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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2025 NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 “A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for...

They built France. They were feared for it. Then they were forgotten. Before pizza became a symbol of familiarity, before Italian names blended seamlessly into French life, Italians were the most unwanted migrants in France. They were accused of taking jobs, lowering wages, spreading crime, and threatening national identity. They were essential. And they were feared. The Italians: From Unwanted Migrants to Invisible Citizens tells the untold story of how millions of Italian men and women transformed France—while being rejected by it. From rural collapse in Italy to backbreaking labor in ...

Why does a city that spends more on housing, healthcare, and social programs than almost anywhere else feel less fair, less safe, and more divided every year? This book argues that the problem is not lack of compassion - it is illusion. New York’s policies are built on a comforting belief: that generosity alone produces fairness. But generosity without structure does not create stability. It creates dependency, randomness, and resentment - while insulating failure from correction. Drawing on lived experience under Eastern European socialism, and decades of work in capitalist systems in ...

Unlock the future of education with "Rewriting the Rules of Learning," a groundbreaking exploration into innovative teaching strategies and transformative educational practices. This compelling guide challenges traditional classroom norms, inviting educators, parents, and policymakers to embark on a journey of discovery and change. Through vivid case studies and expert insights, the book reveals how to cultivate curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in learners of all ages.

We interact with the financial system every day, whether taking out or paying off loans, making insurance claims, or simply depositing money into our bank accounts. Fixed exposes how this system has been corrupted to serve the interests of financial services providers and their cleverest customers—at the expense of ordinary people.

Digital Liberty explores the imminent convergence of three pivotal themes: data, artificial intelligence, and society’s intricate social graph, and warns of a looming crisis that threatens to challenge the very foundations of liberal democracies. Two distinct paths unfurl–a dystopian trajectory marked by surging inequality, globalized elites, and societal unrest, and a utopian alternative rooted in adapting to this impending crisis.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred...

"May prove to be the most important book of our time.”—Tim Urban, Wait But Why The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity. In 2023...

An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Young Forever, uncover the powerful web of corporate interests that are hijacking our food, our health—and our future. “A roadmap to reclaiming our vitality.” —from the foreword by Dr. Casey Means, author of Good Energy This is not a diet...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 A Forbes Best True Crime Book of 2025 “Probably the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book I’ve read in months.” —David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times “Propulsive.” —The Washington Post “Engrossing...

In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling...

Project 2030 is more than a book—it’s a blueprint for transformation. At a time when racial wealth gaps are widening, health inequities persist, and democracy itself feels fragile, Sean T. Long and a team of visionary co-authors deliver a bold, actionable plan to move Black America from survival to power. Built on six interconnected pillars—Economic Empowerment, Educational Equity, Health Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Political Empowerment, and Technological Equity—Project 2030 lays out the structural changes, policies, and cultural shifts necessary to build lasting progress.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time...

The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in finding someone doing an interesting job for the government and writing about them.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Advance copies of Ray Dalio’s new book about how countries go broke have become a hot read in Washington.” —The New York Times “This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”...

Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science communicator pulls back the curtain on medicine and medical research, revealing how progress is made—and how to rebuild trust between doctors and patients​: "A brilliant step toward patients and...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The...