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Society & Politics

From the beginning of 2020, countries worldwide have started taking action to prevent the spread of the novel Coronavirus. In addition to fighting against the disease, U.S. medical experts had to fight against the government’s and the CDC’s denial that COVID-19 poses a threat to American society. ‘’The Premonition’’ reveals what a small group of brilliant, extraordinarily dedicated, and conscientious people could have done to help the country respond to the COVID-19 pandemic better if they had support from the Trump administration and the CDC.

The Premonition

In “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” a classic analysis of how the electronic media have reshaped our world, American educator Neil Postman wonders whether Aldous Huxley’s dystopia from “Brave New World” hasn’t already been realized in our TV-dominated and image-centered culture. Spoiler alert: it has, as television has become a global pleasure drug, and humans have gladly accepted to be oppressed by their addiction to entertainment.

Amusing Ourselves to Death

After the 2008 financial collapse, a large group of people had to give up traditional ‘’stick and brick’’ homes their low-wage jobs could not pay for and move into vans, RVs, and trailers. In ‘’Nomadland,’’ award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder documents the struggles of these people who are traveling from one place to another in pursuit of seasonal jobs and affordable rent.

Nomadland

New products, new technologies. See the future with the eyes of ingenuity.

Technology & Innovation

Did you know that the world adds 51 tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year? To avoid a climate disaster, we need to reduce this amount to zero. Even though this is a daunting task, Bill Gates thinks we can keep climate bearable for everyone and preserve the planet for generations to come. In ‘’How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,’’ he reveals all the work we must do to make this happen.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

In ‘’Blowout,’’ a renowned television news program host, Rachel Maddow, explores the connection between multiple events, such as Oklahoma earthquake swarms, Project Rulison, Michael Jackson's memorabilia auction, and the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. At first glance, these events seem unconnected. However, Maddow reveals their common denominator - the most powerful and the least-well-governed industry in the history of mankind: oil and gas.

Blowout

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Biographies & Memoirs

“A Promised Land” is the first of two planned volumes of memoirs by Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Spanning 768 pages, the book provides an honest account of Obama’s rise to political stardom, from his early years through his successful campaigns and inauguration and all the way to May 2011 and the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden.

A Promised Land

How did we get here? See which ideas shaped the course of history, and how philosophy played a significant role in human evolution.

History & Philosophy

First translated into English in 2016, “Homo Deus” by Yuval Noah Harari is a broad-stroked exploration of how humans evolved to become the planet’s dominant species, and a tentative account of how our future may unfold. As in “Sapiens,” Harari reminds us once again who we are and how we got here, but this time he deals with yet another question: where are we going?

Homo Deus

Jerry Heimans and Henry Timms’ book titled ‘’New Power’’ explores how advancements in technology have changed the power distribution in a contemporary world. In a traditionally governed world, power was available only to the minority. Now, however, every individual has the ability to change things - remember the global movements such as #MeToo and the Ice Bucket Challenge. Heimans and Timms reveal how we can shape our behavior to navigate this new power and achieve desired goals.

New Power

“How to Be an Antiracist” is part memoir, part social commentary, and part manual on how to become an antiracist. Racism is deeply ingrained in societies around the world, and to defy it, it is necessary to do more than passively stand by and watch. You have to become an antiracist and take action yourself!

How to Be an Antiracist

“Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” looks at American society through the lens of caste. Wilkerson convincingly argues how a racially segregated caste system has been established in the U.S. and how it defines the lives of its citizens to this day. She draws shocking parallels to the other two great caste systems in history, the caste system of India and the caste system of Nazi Germany.

Caste

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Emotional Intelligence

Build a solid career, learn how to run your business and inspire other people to do the same.

Career & Business

Robert Greene’s debut book – “The 48 Laws of Power” – is a practical manual for anyone interested in gaining power or arming themselves against it. Drawing from the philosophies of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Baltasar Gracián, and many others, the book doesn’t merely explicate the laws but also illustrates them through real-world historical examples that reveal the consequences of both their observance and violation.

The 48 Laws of Power

Between April 2018 and September 2019, John Bolton served as national security advisor for U.S. President Donald Trump. A detailed chronicle of these 17 months, “The Room Where It Happened” presents an account of Trump’s shady dealings with several foreign leaders, and paints the president as a “not fit for office” ignoramus, willing to put his own interests before those of his country.

The Room Where It Happened

‘’Enlightenment Now’’ by Steven Pinker examines whether our society still acts on the four ideals of the Enlightenment: reason, science, humanism, and progress. As much as it seems that the world is heading toward its end, the situation is more optimistic. People are healthier, less violent, and economic inequalities are shrinking. Our history since the Enlightenment is the history of improvement, and in this book, Steven Pinker proves that it is true.

Enlightenment Now

Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, faced one of the most difficult challenges of his career in 2020: tackling the outbreak of the new coronavirus COVID-19. With an incompetent federal government in charge, it fell to the state to adequately tackle the health crisis. This coincided with a social crisis when the murder of George Floyd revealed the underlying systemic racism of the United States. “American Crisis” shows how Cuomo dealt with these challenges.

American Crisis

Written by former “SNL” writer and former U.S. senator for Minnesota, “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” is an entertaining book that starts as a personal memoir and ends as a political polemic. It offers a glimpse behind the curtain of the drug-fueled “SNL” sketches of the 1980s – and a warning for election season.

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Gandhi is well known all around the world as a freedom fighter, reformist, religious pluralist, and a prophet. Ramachandra Guha presents less known facts about “Gandhi Before India” – what his influences were and what he was like before leading nonviolent revolt against the British colonization of India.

Gandhi Before India

Jared Diamond reveals how both individuals and nations experience crises in similar ways. To prove this, he investigates the past crises of seven modern nations and how they recovered by adopting selective changes. Diamond believes that through these case studies, we can learn not only how a country can overcome a crisis but also the problems the world is facing nowadays.

Upheaval

What great leaders are made of? Learn from the people who have more to offer in the realm of leadership than just words. 

Management & Leadership

Thirty years after women have become 50% of the academic population in the United States, men still occupy the vast majority of leadership positions, both in public and private sectors. That means the feminist voices are still not being heard in an egalitarian manner regarding decisions that affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg, the most powerful woman on Facebook and one of the 50 most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes magazine, explores the main motives by which this distortion still occurs and offers practical tips for women who want to use their potential to conquer the world.

Lean In

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Economics

Iconoclastic and groundbreaking, “Antifragile” is the fourth book in Nassim Taleb’s five-volume philosophical essay on uncertainty titled “Incerto.” Offering a solution to the problems presented in “The Black Swan,” the book proposes that things and systems be built in an antifragile manner – to thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness and disorder. That way, rather than catching them off guard, crises and catastrophes will perfect them.

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