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The Fragility of Goodness
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The Internet Con
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Wednesday 3 July
Not Us Now
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Identity and Violence
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Monday 18 March
Things Become Other Things
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Monday 25 December
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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The Analysis of Political Cleavages
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Saturday 13 May
My Brilliant Friend
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Status Anxiety
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Monday 3 April
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Wednesday 8 March
The Plague
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Monday 20 February
The Fall
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Who Gets to Be Smart
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The Stranger
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Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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Tuesday 10 January
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Far Out
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The Cabinet of Calm
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Monday 8 August
Wild Words
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Thursday 4 August
Breaking the Social Media Prism
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The Man from The Future
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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Monday 9 May
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Saturday 30 April
The Information
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The Mind is Flat
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Friday 21 January
New Dark Age
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Wednesday 5 January
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The Lean PhD
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Tuesday 5 October
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Tuesday 14 September
Power Play
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Sunday 12 September
Ready Player Two
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Saturday 28 August
Ready Player One
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Tuesday 24 August
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Wednesday 18 August
Technics and Civilisation
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Thursday 12 August
Square Haunting
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Tuesday 27 July
A Human's Guide to the Future
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Sunday 18 July
The Precipice
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Sunday 4 July
Crowds and Power
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Saturday 26 June
Why We're Polarized
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Saturday 19 June
Human Compatible
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Monday 14 June
The Alignment Problem
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Thursday 3 June
The Image
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Monday 24 May
The Tyranny of Merit
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Sunday 16 May
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
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Sunday 25 April
Bees and Their Keepers
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Saturday 17 April
Dune
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Saturday 3 April
How to Read a Book
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Wednesday 3 March
Call of the Reed Warbler
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Tuesday 16 February
Teg's 1994
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Saturday 16 January
Einstein
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Saturday 9 January
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
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Wednesday 30 December
Going Dark
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Thursday 29 October
The NeuroGeneration
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Saturday 10 October
The Sciences of the Artificial
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Thursday 17 September
Stop Being Reasonable
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Monday 24 August
Monash
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Monday 10 August
On Mathematics and Mathematicians
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Friday 24 July
Losing Eden
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Friday 24 July
Are Filter Bubbles Real?
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Friday 3 July
Plato at the Googleplex
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Tuesday 30 June
Rusted Off
Why country Australia is fed up
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Monday 18 May
The Ph.D. Grind
A Ph.D. Student Memoir
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Thursday 23 April
Breaking News
The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
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Friday 17 April
The Beginning of Infinity
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Friday 27 March
How to Do Nothing
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Wednesday 4 March
The Myth of the Rational Voter
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Tuesday 11 February
Love Your Enemies
How decent people can save America from the culture of contempt
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Sunday 2 February
Crystallography
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Tuesday 28 January
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
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Thursday 23 January
Democracy in a Divided Australia
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Sunday 19 January
Stray Arts
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Thursday 16 January
Post Truth
The new war on truth and how to fight back
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Thursday 16 January
Urban and Regional Planning
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Monday 13 January
Lincoln in the Bardo
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Monday 13 January
Weaponized Lies
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Thursday 9 January
Detection Theory
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Thursday 9 January
City Life
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Wednesday 8 January
The Hate Race
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Friday 3 January
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The Reputation Society
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Monday 30 December
Cellar
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Monday 30 December
The Lifespan of a Fact
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Sunday 29 December
Building Web Reputation Systems
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Friday 27 December
The Human Condition
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Friday 27 December
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Wednesday 25 December
Alex through the Looking-Glass
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Friday 13 December
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Sunday 1 December
Information disorder
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Tuesday 26 November
Crime and Punishment
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Saturday 23 November
Metaphors We Live By
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Sunday 10 November
Clickbait, Bias, and Propaganda in Information Networks
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Monday 4 November
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
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Tuesday 22 October
Troll Hunting
Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout
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Thursday 3 October
This is Not Propaganda
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Wednesday 25 September
Radicalized
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Tuesday 17 September
Infinite Detail
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Thursday 12 September
The Last Whole Earth Catalog
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Monday 2 September
Figuring
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Saturday 24 August
Eichmann in Jerusalem
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Monday 29 July
The Secret Life
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Radical Markets
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Thursday 18 July
Snow Crash
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Saturday 29 June
Dark Emu
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Saturday 29 June
How to Measure Anything
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Saturday 25 May
Why Shrink-Wrap a Cucumber?
The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging
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Friday 19 April
In Praise of Intransigence
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Thursday 4 April
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
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Sunday 31 March
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
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Wednesday 27 March
How We Got to Now
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Wednesday 13 March
Second Foundation
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Saturday 9 February
Alsos
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Saturday 2 February
Victims of Groupthink
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Wednesday 23 January
Beaumaris Modern
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Saturday 19 January
The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
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Wednesday 16 January
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Life of Galileo
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Saturday 22 December
What is populism?
