Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
By Dylan Schleicher
No, capitalism didn't cause this mess. But maybe we can use the many crises we are in as an opportunity to reimagine it so it stops contributing to the problems we face.
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The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
By Dylan Schleicher
Everyone in baseball and in business, an interest in either or in the way we think, should own this book.
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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
By Dylan Schleicher
Valerie Hansen's new book will change the way you view the world of antiquity, and the world of today.
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Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
By Dylan Schleicher
The time we are living through feels extremely weird. Maybe a book on the strengths of being weird can help us through.
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Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
By Dylan Schleicher
Deborah Gruenfeld teaches us how to understand and own the power we have, and to use it more consciously and with intent, so we use it in the service of others instead of defaulting to the instinct we all have to protect ourselves.
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
By Dylan Schleicher
"From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change."
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Great State: China and the World
By Dylan Schleicher
"The book is an epic history of China that I can’t hope to encapsulate in such a brief review, the story of a nation “in international contexts and on global scales.” But the stories Brook tells are those of individuals that played a part in that history, sometimes far outside the borders of the modern
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Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By Dylan Schleicher
"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure."
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Editor's Choice
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
By Dylan Schleicher
"In a revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation, John Farrell takes us inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face."
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Editor's Choice
The Autonomous Revolution
By Dylan Schleicher
William Davidow and Michael Malone ask us to reimagine what Patrick Henry’s proclamation to “Give me liberty or give me death” means at a time when the companies that control the internet also increasingly control the overall economy and our very lives—at a time when “Suddenly commercial enterprises,