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Edward Tenner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author of The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do, Why Things Bite Back, Our Own Devices, TED speaker, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar

9 books
Book Cover for: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

‘In an internal memo, a Knopf editor said of “The Bell Jar,” by Sylvia Plath, “There certainly isn’t enough genuine talent for us to take notice.”’ https://t.co/jtVFAJW7Uq

Paperback, 2005

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, Isabella Beeton

Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management

Isabella Beeton
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

Sustainable Scottish feast ca. 1861 from Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: https://t.co/qXJkVZ1EJL

Paperback, 2014

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

Better angels? After 13 years, from Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War (2009) 😢 https://t.co/tOyE1CxesQ

Paperback, 2010

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, Bruno LaTour

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

Bruno LaTour
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

As the sponsoring editor of Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar’s Laboratory Life at Princeton University Press I saw what a subtle and ingenious thinker he was. He looks grumpy in this photo but was one of the most playful authors I worked with. https://t.co/G6R7Ndu7YY

Paperback, 1986

$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents, Jeffrey P. Moran

The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents

Jeffrey P. Moran
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

The more it stays the same: State legislators and the curriculum 100 years ago. Reprinted in Jeffrey Moran, The Scopes Trial https://t.co/jQy7b8aeai

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Book Cover for: The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy, Strobe Talbott

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy

Strobe Talbott
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

From Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (2002): https://t.co/hWYi9CMe0Z

Paperback, 2003

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory and Policy, Marie Springer

The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory and Policy

Marie Springer
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

It didn’t end with Madoff: ‘Marie Springer … author of “The Politics of Ponzi Schemes,” said scammers try to mirror their marks because people generally won’t believe a like-minded person is lying to them. She called it “just like me syndrome.”’ https://t.co/Y0RvN9hYBe

Paperback, 2020

$61.99$36.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin J. Sherwin

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin J. Sherwin
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

From Martin Sherwin (1927-2021), Gambling with Armageddon: https://t.co/rV1Gpo9LzJ

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition, Geoffrey Hosking

The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition

Geoffrey Hosking
Edward TennerEdward Tenner

Commie education reform ideas worth reconsidering? From Geoffrey Hosking, The First Socialist Society, 2nd edn. (1992), p. 352: https://t.co/eX8vPQpdnI

Paperback, 1993

$43.00$21.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book