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  • Co-Intelligence

    Living and Working with AI

    by Ethan Mollick ...
    From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AISomething new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Palo Alto

    A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

    Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUBThe history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth).Palo ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Plunder

    Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

    The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop itPrivate equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how they work.In Plunder, Brendan Ballou explains how ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Supermarket USA

    Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

    This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Frackers

    The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

    “A lively, exciting, and definitely thought-provoking book.” —BooklistThings looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Burn Book

    A Tech Love Story

    by Kara Swisher ...
    Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world…Bawdy, brash, and compulsively ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Vulture Capitalism

    Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

    Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for NonfictionA Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy for all.< ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Material World

    The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

    by Ed Conway ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Formula

    How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

    Wall Street Journal reporters and authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers, and bitter rivalries that have made F1 the world’s fastest growing sport.For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Empire of Pain

    The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing."A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Blockchain Democracy

    Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd

    In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark web and online crime. Magnuson argues that blockchain's popularity stands as a testament both to the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The AI Revolution in Medicine

    GPT-4 and Beyond

    AI is about to transform medicine. Here's what you need to know right now.''The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It will change the way people work, learn, and communicate--and transform healthcare. But it must be managed carefully to ensure its benefits outweigh the risks. I'm encouraged to see this early exploration of the opportunities and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Unscripted

    The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

    **The instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Nominated for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award"Addicted to Succession? Well, here's the real thing." - The Hollywood Reporter“Jaw-dropping . . . an epic tale of toxic wealth and greed populated by connivers and manipulators.” —The New York ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Build

    An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

    by Tony Fadell ...
    **New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USAToday Bestseller for May 2022**Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.So that’s what this book is. An advice ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Power Law

    Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

    **Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist“A gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists.” - Daniel Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal“A must-read for anyone seeking to understand modern-day Silicon Valley and even our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Unicorn Project

    A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

    by Gene Kim ...
    The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling The Unicorn Project**!**“The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project…”—FERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, Adidas“Gene Kim does a mast... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dark Calories

    How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

    The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Stud

    Adventures in Breeding

    by Kevin Conley ...
    Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky to the rich valleys of California. Stud takes us into this strange and seductive world of horse ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Reputation and Power

    Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA

    Series Book 111 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
    How the FDA became the world's most powerful regulatory agencyThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? And how exactly does it wield its extraordinary power? Reputation and Power traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Competing Against Luck

    The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

    The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more ... Read more

    $21.49 USD

  • Pain Hustlers

    Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell

    by Evan Hughes ...
    The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers—until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. • THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS"Unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film…A tour de force."—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Take Back the Tray

    Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions

    A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution with this manifesto, memoir from the trenches, and blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines.“With hard-won insights and deep commitment, Joshna Maharaj takes us on a mouthwatering tour of what our collective food future might be.” ― Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD