideally located to connect the US with mainland Europe, via transatlantic cables and Dublin’s underground fibre ring. A recent study by Ireland’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA) found that the sector had contributed €7.1bn to
The Cable
by Gillian Cookson · 19 Sep 2012 · 136pp · 42,864 words
Rigg and Abigail Wood of The History Press; and to Neil, Joe and Francis Cookson. 1 The Mystic Voice of Electricity Whose idea was the transatlantic cable? Once the scheme was a success, and even before that, there was no shortage of claimants. John Watkins Brett declared in 1857, as the first
…
disputed this point. Morse was some years ahead of the Britons. Cromwell Fleetwood Varley, an eminent British telegraph engineer, later had no doubt that the transatlantic cable had originated in America: ‘It is indisputably clear that the idea of connecting the US with England practically originated in New York, that these American
…
pioneer of land telegraphs in the United States. His experiments on submarine cables were well recorded, so his claim that he was thinking about a transatlantic cable early in the 1840s is convincing. Morse left an account of how his ideas at that time had developed, in letters written during 1854 to
…
across the ocean. At that time, an Atlantic cable cannot have been much more than a theoretical prospect. But whether or not he put the transatlantic cable to them, the commissioners would not allow Gisborne to raise capital for the scheme, and he parted company with them in the summer of 1851
…
moved in about 1852 has not survived, but there is still a plaque commemorating the role of this neighbourhood in advancing the cause of the transatlantic cable. Field’s new neighbours were rich and influential New Yorkers – newspapermen, politicians, artists and businessmen. Next door was Peter Cooper, a self-made industrialist who
…
US brig Dolphin. It is clear from Maury’s reply to Field that the US government was already thinking on the same lines of a transatlantic cable. Deep-sea soundings were still a crude affair. A cannon ball was dropped on the end of a long line, an unreliable way to measure
…
time re-crossing the Atlantic in a sometimes desperate attempt to keep the telegraph project alive, and ultimately gamble everything he owned. Even before the transatlantic cable was commissioned, there was much to organise on the American side of the ocean. It was no small undertaking to complete the land line across
…
cable!’ This story has the ring of a myth about it. Henry Field, from whom the account originated, says in another context that once the transatlantic cable was a success, ‘a host’ had sprung up ‘to claim the honor’. Although Brunel was long dead by the time his great ship was converted
…
the feasibility of successfully making and laying an Atlantic cable, a rapid rate of signalling may never be achieved. On the eve of the first transatlantic cable in 1857, scientists could attempt to describe the phenomenon but were no closer to a solution: When the wires are enclosed in a compact sheath
…
night-time experiment in which ten gutta percha-insulated underground lines, each of more than 200 miles, would be linked. This trial would mimic the transatlantic cable as closely as possible, not only in length, but also because subterranean lines closely resembled submarine cables in their electrical properties. These underground cables were
…
at San Francisco to collect the latest orders from home on where to go and what to buy. Finally, Field’s guiding principle, that the transatlantic cable would increase international understanding, also presented advantages to trade. He could cite the Trent incident, not eighteen months since, when ‘England nearly went to war
…
returned to investors early in March, and the ‘great national enterprise abandoned at the very moment when it is ripe for success’. This meant no transatlantic cable for years to come, unless a national emergency demanded it, in which case the whole cost could fall to the government. But Gladstone was again
…
. From this moment began a sense of shared experience, a convergence of cultures, between the two English-speaking nations. So dependent was Reuter on the transatlantic cable – and so increasingly irritated by the Anglo-American’s high charges for telegrams – that in 1869 he was instrumental in launching the first direct line
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
by Andrew Blum · 28 May 2012 · 314pp · 83,631 words
from Mumbai another Tata cable passed through the Suez to Marseille. From there, the routes went overland to London, and finally connected to the original transatlantic cable that connected Bristol, England, to New Jersey. Cooper made it sound like no big deal, but he’d built a beam of light around the
…
Singapore to Japan is more direct than its competitors’, which also gives it the fastest travel times all the way to India. But Tata’s transatlantic cable is frustratingly slow. Tyco originally connected it to a landing station in New Jersey, close to its corporate headquarters. But compared with the
…
transatlantic cables that landed on Long Island, by the time a bit went down the coast and back up to the city, the route effectively made London
…
. “Now I get beaten up in meetings because there’s one millisecond extra compared to our competitors,” Cooper said, rubbing his brow. The first new transatlantic cable in a decade will be laid in 2012 by a small company called Hibernia-Atlantic. They designed it from scratch to be the fastest. The
…
public ones. But the cable landing stations were quietly hidden away, and they rarely received visitors. But Global Crossing, then the operator of a major transatlantic cable known as Atlantic Crossing-1, finally responded to my entreaties—perhaps officials were pleased I was paying attention to something other than the company’s
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by Simon Winchester · 27 Oct 2009 · 522pp · 150,592 words
, where the landlines to New York and London were already waiting to be hooked up, it was still in apparently perfect order. Cyrus Field, the transatlantic cable impresario, with Puck’s famous boast from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, slightly misquoted, beside him, dominates this Harper’s Weekly cartoon celebrating the successful
…
. The Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador. London: Hutchinson, 2005. Gordon, John Steele. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable. New York: Walker, 2002. Graham, Gerald S. Empire of the North Atlantic: The Maritime Struggle for North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950. Gruber
…
liners of, 186 pirate warfare and, 226–29 radioactive waste of, 356–57 Roman invasion of, 211–12 slave trade and, 221–22, 230–39 transatlantic cable and, 305–10 War of 1812 of, 246–47 whaling by, 286–87, 383 World War I and, 251–56 World War II and, 257
…
Atlantic Ocean exploration, 123–24 Naval Observatory, 130 rivers as Atlantic Ocean sources, 147–48 slave trade and, 221, 230–39 steel ships and, 257 transatlantic cable and, 305–10 War of 1812 of, 246–47 United States Exploring Expedition, 126–29 Ur supercontinent, 38 Uruguay, 257–60 van de Velde, Willem
…
of Trafalgar by J. M. W. Turner Battle of Jutland Graf Spee Hanseatic League warehouses, Bergen, Norway A Nantucket whaler The clipper ship Challenge The transatlantic cable, engraving from Harper’s Weekly Atlantic Ocean: Commerce and Communication The Andrea Doria and Stockholm The sinking of the Torrey Canyon Aviators Jack Alcock and
Some Remarks
by Neal Stephenson · 6 Aug 2012 · 335pp · 107,779 words
thinks that wild-ass high-tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects (I recommend Arthur C. Clarke’s book How the World Was One). The only things that have changed since then are that the stakes
…
Network), which is a web of cables interconnecting Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and the Philippines; and the latest TAT (Transatlantic) cable. So FLAG is part of a trend that will soon bring about a vast increase in intercontinental bandwidth. What is unusual about FLAG is not
…
HACKER-VERSUS-SUIT DRAMA. HISTORICAL EXPLOITS OF THE FAMOUS WILLIAM THOMSON AND THE INFAMOUS WILDMAN WHITEHOUSE. THEIR RIVALRY, CULMINATING IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC CABLE. WHITEHOUSE DISGRACED, THOMSON TRANSMOGRIFIED INTO LORD KELVIN . . . 22˚ 15.745' N, 114˚ 0.557' E Silvermine Bay, Lan Tao Island,?b Hong Kong “Today, Lan
…
only thing that showed up at the other end was noise. These problems were known, but poorly understood, in the mid-1850s when the first transatlantic cable was being planned. They had proved troublesome but manageable in the early cables that bridged short gaps, such as between England and Ireland. No one
…
50 or 100 IQ points. But that didn’t stop Whitehouse. In 1856, he published a paper stating that Thomson’s theories concerning the proposed transatlantic cable were balderdash. The two men got into a public argument, which became extremely important in 1858 when the Atlantic Telegraph Company laid such a cable
…
things around, for example, by closing an electromagnetic relay that would sound a buzzer. Moving things around requires power, and the bits on a working transatlantic cable embodied very little power. It was difficult to make a physical object small enough to be susceptible to such ghostly traces of current. Thomson’s
…
Whitehouse burned it to a crisp had been detected using Thomson’s mirror galvanometer—though Whitehouse denied it. After the literal burnout of the first transatlantic cable, Wildman Whitehouse and Professor Thomson were grilled by a committee of eminent Victorians who were seriously pissed off at Whitehouse and enthralled with Thomson, even
…
unit of measurement, an even more important law of physics, and a refrigerator named after him. Eight years after Whitehouse fried the first, a second transatlantic cable was built to Lord Kelvin’s specifications with his patented mirror galvanometers at either end of it. He bought a 126-ton schooner yacht with
…
Ascension Island, where it forked: one side headed to South America while the other went to Cape Town and then across the Indian Ocean. Subsequent transatlantic cables terminated at Porthcurno as well. Many of the features that made Cornwall attractive to cable operators also made it a suitable place to conduct transatlantic
…
thing we saw upon entering was a fully functional Kelvin mirror galvanometer—the exquisitely sensitive detector that sent Wildman Whitehouse into ignominy, made the first transatlantic cable useful, and earned William Thomson his first major fortune. Most of its delicate innards are concealed within a metal case. The beam of light that
…
of different ways. This was true from the beginning. The telegraphy equipment of 1857 didn’t work when it was hooked up to the first transatlantic cable. Kelvin had to invent the mirror galvanometer, and later the siphon recorder, to make use of it. Needless to say, there were many other Victorian
…
blow open bandwidth and weaken the telecom monopolies. In many ways it hearkens back to the wild early days of the cable business. The first transatlantic cables, after all, were constructed by private investors who, like FLAG’s investors, just went out and built cable because it seemed like a good idea
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow · 1 Jan 1990 · 1,335pp · 336,772 words
Sir John Franklin’s expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. But its most farsighted bet was a £100,000 investment in Cyrus Field’s transatlantic cable, which would unite Wall Street and the City. The scheme looked inspired on August 16, 1858, when Queen Victoria made the first cable call, to
…
, 682 Tracy, Charles, 23, 73 Traders, 584–86, 656, 662, 665, 674 stigma attached to, 584, 586, 662 Transactional banking, 595 Trans Alaska Pipeline, 622 Transatlantic cable, 12 Trans World Airlines, 561 Treasury Department, U.S., 227, 252, 313, 420–21, 471; see also Mellon, Andrew Treaty of Versailles, 207–208, 231
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
by Christopher Andrew · 27 Jun 2018
been palpably opened by the bureau noir . . .’74 Most US secretaries of state were at least as naïve as Gladstone. After the opening of the transatlantic cable connecting America and Europe in 1866, the US minister in Paris, John Bigelow, warned the Secretary of State, William Seward, of the need for improved
…
‘the Dormouse’ (‘very quiet and apparently asleep’), rivalled his fellow Old Etonian Dilly Knox as the ablest codebreaker in Room 40.81 After the Germans’ transatlantic cable was cut by the British at the outbreak of war, the officially neutral but pro-German Swedes allowed them to use the Swedish cable to
…
North America. Bernstorff successfully argued that President Wilson’s peace initiatives would make speedier progress if the German embassy in Washington could use the American transatlantic cable to communicate with Berlin. This cable too went via Britain, and Room 40 was ‘highly entertained’ to discover German ciphers among the American diplomatic traffic
…
territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona’. Because of its importance the telegram was transmitted from Berlin by both the ‘Swedish roundabout’ and the American transatlantic cable. By an unprecedented diplomatic impertinence, the United States had been hoodwinked into providing one of the channels through which Germany hoped to persuade Mexico to
…
. Hall quickly recognized the potential risks as well as the advantages of publicizing the decrypt. If Washington realized that Britain had been tapping the US transatlantic cable and intercepting American as well as German diplomatic traffic, the Zimmermann telegram might lead not to a triumph for Room 40 but to a spectacular
…
now ‘a little uncertain as to its authenticity’. Lansing reminded Wilson that Berlin had been allowed to communicate with its Washington embassy via the US transatlantic cable and explained how the telegram had been sent first to Bernstorff, then forwarded by him to Mexico City. Wilson several times exclaimed ‘Good Lord!’ during
…
), 487–94 cryptanalysis during, 497–502, 504, 509–19, 529–30, 532, 533–4, 535–42, 563–4, 571, 603, 671, 747† cutting of German transatlantic cables, 509, 518 Dardanelles campaign, 515, 532 French Plan XVII, 494–5 French troop mutinies (1917), 550–51 German diplomatic telegrams decrypted, 516–17, 519 German
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
by Robert B. Zoellick · 3 Aug 2020
Arizona.” (They seemed to have forgotten California, or perhaps had other plans for it!) Amazingly, the Germans had sent their coded message over the American transatlantic cable network, a courtesy granted by Washington. In an ironic twist, the British had tapped the U.S. cable and broken the German code. But London
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner · 15 Mar 2012 · 550pp · 154,725 words
the mainland, and was susceptible to a range of stresses that didn’t affect ordinary underground phone cables. Buckley’s dream was to run a transatlantic cable from North America to Great Britain, a project that the Depression and various technological challenges had placed on an indefinite hold. Not long after Buckley
…
, the voice signals then entered a shallow-water cable running to Clarenville, Newfoundland. At Clarenville, the signals entered the deepwater portion of the newly-completed transatlantic cable. All along the bottom of the ocean, the message flashed through fifty-two repeaters over 2,250 miles, before emerging in Oban, Scotland. At Oban
…
. Occasionally, fishing trawlers near the shore would cause breaks in phone service via the first transatlantic cable. But for twenty-two years after it was first activated, its technology never failed once. BY THE TIME the transatlantic cable came online, only two of the four men most closely associated with the transistor—Mervin Kelly
…
force in transforming the world in ways “yet undreamed.”18 One striking proof of this assertion was imminent. The capacity of the two-year-old transatlantic cables would soon be increased thanks to a transistorized technology developed at the Labs known as TASI, or Time Assignment Speech Interpolation. How this worked seemed
…
very fragile. “If you’re going to send sound a long way, you have to send it through fifty amplifiers,” he explains, just as the transatlantic cable did. “The only thing that would work is if all the amplifiers in the path were designed and controlled by one entity, being the AT
…
same might be said about any branch of the sciences, or about many of the large projects in the planning stages at Bell Labs. The transatlantic cable, for instance, which had been on the drawing boards for several decades until a variety of developments made it technologically feasible as well as cost
…
magnified by Kelly’s opposition to the kind of innovation that might later be described as “discontinuous.”14 Bell Labs had just completed the successful transatlantic cable; the future of communications to Europe and beyond appeared to reside in new and better cables. These would be incremental innovations. In such a vision
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet
by David Kahn · 1 Feb 1963 · 1,799pp · 532,462 words
, covered with mud and seaweed. Grunts of men, chopping sounds—and soon they were returned, severed and useless, to the depths. These were Germany’s transatlantic cables, her chief communications lifelines to the world, and the vessel was the British cable ship Telconia. Though the Committee of Imperial Defence never dreamed of
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman · 17 Jul 2017 · 415pp · 114,840 words
GCHQ
by Richard Aldrich · 10 Jun 2010 · 826pp · 231,966 words
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
by W. Bernard Carlson · 11 May 2013 · 733pp · 184,118 words
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
by David Abulafia · 2 Oct 2019 · 1,993pp · 478,072 words
Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw · 15 Nov 2007 · 1,230pp · 357,848 words
The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
by Henry Schlesinger · 16 Mar 2010 · 336pp · 92,056 words
Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage · 1 Jan 1998
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
by Tim Queeney · 11 Aug 2025 · 264pp · 88,907 words
Energy and Civilization: A History
by Vaclav Smil · 11 May 2017
The Power Makers
by Maury Klein · 26 May 2008 · 782pp · 245,875 words
Cuckoo's Egg
by Clifford Stoll · 2 Jan 1989 · 440pp · 117,978 words
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
by James Ball · 19 Aug 2020 · 268pp · 76,702 words
Capitalism in America: A History
by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
by Luke Harding · 7 Feb 2014 · 266pp · 80,018 words
Tesla: Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney · 1 Jan 1981 · 478pp · 131,657 words
The Rough Guide to Ireland
by Clements, Paul · 2 Jun 2015
The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall
by Robert Andrews
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr · 19 Feb 2019
The Rough Guide To Devon & Cornwall
by Rough Guides · 29 Apr 2024 · 558pp · 147,947 words
Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media
by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth
by Guillaume Pitron · 14 Jun 2023 · 271pp · 79,355 words
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans · 31 Aug 2016 · 976pp · 329,519 words
The First Tycoon
by T.J. Stiles · 14 Aug 2009
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Azores
by Dk Eyewitness · 22 Dec 2022 · 157pp · 39,207 words
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 1999
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson · 1 Jan 2002 · 469pp · 146,487 words
