Politics Books
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan,…
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship o…
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things a…
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to cha…
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
"If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he …
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening t…
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compel…
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers th…
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success …
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts …