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Yuval Noah Harari

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world."Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly."—The Economist"This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through th...

John Green

"In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be­came fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allo...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Christine Ross

u003cbu003eAn exploration of how contemporary art reframes and humanizes migration, calling for coexistence—the recognition of the interdependence of beings.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn u003ciu003eArt for Coexistenceu003c/iu003e, art historian Christine Ross examines contemporary art's response to migration, showing that art invites us to abandon our preconceptions ab...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Helen Andrews

"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry CastleWith two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of...

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...

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...

Doughty, Caitlin / Doughty, Caitlin

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America.In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the f...

Valeria Luiselli

"Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis--and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." --Jeremy Garber, Powell's Booksp""Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. It's ...

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) ...

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...

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 ...

Solnit, Rebecca

A New York Times Notable BookChosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune"A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters" —The New York Times Book Review"Solnit argues that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a su...