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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsEd Yong202332 pts2 wins5 listsRandom HouseScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
The Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodJames Gleick201130 pts3 wins6 listsFourth EstateHistoryScience & Discovery+1
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for MenCaroline Criado-Perez201928 pts2 wins5 listsChatto & WindusGender & SexualityScience & Discovery+1
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAIKaren Hao202524 pts3 wins3 listsPenguin PressTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidDouglas Hofstadter197924 pts2 wins3 listsBasic BooksScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our TimeJonathan Weiner199520 pts2 wins2 listsKnopfScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyChris Miller202218 pts2 wins3 listsScribnerTechnologyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineMichael Lewis200918 pts2 wins3 listsPenguin BooksBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
How the Mind WorksSteven Pinker199718 pts1 wins3 listsW. W. NortonScienceScience & Discovery+2
Hitler 1936-1945: NemesisIan Kershaw200116 pts1 wins3 listsAllen LaneHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United StatesKenneth T. Jackson198714 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith202314 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
FiguringMaria Popova202014 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonBiographyScience & Discovery+2
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeWalter A. McDougall198514 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
DDisappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth CenturyO. B. Hardison, Jr.199014 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureScience & Discovery+2
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the DroneScott Shane201512 pts1 wins2 listsCrownPolitics & GovernmentTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNABrenda Maddox200212 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsBiographyTechnology, Computing & Ai+1
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug BoomKatherine Eban201912 pts2 wins3 listsEccoMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of NationsCarl Benedikt Frey202512 pts1 wins3 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of DeathMark O'Connell201712 pts1 wins3 listsAnchorTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersMatt Ridley199912 pts0 wins3 listsHarperCollinsScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the WorldParmy Olson202410 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted MicrochipStephen Witt202410 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin Publishing GroupBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms RaceNicole Perlroth202210 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Smallest Lights in the UniverseSara Seager202010 pts1 wins1 listsCrownScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+1
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional ConventionMary Sarah Bilder201610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryConstitutional History+3
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass UnemploymentMartin Ford201510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant ConnectionMichael Harris201410 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of AmazonBrad Stone201310 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSylvia Nasar201110 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
I Am a Strange LoopDouglas Hofstadter200710 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+1
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Friedman200510 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeCharles Wohlforth200410 pts1 wins1 listsNorth Point PressNature & EnvironmentTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human DomesticationJohn A. Livingston199410 pts1 wins1 listsKey Porter BooksSociety & CultureTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our WorldDaniel McNeill, Paul Freiberger199310 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterTechnologyScience & Discovery+2
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human AnimalJared Diamond199210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceScience & Discovery+2
"Subtle is the Lord ...": The Science and the Life of Albert EinsteinAbraham Pais198210 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for NonscientistsFred Alan Wolf198110 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+1
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of PiracyStephen Witt201510 pts0 wins3 listsVikingBusiness & EconomicsArt, Music & Performance+3
Privacy and FreedomAlan F. Westin19688 pts2 wins2 listsAtheneumPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldWilliam Dalrymple20248 pts1 wins2 listsBloomsburyHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’tNate Silver20128 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressScienceScience & Discovery+1
The Computer from Pascal to Von NeumannHerman H. Goldstine19728 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressTechnologyTechnology, Computing & Ai
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial RevolutionPriya Satia20188 pts1 wins3 listsPenguin PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the MachineHannah Fry20188 pts0 wins2 listsDoubledayTechnologyTechnology, Computing & Ai
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanRichard Wrangham20108 pts0 wins2 listsBasic BooksScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Chaos: Making a New ScienceJames Gleick19888 pts0 wins2 listsVikingScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Bumblebee EconomicsBernd Heinrich19808 pts0 wins2 listsHarvard University PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly20166 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep StateKerry Howley20236 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana Zuboff20186 pts0 wins2 listsPublicAffairsBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop TalkingSusan Cain20126 pts0 wins2 listsCrownSociety & CultureScience & Discovery+1
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital UniverseGeorge Dyson20126 pts0 wins2 listsPantheonTechnologyScience & Discovery+1
