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Staff Picks
Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
By Dylan Schleicher
If you know and love the story of the Allies cracking the Nazi's Enigma Machine, you're going to want to know the story of what came next—the Tunny, the Colossus, and an intelligence operation that laid the foundation for artificial intelligence.
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Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win
By Dylan Schleicher
Most of us feel like we’re getting ripped off by the current healthcare system, and that there is little to nothing we can do about it. The first part of that is true; the second part is not.
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Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
By Emily Porter
Judith Heumann’s story, like so many others, shows us the power of speaking up and the power of community.
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You Should See Me in a Crown
By Lauren Kohlenberg
Don't discredit it as just another YA romance meet-cute: this book has the ability to start conversations and help people feel seen no matter their age.
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The Hollywood Spiral
By Gabbi Cisneros
After a year of spending most of the time in front of digital devices, near-future world of Paul Neilan's new book feels even more present.
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
By Gabbi Cisneros
However many issues the former CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns, has encountered and sees in the world, she is also justly proud of all she accomplished at the top of the business world and is hopeful for a more moral, diverse, and humancentric business mindset in America.
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The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
By Dylan Schleicher
Does the information and data we’ve accumulated and carry with us as a species belong to us, or do we belong to it?
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Animal
By Emily Porter
Weaving through the pages of this woman's life, you begin to understand how Joan came to be—maybe how any woman could come to be Joan.
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By Gabbi Cisneros
Historically, women have been defined by their biology, namely their uterus and ability to bear children. Elinor Cleghorn's new book argues for medicine to look beyond biological evidence and communicate with and listen to those who know women’s bodies best: women themselves.
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The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
By Dylan Schleicher
One of the most overlooked discoveries in all the advancements we've made in understanding how the brain functions in recent decades is that it has its limits. Science journalist Annie Murphy Paul helps us overcome some of those limits by teaching us how our cognition extends into our bodies, our environment,
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