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The Advent of the Algorithm by David Berlinski

The areas of my expertise by John Hodgman

Nurtureshock by Po Bronson

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel?  Where is intelligence hidden …

You're not doing it right by Michael Ian Black

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

Overqualified by Joey Comeau

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

For the first time in paperback, one of the classics of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby, is available in a …

Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin

"The narrator is a scientist herself, a physicist obsessed with Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of many centuries, and with …

PiHKAL by Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

The power and the glory by Graham Greene (Penguin classics)

One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during …

Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (Machine of Death, #1) by Ryan North

Machine of Death is a 2010 collection of science fiction short stories edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David …

Cookin' with Coolio

Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson

Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett

For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine …