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DISRUPTED MY MISADVENTURE IN THE START UP BUBBLE by Dan Lyons

April 23, 2016

IRREVERENT MEMOIR OF LIFE at a dot-com startup mixes sharp insights with some astonishing cluelessness. B PLUS

DISRUPTED MY MISADVENTURE IN THE START UP BUBBLE
Hachette Books
2016

Grade: B PLUS

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YOU ARE HERE by Hiawatha Bray

May 30, 2014

AN ENTERTAINING, INFORMATIVE HISTORY of navigational technology, from lodestones to satellites to GPS. SOLID B

Grade: SOLID B

YOU ARE HERE: FROM THE COMPASS TO THE GPS, THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF HOW WE FIND OURSELVES
Basic Books
2014

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REVOLUTION 2.0, by Wael Ghonim

May 15, 2012

INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.

Grade: SOLID B

REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012

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