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I found Elinor Ostrom 's Governing the Commons 0.3 product Chris Hibbert to be quite readable and very enjoyable. This book was publ...

I really enjoyed Jo Walton 's Lifelode for its ethereal feel. This is uncommon fantasy, with a real ear for how the storyteller's l...

Karl Schroeder 's Stealing Worlds imagines a near future where enhanced reality, alternate realities, and virtual world overlays compet...

Timothy Sandefur 's Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man is an inspirational read. Sandefur does a masterful job of putting the story of ...

I was recently reading Alliance Rising by C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher and Defender by C. J. Cherryh at the same time. (It...

Lucy Jones ' The Big Ones talks about many major disasters, and what we can do to prepare for them. She is an earthquake specialist (w...

Robert Ellickson 's Order Without Law is a study, as its sub-title says of "How Neighbors Settle Disputes". Ellickson star...

I really enjoyed reading Cory Doctorow 's Walkaway , though it was more the setting than the story that had me entranced. Doctorow envi...

Josh Mitteldorf 's Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation places its thesis right in the title. Mitteldorf makes a strong case that agin...

Alistair Reynolds 's Redemption Ark is a great yarn, with action spaning a long time scale and many star systems. It takes quite a whil...

I found a lot to like in James C. Scott 's Seeing Like a State . It presents a way of thinking about the consequences of governments...

Ken MacLeod 's The Corporation Wars: Insurgence , is the second book of a trilogy. It (along with the first book in the series, Dissiden...