Books like Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
12 books with a reading profile close to Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry by Jason Schreier. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Nick Bilton chronicles the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the idealistic young man who created the Silk Road, an anonymous dark web marketplace.
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Michael Wolff provides an account of the first nine months of the Trump administration, drawing on extensive access to the West Wing.
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In 2009, Edwin Rist, a twenty-year-old flute student and competitive fly-tier, broke into the British Museum of Natural History at Tring.
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Richard Preston chronicles the emergence of lethal filoviruses, specifically Ebola and Marburg, from the central African rainforest into human populations.
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Jason Schreier investigates the volatile manufacturing process of modern video games, chronicling the chaotic development cycles of titles like Pillars of Eternity, Stardew Valley, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
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Fermat's Enigma
by Simon Singh
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Simon Singh chronicles the three-century pursuit of a solution to Pierre de Fermat’s Last Theorem, a deceptively simple conjecture stating that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n…
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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
After the Russian government murdered his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, financier Bill Browder pivoted from investing to international activism.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Samin Nosrat identifies four fundamental pillars that dictate whether food tastes balanced or dull.
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Twenty-five years after his first look at social epidemics, Malcolm Gladwell revisits how ideas and behaviors spread through populations.
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Bill Bryson surveys the biological machinery of the human frame, from the invisible labor of microbes and enzymes to the complex architecture of the skeleton and brain.
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The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America's Future
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
The narrative follows a journalist named Nouriel who encounters a mysterious figure known as the Prophet.
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Tom Standage organizes human civilization into six distinct eras defined by a dominant beverage: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
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