Nick Harkaway
Pen name of Nicholas Cornwell, British novelist; author of The Gone-Away World (2008), Angelmaker, Gnomon (2017) and Karla's Choice (2024), a George Smiley novel.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon is a real humdinger of a novel.
on fivebooks.com · 23 May 2012 · Report
On Art and Life by John Ruskin
That debate is very central, and On Art and Life is a very short, Penguin Ideas book about Ruskin which will bring you into it.
on fivebooks.com · 23 May 2012 · Report
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational is an examination of the way in which we make decisions irrationally, and how that irrationality can be predicted.
on fivebooks.com · 23 May 2012 · Report
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S Landes
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is filled with wonderful sketches of things like that, which are old but incredibly relevant now.
on fivebooks.com · 23 May 2012 · Report
Tweets from Tahrir by Alex Nunns and Nadia Idle (editors)
Tweets from Tahrir is a document that could not have existed before the digital age.
on fivebooks.com · 23 May 2012 · Report
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