Book.md ___ Recent additions, December 2025: Bustamante, A., & Bustamante, J. (2025). Shadow cell: An insider account of America’s new spy war. Little, Brown and Company. Freeman, B. (2025). Photograph. Gibson, E. (2025). Syntax: A Cognitive Approach. Kaplan, R. D. (2025). Wasteland: A World in Permanent Crisis. Labatut, B. (2020). When We Cease To Understand The World. McChrystal, S. (2025). On Character: Choices That Define a Life. Rivlin, G. (2025). AI Valley. Wales, J. (2025). The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint For Building Things That Last. Warren, M. O. (1805). History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. Vol. 1 of 3. Wu, T. (2025). The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity. ___ - Abdaal, A. (2023). Feel Good Productivity. - Abrams, D. (2020). John Adams Under Fire. - Acemoglu, D. and Johnson, S. (2023). Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. - Ackerman, A., Puglisi, B., (2013). The Negative Trait Thesaurus. - Ackerman, E. (2021). 2034. - Ackerman, E. (2024). 2054. - Adler, M. J., and Doren, C. V. (1940-2015). How to Read a Book. - Ahrens, S. (2017). How to faTake Smart Notes. - Aiken, M. (2016). The Cyber Effect. - Alison, J. (2019). Meander, Spiral, Explode. - Allen, D. S. (2010). Why Plato Wrote. - Almond, S. (2024). Truth is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow. - Ananthaswamy, A. (2024). Why Machines Learn. - Anders, C. J. (2021). Never Say You Can't Survive. - Anolik, L. (2024). Didion and Babitz. - Atakora, A. (2020). Conjure Women. - Attenberg, J. (2024). 1000 Words. - Au, W. J. (2023). Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For. - Autor, D., and others. (2021). The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines. - Bach, F. (2024). Learning theory from first principles. MIT press. - Ball, M. and Morena, L. (2022). The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything. - Ball, P. (2023). How Life Works. - Bamford, J. (2023). Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence. - Banks, I. (1988). The Player of Games, Culture Series Book 2. - Banks, I. (1990). Use of Weapons. Culture Series, Book 3. - Banks, I. (2010). Surface Detail. Culture series, Book 9. - Barnes, S. A. (2025). Cold Eternity. - Barsky, J. (2017). Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiance as a KGB Spy in America. - Beard, S. J., & Hobson, T. (2024). An Anthology of Global Risk. - Bhattacharya, A. (2022). The Man from the Future. - Bell, J. S. (2019). The Last Fifty Pages. - Bell, J. S. (2008). Write Great Fiction Revision and Self-Editing. - Belton, C. (2020). Putin's People. - Bender, E. M. and Hanna, A. (2025). The AI Con. - Bennett, M. (2023). A Brief History of Intelligence. - Berry, I. S. (2023). The Peacock and the Sparrow. - Bhaskar, R., Frank, C., Høyer, K. G., Parker, J., & Naess, P. (Eds.). (2010). Interdisciplinarity and climate change: Transforming knowledge and practice for our global future. Taylor & Francis. - Bishop, C. M.,and Bishop, H. (2024). Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts. [Link](https://www.bishopbook.com/). - Borg, J. S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Conitzer, V. (2024). Moral AI: And how we get there. Random House. - Bostrom, N. (2024). Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World. - Boucher, S., Hallin, C. A., & Paulson, L. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge handbook of collective intelligence for democracy and governance. Taylor & Francis. - Box, C. J. (2021). Dark Sky. - Bradbury, R. (1990,1994). Zen in the Art of Writing. - Bradley, K. (2024). The Ministry of Time. - Brands, H., Beckley, M. (2022). Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China. - Breyer, S. J. (2024). Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism and not Textualism. - Bridle, J. (2022). Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. - Brin, D. (2016). Insistence of Vision - Brockman, J. (2019). Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI. - Brody, J. (2018). Save the Cat Writes a Novel. - Brown, D. S. and Roy, J. (2020). The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. - Burke, S. (2019). Interference: A Novel. - Burkeman, O. (2020). Four Thousand Weeks. - Bustamante, A., & Bustamante, J. (2025). Shadow cell: An insider account of America’s new spy war. Little, Brown and Company. - Callard, A. (2025). Open Socrates. - Card, O. S. (2022). Duplex. - Card, O. S. (2022). Wakers. - Carlisle, P. M. (2004). Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E. Panky. - Carr, N. (2025). Super bloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. - Chalmers, D. (2022). Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. - Chambers, B. (2021). A Psalm for the Wild-Built. - Chernow, R. (2025). Mark Twain. - Child, L., Editor. (2021). How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America. - Chomsky, N. and Waterstone, M. (2020). Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance. - Clear, J. (2018). Atomic Habits. - Cline, E. (2024). Bridge to Bat City. - Cline, E. (2020). Ready Player Two. - Clinton, B. (2024). Citizen. - Clinton, H. and Penny, L. (2022). State of Terror. - Cohen, R. (2022). Making History: The Storytellers who Shaped the Past. - Colby, E. A. (2021). The Strategy of Denial. - Coll, S. (2024). The Achilles Trap. - Collingridge, D. (1982). The Social Control of Technology. - Comey, J. (2023). Central Park West. - Craig, E. (2020). *Philosophy: A very short introduction*. Oxford University Press, USA. - Crawford, K. (2021). The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. - Cron, L. (2016). Story Genius. - Crouch, B. (2016). Dark Matter. - Crouch, B. (2019). Recursion. - Crouch, B. (2022). Upgrade. - Dakan, R. & Van Cleave, R. G. (2022). Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror For Dummies. - Dalio, R. (2021). The Changing World Order. - Damasio, A. (2021). Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. - Danzig, G., Johnson, D., & Morrison, D. (Eds.). (2018). Plato and Xenophon: Comparative studies. Brill. - Davies, P. H. (2021). The Art of Revision: The Last Word. - De Bono, E. (1970). Lateral Thinking. - De Bono, E. (1985.). Six Thinking Hats. - de Robertis, C., editor. (2021). Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. - Dennett, D. C. (2023). I've Been Thinking. - Dhawan, E. (2021). Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. - Didion, J. (2021). Let Me Tell You What I Mean. - Diederich, J. (2021). The Psychology of Artificial Superintelligence. Springer Nature. - Digital Future Society. (2021). Faster Than the Future. - Divya, S. B. (2021). Machinehood. - Dixon, C. (2024). Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. - Dobbs, M. (2021). King Richard. - Doctorow, C. (2020). Attack Surface. - Doctorow, C. (2024). The Bezzle. - Doctorow, C. (2023). The Lost Cause. - Doctorow, C. (2008). Little Brother. - Doctorow, C. (2025). Picks and Shovels. - Doctorow, C. (2019). Radicalized. - Doctorow, C. (2023). Red Team Blues. - Doctorow, C. (2017). Walkaway. - Doshi, R. (2021). *The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order*. Oxford University Press. - Dou, E. (2025). House of Huawei. - Eagleman, D. (2020). Livewired. - Edwards, M. (2020). Howdunit. - Egan, J. (2022). The Candy House. - Eggers, D. (2021). The Every. - Elbow, P. (1973). Writing Without Teachers. - Elliott, A. (Ed.). (2022). *The Routledge social science handbook of AI*. Routledge. - Ellul, J. (1954). The Technological Society. Originally La Technique. Translated 1964. - Everett, P. (2021). The Trees. - Falco, E. (2012). The Family Corleone. - Farahany, N. A. (2023). The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. - Fast, H. (1961). April Morning. - Ferriss, T. (2007). The 4-Hour Work Week. - Finn, C. & Stafford, K. (Eds.). (2023). The Art of Revising Poetry. - Fishbach, A. (2022). Get It Done. - Flieger, V. (2002). Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World. Kent State University Press. - Fleming, C. (2024). The Enigma Girls. - Fleming, I. (2025). *Talk of the devil: The collected writings of Ian Fleming*. William Morrow. - Fodor, J. (1998). Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong. - Follett, K. (2023). The Armor of Light. - Ford, M. (2018). Architects of Intelligence. - Ford, M. (2021). Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything. - Forte, T. (2022). Building a Second Brain. - Foster, T. C. (2003). How to Read Literature Like a Professor. - Foster, T. C. (2020). How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor. - Franklin, B. (1791 French, 1868 English, Bigelow reproduction, 1909 Elliot introduction) Autobiography of Benjamin Franlin. - Franzen, J. (2021). Crossroads: A Key to All Mythologies Series, Book 1. - Freeman, B. (2020). The Bourne Evolution. - Freeman, B. (2021). The Bourne Treachery. - Freeman, B. (2022). The Bourne Sacrifice. - Freeman, B. (2023). The Bourne Defiance. - Freeman, B. (2024). The Bourne Shadow. - Freeman, B. (2024). Break Every Rule. - Freeman, B. (2025). The Bourne Escape. - Freeman, B. (2025). The Bourne Vendetta. - Freeman, B. (2025). Photograph. - Frenkel, S. and Kang, C. (2021). An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination. - Gage, B. (2022). G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. - Gates, B. (2021). *How to avoid a climate disaster: the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need*. Knopf. - Gates, B. (2025). Source Code. - Gawdat, M. (2021). Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save the World. - Gerard, P. (2017). The Art of Creative Research. - Gerstle, G. (2022). The Rise and Fall of the NeoLiberal Order. - Gibblin, R. and Doctorow, C. (2022). Chokepoint Capitalism. - Gibson, E. (2025). Syntax: A Cognitive Approach. - Gibson, W. (2020). Agency. - Gladwell, M. (2021). The Bomber Mafia. - Gladwell, M. (2024). Revenge of the Tipping Point. - Graeber, D. et al. (2021). The Dawn of Everything a New History of Humanity. - Graham, D. A. (2025). The Project: How Project 2025 is Reshaping America. - Graham, G. (2013). White Papers for Dummies. - Greenberg, A. (2021). Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. - Greenberg, A. (2022). Tracers in the Dark. - Greene, B. (2020). Until the End of Time. - Grisham, J. (2024). Camino Ghosts. - Grisham, J. (2023). The Exchange. - Hagey, K. (2025). The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future. W. W. Norton & Company. - Hale, C. (1999). Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose. - Hale, D. (2016). *The jury in America: Triumph and decline*. University Press of Kansas. - Harkaway, N. (2023). Titanium Noir. - Harkaway, N. (2024). Karla's Choice. - Harrison, H., and Minsky, M. (1992). The Turing Option. - Harry, P. (2023). Spare. New York, NY: Random House. - Hart, R. (2022). The Paradox Hotel: A Novel. - Hawkins, P. (2015). The Girl on the Train. - Hegseth, P. (2024). The War on Warriors. - Herbert, J. (2017). Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino. - Herron, M. (2008). Reconstruction. Slough House Series 0.5. - Herron, M. (2010). Slow Horses. Slough House Series Book 1. - Herron, M. (2013). Dead Lions: Slough House Series Book 2. - Herron, M. (2015). Nobody Walks. Slough House Book 2.75. Short Story. - Herron, M. (2016). The List. Slough House Series Book 2.5. - Herron, M. (2018). The Catch. Slough House series Book 6.5. - Herron, M. (2016). Real Tigers. Slough House Book 3. - Herron, M. (2018). London Rules. Slough House series Book 5. - Herron, M. (2018). The Marylebone Drop. Slough House series Book 5.5. - Herron, M. (2019). Joe Country. Slough House series Book 6. - Herron, M. (2021). Dolphin Junction. Includes The Last Dead Letter. - Herron, M. (2017). Spook Street. Slough House Series Book 4. - Herron, M. (2021). Slough House. Book 7. - Herron, M. (2022). Bad Actors. Slough House series Book 8. - Herron, M. (2022). Standing By the Wall. - Herron, M. (2023). The Secret Hours. - Higson, C. (2023). On His Majesty's Secret Service. - Hoffman, R. (2023). Impromptu. - Hoffman, R., & Beato, G. (2025). Superagency: What could possibly go right with our AI future. - Hofkirchner, W. and Kreowski, H-J. (Editors). (2021). Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea**?** Springer, Cham.  - Hofstadter, D. (1979). Gödel, Escher, and Back: an Eternal Golden Braid. - Hood, J. (2021). The Treadstone Exile. - Hood, J. (2023). The Treadstone Rendition. - Hood, J. (2020). The Treadstone Resurrection. - Hood, J. (2022). The Treadstone Transgression. - Horowitz, A. (2018). Forever and a Day. - Horowitz, A. (2015). Trigger Mortis. - Horowitz, A. (2022). With a Mind to a Kill. - Hossenfelder, S. (2022). Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions. - Howey, H. (2015). Beacon 23. - Howey, H. (2022). Across the Sand. - Huang, A. (2019). The Hardware Hacker. - Humphrey, N. (2022). Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness. - Hyndman, R. J., and Athanosopolous, G. (2021). Forecasting: Principles and Practice. [Link.](https://otexts.com/fpp3/) - Ishiguro, K. (2021). Klara and the Sun. - Jacobsen, A. (2024). Nuclear War: A Scenario. - Jacobsen, A. (2014). Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. - Jacobsen, A. (2015). The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency - Jacobsen, A. (2017). Phenomena. - Jacobsen, A (2019). Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assasins. - Jacobsen, A. (2021). First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance. - Johnston, B. (2007). Naming the World. - Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). *The Philosophy of Online Manipulation*. Taylor & Francis. - Jordan, Z. (2020). The Last Human. - Juma, C. (2016). Innovation And Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. - Kahn, S. (2024). Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That's a Good Thing). - Kaliouby, R. (2020). Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. - Kariko, K. (2023). Breaking Through: My Life in Science. - Kaplan, R. D. (2025). Wasteland: A World in Permanent Crisis. - Karp, A. (2025). The Technological Republic. - Kasulke, C. (2021). Several People Are Typing. - Kelly, K. (2023). Excellent Advice For Living. - Kennedy, .J. F. (1956). Profiles in Courage. - Kerbaj, Richard. (2022). The Secret History of the Five Eyes: the Untold Story of the International Spy Network. - Kertzer, D. (2022). The Pope at War: the Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler. - Khaw, C. (2025). The Library of Hellebore. - King, S. (2022). Fairy Tale. - King, S. (2023). Holly. - King, S. (2025). Never Flinch. Scribner. - King, S. (2024). You Like It Darker. - Kingfisher, T. (2022). Nettle & Bone. - Kierkegaard, S. (1841). The Concept of Irony: With Continual Reference to Socrates. - Kissinger, H. A., Schmidt, E., & Huttenlocher, D. (2021). *The age of AI: And our human future*. Hachette UK. - Kissinger, H. (2022). Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy. - Klabnik, S., & Nichols, C. (2022). *The Rust programming language*. No Starch Press. - Klein, E.and Thompson, D. (2025). Abundance. - Knight, C. (2016). Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics. - Korelitz, J. H., (2021). The Plot. - Kotkin, J (2020). The Coming of Neo-Feudalism. - Kramer, M. (2007). Telling True Stories. - Kraus, N. (2021). Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. - Kucharski, A. (2025). Proof. - Kurkowski, H. (2022). Remote Work Technology. Publisher: Wiley. - Kurzweil, R. (2024). The Singularity is Nearer. - Kushner, R. (2024). Creation Lake. - Kwik, J. (2020). Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life. - Kyle, C. (2024). Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. - Labatut, B. (2020). When We Case To Understand The World. - Lachman, C. (2024). Codename Nemo: the Hunt for a Nazi U-boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine. - Laertius., D. (2018). Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. - Landon, B. (2008). Building Great Sentences: Exploring thde Writer's Craft. - LaPlante, A. (2023). Write Yourself Out of a Corner. - Larson, E. (2024). The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. - Larson, E. J. (2020). Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership. - Larson, E. (2020). The Splendid and the Vile. - Le Carre, J. (2019). Agent Running In the Field. - Le Cunff, A. (2025). Tiny Experiments: How to live freely in a goal-obsessed world. - Lee, K. (2021). AI 2041: Ten Visions for our Future. - Lee, N. (Ed.). (2019). The transhumanism handbook. Springer.  - Lehane, D. (2023). Small Mercies. - Lemov, R. (2025). The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion. W. W. Norton & Company. - Lightman, A. (2024). The Miraculous from the Material. - Lewis, M. (2023). Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. - Liautaud, S, and Sweetingham, L. (2021). The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World. - Lindsay, J. (2004). Darkly Dreaming Dexter: Dexter Series Book 1. - Lisle, J. (2023). The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare. - Llosa, M. V. (2019). Harsh Times. - Loeb, A. (2021). Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. - London, D. (2021). The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence. - Ludlum, R. (1980). The Bourne Identity. - Lunzer, F. (2025). Sike. - McAskill, W. (2022). What We Owe the Future. - MacMillan, M. (2020). War: How Conflict Shaped Us. - Mann, M. and Gardiner, M. (2022). Heat 2. - Marche, S. (2022). The Next Civil War. - Marcus, G. (2024). Taming Silicon Valley. - Martin, L. M. (2024). Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing. - Martine, A. (2021). A Desolation Called Peace. - Martine, A. (2019). A Memory Called Empire - Mattioli, D. (2024). The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power. - Maslej, N. and others. (2024). The AI Index 2024 Annual Report. Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University. [PDF](https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/). - McCarthy, C. (2022). The Passenger. - McCarthy, C. (2022). Stella Maris. - McCloskey, D. (2023). Moscow X. - McCloskey, D. (2024). The Seventh Floor. - McConaghy, C. (2020). Migrations: A Novel. - McChrystal, S. (2025). On Character: Choices That Define a Life. - McMaster, H. R. (2020). Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. - McPhee, J. (2017). Draft No. 4. - McPhee, M. (2021). Mayhem: Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government, and the Boston Marathon Bombing. - Merchant, B. (2023). Blood in the Machine The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. - Mieville, C. (2021). A Spectre, Haunting: The Communist Manifesto. - Miller, C. (2022). Chip War - Miller, M. (2012). The Song of Achilles. - Miller, S. and others. (2022). National Security Intelligence and Ethics. - Minsky, M. (2006). The Emotion Machine. - Mollick, E. (2024). Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI. - Monroe, R. A. (1985). Far Journeys. - Monroe, R. A. (1994). Ultimate Journey. - Morrell, D. (1972). Rambo: First Blood. - Munson, R. (2024). Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist. - Murakami, H. (2022). Novelist as a Vocation. - Murphy, J. (Ed.) (2020). A Short History of Writing Instruction. - Newitz, A. (2023). The Terraformers. - Newport, C. (2016). Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. - Newport, C. (2024). Slow Productivity. - Newport, C. (2021). A World Without Email. - O'Connor, P. T. (1996). Woe is I. - Okorafor, N. (2025). Death of the Author. - Okarafor, N. (2021). Remote Control. - Okotie, S. (2025). The Future of the Novel. - O'Neill, T. (2019). Chaos. - Ord, T. (2020). The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. - Pacino, A. (2024). Sonny Boy. - Palahniuk, C. (2023). Not Forever, But For Now. - Palahniuk, C. (2024). Shock Induction. - Patterson, W. H. (2014). Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume 2. - Penn, J. (2023). Writing the Shadow. - Peng, S., Lin, C.-F., & Streinz, T. (Eds.). (2021). *Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Perlroth, N. (2021). This is How They Tell Me the World Ends - Perry, S. D. (2012). Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy. - Peterson, A. H. (2020). Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. - Petersen, J. B. (2024). We Who Wrestle With God. - Pethokoukis, J. (2023). The Conservative Futurist. - Philodemus. (1941). On methods of inference: A study in ancient Empiricism (P. H. De Lacy & E. A. De Lacy, Trans. & Eds.). American Philological Association.  - Chaplin, J. E.. (2025). The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution. - Pigliucci, M., Lopez, G., & Kunz, M. A. (2025). Beyond Stoicism. - Piketty, T. (2019). Capital and Ideology. - Pilsch, A. (2017). Transhumanism: Evolutionary futurism and the human technologies of utopia. U of Minnesota Press. - Pinker, S. (2021). Rationality. - Pinker, S. (2014). The Sense of Style. - Powers, R. (2018). The Overstory. - Pozen, R. C. (2012). Extreme Productivity. - Prados, J. (2017). The Ghosts of Langley. - Pratchett, T. (1989). Guard! Guard! - Pressfield, S. (2011). Do The Work. - Pynchon, T. (2013). Bleeding Edge. - Pynchon, T. (2009). Inherent Vice. - Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice. - Reich, R. and others. (2021). System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot. - Reichert, M. R. (2013). Isaac Asimov's I, Robot: To Obey. - Reichert, M. R. (2011). I, Robot: to Protect. - Reichert, M. R. (2016). I, Robot: to Preserve. - Rieder, J. (2008). 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