📚 Mathias' bokønsker
Oppdatert 2022-01-04
Liste over bøker jeg ønsker å fylle bokhylla med, der interesse-tyngdepunktet ligger i toppen.
1. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-9781781256855
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most important book to be published this century. I find it hard to take any young activist seriously who hasn't at least familarised themselves with Zuboff's central ideas.' - Zadie Smith, The Guardian The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, th ...
2. Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/bad-blood-9781509868087
The shocking true story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a gripping cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.
3. Sandworm
Andy Greenberg
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/sandworm-9780385544405
From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen, including the first-ever blackouts triggered by hackers. The attacks culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known ...
4. The Storyteller
Dave Grohl
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-storyteller-9781398503700
So, I’ve written a book.
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or r ...
5. Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/fight-club-9780393355949
Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.
6. Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/pattern-recognition-9780425198681
"Pattern Recognition is William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules in Neuromancer."--Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods
"One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century."--The Washington Post Book World
The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now...
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7. Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/great-gatsby-9781847496140
This edition of The Great Gatsby contains pictures and an extensive section on Fitzgerald's life and works.
8. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-9780330508117
Losing your planet isn't the end of the world . . . Douglas Adams's mega-selling cult classic!
9. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/project-hail-mary-9781529100624
A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Martian.
'If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you. . . This one has everything fans of old school SF (like me) love.' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
'Brilliantly funny and enjoyable. One of the most plausible science fiction books I've ever read' TIM PEAKE, astronaut
'Weir's f ...
10. Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Joseph Heller
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/catch-22-50th-anniversary-edition-9780099529125
Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him.
11. The Circle
Dave Eggers
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-circle-9780241146507
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet
'Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail
'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times
'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post
When Mae is hired to work for the C ...
12. No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings","Erin Meyer
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/no-rules-rules-9780753553664
It's time to do things differently.
Trust your team. Be radically honest.
And never, ever try to please your boss.
These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 190 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation that rivals the likes of Disney.
Finally Reed Hast ...
13. Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/thursday-murder-club-9780241988268
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
'A warm, wise and witty ...
14. Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/salt-a-world-history-9780142001615
A history of salt notes its role as currency, in the establishment of trade routes and cities, and as an agenda of war, noting key figures who played major parts in its manufacture and distribution. Reprint.
15. Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/stranger-in-a-strange-land-9780143111627
A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books - 50 Covers competition A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth.
Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to hi ...
16. The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-selfish-gene-9780198788607
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not ...
17. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-three-body-problem-9781800246683
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.
Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of ...
18. Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/human-compatible-9780141987507
Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last.
In this groundbreaking book, Stuart Russell sets out why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to humanity, and how we can change course before it's too late. In brilliant and lucid prose, he explains how AI actually works and its enormous capacity to improve our lives - and why we must never los ...
19. Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/clockwork-orange-9780141197531
Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?
20. Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt","Stephen J. Dubner
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/freakonomics-9780061956270
The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling professor of psychology Angela Duckworth.
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Which should be feared more: snakes or french fries? Why do sumo wrestlers cheat? In this groundbreaking book, leading economist Steven Levitt--Professor of Economics at the University of Ch ...
21. The Giver, 1
Lois Lowry
https://www.adlibris.com/no/bok/the-giver-1-9780544336261
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is give ...