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Request for Nonfiction must reads (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by DaleGribble88@programming.dev to c/books@lemmy.ml

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What non-fiction book could you just not put down? Was it a biography? Some obscure textbook? A collection of papers or speeches? Share your suggestions below!

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[–] ptman@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Here are some:

Bad Blood - about Theranos
Evicted - low-income housing
They Called Us Enemy - Immigrants
Factfulness - statistics
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
Masters of Doom - PC gaming, id Software
The Cuckoo's Egg - fighting early computer crime
The Initiates - Winemaking
If it's Smart, it's Vulnerable - Computer security
Sid Meier's Memoir - Computer games
How to Invent Everything - Building up modern tech starting from nothing
The Everything Store - Amazon.com
The Soul of a New Machine - Pulitzer winner, minicomputers in the late 70's
Freakonomics - Economics
How Bad are Bananas - Greenhouse gas emissions and climate catastophe
Laserwriter II - 90's computer repair in NYC
A Life on our Planet - Climate catastrophe
The Goal - Business management comic