William Poundstone

40 books

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

William Poundstone

290 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction business psychology self help informative slow-paced
The Big Book of Big Secrets - the Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You are Never Supossed to Know by William Poundstone

The Big Book of Big Secrets - the Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You are Never Supossed to Know

William Poundstone

272 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction reference technology informative medium-paced
Big Secrets by William Poundstone

Big Secrets

William Poundstone

232 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative fast-paced
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone

Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos

William Poundstone

496 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative slow-paced
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by William Poundstone

The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

William Poundstone

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science informative slow-paced
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

William Poundstone

400 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction business economics informative medium-paced
The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology by William Poundstone, Warren Robinett, David Sudnow, Staffan Björk, Bernard DeKoven, Greg Costikyan, Katie Salen, Raph Koster, Brian Sutton-Smith, Brenda Laurel, Bernard Suits, Johan Huizings, Mochan, Henry Jenkins, Andrew Stern, Roger Caillois, Chip Morningstar, Linda Hughes, James Gee, F. Randall Farmer, Edward Castronova, Marc Leblanc, Gregory Bateson, Michael Mateas, Stephen Sniderman, Gary Alan Fine, Doug Church, Chris Crawford, Richard Rouse III, Richard Bartle, Eric Zimmerman, Richard Garfield, Jussi Holopainen, Ken Birdwell, Tom Chick

The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology

William Poundstone, Warren Robinett, David Sudnow, Staffan Björk, Bernard DeKoven, Greg Costikyan, Katie Salen, Raph Koster, Brian Sutton-Smith, Brenda Laurel, Bernard Suits, Johan Huizings, Mochan, Henry Jenkins, Andrew Stern, Roger Caillois, Chip Morningstar, Linda Hughes, James Gee, F. Randall Farmer, Edward Castronova, Marc Leblanc, Gregory Bateson, Michael Mateas, Stephen Sniderman, Gary Alan Fine, Doug Church, Chris Crawford, Richard Rouse III, Richard Bartle, Eric Zimmerman, Richard Garfield, Jussi Holopainen, Ken Birdwell, Tom Chick

954 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction video games informative lighthearted slow-paced
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It) by William Poundstone

Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)

William Poundstone

352 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction politics science informative slow-paced
Head in the Cloud: The Power of Knowledge in the Age of Google by William Poundstone

Head in the Cloud: The Power of Knowledge in the Age of Google

William Poundstone

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction education psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up by William Poundstone

Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up

William Poundstone

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction education psychology science informative reflective slow-paced