Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by McNamee, Roger
10.41 USD
23.80 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting hi ...Show more
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
7.96 USD
18.19 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature o ...Show more
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
14.88 USD
35.01 (57% off)
Category: History & Politics
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more
The Frontlines of Peace An Insider's Guide to Changing the World by Severine Autesserre
16.64 USD
26.60 (37% off)
Category: Social Sciences
At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word peacebuilding evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandal ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more
Talk to Me: Amazon, Google, Apple and the Race for Voice-Controlled AI by Vlahos, James
5.43 USD
13.99 (61% off)
Category: Computing & The Internet
The gripping inside story of the race to build conversationally capable computersChat with the author: ask your Alexa device to 'open the voice computing book'__________________The next great technological disruption is coming.The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman
9.19 USD
20.99 (56% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law
Foreword by Bill Gates From the authors of New York Times bestsellers, The Alliance and The Start-up of You, comes a smart and accessible must-have guide for budding entrepreneurs everywhere. Silicon Valley is renowned for its striking number of businesses which have grown from garage start-ups into glo ...Show more
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred re ...Show more
Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer
9.10 USD
18.19 (49% off)
Category: Science
In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988, "Newsweek" headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace the ...Show more
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
7.96 USD
20.99 (62% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law | Reading Level: very good
This book was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson prize 2010. They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking "New York Times" journal ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more