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Rawlicious at home by Chelsea Clark

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who …

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout …

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Robot Rules by Jacob Turner

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

We insist on setting up an opposition between concepts of success and failure, but this notion is unhelpful and can …

Prediction machines by Ajay Agrawal

The idea of artificial intelligence--job-killing robots, self-driving cars, and self-managing organizations--captures the imagination, evoking a combination of wonder and dread …

China's disruptors by Edward Tse

"Over the past two decades, an unprecedented burst of entrepreneurialism has transformed China's economy from a closed, impoverished, state-run system …

Thirteen ways to steal a bicycle by Stuart P. Green

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us …

No space, no choice, no jobs, no logo by Naomi Klein

An analysis of the invasion of our personal lives by logo-promoting, powerful corporations combines muckraking journalism with contemporary memoir to …

The rule of law by T. H. Bingham

1066 And All That (A Methuen Humour Classic) by Walter Carruthers Sellar, Robert Julian Yeatman

The Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set …

How The World Works by Noam Chomsky