Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee (Hardcover)
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They Are by Henry Petroski
Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson
10 Billion by Stephen Emmott
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen