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Art & Design

Title Author
Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, Jeroen Barendse
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Tessellations: Mathematics, Art, and Recreation Robert Fathauer
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure Michael Truscello
Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture W. Patrick McCray
Drawing is Thinking Milton Glaser, Judith Thurman
NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration James Dean, Bertram Ulrich
Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice Albena Yaneva

Computers

Title Author
The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution T.R. Reid
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter Charlton D. McIlwain
T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power Michael Kanaan
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America Margaret O'Mara
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine Charles Petzold
Your Computer Is on Fire Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip

Economics

Title Author
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All Michael Mechanic
The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy Edited by James Gustave Speth, Kathleen Courrier
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System T.R. Reid
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History Liam Vaghan
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing Vaclac Smil

Energy

Title Author
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America David E. Nye
Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses Vaclav Smil
Energy: A Human History Richard Rhodes
Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy Russell Gold

Food

Title Author
Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century Helen Zoe Veit
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug Augustine Sedgewick
The Italian Baker, Revised Carol Field

Growth

Title Author
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self Manoush Zomorodi

Literature & Poetry

Title Author
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums Sonia Sanchez
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine Charles Petzold
RADIO: Wireless Poem in Thirteen Messages & Uncollected Poems Kyn Taniya (translation by David Shook)
Aeroplane Kyn Taniya (translated by Anthony Seidman and David Shook)

Natsec

Title Author
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies Jason Fagone
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Cliff Stoll
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe Kathy Peiss
Code Name: Lise - The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy Larry Lofts
Homegrown: ISIS in America Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Seamus Hughes, Bennett Clifford
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage Mara Hvistendahl
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War Fred Kaplan
Governing from the Skies: A Global History of Aerial Bombing Thomas Hippler, David Fernbach
A History of Bombing Sven Lindquist
Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence Jonathan Haslam
Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future Seth J. Frantzman
Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War M. Susan Lindee
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate Robert D. Kaplan
Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I Hervey Allen

Nature & Earth Science

Title Author
Foxtrot in Kandahar: A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War Duane Evans
First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan Gary Schroen
The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future Zach St. George
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness Sy Montgomery
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer
Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things Jeremy England
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space Kevin Hand

Networks & Communications

Title Author
Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications Richard R. John
The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks A.R. Galloway and E. Thacker
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet David Kahn

Nuclear

Title Author
Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War Nate Jones
Adventures of a Mathematician Stan Ulam
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller Gregg Herken
Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films Sean M. Maloney
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World Lesley M.M. Blume
Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea Ankit Panda
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb Herbert F. York
Nuclear Rites A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War Hugh Gusterson
Critical Assembly: Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years Hoddeson et al
The Nuclear Express THomas C. Reed, Danny B. Stillman
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War Fred Kaplan
The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland Gretchen Heefner

