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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web

10 best books like Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web (David Weinberger): Mother Night, The Sirens of Titan, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Everything Bad is Good for You, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, A History of Western Philosophy, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Mother Night
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN0385334141
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Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with...
The Sirens of Titan
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
ISBN1857988841
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there's a catch to the invitation—and a prophetic vision...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0142003344
“In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.”
—Helena Cronin, author of The Ant and The Peacock

“A mind blowing, mind openingexpos. Pinker's profoundly...
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
AuthorSteven Johnson
ISBN0684868768
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its...
Everything Bad is Good for You
AuthorSteven Johnson
ISBN1594481946
Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and...
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
AuthorBen Horowitz
ISBN0062273205
A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.

In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs,...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0525427570
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress...
A History of Western Philosophy
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0671201581
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0143122010
“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)

A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate and the forthcoming Enlightenment...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
AuthorPeter Thiel
ISBN0804139296
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those...
Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
AuthorDavid G. Cohen
ISBN0470948795
Practical advice from some of today's top early stage investors and entrepreneurs TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and surrounds them with around...
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
AuthorAlbert-László Barabási
ISBN0452284392
A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?

All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, takes us on an...
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
ISBN0877739749
Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore,...
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
AuthorRonald Brownstein
ISBN1594201390
Why is is so difficult for Congress or the President of the United States to get anything done? Why is it that our elected leaders cannot tackle so many of the deep and important challenges facing the nation? Journalist Ron Brownstein attempts to answer these important questions in this provocative...
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
AuthorKen Segall
ISBN1591844835
To Steve Jobs, Simplicity was a religion. It was also a weapon.

Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It’s what helped...
New Rules for the New Economy
AuthorKevin Kelly
The classic book on business strategy in the new networked economy-- from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable

Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where...
We Think: The Power Of Mass Creativity
AuthorCharles W. Leadbeater
ISBN1861978928
Charles Leadbeater explores the ways in which mass collaboration is dramatically reshaping our approach to work, play, and communication. Society is no longer based on mass consumption but on mass participation. New forms of collaboration — such as Wikipedia, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube...
The Cluetrain Manifesto
AuthorRick Levine
ISBN0738204315
This nationally acclaimed best seller is a spirited, original, and wonderfully irreverent conversation that will challenge, provoke, and forever change your outlook on the digital economy. A rich tapestry of anecdotes, object lessons, parodies, insights, and predictions, The Cluetrain Manifesto...
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