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Thursday 6 December
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Tuesday 4 December
Radioactive
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Friday 9 November
The First Casualty
A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism
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Thursday 25 October
No Logo
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Wednesday 17 October
Tales from the Inner City
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Thursday 4 October
Cybernetics
Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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Monday 24 September
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
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Saturday 1 September
Ginkgo
The Tree That Time Forgot
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Monday 27 August
Reinventing Discovery
The New Era of Networked Science
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Wednesday 8 August
Cicada
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Wednesday 1 August
What is Life?
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Monday 30 July
The News
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Friday 27 July
Global Catastrophic Risks
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Monday 23 July
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Wednesday 4 July
A Little History of the World
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Wednesday 27 June
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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Wednesday 6 June
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World - and Why Things are Better than You Think
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Tuesday 29 May
I am a Mathematician
The Later Life of a Prodigy
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Tuesday 22 May
Ex-Prodigy
My Childhood and Youth
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Monday 14 May
The Fractalist
Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
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Thursday 3 May
A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration
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Thursday 19 April
Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
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Monday 9 April
The Ethical Brain
The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
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Friday 30 March
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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Friday 30 March
Foundation and Empire
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Monday 26 March
Randomnicity
Rules and Randomness in the Realm of the Infinite
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Thursday 22 March
Maverick Genius
The Pioneering Odyssey of Freeman Dyson
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Tuesday 20 March
Enigmas of Chance
An Autobiography
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Sunday 11 March
The Righteous Mind
Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Tuesday 6 March
Superforecasting
The art and science of prediction
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Tuesday 27 February
The Master Algorithm
How the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world
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Wednesday 21 February
Thunder & Lightning
Weather past, present, future
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Saturday 17 February
Three Score Years and Twenty
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Wednesday 14 February
Inadequate Equilibria
Where and how civilizations get stuck
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Monday 5 February
Who owns the future?
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Sunday 4 February
Surfing Uncertainty
Prediction, action and the embodied mind
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Monday 22 January
Arcadia
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Thursday 18 January
Finite and Infinite Games
A vision of life as play and possibility
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Tuesday 9 January
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The Island of Knowledge
The limits of science and the search for meaning
Marcelo Gleiser
Saturday 30 December
The Age of Em
Work, love and life when robots rule the earth
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Tuesday 26 December
Stubborn Attachments
A vision for a society of free, prosperous and responsible individuals
Tyler Cowen
Monday 25 December
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Saturday 16 December
The Tipping Point
How little things can make a big difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Wednesday 13 December
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
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Monday 11 December
How to Solve It
A new aspect of mathematical method
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Thursday 7 December
Slade House
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Saturday 2 December
Foucault's Pendulum
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Friday 24 November
Stoner
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Tuesday 17 October
Chronicles
On our troubled times
Thomas Piketty
Wednesday 4 October
The Shallows
How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember
Nicholas Carr
Sunday 1 October
In Search of the Miraculous
Fragments of an unknown teaching
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Friday 22 September
Frank Lloyd Wright
America's master architect
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Tuesday 19 September
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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Wednesday 13 September
Code Breakers
Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks
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Monday 14 August
Anki Essentials
The complete guide to remembering anything with Anki
Alex Vermeer
Thursday 3 August
Sapiens
A brief history of humankind
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Friday 28 July
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Friday 21 July
Unforbidden Pleasures
Adam Phillips
Tuesday 11 July
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Pronged ants, horned humans, mice on toast, and other marvels of Jurassic technology
Lawrence Weschler
Tuesday 4 July
Graphic Discovery
A trout in the milk and other visual adventures
Howard Wainer
Tuesday 23 May
Leibniz
Ruth Lydia Saw
Wednesday 17 May
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Wednesday 26 April
Breaking Smart
Seeking serendipity through technology
Venkatesh Rao
Saturday 8 April
The Kybalion
Three Initiates
Thursday 30 March
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Monday 27 March
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why violence has declined
Steven Pinker
Saturday 25 March
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
An introduction to designing with d3
Scott Murray
Friday 24 March
Silent Spring
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Wednesday 22 March
The Dot & the Line
A romance in lower mathematics