Science Fiction

Title Author
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson

Unorganized

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Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency Terrence G. Peterson 355
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast John Vaillant 354
Naming Things: The Hardest Problem in Software Engineering Tom Benner 353
Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances Lucas Mann 352
Poetry Comics Grant Snider 351
Medieval Europe Chris Wickham 350
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons Sarah Scoles 349
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping Ken Mondschein 348
Rabbits Terry Miles 347
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service Carol Leonnig 346
Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food Lizzie Collingham 345
2034: A Novel of the Next World War Elliot Ackerman 344
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda Sean Naylor 343
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Steve Coll 342
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Steve Coll 341
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Steven Pinker 340
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War Susan Southard 339
British Ice Owen D. Pomery 338
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations Daniel Yergin 337
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution T.R. Reid 336
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World Matt Parker 335
How the Post Office Created America: A History Winifred Gallagher 334
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 333
The Spinning Magnet: The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World–and Could Destroy It Alanna Mitchell 332
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll 331
No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy 330
A Billion Little Pieces: RFID and Infrastructures of Identification Jordan Frith 329
How to Take Smart Notes Sönke Ahrens 328
Physics of Nuclear Explosives Dalton Ellery Girão Barroso 327
Stealth technology: The art of black magic J. Jones, Matt Thurber 326
Do the Hard Things First Scott Allan 325
Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage Gordon Corera 324
High Tech Architecture Colin Davies 323
Seeing: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision John P. Frisby, James V. Stone 322
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong 321
Spaceflight Dynamics: Third Edition William E. Wiesel 320
America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole Satellite Program Jeffrey T. Richelson 319
The Navigators: A History of NASA's Deep-Space Navigation Andrew J. Butrica 318
A Tapestry of Orbits Desmond King-Hele 317
The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée 316
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins—From Spices to Vices Noah Whiteman 315
What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees Stephen Buchmann 314
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea Jeffrey T Richelson 313
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds Jennifer Ackerman 312
The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone Thomas Winslow Hazlett 311
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century Kirk Wallace Johnson 310
Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach Kristie Macrakis 309
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Laurie King 308
The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge Vera Keller 307
Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement Albert Einstein 306
Hands of Time, A Watchmaker's History of Time Rebecca Struthers 305
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Meghan O’Gieblyn 304
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past Sarah Parcak 303
Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle Stephen Biddle 302
Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 Matthew Daniel Eddy 301
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World Deb Chachra 300
Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire Bruce J. Hunt 299
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure Vaclav Smil 298
Dutch Light: Christian Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe Hugh Aldersey-Williams 297
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal Nick Bilton 296
Einstein's Clock's, Poincaré's Maps Peter Galison 295
The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future ed 294
Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds Luke Caspar Pearson, Sandra Youkhana 293
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption Katy Kelleher 292
The Truth Detective: How to Make Sense of a World That Doesn't Add Up
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Da(A Graphic Novel) Dan Nott 290
For All Humankind: The Untold Stories of How the Moon Landing Inspired the World Tanya Harrison, Danny Bednar 289
Spaceborne Donald R. Pettit 288
Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics Peter Galison 287
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact Ludwik Fleck 287
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn Richard Hamming, Bret Victor 286
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy Joel Mokyr 285
War Games: A History of War on Paper Philipp von Hilgers 284
The First Ghosts Irving Finkel 283
I'm a Neutrino: Tiny Particles in a Big Universe Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis 282
Santa Barbara Research Center: A Tribute and A Legacy Diane Sova 281
Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib Kevin S. Decker, William Irwin 280
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows John Koenig 279
The Designer's Dictionary of Color Sean Adams 278
Natural Palettes: Inspiration from Plant-Based Color Sasha Duerr 277
Nature's Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World Patrick Baty 276
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age Annalee Newitz 275
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less Leidy Klotz 274
Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age Tom D. Couch 273
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Roland Ennos 272
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson 271
Seven Games: A Human History Oliver Roeder 270
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab 269
The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change Markus Rex 268
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids Alexandra Lange 267
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community Ray Oldenburg, PhD 266
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam 265
The Cartographers Peng Shepard 264
Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology Tristan A. Volpe 263
