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Masterworks from the Wild Web
The first compilation of the World Wide Web's most colorful and innovative blogs offers a definitive introduction to the blogosphere with works by famous and unknown bloggers alike, including humorists, feminists, diarists, photographers, expatriates, gossipmongers, soldiers, physicists, muckrakers, and many more.
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Ghost in the Wires
My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker
The world's most famous former computer hacker, now a security consultant, describes his life on the run from the FBI creating fake identities, finding jobs at a law firm and a hospital, and keeping tabs on his pursuers.
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Macrowikinomics
New Solutions for a Connected Planet
The authors show in more than a dozen fields, that we have reached a historic turning point: cling to the old industrial era paradigms or use collaborative innovation to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern and care for one another.
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Always On
How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future—And Locked Us In
Looks at the social implications of having all of one's technology in a single device and the notion of being plugged into information and socially available all the time.
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Tomatoland
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Ben Mezrich draws on court records, FBI transcripts, NASA documents and first-person interviews to reconstruct NASA fellow Thad Roberts' theft of invaluable moon rocks, offering insight into Roberts' personality and the nature of his accomplices.
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The Big Roads
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
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Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
A seafood journalist who has written for National Geographic traces the history of bass, cod, salmon and tuna fishing while assessing the critical state of today's commercial fishing industry, citing the roles of over-fishing and fish farming while recommending specific protections. Reprint.Literary Award Winner
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Seaworthy
A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea
A sequel to the best-selling The Hungry Ocean picks up 10 years after the events of The Perfect Storm and recounts how the financially strapped author accepted a job captaining a swordfishing boat, a voyage marked by the challenges of the vessel's poor condition, bad weather and an inadvertent arrest. Reprint.
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Bottled Lightning
Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
Shares strategies for meeting the near-future world's energy needs, citing the prevalence of lithium in everyday technologies while explaining the metal's potential role in reducing oil dependency, shifting geopolitical power, and enabling sustainability.
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