One of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction BooksA Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022 A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains ...
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A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss across species, including our own Fungi are everywhere. Most a ...
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Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love and compassion-beings that are aware of their own experi ...
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and ...
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"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silen ...
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You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in the New York Times, which c ...
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In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realisation: their rapidly industrialising and globalising societies were driving scor ...
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Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it was pushed out of a space s ...
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This slim primer distills Sharma's decades of experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash. A wake-up call to economis ...
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A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communic ...
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A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to market―and save countless lives. For Blood and Money tells ...
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Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, ar ...
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In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like ...
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Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their worl ...
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Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories-some funny, others intense ...
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When it was first published, Globalization and Its Discontents quickly became a bestseller and a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and ...
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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one ...
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In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a t ...
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Is the Internet making us stupid? In this book, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing dramatically how we think, remember and interact. ...
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Finally! A book about economics that won't put you to sleep. In fact, you won't be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this p ...
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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 ...
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Jews have long embraced their identity as the people of the book. But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspe ...
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Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humani ...
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