Book Giveaways

Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Zoe Chance shows us that, used intelligently, influence is like a superpower that brings great ideas to life.

Editor's Choice

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

By Dylan Schleicher

Sofi Thanhauser has compiled a social history of five materials—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—explaining not only how we have shaped them, but how they have shaped us.

Staff Picks

Olga Dies Dreaming

By Gabbi Cisneros

Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel is as much romantic comedy as it is a search for a balanced personal and political manifesto.

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Reimagining Capitalism and Activism

By Tom C. W. Lin

The Capitalist and the Activist is an attempt to put into words the larger story of activism, capitalism, and social change unfolding around us. It is a hopeful story of promises and perils. It is a story that we all share and can all shape together.

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Books to Watch | January 25, 2022

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How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food—from where it’s grown to how we buy it—is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior.

Editor's Choice

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By Dylan Schleicher

Peter Goodman takes a close look at the robber barons of the modern era, explaining how they have grabbed the gains of globalization and profited off the pandemic, undermined working people, economic stability, and even our very democracy in the process.

ChangeThis

Ethical Issues & Automation

By Bhaskar Ghosh, Rajendra Prasad, Gayathri Pallail

In today’s world, AI algorithms are being applied to highly sensitive territory. AI systems of the future cannot remain opaque if they have to garner trust from their human users.

Staff Picks

How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel

By Emily Porter

Beginning in 2030 and spanning generations beyond, Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark tells the story of humanity trying to live in a world desecrated by an Arctic plague that spreads through contaminated water, changing the world as we know it.

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Books to Watch | January 18, 2022