Politics Books
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shar…
Abundance
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to ret…
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, emergent AI tyrants, and limitless growth—pervert public dis…
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for m…
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Pos…
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Steph…
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California crea…
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. …
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough ed…
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, aut…