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Tools and the Development of Contemporary Society

Our Digital World

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health–and How We Must Adapt
Sinan Aral
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Danah Boyd
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Niall Ferguson
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Hannah Fry
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The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
Featured
Superminds
Thomas W. Malone
Memes to Movements
An Xiao Mina
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age
Philip M. Napoli
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
Featured
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Featured

Evolutionary Perspective

City of God
Saint Augustine
Connections 1
James Burke
The Day The Universe Changed
James Burke
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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
Featured
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Featured
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Jared Diamond
Nomads of the Long Bow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia
Allan R. Holmberg
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Featured
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Book
Charles C. Mann
Featured
Sir Dudley North on Discourses Upon Trade, 1691
Sir Dudley North
The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres
Robert Ornstein
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
Featured
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Idries Shah
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu