Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook from its Harvard origin to 2010, with wide access to Zuckerberg.

Facebook from its founding to 2019, from hundreds of interviews including Zuckerberg.

The Instagram story, its sale to Facebook and what Zuckerberg did to its founders.

How Facebook mishandled data and spread fake news and hate, and its inner politics.

Built on the Facebook Files documents leaked by Frances Haugen.

A former Facebook policy director's memoir of the company from 2011 to 2017.

Dramatised founding story; source for The Social Network.

By an early mentor and investor who turned against the company.

A novel of a gifted boy trained in an orbiting school for war against aliens.

A picture book about love and acceptance.

A novel in which a scientist answers an alien warning and invites first contact.

Twenty-three chapters, one per chromosome, each using a gene to open a subject.

Seventy-one short pieces that correct common impressions with plain arithmetic.

How far death rays, force fields and invisibility cloaks could become real, and when.

Knowledge can grow without limit through good explanations that are hard to vary.

Science moves through long stretches of normal work broken by paradigm shifts.

Year-long financial diaries of poor households show how they manage money.

Prosperity grows as trade and specialisation let ideas meet and combine.

Nations prosper under inclusive institutions and stagnate under extractive ones.

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

Evidence that violence of nearly every kind has declined over history, and why.

Why states rise and fall, explained through asabiyyah, the cohesion of a group.

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.

Einstein's life and science, from the Bern patent office to relativity.

How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.

How Bell Labs turned research into the transistor, the laser and information theory.

Twenty-five years negotiating with Chinese officials, from Goldman to the Treasury.

Competing regional ideas of legitimate order and the balance of power.

Sociologist embedded with a gang; an informal economy's incentive structure

Common knowledge and coordination; why rituals and advertising work

Alternating fiction and essay, a rewrite of Nineteen Eighty-Four with a new ending.

Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.

A short primer on energy: its forms, units and role in nature and economies.

The Rothschild banks of five cities from 1798 to 1999, from the family archive.

What justice is, answered by building an ideal city in dialogue.

Why incumbent power in states, firms and armies now erodes faster

A tennis champion's life story, built around the fact that he hated tennis.