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory BirdsScott Weidensaul20215 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentScience & Discovery+3
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical LifeAgnes Callard20254 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonSociety & CultureTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox NewsKathryn Cramer Brownell20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy LandTamar Novick20234 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressTechnologyTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in AntarcticaDavid J. Drewry20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
TThe Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically BetterAbdi Aidid, Benjamin Alarie20234 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Toronto PressTechnologyIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical ArchiveMark Anthony Neal20224 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+3
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's TomorrowNicole Yunger Halpern20224 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of EmancipationRoberto Saba20214 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of UsLucy Bernholz20214 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressSociety & CultureTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic MythMagda Teter20204 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980)Rick Perlstein20204 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryLgbtq History & Life+3
The Cult of the ConstitutionMary Anne Franks20194 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the WestPayal Arora20194 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressSociety & CultureBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Rise of Big Data PolicingAndrew Guthrie Ferguson20194 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of ReadingLeah Price20194 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to TrumpAllison Stanger20194 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentDemocracy & Elections+3
Designing an InternetDavid Clark20184 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising BrainNick Chater20184 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
UnderbugLisa Margonelli20184 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanScienceScience & Discovery+3
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and ReceptionJeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio Stok20174 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital AgeFrancesca Coppa20174 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Michigan PressArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
The Curse of CashKenneth S. Rogoff20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of TechnologyKentaro Toyama20154 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsTechnologyClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal MummiesZahi Hawass, Sahar Saleem20154 pts1 wins1 listsThe American University in Cairo PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
TThe Pantheon: From Antiquity to the PresentTod A. Marder, Mark Wilson Jones20154 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryInfrastructure, Engineering & Built Environment+1
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological HistoryGregory Cushman20144 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth CenturyOmar W. Nasim20144 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+1
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized CybercrimeBrian Krebs20144 pts1 wins1 listsSourcebooksTrue Crime & JusticeTechnology, Computing & Ai
Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and CareSylvie Penichon20134 pts1 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsArts & CriticismEducation & Universities+3
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared ResourcesBrett M. Frischmann20124 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBusiness & EconomicsEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after NapoleonJohn Tresch20124 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial EcosystemDaniel Schneider20114 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century ChinaDagmar Schäfer20114 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance StateShane Harris20104 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the PlanetTimothy LeCain20094 pts1 wins1 listsRutgers University PressHistoryEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a ContinentAndrew Nikiforuk20094 pts1 wins1 listsGreystone BooksNature & EnvironmentTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Race Between Education & TechnologyClaudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz20084 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Digital PerformanceSteve Dixon20074 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressArts & CriticismTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Second Life HeraldPeter Ludlow, Mark Wallace20074 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressJournalism & ReportageTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Invisible EnginesDavid S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, Richard Schmalensee20064 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+1
The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929Elspeth H. Brown20054 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural SocietiesPeter Bellwood20044 pts1 wins1 listsBlackwell PublishingHistoryFood, Agriculture & Land+3
American Law in the Twentieth CenturyLawrence Friedman20024 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the PresentMartin Melosi20004 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTechnologyEmpire & Colonialism+3
Image and Logic: A Material Culture of MicrophysicsPeter Galison19974 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+1
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth CenturyStanley I. Kutler19964 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
2023An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsEd YongScience3225Random HousePenguin Random House
2011The Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodJames GleickHistory3036Fourth EstateHarperCollins
2019Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for MenCaroline Criado-PerezGender & Sexuality2825Chatto & WindusPenguin Random House
