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  • ALGOSPEAK
    ALGOSPEAK
    ADAM ALEKSIC
    "Packed with fascinating facts, of-the-moment observations, and a sparkling voice, Algospeak is a gift to any word nerd. Deftly covering everything from emoji etymologies and trendbait to Taylor Swift fanilects... Adam Aleksic is the wise, yet accessible internet linguistics oracle we need."—Amanda Montell, author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and CultishFrom "brainrot" me...
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    Q. 270

  • SAPIENS [TENTH ANNIVERSARY ED]
    SAPIENS [TENTH ANNIVERSARY ED]
    YUVAL NOAH HARARI
    New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century The tenth anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that cemented Yuval Noah Harari as one of the most prominent historians of our time--featuring a new afterword from the author. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Hom...
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  • CHASING THE SCREAM
    CHASING THE SCREAM
    HARI, JOHANN
    * 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH AN UPDATED AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Superb ... Thrilling story-telling' NAOMI KLEIN 'A powerful contribution to an urgent debate' GUARDIAN What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? O...
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    Q. 150

  • A YEAR OF LIVING CURIOUSLY
    A YEAR OF LIVING CURIOUSLY
    BETH COATES / ELIZABETH FOLEY
    'A daily dose of joy and wisdom. Just what we need to chase the gloom away!' OLIVIA COLMAN Why is a heart not heart-shaped? Will I ever understand cryptocurrency? What am I doing when I apricate? And is everything getting worse? Finding the time to appreciate the bounty of our world can be tricky amid the demands of work, family and scrolling our phones. Happily, E. Foley and ...
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    Q. 310

  • LIKE
    LIKE
    MEGAN C. REYNOLDS
    A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who pride themselves on propriety, both grammatical and otherwise, feel compelled to issue correctives. But what the detractors of t...
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    Q. 290

  • NEXUS (ENGLISH)
    NEXUS (ENGLISH)
    HARARI, YUVAL NOAH
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. ...
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    Q. 230

  • SHOULD WE GO EXTINCT?
    SHOULD WE GO EXTINCT?
    TODD MAY
    Should we bring new humans into the world? Or would it be better off without us? These days it's harder than ever to watch TV, scroll social media, or even just sit at home looking out of the window without contemplating the question at the heart of philosopher Todd May's new book: Should we go extinct? Facing climate destruction and the revived specter of nuclear annihilation ...
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    Q. 250

  • MAY CONTAIN LIES
    MAY CONTAIN LIES
    ALEX EDMANS
    Adam Grant's "8 New Idea Books to Start Spring"Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books for May 2024 How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, executives, and authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are e...
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    Q. 250

  • 2020
    2020
    KLINENBERG, ERIC
    A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg"A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through the stories of seven ordinary people. Klinenberg's narrative shows how the legacy of that yea...
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    Q. 230

  • WOLFISH
    WOLFISH
    BERRY ERICA
    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 FOR FINANCIAL TIMES, TIME, VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS, BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and moreBoth vilified and venerated, wolves abound through cultural folklore and literature. In this hauntingly lyrical and unflinching inquiry, Erica Berry untangles these depictions - alongside her own research of the wolf and experience as a woman - to try ...
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    Q. 150

  • FLUKE
    FLUKE
    BRIAN KLAAS
    In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world works—and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything, by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas.If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play,...
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    Q. 190

  • UNSHRINKING
    UNSHRINKING
    KATE MANNE
    The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it—from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled"An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture."—Roxane Gay, author of HungerFor as long ...
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    Q. 300

  • FILTERWORLD
    FILTERWORLD
    CHAYKA, KYLE
    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. "[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture...[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what happens to it when it collides wit...
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    Q. 260

  • CONSPIRITUALITY
    CONSPIRITUALITY
    DEREK BERES / MATTHEW REMSKI / JULIAN WALKER
    u003cbu003eu003ciu003eConspiritualityu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbu003e takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia--peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e In the e...
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    Q. 310

  • HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST
    HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST
    KENDI, IBRAM X.
    u003cbu003eu003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLER • The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of u003ciu003eHow to Be an Antiracist u003c/iu003eand recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant.u003c/bu003e u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e"Kendi's latest . . . combines his personal expe...
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    Q. 190

  • CASTE
    CASTE
    WILKERSON, ISABEL
    In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or othe...
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    Q. 160

  • EQUALITY
    EQUALITY
    DARRIN M. MCMAHON
    "We live at a time of soaring global inequalities and a concerted challenge to the very notion that human beings can live as equals. Equality, in short, is in crisis. Yet surprisingly little work has been done to understand this complex ideal. Far from being a modern aspiration, as is commonly thought, equality has a long history stretching back to the ancient world. Across the...
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    Q. 360

  • A HISTORY OF IDEAS
    A HISTORY OF IDEAS
    THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
    A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting and reviving us.Along the way, we travel around the world, from the very beginnin...
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    Q. 250

  • ACTIVATING THE COMMON GOOD
    ACTIVATING THE COMMON GOOD
    PETER BLOCK
    A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification. This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are. The challenge, Peter Block says, is that we are suffering under an economic the...
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    Q. 290

  • YEAR OF THE TIGER
    YEAR OF THE TIGER
    ALICE WONG
    u003cbu003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER u003cbu003e• ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS u003cbu003e• u003c/bu003eu003c/bu003eThis groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Projectu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e"Alice ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE NINETIES
    THE NINETIES
    CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
    ABOUT THE NINETIESAn instant New York Times bestseller!From the bestselling author of But What if We're Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history.It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the ...
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    Q. 290

  • THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY
    THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY
    CARLO M. CIPOLLA
    "A masterly book" —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan "A classic" —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explains five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the worldThroughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophi...
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    Q. 170

  • THE END OF ADOLESCENCE
    THE END OF ADOLESCENCE
    NANCY E. HILL / ALEXIS REDDING
    Is Gen Z resistant to growing up? A leading developmental psychologist and an expert in the college student experience debunk this stereotype and explain how we can better support young adults as they make the transition from adolescence to the rest of their lives.Experts and the general public are convinced that young people today are trapped in an extended adolescence--coddle...
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    Q. 625

  • BOOMERS
    BOOMERS
    HELEN ANDREWS
    u003cbu003eu003cbu003e"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."u003c/bu003eu003cbu003eu003ciu003e--Terry Castleu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eWith two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorit...
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    Q. 280

  • UNSOLVED MURDERS -84%
    UNSOLVED MURDERS
    AMBER HUNT / EMILY G. THOMPSON
    Ever wondered who murdered JonBenét Ramsey, or who terrorized San Francisco as the Zodiac Killer? Puzzled over the notorious Black Dahlia murder, or the mysterious Long Island Serial Killer case? This true crime book makes you the detective, investigating some of the most infamous unsolved cases of the 20th and 21st centuries. Crime scenes, crucial evidence, witnesses, and pers...
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    Q. 155Q. 25

  • HOMO DEUS
    HOMO DEUS
    YUVAL NOAH HARARI
    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past centur...
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  • COMMUNITY
    COMMUNITY
    PETER BLOCK
    We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become cons...
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  • DREAMLAND
    DREAMLAND
    SAM QUINONES
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eWinner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfictionu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (u003ciu003ePoliticou003c/iu003e) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (u003ciu003eBloombergu003c/iu003e/u003ciu003eWSJu003c/iu003e) ...
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  • NEANDERTHAL MAN
    NEANDERTHAL MAN
    PÄÄBO, SVANTE
    u003cbu003eA preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eNeanderthal Manu003c/iu003e tells the riveting personal and scientific story of the quest to use ancient DNA to unlock the secrets of human evolution. Beginning with the study of DNA in E...
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    Q. 200

  • THE GOOD NURSE
    THE GOOD NURSE
    CHARLES GRAEBER
    u003cbu003e"CHILLING." -- Stephen Kingu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbu003eAn intimate -- and frightening -- glimpse inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, Charles Cullen, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left as many as 400 dead.u003c/bu003eu003cbu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eWhen nurse Charlie Cullen was arrested in 2003, journalists ...
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