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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.“Erudite, engaging, combative, crusading.” —New York Times Book Review“Words that chill the parental heart… thanks to Mr. Haidt, we can glimpse the true horror of what happened not only in the U.S...Categorized as:
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![Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari]()
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOur ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes...Categorized as:
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![Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery]()
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCharles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time...Categorized as:
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![The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan]()
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon...Categorized as:
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![The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen]()
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators...Categorized as:
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![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner]()
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
![Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright]()
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMeadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global...Categorized as:
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![The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan]()
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going... -
![Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters, Peter Thiel]()
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters, Peter Thiel
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsIf you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things...Categorized as:
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![The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates]()
The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMisogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?We like to believe we’re moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities—they’re deepening them...Categorized as:
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![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
![The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri]()
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming.Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age government, political parties, the media...Categorized as:
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![Connections by James Burke]()
Connections by James Burke
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this bestselling book, James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today. He untangles the pattern of interconnecting events, the accidents of time, circumstance, and place that gave rise to major inventions of the world...Categorized as:
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![Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse]()
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal by Ben Sasse
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.Something is wrong. We all know it.American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn’t just wrong; they’re evil...Categorized as:
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![Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power by Yaakov Katz]()
Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power by Yaakov Katz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe never-before-told inside story of how Israel stopped Syria from becoming a global nuclear nightmare―and its far-reaching implicationsOn September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad. But this time, there was no warning and no explanation... -
![Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 by Michel Foucault]()
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes... -
![The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi]()
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOver the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework... -
![Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik]()
Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president.Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America...Categorized as:
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![Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.]()
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - and how to make it work for your communityIn Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr... -
![QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham]()
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult...Categorized as:
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![Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit]()
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder...Categorized as:
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![Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity by Christopher Ryan, Кристофер Райан]()
Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity by Christopher Ryan, Кристофер Райан
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsProgress, the basic illusion of our age, is exhausted. Kids typically no longer expect their lives to be better than their parents’ were. Dystopian scenarios loom ever larger in public consciousness as fisheries collapse, CO2 levels rise, and clouds of radioactive steam billow from “fail-safe” nuclear plants that failed...Categorized as:
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![Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West]()
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks...Categorized as:
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![Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West]()
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.It's increasingly difficult to know what's true. Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art...Categorized as:
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![How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford]()
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories - we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation - and yet we doubt them more than ever.But numbers - in the right hands - have the power to change the world for the better... -
![Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry]()
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them... -
![No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier]()
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAward-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade. Since its creation in 2010, Instagram’s fun and simple interface has captured our collective imagination, swiftly becoming a way of life...Categorized as:
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![Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner]()
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEveryone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts’ predictions are only slightly better than chance... -
![Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis]()
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics...
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