global pandemic
description: an epidemic of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population
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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
by bike buses in other cities in Europe, South America, and Australia. But it wasn’t until 2021 that a combination of factors—including the global-pandemic-related “bike boom,” a greater focus on livable cities, growing concerns about climate change, and the ubiquitous nature of social media—turned the bike bus
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number of trips we take in cars, would significantly lengthen our lives and improve the quality of those lives. And we don’t need a global pandemic and a complete shutdown of our society to do it. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen overnight. But we are making
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store one or two cars, a dozen or more people can enjoy a meal. It would have been nice if it hadn’t taken a global pandemic, but just like the passersby who witnessed the first Park(ing) Day, the fish finally saw the water. How Far Is Too Far? The question
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
to the bottom” where artists feel required to accept lower royalties in order to be heard. The letter asserted that “at a time when the global pandemic has devastated incomes for musicians and other performers, without a clear path back to pre-pandemic levels, any plan that could ultimately lead to further
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
it reached a new level of chaos with the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. 2020 was harrowing. The world grappled with a global pandemic, the economy cratered, and the United States erupted in protest after George Floyd’s murder. Against this backdrop, former vice president Joe Biden ran against
Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace · 13 Jan 2026 · 206pp · 68,830 words
unit meant grueling training, dangerous missions, and frequent deployments. Simone quickly faced a truth that would reverberate over the next decade, through two pregnancies, a global pandemic, and multiple deployments: that her needs were secondary, even last, in a system that always put the mission first. “We are a fundamental kind of
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
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
life and are seeking more responsibility. Gen Z’ers are finding their voice and understanding their influence. Polars are overcoming getting their start during a global pandemic, with the potential for strength and resilience born of adversity. Mining data collected across decades gives us a broader and more accurate picture of generational
Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
by Jennifer Carlson · 2 May 2023 · 279pp · 100,877 words
in-depth interviews with a particularly revealing group of conservative Americans: gun sellers, who experienced 2020 as a year of record gun sales amid a global pandemic, anti-racist uprisings and civil unrest, and democratic instability. Listening to gun sellers helps illuminate the broader conservative movement that has shaped their political sensibilities
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Amendment—as a fundamental human right, a natural right that is only protected but not granted by the Constitution—does not get suspended for a global pandemic.” In contrast to California and Michigan gun sellers, gun sellers in Arizona and Florida28 were confident that their respective states would not interfere in their
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they saw as exaggeration, misinformation, and even outright fabrication, they forwarded a different social construction of coronavirus, one that recognized the virus not as a global pandemic threatening widespread death but as a fearsome plot hatched by opportunistic politicians. A few gun sellers were partial to a particular explanation. Eli, a white
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
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
Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
by Henry Nicholls · 1 Mar 2018 · 367pp · 102,188 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
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
Deadly Quiet City: True Stories From Wuhan
by Murong Xuecun · 7 Mar 2023 · 236pp · 73,008 words
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
by Vicky Spratt · 18 May 2022 · 371pp · 122,273 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
How to Survive a Pandemic
by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM · 1,072pp · 237,186 words
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
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
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy
by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright · 23 Aug 2021 · 652pp · 172,428 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
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
by Scott Gottlieb · 20 Sep 2021
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
by Fiona Hill · 4 Oct 2021 · 569pp · 165,510 words
Risk: A User's Guide
by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico · 4 Oct 2021 · 489pp · 106,008 words
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
by Mark Honigsbaum · 8 Apr 2019 · 529pp · 150,263 words
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett · 31 Oct 1994 · 1,293pp · 357,735 words
The Stolen Year
by Anya Kamenetz · 23 Aug 2022 · 347pp · 103,518 words
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates · 2 May 2022 · 406pp · 88,977 words
The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 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
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 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
MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen · 30 Sep 2012 · 669pp · 195,743 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
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 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
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
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
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
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
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
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman · 4 Sep 2023 · 444pp · 117,770 words
Covid by Numbers
by David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters · 28 Oct 2021
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
by Martin Ford · 13 Sep 2021 · 288pp · 86,995 words
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
by Jordan Ellenberg · 14 May 2021 · 665pp · 159,350 words
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
by Toby Ord · 24 Mar 2020 · 513pp · 152,381 words
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett · 15 Feb 2000
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
by Laura Spinney · 31 May 2017
Working Identity, Updated Edition, With a New Preface: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
by Herminia Ibarra · 17 Oct 2023 · 200pp · 67,943 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
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum · 15 Nov 2022 · 349pp · 99,230 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
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
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
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
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
by M. Nolan Gray · 20 Jun 2022 · 252pp · 66,183 words
Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words
Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
by Jeanna Smialek · 27 Feb 2023 · 601pp · 135,202 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
The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
by Ben Shapiro · 26 Jul 2021 · 309pp · 81,243 words
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
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
