Our Townsby James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
Flying In
Don’t fly over America’s small towns. Instead, fly in for a portrait of the current and likely future state of US cities.
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Dear Chairman
Dear Chairmanby Jeff Gramm
The Birth of Shareholder Activism
Jeff Gramm, a hedge fund manager and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, lays bare a century’s worth of intimate investor-boardroom battles.
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American Contagions
American Contagionsby John Fabian Witt
Epidemics and the Law
Yale Law professor John Fabian Witt offers a compressed historical overview of how the law has guided America’s responses to pandemics.
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How Ike Led
How Ike Ledby Susan Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan Eisenhower offers a politically and emotionally astute accounting of Ike’s life and career.
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Post Corona
Post Coronaby Scott Galloway
Viral Virus Disruption
Marketing professor Scott Galloway offers his knowledgeable, rowdy take on how the pandemic is changing, has already changed and will continue to change the US…
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Drop the Ball
Drop the Ballby Tiffany Dufu
Do Less
Tiffany Dufu, the Chief Leadership Officer of Levo, offers sound advice for working women who seek work-life balance and true collaboration with their domestic partners.
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Reader, Come Home
Reader, Come Homeby Maryanne Wolf
Read!
Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid, discusses the mental, psychological and spiritual benefits of reading.
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Digital Body Language
Digital Body Languageby Erica Dhawan
Digital Manners
Master online communication: You can avoid sending inadvertent digital signals – or misinterpreting the messages your receive – if you know the code.
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Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
You Do It, Too
A compassionate, wise, fascinating and instructive take on how and why you – and everyone else, including the authors – work so hard to delude…
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Big Business
Big Businessby Tyler Cowen
Capitalism: Good
Economics professor and prolific best-selling author Tyler Cowen makes an impassioned, reasoned argument in favor of big corporations.
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x + y
x + yby Eugenia Cheng
Individual Actions
Dr. Eugenia Cheng applies mathematics, logic and common sense to transcend gender stereotypes.
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The Physics of Everyday Things
The Physics of Everyday Thingsby James Kakalios
It’s Science!
James Kakalios, the Taylor Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota and author of the best-selling The Physics of Superheroes, provides the scientific basis…
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New Power
New Powerby Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
Power of the Crowd
Social-engagement experts Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms celebrate the new power that impels broad-based social movements.
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Empty Planet
Empty Planetby Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
Less of Everybody
Researcher Darrell Bricker and journalist John Ibbitson offer startling, evidence-based predictions regarding an ever-diminishing population and its effects.
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Together
Togetherby Vivek Murthy
Beat Loneliness to Stay Well
United States surgeon general Vivek Murthy explains that loneliness kills, but kind human connections nurture your health.