2025Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAIKaren HaoTechnology2433Penguin PressPenguin Random House
1979Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidDouglas HofstadterScience2423Basic BooksHachette Book Group
1995The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our TimeJonathan WeinerScience2022KnopfPenguin Random House
2022Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyChris MillerTechnology1823ScribnerSimon & Schuster
2009The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineMichael LewisBusiness & Economics1823Penguin BooksPenguin Random House
1997How the Mind WorksSteven PinkerScience1813W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2001Hitler 1936-1945: NemesisIan KershawHistory1613Allen LanePenguin Random House
1987Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United StatesKenneth T. JacksonHistory1422Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2023A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?Zach Weinersmith, Kelly WeinersmithScience1412Penguin PressPenguin Random House
2020FiguringMaria PopovaBiography1412PantheonPenguin Random House
1985...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeWalter A. McDougallHistory1412Basic BooksHachette Book Group
1990DDisappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth CenturyO. B. Hardison, Jr.Society & Culture1412UnknownNot yet sourced
2015Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the DroneScott ShanePolitics & Government1212CrownPenguin Random House
2002Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNABrenda MaddoxBiography1212HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2019Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug BoomKatherine EbanMedicine & Public Health1223EccoHarperCollins
2025How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of NationsCarl Benedikt FreyBusiness & Economics1213Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2017To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of DeathMark O'ConnellTechnology1213AnchorPenguin Random House
1999Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersMatt RidleyScience1203HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2024Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the WorldParmy OlsonTechnology1011St. Martin's PressMacmillan
2024The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted MicrochipStephen WittBusiness & Economics1011Penguin Publishing GroupPenguin Random House
2022This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms RaceNicole PerlrothTechnology1011BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2020The Smallest Lights in the UniverseSara SeagerScience1011CrownPenguin Random House
2016Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional ConventionMary Sarah BilderHistory1011Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2015The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass UnemploymentMartin FordTechnology1011UnknownNot yet sourced
2014The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant ConnectionMichael HarrisSociety & Culture1011HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2013The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of AmazonBrad StoneBusiness & Economics1011Little, BrownHachette Book Group
2011Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSylvia NasarBusiness & Economics1011Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2007I Am a Strange LoopDouglas HofstadterScience1011Basic BooksHachette Book Group
2005The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First CenturyThomas FriedmanBusiness & Economics1011PicadorMacmillan
2004The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeCharles WohlforthNature & Environment1011North Point PressFarrar, Straus and Giroux
1994Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human DomesticationJohn A. LivingstonSociety & Culture1011Key Porter BooksKey Porter Books
1993Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our WorldDaniel McNeill, Paul FreibergerTechnology1011Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
1992The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human AnimalJared DiamondScience1011UnknownNot yet sourced
1982"Subtle is the Lord ...": The Science and the Life of Albert EinsteinAbraham PaisScience1011Oxford University PressOxford University Press
1981Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for NonscientistsFred Alan WolfScience1011HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2015How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of PiracyStephen WittBusiness & Economics1003VikingPenguin Random House
1968Privacy and FreedomAlan F. WestinPolitics & Government822AtheneumSimon & Schuster
2024The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldWilliam DalrympleHistory812BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2012The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’tNate SilverScience812Penguin PressPenguin Random House
1972The Computer from Pascal to Von NeumannHerman H. GoldstineTechnology812Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2018Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial RevolutionPriya SatiaHistory813Penguin PressPenguin Random House
2018Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the MachineHannah FryTechnology802DoubledayPenguin Random House
2010Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanRichard WranghamScience802Basic BooksHachette Book Group
1988Chaos: Making a New ScienceJames GleickScience802VikingPenguin Random House
1980Bumblebee EconomicsBernd HeinrichScience802Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2016Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee ShetterlyRace & Ethnicity612HarperCollinsHarperCollins
2023Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep StateKerry HowleyPolitics & Government602KnopfPenguin Random House
2018The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana ZuboffBusiness & Economics602PublicAffairsHachette Book Group
2012Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop TalkingSusan CainSociety & Culture602CrownPenguin Random House
2012Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital UniverseGeorge DysonTechnology602PantheonPenguin Random House
