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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips... -
![Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson]()
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter... -
![Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway]()
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads_____________Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history... -
![Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan]()
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life... -
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![The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan]()
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years .Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system... -
![How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner]()
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
![Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained by Yan Pritzker]()
Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained by Yan Pritzker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is, or how it works. Walking through its invention step by step, this short two hour read is critical before you invest.No technical expertise required! Read it, then share it with your loved ones.“It was much quicker and easier to understand than I expected [.. -
![Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit]()
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same... -
![Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans]()
Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDisruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare.Banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, retail. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into many industries around the world... -
![Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life... -
![Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt, Charles T. Brown]()
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt, Charles T. Brown
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018... -
![Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide]()
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would that change about your city? Buses can and should be the cornerstone of urban transportation. They offer affordable mobility and can connect citizens with every aspect of their lives. But in the US, they have long been an afterthought in budgeting and planning... -
![The Internet of Money Volume Two by Andreas M. Antonopoulos]()
The Internet of Money Volume Two by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Internet of Money Volume Two is the spectacular sequel to the cult classic and best seller The Internet of Money Volume One by Andreas M. Antonopoulos... -
![World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christophe Blain]()
World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christophe Blain
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA rich and colorful French graphic novel that has become a word-of-mouth sensation and transformed the way hundreds of thousands of people think about climate change.There is no green energy. Nor pink, nor black. Nor clean nor dirty, for that matter...Categorized as:
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![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
![How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine]()
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas.. -
![Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow]()
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)--or both... -
![The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon]()
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces... -
![Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar]()
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spotParking, quite literally, has a death grip on each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots... -
![The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin]()
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society“ A master class on how the world works... -
![The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler]()
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAUDIO BONUS! INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE AUTHORS!FROM THE 'NEW YORK TIMES' BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF 'ABUNDANCE' AND 'BOLD' COMES A PRACTICAL PLAYBOOK FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE IN OUR MODERN ERA.In their book 'Abundance', bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy... -
![Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit]()
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S... -
![Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper]()
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper’s brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement... -
![Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein]()
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMoney only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money... -
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![Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis]()
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy — and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that...Categorized as:
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![Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm]()
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change. - New York MagazineThe right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane. - The Daily BeastA must-read. - The GuardianClimate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know is the essential primer on what will be the defining issue of our time...Categorized as:
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![The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment by Linda M. Scott]()
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment by Linda M. Scott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Linda Scott shines a light on women's essential and often invisible contributions to our global economy--while combining insight, analysis, and interdisciplinary data to make a compelling and actionable case for unleashing women's economic power... -
![Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin]()
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsImagination isn’t a luxury; it’s a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation. A world without prisons? Ridiculous . Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible . A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams . Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination... -
![Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.]()
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - and how to make it work for your communityIn Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr... -
![Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini]()
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.“Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been an essential figure in bringing irresponsible, profit-hungry tech giants to their knees. If you’re going to read only one book about AI, this should be it...
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