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The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,... |
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Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
Bethany McLean · Columbia Global Reports
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
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Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking's impact -- on Wall Street, the economy and geopolitics.The technology of fracking in shale rock -- particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas -- has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural... |
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Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
LAWRENCE D BURNS · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A deep dive into the race to develop and perfect the driverless car - an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone - by a veteran insider of the automotive and tech worldsIn Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google... |
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Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
Lucie Greene · Counterpoint
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A bracing look at how Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley power players are using their influence across the globe to encroach upon our civil landscape In an era when faith in government and its institutions is quickly eroding, the businesses of Silicon Valley are stepping... |
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China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
Rosemary Gibson · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.Several decades ago, penicillin,... |
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Steven Ujifusa · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into... |
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