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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 …
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Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do …

The Road to Serfdom is a book by the Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek. In the book, Hayek "[warns] …

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in …

Clifford Stoll: The Cuckoo's Egg (1990)
In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of a network (they used to …

The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …

"A prose translation of Vergil's Aeneid with new illustrations and informational appendices"--Provided by publisher.

Ben Blatt: Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve (2017, Simon & Schuster)
In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the …

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is a science fantasy novel by American writers Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. It …