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
by Francis Fukuyama · 27 Aug 2007
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
by Jeff Goodell · 10 Jul 2023 · 347pp · 108,323 words
Spike: The Virus vs The People - The Inside Story
by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja · 15 Jan 2021 · 245pp · 71,886 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
Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business
by Alan Murray · 15 Dec 2022 · 263pp · 77,786 words
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
by Emily Witt · 16 Sep 2024 · 242pp · 85,783 words
Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years
by Richard Watson · 1 Jan 2008
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
Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere
by Tsedal Neeley · 14 Oct 2021 · 223pp · 60,936 words
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
by Phoebe Robinson · 14 Oct 2021 · 265pp · 93,354 words
The Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out
by Joe Aston · 27 Oct 2024 · 362pp · 130,141 words
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
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by Daniel Yergin · 14 Sep 2020
Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
by Rachel Clarke · 26 Jan 2021 · 199pp · 63,844 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
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
by Michael Lewis · 2 Oct 2023 · 263pp · 92,618 words
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 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
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by Jesselyn Cook · 22 Jul 2024 · 321pp · 95,778 words
The Deepest Map
by Laura Trethewey · 15 May 2023
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 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
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
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
by Duncan Mavin · 20 Jul 2022 · 345pp · 100,989 words
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
by Matthew Cobb · 15 Nov 2022 · 772pp · 150,109 words
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm · 10 May 2010 · 491pp · 131,769 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
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
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
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 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
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone · 10 May 2021 · 569pp · 156,139 words
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
by Steven Radelet · 10 Nov 2015 · 437pp · 115,594 words
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words
Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party
by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 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
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann · 7 Jul 2021 · 337pp · 87,236 words
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
by Fredrik Deboer · 4 Sep 2023 · 211pp · 78,547 words
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson · 14 Sep 2020 · 470pp · 137,882 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
Lonely Planet Wales
by Anna Kaminski;Hugh McNaughtan · 640pp · 160,013 words
Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference
by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
by Lawrence Wright · 7 Jun 2021 · 391pp · 112,312 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
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
by Alec MacGillis · 16 Mar 2021 · 426pp · 136,925 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
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
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee · 10 Mar 2025 · 393pp · 146,371 words
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 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
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
How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
by Dambisa Moyo · 3 May 2021 · 272pp · 76,154 words
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
How to Work Without Losing Your Mind
by Cate Sevilla · 14 Jan 2021
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
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
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 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
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
Vassal State
by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words
The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)
by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 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
Global Catastrophic Risks
by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008
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
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by Premilla Nadasen · 10 Oct 2023 · 288pp · 82,972 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
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words
The Atlas of Disease
by Sandra Hempel · 15 Sep 2018
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 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
The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
by Hubert Joly · 14 Jun 2021 · 265pp · 75,202 words
50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Richard Watson · 5 Nov 2013 · 219pp · 63,495 words
No One Succeeds Alone
by Robert Reffkin · 4 May 2021 · 210pp · 62,278 words
Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline
by Russell Jones · 15 Jan 2023 · 463pp · 140,499 words
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper · 15 Jan 2020 · 285pp · 86,858 words
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt · 10 May 2021 · 291pp · 80,068 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
News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words
Badvertising
by Andrew Simms · 314pp · 81,529 words
Automation and the Future of Work
by Aaron Benanav · 3 Nov 2020 · 175pp · 45,815 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
Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation
by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider · 15 Dec 2024 · 346pp · 84,111 words
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey Sachs · 1 Jan 2008 · 421pp · 125,417 words
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
by Steven Johnson · 18 Oct 2006 · 304pp · 88,773 words
Working Hard, Hardly Working
by Grace Beverley
Open: The Story of Human Progress
by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2020 · 505pp · 138,917 words
Greater: Britain After the Storm
by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis · 19 May 2021 · 516pp · 116,875 words
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
by Rush Doshi · 24 Jun 2021 · 816pp · 191,889 words
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by Alan Weisman · 21 Apr 2025 · 599pp · 149,014 words
Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms and the Corruption of Justice
by David Enrich · 5 Oct 2022 · 373pp · 108,788 words
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 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
Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away
by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders · 13 Jun 2022 · 268pp · 64,786 words
Bad Company
by Megan Greenwell · 18 Apr 2025 · 385pp · 103,818 words
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan · 20 Dec 2010 · 482pp · 117,962 words
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia · 20 Mar 2024 · 336pp · 91,806 words
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
by Bregman, Rutger · 9 Mar 2025 · 181pp · 72,663 words
Wanderers: A Novel
by Chuck Wendig · 1 Jul 2019 · 1,028pp · 267,392 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
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes · 1 Jun 2021 · 342pp · 114,118 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
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
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