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Chip War: The Fight For the World’s Most Critical Technology
What if the tiniest engine driving your daily life is also the atomic bomb of global power struggles? Chip War plunges you into the silent, brutal arena where microscopic silicon chips ignite a trillion-dollar showdown between tech titans, autocrats, and spies. Chris Miller cracks open the vault of the semiconductor industry, exposing how these slivers of sand dictate everything from your paycheck to nuclear codes—but as nations scramble to dominate this invisible battlefield, ask yourself: Will we harness the chips that command our era, or kneel as casualties in a war where surrender isn’t an option… it’s extinction?
- Originally Published: 2022
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2023
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 431
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781398504127
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Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
What if the oldest enemy wasn’t a beast—but a part of you? In this Pulitzer-winning epic, Siddhartha Mukherjee chronicles humanity’s millennia-long duel with cancer—a shape-shifting monarch that has ruled through fear, survived countless wars, and whispered promises of immortality. From ancient surgeries to cutting-edge breakthroughs, the battle rages with equal parts genius and desperation. But as we edge closer to victory, a haunting question remains: Will we ever truly conquer a foe that evolves… from our own cells?
- Originally Published: 2011
- Publisher : Fourth Estate, 2011
- Genre: science
- Pages: 586
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0007250929
- Access: Members
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
What if the stories that built civilizations could now erase them? In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari unravels how humanity’s greatest strength—our ability to weave myths, laws, and digital networks—has become a ticking time bomb. As AI evolves from tool to autonomous agent, it threatens to hijack the very fabric of truth, turning our shared dreams into weapons of mass delusion. Will we reclaim control, or become footnotes in a future written by algorithms? The answer might keep you awake long after the last page
- Originally Published: 2024
- Publisher : Random House, 2024
- Pages: 492
- Genre: Social Science
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0593736814
- Access: Prime Membership
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The Naked Ape
What if your “civilized” life is just a thin veil over primal instincts you can’t escape? In this provocative zoological odyssey, Desmond Morris strips humanity bare, revealing how evolutionary quirks—like hairless skin, oversized brains, and erotic earlobes—shape everything from love to war. But as he dissects monogamy’s origins in hunter-gatherer survival and breasts as sexual signals, a chilling question emerges: Are we masters of our destiny… or puppets of a DNA script written on the savannah?
- Originally Published: 1967
- Publisher : Vintage, 2005
- Genre: Sociology
- Pages: 192
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0099482017
- Access: Members
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A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from
What if the very numbers that built civilizations also whispered humanity’s deepest existential riddles? A Brief History of Mathematical Thought unravels how ancient rituals, Pythagoras’ obsessions, and Alan Turing’s codebreaking forged the invisible logic binding our world—from clocks to quantum computers 139. But as Heaton traces the arc from stone-age counting to Gödel’s paradoxes, a haunting question emerges: What if the language we invented to master reality is the same one that could unravel our grasp of truth itself?
- Originally Published: 2015
- Publisher: Constable & Robinson, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 321
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1472117113
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The Bomber Mafia: A Tale of Innovation and Obsession
What if the dream of ending war humanely became the blueprint for its most devastating chapter? In The Bomber Mafia, a band of idealistic WWII airmen gambles on precision bombing to save lives—only to watch their moral crusade collide with the brutal calculus of total war. As technology and ideology clash, and firestorms erase the line between strategy and atrocity, one haunting question lingers: Can good intentions survive the inferno… or do they burn brightest just before they consume us?
- Originally Published: 2022
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2022
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 237
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0141998404
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
What if humanity’s next evolutionary step isn’t biological—but something beyond our control? Homo Deus unravels a world where algorithms dictate destiny and immortality is a commodity, forcing us to confront what remains when machines outthink, outlive, and outfeel us. As the pursuit of godlike power clashes with the ache of human vulnerability, one question lingers: Will we transcend our bodies—or lose our souls in the code?
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher: Vintage, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 526
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1784703936
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Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
What if the ground beneath your feet is a silent battlefield where forces wage war to keep your world intact? In Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down, J.E. Gordon unravels the hidden drama of bridges, bones, and skyscrapers—all locked in a millennia-old struggle against collapse. But as ancient engineering secrets collide with modern arrogance, dare you learn the truth… or will ignorance leave you standing on borrowed time?
- Originally Published: 1978
- Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2003
- Genre: Engineering
- Pages: 424
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780306812835
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Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
What if the key to future dominance wasn’t in your decisions—but in the predictions you ignore? Power and Prediction exposes how industries from finance to healthcare hang in the balance as AI’s “prediction machines” rewrite the rules of power, silently shifting control from intuition to algorithmic foresight. But when tomorrow’s winners are decided by who dares to dismantle entire systems rather than tweak them… will your organization dictate the new world order—or become its first casualty?
- Originally Published: 2022
- Publisher: Harvard Business Publishing, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781647824198
- Access: Members