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000
by John Steele Gordon · 12 Oct 2009 · 519pp · 148,131 words
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
by Donald MacKenzie · 24 May 2021 · 400pp · 121,988 words
Winds of Change
by Peter Hennessy · 27 Aug 2019 · 891pp · 220,950 words
The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook · 2 May 2011
The Deepest Map
by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
by Lamorna Ash · 1 Apr 2020 · 319pp · 108,797 words
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
by John Darwin · 12 Feb 2013
Piracy : The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
by Adrian Johns · 5 Jan 2010 · 636pp · 202,284 words
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
by Natalie Starkey · 29 Sep 2021 · 309pp · 97,320 words
This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words
The Future of Technology
by Tom Standage · 31 Aug 2005
The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
by Adam Kucharski · 23 Feb 2016 · 360pp · 85,321 words
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
by Henry Petroski · 2 Jan 1995
The Rough Guide to England
by Rough Guides · 29 Mar 2018
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
by Paulina Rowinska · 5 Jun 2024 · 361pp · 100,834 words
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
by Harold James · 15 Jan 2023 · 469pp · 137,880 words
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
There's a War Going on but No One Can See It
by Huib Modderkolk · 1 Sep 2021 · 295pp · 84,843 words
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
by Jing Tsu · 18 Jan 2022 · 408pp · 105,715 words
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
by Alex Zevin · 12 Nov 2019 · 767pp · 208,933 words
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Dec 2009 · 879pp · 233,093 words
Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic of the Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic
by James R. Hansen · 4 Jul 2023 · 362pp · 134,405 words
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
by Alvin E. Roth · 1 Jun 2015 · 282pp · 80,907 words
The Soul of Wealth
by Daniel Crosby · 19 Sep 2024 · 229pp · 73,085 words
The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 3 Mar 2020 · 279pp · 90,888 words
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
by Steven Levy · 15 Jan 2002 · 468pp · 137,055 words
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
by Douglas Coupland · 29 Sep 2014 · 124pp · 36,360 words
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
by Simon Winchester · 14 Oct 2013 · 501pp · 145,097 words
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
by Philip N. Howard · 27 Apr 2015 · 322pp · 84,752 words
Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and Erp on Accounting
by Ashutosh Deshmukh · 13 Dec 2005
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis
by Kevin Rodgers · 13 Jul 2016 · 318pp · 99,524 words
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand · 1 Jan 1943 · 1,108pp · 321,463 words
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words
The River of Lost Footsteps
by Thant Myint-U · 14 Apr 2006
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
by Robert M. Pirsig · 1 Jan 1991 · 497pp · 146,551 words
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
by Simon Winder · 22 Apr 2019
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture
by Deyan Sudjic · 1 Sep 2010
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell · 11 May 2015 · 409pp · 105,551 words
Stigum's Money Market, 4E
by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi · 9 Feb 2007 · 1,202pp · 424,886 words
Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
by B. Mark Smith · 1 Jan 2001 · 403pp · 119,206 words
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
by Francis Fukuyama · 27 Aug 2007
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
by Michael Harris · 6 Aug 2014 · 259pp · 73,193 words
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
Age of Anger: A History of the Present
by Pankaj Mishra · 26 Jan 2017 · 410pp · 106,931 words
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe · 6 Dec 2016 · 254pp · 76,064 words
The Talent Code: Greatest Isn't Born, It's Grown, Here's How
by Daniel Coyle · 27 Apr 2009 · 257pp · 68,203 words
Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
by Scott E. Page · 27 Nov 2018 · 543pp · 153,550 words
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
by Richard Dawkins · 15 Mar 2017 · 420pp · 130,714 words
The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Coming Currency Crisis With Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments
by Charles Goyette · 29 Oct 2009 · 287pp · 81,970 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
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
by Giles Slade · 14 Apr 2006 · 384pp · 89,250 words
Global Governance and Financial Crises
by Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said · 12 Nov 2003