Activists & Change Makers
The courageous individuals who fought for justice and changed the world
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Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Thomas H. Naylor
How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Admiral William H. McRaven
Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
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.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Tania Gergel
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Kirk Wallace Johnson
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Books, 2018.
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Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
William Quinn
A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Yanis Varoufakis
My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
Charles Fishman
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Evan Osnos
Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. Vintage, 2015.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
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How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Gretchen McCulloch
Understanding the New Rules of Language. Riverhead Book, 2019.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Arnold Thackray
The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. Basic Books, 2015.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
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