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The world is flat by Thomas L. Friedman

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial …

Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome

The attention merchants by Tim Wu

"From Tim Wu, author of award-winning The Master Switch, and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the …

Mort: a novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (Discworld)

Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.

Terry Pratchett's The light fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld -- 2)

No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein

Journalist Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous …

Hooked by Nir Eyal

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others …

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel …

Walt Disney by Neal Gabler

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary …

Narconomics by Tom Wainwright

"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the …

Genius by James Gleick

A gem of a book, about the life and mind of one of the most influential and iconoclastic characters in …

The 33 strategies of war by Robert Greene

New in the bestselling amoral series—a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in …

Move fast and break things by Jonathan Taplin

Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but …