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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Idea Factory Bell Labs & the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner
Brooklyn Joe
, January 01, 2013
The Idea Factory was the best nonfiction book I read in 2012 and will appeal to geeks and non-geeks alike. Jon Gertner has a rare ability to dramatize complex scientific and technological concepts to a general audience. He combines this with an analysis of the unique organizational culture of Bell Labs made up of a cast of brilliant and complex characters that almost seem fictional. The Idea Factory is a mix of several engaging stories. In part, this is a history of some of the most important technological developments of the 20th century (the development of the transistor, lasers, lasers, satellites, critical developments that later lead to the development of cell phones). The Idea Factory is also an exploration of the leadership and organizational culture of Bell Labs (and to some extent the economic context) that created a unique space for these many decades of innovations to occur.
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Await Your Reply
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Dan Chaon
Brooklyn Joe
, January 28, 2012
I grabbed a copy of this and read it as soon as it was released after being surprised by how much I loved Chaon's short story collection, "Among the Missing". Chaon is a writer I often recommend to others and find that he's not as widely known as he deserves to be (at least amongst the people I know). As the parallel story lines of "Await Your Reply" unravel and the novel's world gets increasingly murky, I was increasingly anxious to find out how Chaon was going to bring it all to a satisfying conclusion but he does and does it quite skillfully.
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