Awake in the World: Teachings from Yoga and Buddhism for Living an Engaged Life Michael Stone 262
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies Paul Fischer 261
Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders Hermann Simon 260
Modern Heraldry: Volume 2 259
Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology Betsy Rohaly Smoot 259
How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth Terry Virts 258
The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer et al 257
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos Jaime Green 256
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton Christensen 256
Pieces of the Action Vannevar Bush 255
Insisting On the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land Victor K. McElheny 254
A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War Ronald K. Fierstein 253
Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite Philip Pressel 252
The Corona Project: America's First Spy Satellites Curtis L. Peebles 251
NPIC: Seeing the Secrets and Growing the Leaders: A Cultural History of the National Photographic Interpretation Center Jack O.Connor 250
We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds Sally Adee 249
Bittman Bread: No-Knead Whole Grain Baking for Every Day Mark Bittman, Kerri Conan 248
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future Iwan Rhys Morus 247
The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929 Patricia Strach, Kathleen S. Sullivan 246
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It Chris Voss, Tahl Raz 245
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism Bhu Srinivasan 244
The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain Nick Chater 243
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Tony Fadell 242
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why Laurence Gonzales 241
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers Tom Standage 240
Beyond the Ionosphere: Fifty Years of Satellite Communication Andrew J. Burtrica 239
The Iron Dragon's Mother Michael Swanwick 238
The Dragons of Babel Michael Swanwick 237
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World René Girard 236
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Sarah Drasner 235
Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance Donald MacKenzie 234
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester 233
Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare Alfred Price 232
How the World Really Works Vaclav Smil 231
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made Vaclav Smil 230
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt Andrea Wulf 229
Deep Learning John D. Kelleher 228
A Brief History of Timekeeping Chad Orzel 227
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most Steven Johnson 226
Fly by Night Physics: How Physicists Use the Backs of Envelopes A. Zee 225
The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase Mark Forsyth 224
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media John Durham Peters 223
Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts Tristan Needham 222
GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones Richard D. Easton, Eric F. Frazier 221
Eye in the Sky: The Story of the CORONA Spy Satellites Dwayne A. Day 219
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World Scott Reynolds Nelson 218
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage Philip Taubman 217
The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast Andrew Blum 216
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space Bleddyn E. Bowen 215
The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies Richard Kerbaj 214
The Invisible Pyramid Loren Eiseley 213
Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger 212
Longitude Dava Sobel 211
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection Mark Monmonier 210
Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power Timothy Barney 209
Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data Mariel Borowitz 208
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics Laura Kurgan 207
The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities Shay Hershkovitz 206
Spies and Shuttles: NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA James E. David 205
Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More James Burrow 204
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By Lorraine Daston 203
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Richard Mabey 202
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science Frank C. Keil 201
Iron Hand: Smashing the Enemy's Air Defences Anthony M. Thornborough 200
The Dive: The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue Stephen McGinty 199
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Steven Johnson 198
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else Jordan Ellenberg 197
The Pragmatic Programmer David Thomas, Andrew Hunt 196
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Charles Petzod 195
Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components Windell Oskay, Eric Schlaepfer 194
Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump Michael R. Gordon 193
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition Peter Bevelin 192
A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons From the Front Lines Edited by Deborah Blum, Ashley Smart, and Tom Zeller Jr. 191
Razor 03 – A Night Stalker’s Wars Alan C. Mack 190
Bliss Montage: Stories Ling Ma 189
Borders: A Very Short Introduction Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen 188
Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939 Aitor Anduaga 187
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World Trevor Paglen 186
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric Thomas Gryta, Ted Mann 185
Arms and Influence: U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms Jeffrey S. Lantis 184
What We Owe the Future William MacAskill 183
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World David Eagleman 182
Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice Frank J. Malina 181
I Am a Strange Loop Douglas R. Hofstadter 180
We, The Drowned Carsten Jensen 179
Stealth Down: The Loss of the First F-117 Stealth Fighter in Combat and the Dramatic Rescue of the Pilot Ross W. Simpson 178
Skibirds: Adventures of The Raven Gang Joseph P. Hathaway 177
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks David Rooney 176
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Origins and Evolutions Scott Lowther 175
Super Bomb: Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb Ken Young, Warner R. Schilling 174
Death Waits in the Dark: Six Guns Don’t Miss! Greg Coker, George E. Hand IV 173
Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War William L. Smallwood 172
Nighthawks: Insider's Guide to the Heraldry and Insignia of the Lockheed F-117A Stealth Fighter Patrick Allen Blazek 171
Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot A.M. "Tex" Johnston 170
History of the Space Shuttle, Volume Two: Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 T.A. Heppenheimer 169
Pictorial History of the B-2A Spirit Stealth Bomber Jim Goodall 168
The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization Peter Zeihan 167
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff 166
Maphead Ken Jennings 165
When Good Government Meant Big Government: The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 Jesse Tarbert 164
So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World Raghuveer Parthasarathy 163
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong 161
A Biography of the Pixel Alvy Ray Smith 160
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Trevor Paglen 159
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations Daniel Yergin 158
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors Michael E. Porter 157
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence Amy B. Zegart 156
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World Patrik Svensson 155
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind Peter Godfrey-Smith 154
An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour The Harvard Art Museum 153
Digital Arithmetic Miloš D. Ercegovac and Tomás Lang 152
Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain Katherine C. Epstein 151
The rise and fall of the DC-10 John Godson 150
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing Peter Robison 149
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 Toby Harnden 148
Ghosts: A Natural History - 500 Years of Searching for Proof Roger Clarke 147
Earthed Rebecca Schiller 146
Communicating Knowledge Visually: Scientific Approach to Information Design Will Burtin 145
A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers 144
Munitions of the mind: A history of propaganda (3rd ed.) Philip M. Taylor 143
An Inventory of Losses Judith Schalansky 142
Spying from the Sky: At the Controls of US Cold War Aerial Intelligence Robert Richardson 141
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding Hannah Farber 140
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation Vipin Narang 139
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon Robert Whitaker 138
Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat Ben Towle 137
The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence Douglas London 136
Murphy's Law: My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist Jack Murphy 135
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World David Abram 134
Die with Zero Bill Perkins 133
Precision-guided Munitions and Human Suffering in War James E. Hickey 132
Missile Contagion: Cruise Missile Proliferation and the Threat to International Security Dennis M. Gormley 131
The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 130
Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming Edited by Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 129
Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska Colleen Mondor 128
No Good Men Among the Living Anand Gopal 127
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 126
Freaks of a Feather: A Marine Grunt's Memoir Kacy Tellessen 125
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America Michael S. Neiberg 124
An Atlas of Extinct Countries Gideon Defoe 123
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump Spencer Ackerman 122
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Michael E. Mann 121
They Called It Passchendaele Lyn MacDonald 120
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society James R. Beniger 119
An Edible History of Humanity Tom Standage 118
75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works James C. Goodall 117
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 Jennifer M. Rampling 116
Liquid Intelligence: The Art And Science Of The Perfect Cocktail Dave Arnold 115
The Tyranny of Sand and Other Tiny Stories: The Best of @MicroFlashFic Jesse Stanchak 114
The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology Jacob Darwin Hamblin 113
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings Earl Swift 111
Escape from Earth:A Secret History of the Space Rocket Fraser MacDonald 110
Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff, Mark Johnson 109
The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment Annie Dell'Aria 108
The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution Robert Buderi 107
Engines Of Tomorrow: How The Worlds Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs To Win The Future Robert Buderi 106
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age Annalee Newitz 105
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East Gershom Gorenberg 104
The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information Paul Dourish 103
The Silent Language Edward T. Hall 102
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism Wendy Liu 101
The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope Daniel Greene 100
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology Tara Dawson McGuinness, Hana Schank 099
The Interrogator: The Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe Raymond F. Toliver 098
Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us Pete Etchells 097
Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula Laleh Khalili 096
Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food Lizzie Collingham 095
Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape Molly Wright Steenson 094
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star 093
Creative Quest Questlove 092
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research Zachary Schrag 091
Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way David Barrie 090
Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) Marianne Bellotti 089
The Secret Horsepower Race - Western Front Fighter Engine Development Calum E Douglas 088
Over Here: The First World War and American Society David M. Kennedy 087
A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit 086
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London Christopher Skaife 085
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Sebastian Junger 084
Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way Michael Bond 083
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World M. R. O'Connor 082
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 081
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human Rob Dunn, Monica Sanchez 080
