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A book by Michael Parenti on the politics of news media.

Isabel Wilkerson's history of the Great Migration of Black Americans out of the South.

Patrick Stewart's autobiography covering his life and career.

A science fiction novel by Octavia Butler.

A science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge featuring a star that periodically switches on and off.

A book by William Poundstone on the psychology of how people perceive value and prices.

A Neal Stephenson novel featuring an interactive, adaptive educational book.

Scott Alexander's 2021 essay on why ornate architecture declined.

A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.

A science fiction novel series later adapted for television.

Fred Brooks' classic book of essays on software project management.

A free collaborative online encyclopedia.

A science fiction novel by Peter Watts that explores consciousness and perception.

A book by David Graeber on the history of debt, credit and money.

A framework for organising technical documentation into tutorials, how-tos, reference and explanation.

A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.

Tom Wolfe's critique of modernist architecture.

A short essay by Richard Cook on the nature of failure in complex systems.

Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

A 2015 film about the 2008 housing and credit collapse.