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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raise...

Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller...

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Published: Apr 2004

Talking to Strangers: What We Should ...

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2019

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir

J. D. Vance

J. D. Vance's grandparents moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild would graduate from Yale ...

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Published: Jun 2016

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the Am...

Matthew Desmond

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • 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 Revie...

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Published: Feb 2017

Connected: The Surprising Power of So...

Nicholas A. Christakis

Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another's tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks form and how they operate.

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Published: Sep 2009

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene

The contemporary companion to Sun-tzu's The Art of War, this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical,...

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Published: Apr 2007

Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twen...

Studs Terkel

"We don't know anything about the past and we don't seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it meaningful, the real repositories of living information, are being lost."—Studs Ter...

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Published: Jan 2009

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fabl...

Thomas Bulfinch

The standard source of classic tales from Greece, Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond, The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes from Bulfinch's Mythology is a vibrant collection of the stories that form our cultural heritage.

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Published: Apr 2011

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

Landmark, groundbreaking, classic — these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that la...

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Published: Feb 2013

Everyday Survival: Why Smart People D...

Laurence Gonzales

Laurence Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the lessons of our evolutionary history to overcom...

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Published: Sep 2008

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: 198...

Doris Lessing

The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.

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Published: Feb 2007

Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell

This is a book about intellectuals written for the lay person. Its purpose is to unravel the world of intellectuals in order to understand an important social phenomenon how the thinkers of our society mold that society, leaving an im...

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Published: Jan 2010

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 a...

Laura Spinney

In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history...

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Published: Sep 2018

Garden of the Lost and Abandoned: The...

Jessica Yu

The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kal...

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Published: Nov 2018

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first ...

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Published: Feb 2015

My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fant...

Nancy Friday

When it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shatteri...

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Published: Jun 1998

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into...

Nicholas D. Kristof

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof...

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Published: Jun 2010

Think Like a Freak CD: The Authors of...

Steven D. Levitt

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifest...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable sugg...

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Published: May 2018

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Cam...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Triple Package: Why Groups Rise a...

Amy Chua

It may be taboo to say, but some groups in America do better than others. Mormons have recently risen to astonishing business success. Cubans in Miami climbed from poverty to prosperity in a generation. Nigerians earn doctorates at ...

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Published: Feb 2014

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing...

Kathryn J. Edin

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 "A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States." —New York Times Book Review"Devastating … A powerful story of the collision...

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Published: Sep 2016

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the D...

Beth Macy

An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York...

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Published: Aug 2019

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?...

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Published: Mar 2016

$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Ri...

Christopher Steiner

Imagine an everyday world in which the price of gasoline (and oil) continues to go up, and up, and up. Think about the immediate impact that would have on our lives.Of course, everybody already knows how about gasoline has affected ou...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2009

I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Str...

Matt Taibbi

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide "[A] searing expose . . . What emerg...

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Published: Jul 2017

Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost o...

Spencer Wells

This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hun...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris

'Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues ...

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Published: Jan 2008

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Cu...

Chuck Klosterman

The author of Fargo Rock City explores a range of modern cultural phenomena, including Internet pornography, tribute bands, baseball rivalries, and reality television, as he explores the role of the media in American life. Reprint. 10...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2006

Mars and Venus in the Bedroom

John Gray

In his #1 INew York Times bestseller IMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray helped men and women develop better communication skills by recognizing that they have different emotional needs. Now he takes them to communicat...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 1999
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