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  Chomsky On Anarchism

  We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that’s wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of—among other things—capita…

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  Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead

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  Otherness and Control in the Age of AGI

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  The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

  Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-dec…

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  Abundance

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  Fermat's Enigma

  x^n + y^n = z^n, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
  
  "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
  
  With these words, the seve…

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  Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

  Growth is good. Through history, economic growth, in particular, has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable,…

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  Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic diseas…

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  Unsong

  Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of other minimum-wage workers try to brute-force the Holy Names of God. All around him, vast forces have be…

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  Elon Musk

  From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who h…

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  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty

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  Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

  The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.
  
  Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with …

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  Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

  “I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wise, practical advice for life.” — Gretchen Rubin, via Twitter
  
  “One hundred years from now, when so muc…

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  The Precipice

  This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time.
  
  If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for …

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  Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

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  Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe

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  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.
  
  You may be s…

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  Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

  Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe m…

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  Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

  From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
  
  Robert Wright famously…

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  Tao Te Ching

  A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition.
  
  Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the…

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