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Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them fro...
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Aug 13, 2020Despite our immense political divisions, Americans are nearly united in our belief that something is wrong with our government: It works for the wealthy and powerful, but not for anyone else. Unrig exposes the twisted roots of our broken democracy and highlights the heroic efforts of those unrigging the system to return power to We the People.This ...
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David CornA deluxe hardcover edition of Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. This deluxe hardcover edition of Dune includes: - An iconic new cover- Stained edges and fully illustrated endpapers- A beautifully designed poster on the interior of the jacket- A redesigned wo...
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Feb 11, 2020The Last Unknowns
Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life
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Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow...
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Jun 03, 2019Working
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these ev...
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May 06, 2019The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration’s transition team on the agency it would soon be running. Nobody appeared. Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between; those who did show up were shockingly uninformed abou...
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Jan 01, 2019Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
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Through a series of recent breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how.By using concrete examples, minimal theory, and two pro...
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Jan 01, 2019Also recommended by
Kirk BorneThe New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today's news.Anand Giridharadas takes us into th...
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Jan 01, 2019The New York Times Book Review: "Riveting."Naomi Klein: "This book is downright scary."Ethan Zuckerman, MIT: "Should be required reading."Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read."Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year."Cory Doctorow: "Indispensa...
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Jan 01, 2019The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wa...
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Jan 01, 2019Ethereum represents the gateway to a worldwide, decentralized computing paradigm. This platform enables you to run decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts that have no central points of failure or control, integrate with a payment network, and operate on an open blockchain. With this practical guide, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin...
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Mark RussinovichAI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
The Peregrine by J A Baker
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
Who Gets What ― and Why by Alvin Roth
Dying Every Day by James Romm
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Mawson's Will by Lennard Bickel
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Farsighted by Steven Johnson
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Code by Lawrence Lessig
Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson
Positioning by Al Ries
Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski
Built to Last by Jim Collins
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries
The Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens
The Unix Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan
Introduction to Realistic Philosophy by John Wild
Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Trilby by George du Maurier
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Makers and Takers by Rana Foroohar
Intermediate Microeconomics by Hal R. Varian
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
The Meaning of Culture by John Cowper Powys
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Loving Every Child by Janusz Korczak
The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Babel-17 / Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
The Kabir Book by Robert Bly
Rissa Kerguelen by F. M Busby