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The Infinite Machine
How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
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Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it.Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the second ...
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Mar 16, 2020From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a fiv...
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Mar 16, 2020Station Eleven
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A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty...
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Mar 16, 2020The Power Notebooks
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Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a timely blend of memoir, feminist investigation, and exploration of famous female writers lives, in a bold, essential discussion of how strong women experience their power. Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal experiences with divorce, si...
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Mar 10, 2020He has had unprecedented access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for three years. And now renowned tech writer Steven Levy delivers the definitive history of one of America's most powerful and controversial companies: Facebook.In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The s...
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Mar 10, 2020Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France's second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance to the French nation. This apartness, and the city's long and rich history as home to migra...
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Mar 10, 2020The Cure That Works
How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price
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What’s the Most Important Fact About the Heathcare Crisis? That We Already Know the Cure! Whole Foods Markets, the State of Indiana, and innovators around the world have used forgotten American ideas to slash healthcare costs by 75 percent while simultaneously delivering true universal access, coverage for preexisting conditions, and an ironclad s...
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Mar 10, 2020Winner (third place), 2014 BC Historical Federation Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical WritingVancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quar...
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Mar 10, 2020New Atlantis Revisited
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In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest, 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with the full support of Nikita Khrushchev. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological...
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Mar 10, 2020After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop.Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in shaping how a child matures? Is day care bad--or good--for children? Does adolescent delinque...
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Mar 07, 2020A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have tak...
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Free to Move by Ilya Somin
Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price
Sunnis and Shi'a by Laurence Louër
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Social Democratic Capitalism by Lane Kenworthy
Leonhard Euler by Ronald S. Calinger
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I by Brendan O'Leary
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III by Brendan O'Leary
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II by Brendan O'Leary
The Industrialists by Jennifer A. Delton
Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty
The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell
The Senkaku Paradox by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Generation Priced Out by Randy Shaw
The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat
Fully Grown by Dietrich Vollrath
Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas
Cognitive Gadgets by Cecilia Heyes
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann
Against the Grain by James C. Scott
The Ideas Industry by Daniel Drezner
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Individualism and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek