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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier

A revelatory exploration of emerging trends in "big data"—our newfound ability to gather and interpret vast amounts of information—and the revolutionary effects these developments are producing in business,...

Thunder on the Mountain

by Peter A. Galuszka

“Scathing exposé of the coal industry.”

--The New York Times Book Review

On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy...

The Atomic Bazaar

by William Langewiesche

In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. This is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear...

The Coming Plague

by Laurie Garrett

After four decades of assuming that the conquest of all infectous diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine...