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Adam Grant delves into the critical practice of questioning our beliefs and embracing intellectual humility to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. The book underscores the transformative power of rethinking and unlearning for achieving both personal and professional success.

In "Supercommunicators," Charles Duhigg provides valuable insights and practical strategies for fostering meaningful connections and effective communication in various contexts, highlighting the transformative power of empathy, active listening, and understanding.

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." But when her brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, she decided to try a new kind of life.

Through a series of stories, Malcolm Gladwell offers a provocative look at the dark side of social contagion. He explores how ideas spread, why they tip, and what that means for society—from crime and education to public health and race relations.

David Brooks explores why so many people feel unseen and misunderstood—and how we can change that. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and everyday life, he shows how to listen better, ask deeper questions, and make others feel valued. This book is a hopeful, practical roadmap to building stronger relationships and a more compassionate society.

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Lythcott-Haims draws on research, conversations with educators and employers, and her own insights as a mother and student dean to highlight the ways in which over-parenting harms children and their stressed-out parents.

Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us.

This collection of ten true stories exposes the lives of innocent Americans who were wrongfully convicted, forcing them to sacrifice years of freedom to prison. The narratives detail the dramatic battles for exoneration and closely examine the systemic failures—including racism, misconduct, and flawed testimony—that lead to and perpetuate these unjust convictions.

The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances.

An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America.Eustace's utterly absorbing account provides a new understanding of Indigenous forms of justice, with lessons for our era.

When Helen Macdonald’s father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she’d never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef , but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.

This book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal.

A gripping genetic detective story, and a meditation on the meaning of parenthood and family. It raises profound questions about the quandaries and responsibilities engendered by our newfound ability to know what—and whom—we are made of.

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in New Orleans. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child.

The internationally renowned writer speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off.

After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, a lawyer and a mother of two chronicles her life.

The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War.