2021A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory BirdsScott WeidensaulNature & Environment502W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2025Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical LifeAgnes CallardSociety & Culture411W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
202324/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox NewsKathryn Cramer BrownellPolitics & Government411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2023Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy LandTamar NovickTechnology411MIT PressMIT Press
2023The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in AntarcticaDavid J. DrewryScience411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2023TThe Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically BetterAbdi Aidid, Benjamin AlarieTechnology411University of Toronto PressUniversity of Toronto Press
2022Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical ArchiveMark Anthony NealArts & Criticism411New York University PressNew York University Press
2022Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's TomorrowNicole Yunger HalpernScience411Johns Hopkins University PressJohns Hopkins University Press
2021American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of EmancipationRoberto SabaHistory411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2021How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of UsLucy BernholzSociety & Culture411MIT PressMIT Press
2020Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic MythMagda TeterHistory411Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2020Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980)Rick PerlsteinHistory411Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2019The Cult of the ConstitutionMary Anne FranksPolitics & Government411Stanford University PressStanford University Press
2019The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the WestPayal AroraSociety & Culture411Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2019The Rise of Big Data PolicingAndrew Guthrie FergusonTrue Crime & Justice411New York University PressNew York University Press
2019What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of ReadingLeah PriceSociety & Culture411Basic BooksHachette Book Group
2019Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to TrumpAllison StangerPolitics & Government411Yale University PressYale University Press
2018Designing an InternetDavid ClarkTechnology411MIT PressMIT Press
2018The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising BrainNick ChaterScience411Yale University PressYale University Press
2018UnderbugLisa MargonelliScience411MacmillanMacmillan
2017Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and ReceptionJeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio StokHistory411University of Texas PressUniversity of Texas Press
2017The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital AgeFrancesca CoppaArts & Criticism411University of Michigan PressUniversity of Michigan Press
2016The Curse of CashKenneth S. RogoffBusiness & Economics411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2015Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of TechnologyKentaro ToyamaTechnology411PublicAffairsHachette Book Group
2015Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal MummiesZahi Hawass, Sahar SaleemScience411The American University in Cairo PressThe American University in Cairo Press
2015TThe Pantheon: From Antiquity to the PresentTod A. Marder, Mark Wilson JonesHistory411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2014Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological HistoryGregory CushmanHistory411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2014Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth CenturyOmar W. NasimScience411University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2014Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized CybercrimeBrian KrebsTrue Crime & Justice411SourcebooksSourcebooks
2013Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and CareSylvie PenichonArts & Criticism411Getty PublicationsGetty Publications
2012Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared ResourcesBrett M. FrischmannBusiness & Economics411Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2012The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after NapoleonJohn TreschHistory411University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2011Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial EcosystemDaniel SchneiderScience411MIT PressMIT Press
2011The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century ChinaDagmar SchäferScience411University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2010The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance StateShane HarrisPolitics & Government411UnknownNot yet sourced
2009Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the PlanetTimothy LeCainHistory411Rutgers University PressRutgers University Press
2009Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a ContinentAndrew NikiforukNature & Environment411Greystone BooksGreystone Books
2008The Race Between Education & TechnologyClaudia Goldin, Lawrence F. KatzBusiness & Economics411Harvard University PressHarvard University Press
2007Digital PerformanceSteve DixonArts & Criticism411MIT PressMIT Press
2007The Second Life HeraldPeter Ludlow, Mark WallaceJournalism & Reportage411MIT PressMIT Press
2006Invisible EnginesDavid S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, Richard SchmalenseeTechnology411MIT PressMIT Press
2005The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929Elspeth H. BrownBusiness & Economics411Johns Hopkins University PressJohns Hopkins University Press
2004First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural SocietiesPeter BellwoodHistory411Blackwell PublishingWiley
2002American Law in the Twentieth CenturyLawrence FriedmanPolitics & Government411Yale University PressYale University Press
2000The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the PresentMartin MelosiTechnology411UnknownNot yet sourced
1997Image and Logic: A Material Culture of MicrophysicsPeter GalisonScience411University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
1996Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth CenturyStanley I. KutlerHistory411Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster

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