Alan Cooper
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Alan Cooper is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic", Cooper is also known for his books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity.
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Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. A Vik...
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Zoe Keating
The Age of Wood
Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires—in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt.As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the tr...
Alan Cooper
2021-05-16T00:02:56.000Z
The World Beyond Your Head
On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investiga...
Alan Cooper
2021-05-01T14:20:53.000ZAlso recommended by
Russell MooreFor the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which...
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Tom PetersKate Losse was a grad school refugee when she joined Facebook as employee #51 in 2005. Hired to answer user questions such as “What is a poke?” and “Why can’t I access my ex-girlfriend’s profile?” her early days at the company were characterized by a sense of camaraderie, promise, and ambition: Here was a group of scrappy young upstarts on a missio...
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2021-04-13T14:23:43.000ZA philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both e...
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2021-04-13T14:15:45.000ZAlso recommended by
Heather E Heying
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures
The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists)
If you’ve ever felt different, if you’ve ever been low,if you don’t quite fit in, there’s a name you should know…Meet Dr. Temple Grandin—one of the world’s quirkiest science heroes!When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alone become one of the most powerful voices in modern science. Yet, the determined visual ...
Alan Cooper
2021-03-30T16:05:38.000ZWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeLonglisted for the Prix Medicis One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, ...
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2021-03-12T22:16:14.000ZNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths:...
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2021-03-04T17:12:54.000ZAlso recommended by
Fatima Bhutto
The Disaster Artist
My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer, comes the inspiring, fascinating and laugh-out-loud story of a mysteriously wealthy outsider who sundered every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms—the making of The Room, “the Citizen K...
Alan Cooper
2021-01-27T23:59:43.000ZThe Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
The Systems Bible by John Gall
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller