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Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics
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Flo Conway
4.07 avg rating — 113 ratings 7. 
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by:
Ed Catmull
4.21 avg rating — 100,180 ratings 9. 
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower 3.77 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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Sudhir Venkatesh
4.07 avg rating — 25,134 ratings 
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,236 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings 23. 
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
by:
Moisés Naím
3.63 avg rating — 3,620 ratings 24. 
The House of Rothschild, Vol 2: The World's Banker 1849-1999
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.95 avg rating — 661 ratings 25. 
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner
4.20 avg rating — 8,529 ratings 
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,057 ratings
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Peter Thiel
4.15 avg rating — 381,788 ratings 
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) 4.05 avg rating — 11,577 ratings
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How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
by:
Joe Studwell
4.26 avg rating — 4,888 ratings 
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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
by:
Vaclav Smil
3.76 avg rating — 585 ratings 
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
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Carol J. Loomis
3.98 avg rating — 2,722 ratings 
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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William Rosen
3.93 avg rating — 1,369 ratings 51. 
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,885 ratings 
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating — 191,231 ratings 54. 
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
by:
Steven Johnson
3.99 avg rating — 15,388 ratings 
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by:
Miguel Ruiz
4.19 avg rating — 489,761 ratings 
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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Bill Walsh
4.21 avg rating — 6,098 ratings 
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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism 3.92 avg rating — 20,093 ratings
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A Social History of Knowledge, Volume 1: From Gutenberg to Diderot
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Peter Burke
3.91 avg rating — 183 ratings 65. 
A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
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Peter Burke
3.70 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
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Hal Abelson
3.54 avg rating — 383 ratings 68. 
Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate
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Andrew Hargadon
3.66 avg rating — 73 ratings 70. 
Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
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Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.92 avg rating — 545 ratings 71. 
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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance
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Michael B. Adas
3.97 avg rating — 146 ratings 
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Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist who Invented Modern Finance
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Janet Gleeson
3.80 avg rating — 456 ratings 79. 
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History (ALA Notable Books for Adults) 3.93 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change 3.94 avg rating — 5,094 ratings
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Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East 3.79 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
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Paul Vigna
3.83 avg rating — 2,850 ratings 83. 
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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Nicholas Carr
3.84 avg rating — 2,628 ratings 
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The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives 3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Gutenberg Revolution: How Printing Changed The Course of History
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John Man
3.69 avg rating — 391 ratings 87. 
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
by:
Ben Horowitz
4.21 avg rating — 105,275 ratings 88. 
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business 4.04 avg rating — 58,903 ratings
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The Innovator's Solut!on: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth 4.06 avg rating — 13,716 ratings
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The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology Into Everyday Life
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Peter J. Denning
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 91. 
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings 92. 
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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George Dyson
3.60 avg rating — 4,673 ratings 94. 
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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C.L.R. James
4.39 avg rating — 7,202 ratings 95. 
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
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Andrew S. Grove
3.98 avg rating — 10,194 ratings 
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
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Brad Feld
4.11 avg rating — 17,046 ratings 99. 
Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm 4.01 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
by:
Bo Burlingham
3.85 avg rating — 5,417 ratings