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Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off....

At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

With the expert guidance of former executive editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy and two upstart companies as they plow through a revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs new media....

For most of human history, the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized and then jealously guarded. This "old power" was out of reach for the vast majority of people. But our ubiquitous connectivity makes possible a different kind of power....

An updated third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword written by Emma Watson and new material written and read by Gloria Steinem....

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and more stable nations....

In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces - large and small - that led him and his family to this place....

In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration - and explains how to live in it....

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

Grounded in Friedman's unmatched grasp of both historical and contemporary trends, The Next 100 Years is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait of the future....

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe....

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day....

The Time Has Come explores how a culture based in toxic masculinity hurts people, how men can become better allies in smashing the patriarchy, and how real gender equality creates advancements in both the workplace and the global economy....

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US....

America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker....

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the landmark Freakonomics, comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the world....