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Digital Minimalism shows how reducing everyday technology use can improve well‑being, offering a practical strategy to reclaim free time and focus on meaningful activities.

Joseph Conrad’s 1907 political thriller follows London spy Adolf Verloc as he navigates anarchism, espionage and moral compromise, revealing a bleak portrait of the city and the exploitation of the vulnerable.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

Jaron Lanier argues that social media erodes autonomy, truth, and dignity, urging readers to delete their accounts and imagine a more humane digital future.

Aspiring writer Guinevere Beck meets Joe at an East Village bookstore, setting off a dangerous obsession that turns deadly.

Johann Hari investigates the roots of depression and anxiety, arguing that modern lifestyles—not chemical imbalances—are the primary culprits, and presents nine real causes along with seven alternative solutions.

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Kamel Daoud’s novel, a response to Camus’s *The Stranger*, follows Harun, a forgotten brother of the fictional Arab, who names his late sibling Musa and narrates the circumstances of his death on a sun‑lit beach, weaving personal grief into a critique of Algeria’s post‑colonial reality.

"If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems...Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong."--Book description, Amazon.com.

When murder videos appear online, FBI analyst Grace MacBride and her team of tech‑savvy specialists pursue a serial killer across the internet to a shocking reveal.

In the bustling streets of London, William and Neaera find the city’s hectic pace isolating; a quirky, heartwarming tale explores their lives through a turtle’s eyes and the quiet resilience of everyday workers.