Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant is a writer and editor focusing on culture and technology, living in Los Angeles. He is the author of the forthcoming book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech and the national bestseller The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.
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Terraform
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrator: Graham Halstead
- Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform–in print for the first time.
Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid,... Read more
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The One Device
- By: Brian Merchant
- Narrator: Tristan Morris
- Length: 14 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 20, 2017
- Language: English
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The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world.
The One Device is a tour de force, with a fast-paced edge and heaps of analytical insight.”-Ashlee Vance, New York Times... Read more
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It Won’t Be Easy
Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014’s Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what he’s talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won’t Be ...
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Summary Bundle: Business & Life | Readtrepreneur Publishing: Includes Summary of The Everything Store & Summary of The First 90 Days
Summary Bundle: Business & Life – Readtrepreneur Publishing: Includes Summary of The Everything Store & Summary of The First 90 DaysFrom the Description of “Summary of The Everything Store”…“Some of these investments will pay off, others will not, and we will have learned another valuable lesson in either case.” – Brad StoneHaving access to Amazon employers and Bezos’ family ...
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Doll Bones
A doll that may be haunted leads three friends on a thrilling adventure in this delightfully creepy novel from the New York Times bestselling cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles.
Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates and thieves, mermaids and warriors. Ruling over all is the Great Queen, a ...
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American Rebels
Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.
Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their ...
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Excellent Advice for Living
“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wise, practical advice for life.” —Gretchen Rubin, via Twitter “One hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people will still remember Kevin Kelly and his wisdom.” —Seth Godin
“All will benefit from [Kelly’s] idiosyncratic wit and wry ...
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Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Christian McKay Heidicker draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship.
“Clever and harrowing.” –The Wall Street Journal
“Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly original, bone-chilling, and ultimately ...
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Relajese usted ya es perfecto (Relax, You Are Already Perfect!)
oEsta listo a creer que el mundo, y usted, es YA de la forma que tiene que ser y, por lo tanto, no tiene que vivir agobiado con preocupaciones, miedos, ni culpas? Cuando aceptamos eso, podemos relajarnos y comenzar a vivir en control de nosotros mismos y de nuestra realidad. El Dr. Schneider lleva 20 anos explicando estos conceptos. El libro es facil de entender y le ofrece una serie de lecciones ...
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Brave New Work
“This is the management book of the year. Clear, powerful and urgent, it’s a must read for anyone who cares about where they work and how they work.” —Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing “This book is a breath of fresh air. Read it now, and make sure your boss does too.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with ...
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The Death of a Soldier
Before Louisa May Alcott achieved national fame with Little Women, she received success and recognition for Hospital Sketches, which was published in 1863. The book is based on her experience as a Civil War nurse at a Union hospital in Georgetown. In “The Death of a Soldier,” an excerpt from the fourth chapter, she recounts the final days of a young Virginian blacksmith named John. Told ...
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The American Trajectory
In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American empire from its founding through to the end of the twentieth century. A prequel to Griffin’s Bush and Cheney, this book demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided.
The ...
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