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    <author_name>Naoya Matsumoto</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It]]></title>
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    <author_name>William Gibson</author_name>
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    <author_name>China Miéville</author_name>
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    <author_name>Richard Nelson Bolles</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In the late 1960s a paranoid incompetent has schemed his way into the White House and convulsed America in a vicious war against imaginary internal enemies. A struggling science Fiction writer named Philip K. Dick is trying to keep from becoming one of that war's casualties. And Dick's best friend, a record executive named Nicholas Brady, is receiving transmissions from an extraterrestrial entity that may also happen to be God — an entity that apparently wants him to overthrow the President.<br /><br />In this, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from <i>A Scanner Darkly</i> to <i>VALIS</i> and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, <i>Radio Free Albemuth</i> is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest prankster-prophet.<br /><br />]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Philip K. Dick</author_name>
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                                      average rating: 3.81<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies]]></title>
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    <book_id>4122</book_id>
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                                      author: Jim Collins<br/>
                                      name: Henry<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.06<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less (Revised and Updated)]]></title>
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                                      author: Jim Vandehei<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.85<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>McNugget-level 'book'. There are no references or citations provided for the reader to GO DEEPER. Instead, it funnels to a $10,000 1-hour online course. I suppose that is the point. I appreciate that it gave me some ideas for my own research, but there's no bones whatsoever.<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Superstorm: Politics and Design in the Age of Information]]></title>
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    <author_name>Noemi Biasetton</author_name>
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    <author_name>Greg McKeown</author_name>
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    <book_id>49552</book_id>
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                                      average rating: 4.04<br/>
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    <author_name>William Gibson</author_name>
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    <author_name>Haruki Murakami</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she’s in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America’s most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the <i>WSJ</i>, on Work/Life Balance 2.0); and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. But now Russia's asking for more, and Julia’s getting nervous.<br /><br />Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she’s working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she’s slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial “founder’s girlfriend”. One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she’s burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine’s privacy settings aren’t as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. <br /><br />The closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she's the one who built her career; isn’t she entitled to protect the lifestyle she’s earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, <i>Impostor Syndrome</i> is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered]]></title>
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    <author_name>Austin Kleon</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.</b><br /><br />Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.<br /> <br />Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Celeste Ng</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends]]></title>
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  <b>A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the (sometimes surprising) science behind making friends, maintaining them, and building connections of ALL sorts in an era of social fragmentation and rampant loneliness.</b>
</b><br /><br />Loneliness is an epidemic, in part due to a culture that prioritizes romance at the expense of all other relationships. But in fact, science shows that <i>platonic</i> friendships are a crucial--possibly THE crucial--key to shaping who<i> </i>we are and how we can become our happiest, most fulfilled selves. So how do we nurture meaningful relationships in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos?<br /><br />Just as economist Emily Oster (<i>Crib Sheet</i>) breaks down the science of child-rearing by countering fables with facts, psychologist and professor Marissa G. Franco unpacks the latest (often counterintuitive) findings about friendship--for example, why your friends aren't texting you back (it's not because they hate you!), and the myth of "just showing up" (you need to bring more than your mere presence to the table to make real friends!). Forging lasting bonds with other people isn't rocket science...but it does take work, and there are research-based ways to improve the number and quality of your connections. The good news: the benefits can be massive to not just our sense of wellbeing but also to our physical health.<br /><br />With vivid, relatable storytelling bolstered by the latest psychological research, <i>Platonic </i>provides a clear and actionable blueprint for understanding and conquering the barriers that keep you from forging strong, lasting connections with others. In short, <i>Platonic</i> will give you permission to hold friendship in the highest regard--because it deserves to be.]]></book_description>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.<br /><br />It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[System Design Interview – An insider's guide]]></title>
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    <author_name>Aditya Y. Bhargava</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter]]></title>
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    <author_name>Bruce Sterling</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal.<br /><br />A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.<br /><br />Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ultralearning: The Essential Guide To Mastering Hard Skills And Future-Proofing Your Career]]></title>
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    <book_id>44770129</book_id>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:36:33 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>LaserWriter II</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends. Again.<br /><br />Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.<br /><br />Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World]]></title>
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                                      author: David   Epstein<br/>
                                      name: Henry<br/>
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    <title>The Circle (The Circle, #1)</title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith has been recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right. <br />Among the bands profiled: Mission of Burma, Butthole Surfers, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Big Black, Hüsker Dü, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Mudhoney, The Replacements, Beat Happening, and Dinosaur Jr.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Michael Azerrad</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman<br /></b><br />Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, <i>The Castle </i>is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power, previously unknown to English language readers.]]></book_description>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”]]></book_description>
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