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The Best Current Events & Public Affairs Books of 2024
The greatest challenges we face today offer some of our greatest opportunities for growth. We just need the civic imagination and collective will to seize them, to build new things and embrace new approaches. The best Current Events & Public Affairs books of 2024 all addressed that need in some way.
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The 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist
The 40 books on this year's list of best business books provide a bastion against the tide of overwhelm that we all feel, grounding us with clear-eyed practical and practiced ways to do the work that will effectively bring positive change to our own personal and professional spaces and places.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Current Events & Public Affairs
Looking for the year's best Current Events & Public Affairs books? Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher has you, and those books, covered.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher looks at the year's best book in the Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence category.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Management & Workplace Culture
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher takes us inside 2023's best Management & Workplace Culture books.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards Call for Entries
The Porchlight Business Book Awards are now open for entries! And we are doing things a little differently this year.
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Porchlight Book Company's Bestselling Books of 2022
We love reading books, but our main purpose as a company is to get them in the hands of others.
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The 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Shortlist
There isn’t anywhere better to slow down, to dive deeper into things, to learn about and reflect upon the world, than in a book. The best books transcend their time and space, even as they help us define our present moment and put it in context.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Narrative & Biography
Like fiction, narratives and biographies can help us empathize with and even inhabit, for a brief moment in the pages of a book, the mindsets and experiences of other people. It allows us to peek into the lives of individuals, see inside organizations, and visit other places without having to leave our reading chair.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Current Events & Public Affairs
It seems like each and every category of our awards has elements of Current Events & Public Affairs percolating within them, but that doesn't negate the need for a dedicated category. These are the five best books in that space this year.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence
As the books being submitted to our awards have evolved and expanded over the years, we decided it was time to evolve and expand for the name of the Marketing & Sales category.
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Roger Lowenstein has written a brilliant book on the founding of the Federal Reserve that informs and echoes the issues and arguments of today.
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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
A pediatrician reveals the profound impact of climate change on children's health and emphasizes our moral responsibility to safeguard our most vulnerable.
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Hip-Hop Is History
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Questlove helped tell that story at the 2023 Grammys, but that event is just the Introduction to the fuller, more personal history told in his new book on the topic.
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Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even
In her memoir, Nicole Treska reflects on her complex family history, reframing her memories from a source of difficulty to an opportunity for connection.
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The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Robin Reames has written a powerful guide to parsing political rhetoric that looks at how experiments in self-governance have been ended in the past and offers tools for thinking that can help us preserve our own.
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A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest
Charlie J. Stephens' new book explores the inner life of a child finding escape from the harsh realities of life in a small Oregon town in the natural world around them.
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Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
In her deeply personal exploration of grief, Lissa Soep examines how the words left behind by our departed loved ones continue to influence us.
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Slow Noodles is a powerful memoir that illustrates how food can preserve a Cambodian refugee's connection to her past and inspire hope for a better future.
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Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant
Fernanda Eberstadt sheds light on the lives of academics, artists, and activists throughout history, inspiring readers to learn from their stories of love, loss, and resistance.
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Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business—And How to Fix It
If technology has made it easier to work more effectively, why do so many still feel overwhelmed? To uncover the answers, Malissa Clark guides readers through the landscape of modern workaholism.
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis has pronounced capitalism dead. Even if you don’t believe it is worth saving, you’ll probably agree that what has replaced it is even more oppressive. But there may be a means for emancipation in the tools of our current exploitation.
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Tell Me When It's Over
Pediatrician and vaccine expert Paul A. Offit provides an informative and accessible guide to navigating our changed world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand
Despite the book's theme of being misunderstood, I find the sparse text of this graphic novel to make the author's feelings very understandable.
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The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Furthering our understanding of existential issues like human consciousness and free will is increasingly relevant to decisions we make about the existential problems we face. Erik Hoel's new book is a gift that helps us do just that.
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On an Ebbing Seafoam Tide
Alannah Radburn unabashedly shares pieces of herself that others might hide from strangers but that we should be more open about: the overly arduous fight for justice that women endure, the strength it takes to leave a bad relationship, a queer love story without stigma.
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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
Yasmine El Rashidi gives us an update on the situation in Egypt through the lens of the country's hip hop scene.
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Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets
Paula DiPerna writes beautifully about the moral bankruptcy of how value is assigned in our society, and of the sensible, sustainable ways we can flip the script to repair our economics and environment.
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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
Rainesford Stauffer reminds us that it is not enough to be ambitious, and just how harmful personal ambition can be. The question is: what are we ambitious about?
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The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams
"Let's get real or let's not play." Seth Godin's new manifesto for teams is about working well, leading well, and playing well with others.
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The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
"The idea behind this book," writes Felix Salmon, "is that the unexpected isn’t over." A pronouncement like that offers both great hope and caution, and acts as an important reminder.