Edward Tenner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Edward Tenner on X
Author of The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do, Why Things Bite Back, Our Own Devices, TED speaker, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
‘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
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
Isabella Beeton
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
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
Bruno LaTour
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
The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents
Jeffrey P. Moran
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
Out of stock

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Strobe Talbott
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
The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory and Policy
Marie Springer
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)
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Martin J. Sherwin
From Martin Sherwin (1927-2021), Gambling with Armageddon: https://t.co/rV1Gpo9LzJ
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition
Geoffrey Hosking
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