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lars rated The Road to Serfdom: 3 stars
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom is a book by the Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek. In the book, Hayek "[warns] …
lars rated Technically Wrong: 5 stars
Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do …
lars rated Learning by Doing: 5 stars
lars rated The Cuckoo's Egg: 3 stars
Clifford Stoll: The Cuckoo's Egg (1990)
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of a network (they used to …
lars rated The Island at the Center of the World: 4 stars
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in …
lars rated Like Mayflies In A Stream: 4 stars
lars rated Debt: The first 5,000 years: 3 stars
Debt: The first 5,000 years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
lars rated The Aeneid of Virgil: 2 stars
The Aeneid of Virgil by Publius Vergilius Maro
"A prose translation of Vergil's Aeneid with new illustrations and informational appendices"--Provided by publisher.
lars rated Wired to Create: 3 stars
lars rated South Pole Station: 2 stars
lars rated From Pots and Vats to Programs and Apps: 2 stars
lars rated Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: 3 stars
Ben Blatt: Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve (2017, Simon & Schuster)
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve by Ben Blatt
In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the …
lars rated The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: 5 stars
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Nicole Galland, Neal Stephenson (D.O.D.O., #1)
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is a science fantasy novel by American writers Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. It …