Why People Get Lost: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Spatial Cognition Paul Dudchenko 079
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew 078
Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France Robin Mitchell 077
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Stewart Brand 076
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Jill Lepore 075
Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society Sun-ha Hong 074
The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane 073
A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide Cyd Harrell 072
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell 071
The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond George Friedman 070
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Deirdre Mask 069
The Art of Rest Claudia Hammond 068
On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation Alexandra Horowitz 067
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method G. Polya 066
The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story David Acheson 065
That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship Robert Tombs, Isabelle Tombs 064
The Chemical Weapons Taboo Richard M. Price 063
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir Anna Wiener 062
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin 061
The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell 060
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson 059
The World the Game Theorists Made Paul Erickson 058
The Time Machine Did It John Swartzwelder 057
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Nadia Eghbal 056
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard Hamming 055
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management Will Larson 054
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 053
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less Barry Schwartz 052
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream Jonathan Gruber, Simon Johnson 051
The Social Construction of Technological Systems, Anniversary Edition: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology Edited by W.E. Bijker, T.P. Hughes and T. Pinch 050
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Anand Giridharadas 049
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed James C. Scott 048
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Eddie S. Glaude Jr 047
My Grandmother’s Hands Resmaa Menakem 046
Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World Jathan Sadowski 045
Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier Alan Zwibel 044
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Zachary Green 043
Race After Technology Ruha Benjamin 042
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms Angèle Christin 041
Why Study History? Marcus Collins, Peter N. Stearns 040
The Plague Albert Camus 039
Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever Alex Kantrowitz 038
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 Dan Jones, Marina Amaral 037
You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves Hiawatha Bray 3036
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf Grant Snider 035
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History John M. Barry 034
The Sea Around Us Rachel Carlson 033
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California Mark Arax 032
Lurking: How a Person Became a User Joanne McNeil 031
Quantum Mechanics and Experience David Z Albert 030
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age Andrew Whitby 029
Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy David K. Love 028
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb 027
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb 026
I Hate the Internet Jarett Kobek 025
Exhalation: Stories Ted Chiang 024
Only Americans Burn in Hell Jarett Kobek 023
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World David Epstein 022
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities Vaclav Smil 021
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World Peter Zeihan 020
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness Simone Browne 019
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State Shane Harris 018
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Nick Estes 017
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Holly Jean Buck 016
Games of the World: How to Make Them, How to Play Them, How They Came to Be Frederic V. Grunfield, Steven Schepp 015
Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life Jonathan Kay, Joan Moriarity 014
The Case for Going to the Moon Neil P. Ruzic 013
The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature Jonathan Senchyne 012
Dispatches Michael Herr 011
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric Thomas Gryta, Ted Mann 009
Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft Peter Westwick 008
Carrier Pilot Norman Hanson 007
The Gun C.J. Chivers 006
Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering Hardcover – November 14, 1985 Robert L Shaw 005
Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 Thomas G. Mahnken 004
The Hooligans of Kandahar Joseph Kassabian 003
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 Dan Jones, Marina Amaral 002
Barons of the Sky Wayne Biddle 001
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban
The Next Great War?: The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict Richard N. Rosecrance, Steven E. Miller
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management Will Larson
High Growth Handbook Elad Gil
Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for Modern Living Todd McLellan
Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects Mike Warren, Jonothan Woodward
The First World War in 100 Objects John Hughes-Wilson, Nigel Stee
Company K William March, Dr. Philip D. Beidler
The Anatomy of Courage Lord Moran
Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food Lizzie Collingham
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R. Rich
Spy and Counter Spy Will Irwin, Emanuel Victor Voska
Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of Americas Famous WWI Epic Robert Laplander, Maj Gen William Terpeluk
Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality Richard Slotkin
The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I Mark Ethan Grotelueschen
Back Over There: One American Time-Traveler, 100 Years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends and Ghosts to Count Richard Rubin
Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I Robert H. Ferrell
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To Conquer Hell Edward G. Lengel
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