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balex rated The End of Bias : A Beginning: 4 stars
The End of Bias : A Beginning by Jessica Nordell
Implicit bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive …
balex rated After hours volume 1: 3 stars
After hours volume 1 by Yuhta Nishio
Emi Ashiana is 24, unemployed, and not really sure what she wants do with her life. When a friend invites …
balex rated The Time Machine: 4 stars
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, …
balex rated Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy: 3 stars
Hackers by Steven Levy
Today, technology is cool. Owning the most powerful computer, the latest high-tech gadget, and the whizziest website is a status …
balex rated The Loneliest Americans: 3 stars
The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including …
balex rated Count of Monte Cristo: 5 stars
Count of Monte Cristo by E. L. James
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas …
balex rated Artificial Condition: 4 stars
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
balex rated All Systems Red: 4 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
balex rated Snow Crash: 4 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Bantam spectra book)
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it …
Crypto by Steven Levy
From the author who made "hacker" a household word comes a groundbreaking book about the most hotly debated subject of …
balex rated The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Study Skills): 4 stars
balex rated Between the World and Me: 5 stars
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns …
balex rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 3 stars
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Weapons of Math Destruction is a 2016 American book about the societal impact of algorithms, written by Cathy O'Neil. It …