Non-fiction

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael M. Lewis

2011

The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.…

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

by Brent Cole, Dale Carnegie, Dale Carnegie & Associates

2012

This new edition is an up-to-date adaptation of Carnegie's timeless prescriptions for the digital age. This book is a must-have guide for anyone who wants to find success on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and any social media format today…

The Illustrated Art of War

by Sunzi

2005

This classic work on planning and conducting war is available in an elegant illustrated edition, featuring 75 color and black-and-white images. It offers the definitive translation of Sun Tzu's text, by former U.S.…

The End of Everything

by Katie Mack

2021

Mack looks at five ways the universe could end, and the lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. --From publisher description.…

Zucked

by Roger McNamee

2020

This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.…

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land

by Robert G. Hoyland, Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson

2018

The story of the Holy Land, encompassing the three millennia that saw the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and is highly illustrated with paintings, photographs, and ancient texts.…

Budapest & Hungary

by Steve Fallon, Anna Kaminski

2017

Stunning architecture, vital folk art, thermal spas and Europe's most exciting city after dark are the major drawcards of Hungary and its capital, Budapest.…

Lonely Planet Vietnam

by Iain Stewart

2022

Lonely Planet's Vietnam is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience Hanoi’s labyrinth-like Old Quarter, kayak in Halong Bay, and wander through hist…

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The Dark Net

by Jamie Bartlett

2015

Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the …

Fractions in Disguise

by Edward Arthur Einhorn

2014

"When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-begotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducer a tool that strips away the di…

Gandhi

by Ramachandra Guha

2018

Second and concluding volume of Guha's biography of Gandhi, started in 2014 with Gandhi before India.…

The Tangled Tree

by David Quammen

2018

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field-the study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular level-is hori…