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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 17,287 ratings — published 2011
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 370,743 ratings — published 1984
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,292,885 ratings — published 2011
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 7,956 ratings — published 1990
Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 435 ratings — published 2007
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 8,719 ratings — published 1983
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 50,285 ratings — published 2024
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 8,016 ratings — published 2010
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,470 ratings — published 2007
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,507 ratings — published 2015
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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avg rating 3.90 — 811 ratings — published 1961
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,835 ratings — published 1998
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 52,742 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 123,322 ratings — published 2007
The Social Life of Information (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,069 ratings — published 2000
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 926 ratings — published 2006
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2,045 ratings — published 2011
State of Fear (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 92,587 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 291,760 ratings — published 2015
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 2,052 ratings — published 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 861,381 ratings — published 2000
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,931 ratings — published 2017
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 204 ratings — published 2014
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 14,698 ratings — published 2014
Information: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.42 — 451 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 428,781 ratings — published 2003
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,357 ratings — published 2005
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 601,599 ratings — published 2011
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 232,573 ratings — published 2017
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 496 ratings — published 2002
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 485,901 ratings — published 1988
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 23,382 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 53,218 ratings — published 1979
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 5,510 ratings — published 2011
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 832,358 ratings — published 1989
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 904,139 ratings — published 2005
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 234,690 ratings — published 1999
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,359,491 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 35,498 ratings — published 2016
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 211,645 ratings — published 2017
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 583,863 ratings — published -500
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 878,143 ratings — published 2008
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
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avg rating 3.10 — 1,047 ratings — published 1997
Beautiful Evidence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,386 ratings — published 2006
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 175,413 ratings — published 2019
Information is Beautiful (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,557 ratings — published 2001
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 203,627 ratings — published 1848
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 198,305 ratings — published 2014
Elements of Information Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 328 ratings — published 1991
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 22,141 ratings — published 2022
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