Norton Juster
Tuesday 21 March
The Last Messiah
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Tuesday 21 March
The New Case for Gold
James Rickards
Tuesday 14 March
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Saturday 11 March
Faster
The acceleration of just about everything
James Gleick
Tuesday 7 March
The Economics of Inequality
Thomas Piketty
Friday 3 March
The Omnivore's Dilemma
A natural history of four meals
Michael Pollan
Tuesday 28 February
80,000 Hours
Find a fulfilling career that does good
Benjamin Todd
Friday 24 February
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Monday 13 February
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
Tuesday 7 February
On Bullshit
Harry Frankfurt
Wednesday 1 February
On the Shortness of Life
Life is long if you know how to use it
Seneca
Wednesday 1 February
This Is Water
Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life
David Foster Wallace
Wednesday 4 January
2016
Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges
Wednesday 14 December
The Golden Ticket
P, NP, and the search for the impossible
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Sunday 4 December
The Four Legendary Kingdoms
Matthew Reilly
Sunday 20 November
The Boy Who Played with Fusion
Extreme science, extreme parenting, and how to make a star
Tom Clynes
Thursday 27 October
Making the Modern World
Materials and dematerialization
Vaclav Smil
Friday 21 October
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
Wednesday 28 September
1001 Ideas
That changed the way we think
Robert Arp (editor)
Friday 2 September
Superintelligence
Paths, dangers, strategies
Nick Bostrom
Thursday 18 August
The Shape of Space
Jeffrey Weeks
Tuesday 9 August
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
Thursday 4 August
The Decline of the West, Vol. I
Form and actuality
Oswald Spengler
Friday 29 July
The Art of Asking
or, How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Amanda Palmer
Thursday 7 July
The Singing Bones
Shaun Tan
Monday 4 July
Big World, Small Planet
Abundance within planetary boundaries
Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum
Thursday 30 June
You Are Not A Gadget
A manifesto
Jaron Lanier
Monday 27 June
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael A. Nielsen
Sunday 26 June
The Principles of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman
Friday 24 June
Chaos
Making a new science
James Gleick
Monday 30 May
The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
Saturday 21 May
Facts from Figures
A layman's introduction to statistics
M. J. Moroney
Tuesday 17 May
Science and the Common Understanding
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Thursday 12 May
ggplot2
Elegant graphics for data analysis
Hadley Wickham
Wednesday 11 May
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Wednesday 4 May
The Island of Knowledge
The limits of science and the search for meaning
Marcelo Gleiser
Tuesday 26 April
The Grammar of Graphics
Leland Wilkinson
Tuesday 19 April
How to Prove It
A structured approach
Daniel Velleman
Wednesday 6 April
The Container Principle
How a box changes the way we think
Alexander Klose
Thursday 25 February
The Sense of Style
The thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
Steven Pinker
Sunday 21 February
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An inquiry into values
Robert Maynard Pirsig
Tuesday 16 February
An ABZ of Love
Inge & Sten Hegeler
Saturday 13 February
The Life You Can Save
Acting now to end world poverty
Peter Singer
Friday 12 February
The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and practical aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tuesday 9 February
The Black Swan
The impact of the highly improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sunday 7 February
Fooled by Randomness
The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Monday 1 February
Why Information Grows
The evolution of order, from atoms to economies
César Hidalgo
Tuesday 26 January
Storms of My Grandchildren
The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity
James Hansen
Sunday 24 January
Making Sense of Japanese
What the textbooks don't tell you
Jay Rubin
Friday 22 January
Shogun
James Clavell
Wednesday 20 January
The Elements of Style
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Wednesday 6 January
Paula
Isabel Allende
Saturday 2 January
2015
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Monday 21 December
Antifragile
Things that gain from disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thursday 17 December
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Adventures of a curious character
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Saturday 5 December
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Thursday 3 December
Being Mortal
Medicine and what matters in the end
Atul Gawande
Friday 27 November
The Reason I Jump
The inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
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Tuesday 17 November
Our Choice
A plan to solve the climate crisis
Al Gore
Tuesday 17 November
An Inconvenient Truth
The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
Al Gore
Wednesday 11 November
僕らの時代の本
Craig Mod
Thursday 29 October
Cycles of Life
Civilization and the biosphere
Vaclav Smil
Friday 23 October
The Opposite of Loneliness
Essays and stories
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Thursday 1 October
The Art of Data Science
A guide for anyone who works with data
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Monday 28 September
The Sixth Extinction
An unnatural history
Elizabeth Kolbert
Monday 28 September
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Thursday 24 September
The Signal and the Noise
Why so many predictions fail—but some don't
Nate Silver
Monday 7 September
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Thursday 3 September
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Thursday 6 August
Don't Go Back to School
A handbook for learning anything
Kio Stark
Sunday 2 August
Nudge
Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness
Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
Thursday 30 July
The Quantum Universe
Everything that can happen does happen
Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Friday 24 July
Paleoclimate
Michael Bender
Friday 17 July
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
Tuesday 14 July
M is for Magic
Neil Gaiman
Thursday 9 July
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte
Saturday 27 June
Beautiful Evidence
Edward Tufte
Thursday 25 June
Visual Explanations
Edward Tufte
Wednesday 24 June
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
Saturday 20 June
1969
Evaluating the Language of Argument
Martin Hinton
Wednesday 31 December
Prior Notables
Waking Up
A guide to spirituality without religion
Sam Harris
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The Rational Optimist
How prosperity evolves
Matt Ridley
2014
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
The internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism
Jeremy Rifkin
2014
Should We Eat Meat?
Evolution and consequences of modern carnivory
Vaclav Smil
2013
The Conundrum
How scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse
David Owen
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Tales from Outer Suburbia
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