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The gaming society now represents a huge percentage of the population and these records offer a way a wider audience to celebrate their achievements.

Post It Gamer

100%
Patterson's prose sometimes has the overly breathless air of an airport thriller. But it is underpinned by an invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market.

LA Times

100%
In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes on a journey inside the Internet's physical infrastructure to uncover the buildings and compounds where our data is stored and transmitted.

NPR

98%
Mr. Silver illustrates his dos and don’ts through a series of interesting essays that examine how predictions are made in fields including chess, baseball, weather forecasting, earthquake analysis and politics.

NY Times

92%
The story of Anonymous and its offshoots is worth telling because of the fast and unpredictable ways they have grown.

NY Times

92%
Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions of how to counteract . . . tracers and other surveillance devices, this work makes its admittedly didactic point within a tautly crafted fictional framework.

Publishers Weekly

88%
If you are really serious about creating wealth for yourself then Think and Grow Rich is mandatory reading.

Blog Critics

88%
The shadows of a beginning for black-white understanding, the persistent fight that Scout carries on against school, Jem's emergence into adulthood, Calpurnia's quiet power, and all the incidents touching on the children's "growing outward" have an attractive starchiness that keeps this southern picture pert and provocative.

Kirkus

87%
Vaynerchuk’s book is inspiring and contains good suggestions, but don’t demand too much of the writing.

Blog Critics

87%
The three way chats, in which they are joined by other animals, about web spinning, themselves, other humans—are as often informative as amusing, and the whole tenor of appealing wit and pathos will make fine entertainment for reading aloud, too.

Kirkus

85%
Kamkwamba shows that innovation and resourcefulness are not lacking in the poorest countries...

Guardian

84%
For, as he shows, new weapons, processes and tactics are often decisive. Out of the fog of war, Kennedy distills the crucial elements in each campaign that brought final victory to the Allies. A masterly analysis of grand strategy.

Guardian

84%
This fabulous book demonstrates that we are capable of experiencing and sharing far deeper thoughts than even the best computers—and that too often we fail to achieve the highest level of humanness.

Publishers Weekly

84%
Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American technological development, Shetterly crafts a narrative that is crucial to understanding subsequent movements for civil rights.

Publishers Weekly

83%
This book, small and easily digested, stopping just short of the maudlin and the mawkish, is on the whole sincere, sentimental, and skillful.

Kirkus

82%
If I'm ever stranded on our imaginary desert isle I hope I have a trunkful of books. But if I can only take one I think Pride and Prejudice just might be it.

All About Romance

82%
The story is powerful as much for what is suggested as for what is told. It leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder...the weight of the story as a revelation of life and as a work of art becomes apparent. And it is very great.

LA Times

81%
So this book left me exasperated. But it never left me bored. Reading it is a bit like being at a dinner party where a smart and opinionated guest is squiffily holding forth, in an almost stream-of-consciousness mode, on everything from the future of football to the dangers of unfriendly A.I...

NY Times

81%
I have read a lot of mysteries in my time, so I kept waiting for the moment when I would figure out the identity of the murderer. Not gonna happen. Not only did I not guess, but I was blown away by the ending of this book...

The Picky Girl

80%
Demographers, entrepreneurs, students of history and sociology, and ordinary citizens alike will find plenty of provocations and, yes, much data in Rudder’s well-argued, revealing pages.

Kirkus

80%

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