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Noah Smith is an economics blogger and columnist. Writes about economics, posts about rabbits. For serious opinions/analysis, read my blog: https://t.co/KfUxUlCYPz

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Book Cover for: Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller
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If you want to understand the semiconductor export controls and why that is happening, then β€œChip War” will explain it. You should really read it. You’ll understand semiconductors.

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold

Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold
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@miguel4congress This question is addressed in Lois McMaster Bujold's "Barrayar"!

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Book Cover for: Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman

Forever Peace

Joe Haldeman
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@aaronlammer Yep, and I've heard "Oh You Pretty Things" by David Bowie and I've read "Forever Peace" by Joe Haldeman and I've read "Echopraxia" by Peter Watts!

Paperback, Mass Market, 1998

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Man Rides Through, Stephen R. Donaldson

A Man Rides Through

Stephen R. Donaldson
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The list (part 2): 6. Tales of the Ketty Jay, by Chris Wooding 7. The Neverness Cycle, by David Zindell 8. The Mirror of Her Dreams + A Man Rides Through, by Stephen R. Donaldson 9. The Coldfire trilogy, by C.S. Friedman 10. The Alliance-Union Universe, by C.J. Cherryh

Paperback, 2003

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5g and How We're Fighting Back, Jonathan Pelson

Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5g and How We're Fighting Back

Jonathan Pelson
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@jhong "Wireless Wars" by Jonathan Pelson

Hardcover, 2021

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, Ted Fishman

China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

Ted Fishman
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A passage from the book China, Inc., by Ted Fishman (2005). Even at the time, I thought it was crazy that stuff like this could be written in a popular business book. https://t.co/cSdELFvxGO

Paperback, 2006

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders
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Quite simply, All the Birds in the Sky is one of the most beautiful novels ever written. ... If I had to pick one book to be the β€œgreat American novel”, at least as far as the last half century is concerned, this might be it.

Paperback, 2017

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Across the Sea of Suns, Gregory Benford

Across the Sea of Suns

Gregory Benford
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Cheering for the orcas, obviously. (And if you've read Gregory Benford's "Across the Sea of Suns", you'll know the orcas were sent here by extraterrestrial machine intelligences to hold back our economic development by restricting seaborne trade) https://t.co/F1NMFIElk5

Paperback, 2004

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: "Nobody Goes There Anymore - it's too Crowded: " Level-k Thinking in the Restaurant Game, Federal Trade Commission

"Nobody Goes There Anymore - it's too Crowded: " Level-k Thinking in the Restaurant Game

Federal Trade Commission
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@kchoudhu This is the social network version of "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"

Paperback, 2014

$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Earth, David Brin

Earth

David Brin
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Yes, the All Thing from Hyperion is one of the only reasonably accurate forecasts of social media I've ever seen from sci-fi authors. The other being in David Brin's "Earth". https://t.co/2D0SBfNEZD

Paperback, 2024

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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