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A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951 To understand why the Federal Reserve acted as it did at key points in its history, Meltzer draws on meeting minutes, correspondence, and other internal documents (many made public only during the 1970s) to trace the reasoning behind its policy decisions.
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution.
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement.
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species
American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics All you need to know about elections, politics, and government!
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today’s exponential entrepreneur’s go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools.
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin

Categories → #history

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution.

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species

American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics All you need to know about elections, politics, and government!

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today’s exponential entrepreneur’s go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin