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Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

2021 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Crown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric with a new afterword

A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Boston Globe Wired Fortune Kirkus Reviews The Guardian Nature On Point

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasing...

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Elements of Journalism / 4th edition

What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

2021 || Paperback || Bill Kovach e.a. || Crown

A timely new edition of the classic journalism text, now featuring updated material on the importance of reporting in the age of media mistrust and fake news and how journalists can use technology to navigate its challenges

More than two decades ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America's most influential newspeople and asked them, "What is journalism for?" Through exhaustive research, surveys, interviews, and public forums, the committee identified the essential el...

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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2024 || Paperback || Rebecca Skloot || Crown

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How Democracies Die

2024 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Crown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."-The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)



WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste



Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Le...

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Shift

Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You

2025 || Paperback || Ethan Kross || Crown

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Hype Machine

How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt

2024 || Paperback || Sinan Aral || Crown

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Uninhabitable Earth

Life After Warming

2024 || Paperback || David Wallace-Wells || Crown

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."-Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon



NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews



It is worse, much wor...

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Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City

2017 || Paperback || Matthew Desmond || Crown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle t...

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Lean Startup

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

2020 || Paperback || Eric Ries || Crown

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog ...