global pandemic Concepts

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive With Enough

by Michael Easter · 25 Sep 2023 · 318pp · 95,383 words

, news, chats with co-workers, walks in the neighborhood, and so much more. They can be direct and all encompassing, like a sagging economy or global pandemic. Or they can be subtle and slight, like our neighbor buying a shiny new car. Our reaction to scarcity isn’t anything new. It’s

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

by Roxanne Khamsi; · 21 Apr 2026 · 335pp · 91,958 words

an outbreak of disease in the local community and—as we have seen with AIDS and Covid—in some instances alter the trajectory of a global pandemic. The final chapter of this book takes a hard look at how all the mutations accumulating within us through the years shape how we age

After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People

by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso · 7 Jul 2025 · 264pp · 96,174 words

to action. Maybe you feel that way, too. Yes, wildfires, floods, droughts, and other climate-caused catastrophes are already getting worse. Yes, there was a global pandemic and there are deaths of despair and addiction. Yes, even as poverty has declined, there’s still a lot of it. Yes, our rich world

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birth control pill and, 127 early-life nutrition and, 96–97 formula for an oral rehydration solution, 123, 141 gene therapies for congenital blindness, 106 global pandemic and, 112 infant mortality and neonatal care, 103–4 innovations in medical technology, 106, 119, 121–22, 123 IVF and infertility, 189–91 Kangaroo Mother

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-And What We Can Do About It

by Jennifer Breheny Wallace · 21 Aug 2023 · 309pp · 86,747 words

it all flows, writing really is a dream. But, other times, when the ideas won’t gel, when you’re in the middle of a global pandemic, that dream can feel more like a nightmare. Forever I will be grateful to the editors Kate Rodemann and Gareth Cook, who entered my life

The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

by Ben Mezrich · 6 Sep 2021 · 239pp · 74,845 words

part of something great, of the little guys sticking it to the elite. Sticking it to the fat cats who were making fortunes off a global pandemic, while people died and even more lost their jobs. She really and truly wanted to be involved. And this would be her thing, hers alone

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023

off by The Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein) was “liked” seventy-one thousand times. Wolf’s fortunes changed markedly in March 2021, one year after the global pandemic was first declared. This is the start of the After Bannon era. In this period, Wolf both shifted and honed her Covid message, zeroing in

Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency

by Vicky Spratt · 18 May 2022 · 371pp · 122,273 words

research. When I began, Britain had just voted to leave the European Union and was embarking on the process of Brexit. As I finished, a global pandemic spread, making people’s homes into a frontline defence amid a major public health crisis and, in doing so, revealed that home was not a

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renters whose finances were damaged. That is how Anthony – like many others – found himself caught in the crosshairs of two social and economic disasters: a global pandemic and a housing emergency. If you do not own your own home in Britain, precarity is a fact of life. It comes in the form

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peace. We all need somewhere affordable to live, but it is our collective home – the state – which should provide for all eventualities. It took a global pandemic to remind us that human society is a delicate ecosystem: overcrowding spreads disease, bad housing makes people sick. Similarly, the slightest temperature rise in one

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, while no less or more important, is less emotive and inspires less political goodwill than rough sleeping, which is visible and visceral, particularly during a global pandemic. When it came to private renting, the response was, indeed, scandalous. The initial emergency coronavirus legislation didn’t have a section on the eviction of

Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis

by Dr Dominic Pimenta · 2 Sep 2020 · 304pp · 95,306 words

while we could physically see our own future coming down the line, just two weeks ahead of us in Italy. It was obvious then that global pandemic was inevitable, and yet we weren’t reacting. That evening I wrote some of these thoughts down, at first as a thought experiment. Later, I

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changes. It occurs to me then, puffing in my running gear and looking at the collective journalism of our country spread before me, that a global pandemic is now inevitable. At least the tone of the conversation has changed – there is some realization of the scale of this disaster – but it is

