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News & Opinion
The 2019 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist
By Dylan Schleicher
We are proud to announce the longlist for the 13th annual Porchlight Business Book Awards! These 40 books contain not only ideas that make businesses better, but a reflection of the entire biosphere that business exists within.
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Book Giveaways
Hop, Skip, Go : How the Mobility Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
"Mobility expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world’s cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives."
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Staff Picks
The Sweetest Fruits
By Emily Porter
Emily Porter found the cover of Monique Truong's new book irresistible, and that it contained "the type of writing that makes you want to skip all of your responsibilities in order to ravish the pages until you take in every word."
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ChangeThis
Merit-Based Egalitarianism for a Just Society
By Jonathan Rothwell
"The extreme inequality that exists in the contemporary United States and other countries is not the result of well-functioning markets or vast differences in natural ability. Rather, it results from political inequality and corrupted markets."
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New Releases
Books to Watch | November 12, 2019
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Book Giveaways
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
"From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader—an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager—an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans’ insatiable desire to continually push into new and uncharted territory, from civilization’s earliest days to current
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Editor's Choice
The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Own Your Worth
By Dylan Schleicher
"Women are perceived as either strong and cold or weak and warm. An award-winning journalist and cohost of PBS’s Amanpour and Company examines likeability and empowers readers to reject an outdated image of leadership instead of reinventing themselves."
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ChangeThis
How Money Became Dangerous
By Christopher Varelas, Dan Stone
"As the world of money continues to become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, we understand it less and less. … This is the most important discussion that we are not yet having."
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New Releases
Books to Watch | November 5, 2019
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Book Giveaways
You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life
Written in Neil Pasricha’s trademark high-energy, takeaway-laden style, YOU ARE AWESOME is a 288-page hardcover from Simon & Schuster which offers a smacking takedown of our never-good-enough cell-phone culture and helps us develop resilience.
