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Ellen Ruppel Shell
The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Peggy Orenstein
Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. Harper, 2016.
Paul Bloom
The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Justin Lee
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Neil Price
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
Martin Lings
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.
Durreen Shahnaz
Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.
Jody Rosen
The History and Mystery of the Bicycle. Crown, 2022
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Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Adam Rutherford
The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Costas Lapavitsas
Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
Raghuram Rajan
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.
Thomas E. Ricks
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.
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Yanis Varoufakis
My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
Paul Bloom
The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.
Dambisa Moyo
Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
Thomas H. Naylor
How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
Mark Buchanan
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Raghuram Rajan
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.
Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
William J. Bernstein
How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.
Gretchen McCulloch
Understanding the New Rules of Language. Riverhead Book, 2019.
Ellen Ruppel Shell
The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.
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Games People Play
Eric Berne
A psychoanalytical analysis of the relationships between people with an emphasis on spouses, parents, and children, and the manipulative “games” they play to get what they really want.
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