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to live in our attic, and to stop working at the spin studio and focus on your music?” “Yes.” “And all it took was a global pandemic.” Beck laughs, and rings off. In the midst of the chaos it’s a cheering thought, to know that Dilsan and Beck will be together

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services, was not an inevitable consequence of global recession, and some would argue was in fact the opposite of traditional economic theory. Death from a global pandemic of a deadly virus is immutable – there is little anyone can do to avoid this once you are infected. So to mitigate loss of life

Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity

by Claudia Goldin · 11 Oct 2021 · 445pp · 122,877 words

my work more relevant and taught me to appreciate poetry. We each went through difficult times over the past nine months—the anxiety of a global pandemic, the death of my mother, the mental illness of a good friend, the toxic soot-filled air that greeted Domenica in California after she fled

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words

and yet malign global trend of the internet era. But it was the third that propelled ideas QAnon had taken on into the stratosphere – a global pandemic, begun in China, which damaged Donald Trump’s electability and saw Joe Biden enter the White House was just the breakthrough any conspiracy theory needed

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connection to a particular public health issue, they will find it. On a basic level, Bill Gates had publicly warned about the risk of a global pandemic long before Covid-19 happened. At the Munich Security Conference in February 2017, Gates said: Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at

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vaccine hesitant said they believed Q.69 The digital pandemic had, beyond the point of doubt, become part of a real-world global health emergency. Global pandemic, global radicalisation The levels of oddness and denial among those who come to regularly stage anti-lockdown or anti-vaccine protests can be truly surreal

The Stolen Year

by Anya Kamenetz · 23 Aug 2022 · 347pp · 103,518 words

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It

by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris · 10 Jul 2023 · 338pp · 104,815 words

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

by J. Craig Venter · 16 Oct 2013 · 285pp · 78,180 words

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words

Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

by Andrew Yang · 15 Nov 2021

Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

by Martin Ford · 13 Sep 2021 · 288pp · 86,995 words

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

by Lawrence Wright · 7 Jun 2021 · 391pp · 112,312 words

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman · 4 Sep 2023 · 444pp · 117,770 words

Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice

by Jamie K. McCallum · 15 Nov 2022 · 349pp · 99,230 words

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright · 23 Aug 2021 · 652pp · 172,428 words

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

by Fiona Hill · 4 Oct 2021 · 569pp · 165,510 words

The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation

by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words

Risk: A User's Guide

by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico · 4 Oct 2021 · 489pp · 106,008 words

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

by Scott Gottlieb · 20 Sep 2021

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

by Mark Honigsbaum · 8 Apr 2019 · 529pp · 150,263 words

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

by Cate Sevilla · 14 Jan 2021

Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business

by Alan Murray · 15 Dec 2022 · 263pp · 77,786 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

by M. Nolan Gray · 20 Jun 2022 · 252pp · 66,183 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen · 30 Sep 2012 · 669pp · 195,743 words

Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

by Oliver Franklin-Wallis · 21 Jun 2023 · 309pp · 121,279 words

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

by Jennifer Carlson · 2 May 2023 · 279pp · 100,877 words

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

by Jeff Goodell · 10 Jul 2023 · 347pp · 108,323 words

Escape From Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

by Erica Thompson · 6 Dec 2022 · 250pp · 79,360 words

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims · 13 Sep 2021 · 385pp · 112,842 words

Nothing but Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons From One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts

by Mark Mahaney · 9 Nov 2021 · 311pp · 90,172 words

Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night

by Henry Nicholls · 1 Mar 2018 · 367pp · 102,188 words

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord · 24 Mar 2020 · 513pp · 152,381 words

What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View

by William MacAskill · 31 Aug 2022 · 451pp · 125,201 words

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

by Mark Bergen · 5 Sep 2022 · 642pp · 141,888 words

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar · 6 Sep 2021 · 447pp · 111,991 words

Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years

by Richard Watson · 1 Jan 2008

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

by Laura Spinney · 31 May 2017

Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

by Nancy Jo Sales · 17 May 2021 · 445pp · 135,648 words

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

by J. David McSwane · 11 Apr 2022 · 368pp · 102,379 words

Covid by Numbers

by David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters · 28 Oct 2021

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro · 26 Jul 2021 · 309pp · 81,243 words

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words

Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic

by Rachel Clarke · 26 Jan 2021 · 199pp · 63,844 words

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund · 2 Apr 2018 · 288pp · 85,073 words

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

by Bill Gates · 2 May 2022 · 406pp · 88,977 words

Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---And Prevented Economic Disaster

by Nick Timiraos · 1 Mar 2022 · 357pp · 107,984 words

The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump · 13 Jul 2020 · 269pp · 72,752 words

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 words

The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal

by Duncan Mavin · 20 Jul 2022 · 345pp · 100,989 words

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

by Michael Lewis · 2 Oct 2023 · 263pp · 92,618 words

The Deepest Map

by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

by Matthew Cobb · 15 Nov 2022 · 772pp · 150,109 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett · 31 Oct 1994 · 1,293pp · 357,735 words

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

by Jordan Ellenberg · 14 May 2021 · 665pp · 159,350 words

Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic

by Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin · 14 Jul 2022 · 244pp · 78,238 words

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 words

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It

by Matthew Williams · 23 Mar 2021 · 592pp · 125,186 words

Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere

by Tsedal Neeley · 14 Oct 2021 · 223pp · 60,936 words

Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski · 18 Apr 2022 · 414pp · 117,581 words

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words

Working Hard, Hardly Working

by Grace Beverley

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

by Phoebe Robinson · 14 Oct 2021 · 265pp · 93,354 words

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again

by Richard Horton · 31 May 2020 · 106pp · 33,210 words

How to Survive a Pandemic

by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM · 1,072pp · 237,186 words

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words

Working Identity, Updated Edition, With a New Preface: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

by Herminia Ibarra · 17 Oct 2023 · 200pp · 67,943 words

A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are

by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe · 8 Apr 2021 · 218pp · 62,621 words

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made

by Ben Rhodes · 1 Jun 2021 · 342pp · 114,118 words

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 16 May 2023 · 302pp · 112,390 words

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

by Fredrik Deboer · 4 Sep 2023 · 211pp · 78,547 words

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

by Jennifer Pahlka · 12 Jun 2023 · 288pp · 96,204 words

Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

by Mo Gawdat · 29 Sep 2021 · 259pp · 84,261 words

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't

by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words

The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It

by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan · 15 Mar 2014 · 414pp · 101,285 words

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

by Laurie Garrett · 15 Feb 2000

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following

by Gabrielle Bluestone · 5 Apr 2021 · 329pp · 100,162 words

Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus

by Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green · 7 Jul 2021 · 296pp · 96,568 words

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal · 22 Mar 2022 · 420pp · 135,569 words

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

by Rachel Slade · 9 Jan 2024 · 392pp · 106,044 words

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words

The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out

by Joe Aston · 27 Oct 2024 · 362pp · 130,141 words

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

by Emily Witt · 16 Sep 2024 · 242pp · 85,783 words

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

by Alex von Tunzelmann · 7 Jul 2021 · 337pp · 87,236 words

10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

by Alanna Collen · 4 May 2015 · 372pp · 111,573 words

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Steven Radelet · 10 Nov 2015 · 437pp · 115,594 words

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral · 14 Sep 2020 · 475pp · 134,707 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen · 10 Oct 2023 · 288pp · 82,972 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

by Nicholas A. Christakis · 27 Oct 2020 · 475pp · 127,389 words

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle With Coronavirus

by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott · 18 Mar 2021 · 432pp · 143,491 words

This Book Could Fix Your Life: The Science of Self Help

by New Scientist and Helen Thomson · 7 Jan 2021 · 442pp · 85,640 words

The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

by Grace Blakeley · 14 Oct 2020 · 82pp · 24,150 words

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 1 Sep 2020 · 134pp · 41,085 words

