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I enjoyed all these. All of them are worth a read. Business / Tech
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is.
Managing Expectations: Working with People Who Want More: Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sooner, Now!
Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing.
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
Badass: Making Users Awesome.
Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques.
How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody.
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
The Global War for Internet Governance.
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking.
Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.
High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.
The Soul of A New Machine.
Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation - And Others Don't.
A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer.
Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron.
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing.
What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live.
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.
The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network.
The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission).
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor.
Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly.
Zero Bugs and Program Faster.
Official Criticism Manual: Perfecting the Art of Giving and Receiving Criticism.
Hacking Wireless Access Points: Cracking, Tracking, and Signal Jacking.
Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test!
Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management.
The Accidental Project Manager.
Building Successful Communities of Practice.
Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories.
More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen.
Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use.
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet.
The Well: The Epic History of the First Online Community.
Programmers at Work. Science
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Hidden Figures
Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe
Sightlines
An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know it
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: The Meaning of Error in an Age of Certainty
Mycophilia
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In Space
No Logo
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Growing Up Boeing: The Early Jet Age Through the Eyes of a Test Pilot's Daughter
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 bath Toys Lost at Sea
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science World / Politics / Other
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
The New Jim Crow
The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
The irregulars : Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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