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The chapter comparing the early warning radar system at Fylingdales RAF station, the coastal chain of observation posts established by the Romans and a church window depicting Armageddon is worth the price alone.

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His renunciation of tech’s tightening stronghold is consistently cogent, as is the viable, counterbalancing arsenal of pragmatic solutions that he provides at the end of the book.

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These ideas—first introduced in the Harvard Business Review—will intrigue anyone who wants to channel the new power of the crowd.

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An edifying and entertaining history of the rise of the computer age and the women who made it possible. A good choice for fans of Hidden Figures.

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Freeman handles all of this material with the seriousness it deserves. If “Behemoth” can feel a little slow-going at times, that’s partly because of the knottiness of the history Freeman lays out, as well as his honorable refusal to resort to simplistic notions of grand progress or portentous doom.

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Kaku has a real gift for this kind of popular science; he is able to render complex ideas in a manner that is sophisticated while still feeling accessible. The concepts at work here are big ones, and there’s no denying that some basic scientific knowledge is helpful, but the book as a whole is both entertaining and easily understandable.

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...particularly valuable in an age when history undergraduates often startle their teachers by their ignorance of basic facts...In Cannadine’s lucid account there is the occasional slip (the 1833 Irish Church Temporalities Act suppressed 10 bishoprics, not 18). And there’s one subject that he deals with cursorily at the very end...

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Drawing on varied examples across centuries and continents, Roma Agrawal’s “Built” seeks to tell this untold history — for, as the author claims, the “engineered universe is a narrative full of stories and secrets.”

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Levine’s arguments aren’t entirely persuasive, but readers will be forgiven for hereafter not wanting to entrust too much information to the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon, to say nothing of the feds.

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...Keen celebrates such startups as an online networking platform that connects former prisoners with job opportunities...Valuable insights on preserving our humanity in a digital world.

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Waste, restoration, and efforts to use a scarce resource wisely: Doyle speaks well to issues that are as pressing today as in the first years of the republic.

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But as much as these numbers matter, and as telling as they are, it’s the sex in this book that will probably get the most attention. Chang recounts cases of sexual harassment and vicious online trolling. She also includes a chapter on polyamory and sex parties that’s heavy on salacious details and light on named sources.

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The “killer app” for VR will be the ability to deal with other people in virtual space. Like miracle cures and a perfect alternate world, it’s inevitable—but not yet. A sensible, thoroughly satisfying overview of the next quantum leap in digital technology.

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Ultimately, Kamenetz adapts Michael Pollan’s advice about food to screen time: “Enjoy screens; not too much; mostly together.” Enough material for a solid magazine piece, stretched out to fill a book. Skip to the last chapter.

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Equal parts advocacy and analysis—a welcome addition to the growing literature around the politics of welfare.

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With traditional cultural gatekeepers increasingly strained to maintain relevance and more individuals empowered to create and distribute their own content, YouTube will only grow as a major cultural force. A mostly informative and insightful look into the inner workings of YouTube and its wide-ranging influence.

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McGaha offers plenty of detail about life with a tiny herd of goats, but readers will finish the book with more knowledge about the outer lives of the chickens, goats, and dogs than the inner lives of their human owners.

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Stevenson offers no overt formulas, but his case studies are suggestive of the ways in which a willful innovator can ignore obstacles and do whatever needs to be done, allowing for failure just as much as for success.

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A new bible for a new generation of pitchmen and -women. Young’s treatise makes a fine modern marketing 101 textbook—and at far below textbook prices, too.

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Making profitable use of information science, Ferguson offers a novel way of examining data that will be highly intriguing to students of history and current affairs.

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