Deadly Quiet City: True Stories From Wuhan

by Murong Xuecun · 7 Mar 2023 · 236pp · 73,008 words

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

by Jesselyn Cook · 22 Jul 2024 · 321pp · 95,778 words

Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz · 8 Jul 2024 · 259pp · 89,637 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words

Vassal State

by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words

Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity With a Neurodiverse Workforce

by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith · 2 Aug 2021 · 424pp · 114,820 words

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

by Alec MacGillis · 16 Mar 2021 · 426pp · 136,925 words

Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics

by Francis Fukuyama · 27 Aug 2007

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

by Walter Scheidel · 17 Jan 2017 · 775pp · 208,604 words

The Atlas of Disease

by Sandra Hempel · 15 Sep 2018

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone · 10 May 2021 · 569pp · 156,139 words

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm · 10 May 2010 · 491pp · 131,769 words

No One Succeeds Alone

by Robert Reffkin · 4 May 2021 · 210pp · 62,278 words

Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis

by Jeanna Smialek · 27 Feb 2023 · 601pp · 135,202 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper · 15 Jan 2020 · 285pp · 86,858 words

Spike: The Virus vs The People - The Inside Story

by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja · 15 Jan 2021 · 245pp · 71,886 words

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words

The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline

by Russell Jones · 15 Jan 2023 · 463pp · 140,499 words

In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us

by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee · 10 Mar 2025 · 393pp · 146,371 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 words

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe · 3 Oct 2022 · 689pp · 134,457 words

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

by Bill Gates · 16 Feb 2021 · 314pp · 75,678 words

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008

The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

by Rush Doshi · 24 Jun 2021 · 816pp · 191,889 words

Greater: Britain After the Storm

by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis · 19 May 2021 · 516pp · 116,875 words

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav · 3 Nov 2020 · 175pp · 45,815 words

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words

Lonely Planet Wales

by Anna Kaminski;Hugh McNaughtan · 640pp · 160,013 words

Badvertising

by Andrew Simms · 314pp · 81,529 words

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 words

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

by Hawon Jung · 21 Mar 2023 · 401pp · 112,589 words

Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

by Thomas Chatterton Williams · 4 Aug 2025 · 242pp · 76,315 words

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words

The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran · 14 Jul 2021 · 326pp · 91,532 words

Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul

by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021

Open: The Story of Human Progress

by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2020 · 505pp · 138,917 words

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

by Daniel Yergin · 14 Sep 2020

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words

Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms and the Corruption of Justice

by David Enrich · 5 Oct 2022 · 373pp · 108,788 words

Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away

by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders · 13 Jun 2022 · 268pp · 64,786 words

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

by Dambisa Moyo · 3 May 2021 · 272pp · 76,154 words

Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader

by Colin Lancaster · 3 May 2021 · 245pp · 75,397 words

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer · 13 Jul 2020 · 372pp · 101,678 words

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (In a Big Way)

by Roma Agrawal · 2 Mar 2023 · 290pp · 80,461 words

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen · 24 Feb 2022

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words

Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers

by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs · 1 Jan 2008 · 421pp · 125,417 words

Wanderers: A Novel

by Chuck Wendig · 1 Jul 2019 · 1,028pp · 267,392 words

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

by Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett · 28 Jun 2021 · 225pp · 70,590 words

Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Want (And Why They Were Never Going To)

by Chris Grey · 22 Jun 2021 · 334pp · 91,722 words

Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics

by David Reed · 31 Aug 2021 · 168pp · 49,067 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang · 12 Jul 2021 · 372pp · 100,947 words

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

by Yascha Mounk · 19 Apr 2022 · 442pp · 112,155 words

Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin · 7 Nov 2023 · 348pp · 110,533 words

Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

by Johann Hari · 7 May 2024 · 315pp · 98,972 words

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature

by Beth Shapiro · 15 Dec 2021 · 338pp · 105,112 words

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words

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