Mignon rated Enlightenment Now: 5 stars
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step …
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Mignon rated Us against you: 4 stars
Fredrik Backman: Us against you (2018, Atria Books)
Us against you by Fredrik Backman
A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to …
Mignon rated Speaker for the dead: 5 stars
Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender (2))
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …
Mignon rated How to Do Nothing: 4 stars
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by …
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
418 pages ; 24 cm
Mignon rated The Calculating Stars: 4 stars
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #1)
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
Agency by William Gibson
They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice...
Only Eunice has other …
Emergence by C.J. Cherryh (Foreigner, #19)
The nineteenth book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as …
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
The Future Is Faster Than You Think, is a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the …
Mignon rated Billion Dollar Burger: 3 stars
Mignon rated World Without Work: 4 stars
Mignon rated World Without Work: 4 stars
Mignon rated Oona Out of Order: 3 stars
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those …
Mignon rated Algorithms to live by: 4 stars
Algorithms to live by by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths, Brian & Tom Griffiths Christian
Algorithms to Live By looks at the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve the complex 'human' problems that …