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Puerto Rico: A National History
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He/She/They | An Excerpt from the Narrative & Biography Category
By Schuyler Bailar
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation.
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Life On Other Planets | An Excerpt from the Narrative & Biography Category
By Aomawa Shields
A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Control the Controllable, But Leave Space for the Possible
By Jim Fielding
After a life spent trying to anticipate and control the future, executive Jim Fielding writes about the benefit of embracing unpredictability.
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Blog / New Releases
January 16, 2024
By Porchlight
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Tread Loudly: Call Out the Bullsh*t and Fight for Equality in the Workplace
By Porchlight
Kristine Cherek calls on business leaders to make the changes necessary to level the playing field and invites you to join in the fight for equality.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Current Events & Public Affairs
By Dylan Schleicher
Looking for the year's best Current Events & Public Affairs books? Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher has you, and those books, covered.
Categories: news-opinion
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Containing Big Tech | An Excerpt from the Current Events & Public Affairs Category
By Tom Kemp
This richly detailed book exposes the consequences of Big Tech’s digital surveillance, exploitative use of AI, and monopolistic and anticompetitive practices. By containing the excesses of Big Tech, we will ensure our civil rights are respected and preserved, our economy is competitive, and our democracy is protected.
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These Are the Plunderers | An Excerpt from the Current Events & Public Affairs Category
By Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity in this “masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Christopher Leonard, bestselling author of Kochland )—revealing how it puts our entire economy and us at risk.
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The Coming Wave | An Excerpt from the Current Events & Public Affairs Category
By Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a cofounder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind.
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Number Go Up | An Excerpt from the Current Events & Public Affairs Category
By Zeke Faux
The harrowing, highly entertaining inside chronicle of how FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers convinced the world to send trillions of dollars of real money to buy useless virtual coins.
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