Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming by T.L. Taylor
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A study of Twitch, live streaming, and the far-reaching impact it has on gaming culture and modern media consumption.
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The Last Whalers by Doug Bock Clark
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The story of the world’s last remaining subsistence whalers.
Read MoreThe End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Jamail’s journalistic skills allow him to evoke details with a succinct power that many other accounts might lack.
Read MoreIn Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes
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Oakes takes us along as she and her team fight the damp and cold of the Alaskan wilderness to gather data.
Read More8 Bit Apocalypse by Alex Rubens
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Video game writer Alex Rubens sets out to chronicle the game’s creation as well as its lasting impact on both gaming and popular culture.
Read MoreNever Home Alone by Rob Dunn
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The revelation – thrilling and unsettling in equal measure – that the plain old precincts of our homes are alien wonderlands of the exotic and the unexpected.
Read MorePenguins on Parade: The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration!
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Space programs all around the world are testing ever more ambitious plans and this book belongs in the library of every readers who’s been following that journey.
Read MoreEscaping the Rabbit Hole by Mick West
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How to deal with people who believe bunk, falsehoods, mistakes, and outright lies
Read MoreLikeWar by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking
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Technology, politics, and war have merged into a new battlefield where strategies are played out on smartphones.
Read MoreFuture Politics by Jamie Susskind
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Outlines how emerging technologies shape our democracy and culture, and how this might look in the future.
Read MoreSleepyhead by Henry Nicholls
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Science writer Henry Nicholls pens a charming account of his efforts to uncover the secrets of a good night’s sleep.
Read MoreClick Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
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This book advocates for common-sense precautions by companies, governments, and individuals so we can enjoy the benefits of technolgoy without falling prey to its vulnerabilities.
Read MoreTwitterbots by Tony Veale & Mike Cook
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A fascinating and fun account of the lives of autonomous software systems in the social media universe.
Read MoreExtreme Conservation by Joel Berger
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Berger goes to back-of-beyond places, observing animals as well as hardy groups of humans.
Read MoreBen Goldfarb Q&A about BEAVERS!
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Open Letters talked with author Ben Goldfarb about this sometimes-maligned fixture of the natural world.
Read MoreThe Wonderful Mr. Willughby by Tim Birkhead
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Birkhead has done all the traditional biographer's legwork that so few have bothered to do before him.
Read MoreThe Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross
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This books stands out from other accounts of Powell’s expeditions by emphasizing the ecological ramifications of his discoveries.
Read MoreMessing with the Enemy by Clint Watts
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The author is uniquely qualified to show how misinformation campaigns, social media trolling, and electronic espionage have become tools of modern warfare.
Read MoreChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
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Plokhy's new history gives us as much about the Chernobyl disaster as we're ever likely to know.
Read MoreUniverse in Creation by Roy R. Gould
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The author argues that the universe is no random accident; rather, it is working purposefully to extract order from chaos.
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