World Design

99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* *A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY* *OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD* Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez. Imagine a world where... · Your...

The bestselling author of Own Your Everyday and Embrace Your Almost leads you on a journey of health and faith as you pursue wellness as a way to worship God without turning wellness into a god you worship. “In her most profound work to date, Jordan has taken historical biblical truths and...

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing t….

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The...

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. As a successful Harvard and...

Bloomsbury presents… How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds Written and read by Professor Catherine Heymans Could we be living in a computer simulation? How would we even know? In How to Design a Universe, acclaimed astrophysicist Catherine Heymans takes you on a...

The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world and what we choose not to bring into the world.

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, treating men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women.

This book is for a very small percentage of business people. You see, most people in business are not trying to use Category Design to create a new category that changes the future and generates exponential new value. Instead, many people in business are trying to “not get fired.” Many people want to go to work, make a contribution, and go home.

You’ve been lied to about success. Not in the conspiracy-theory, tinfoil-hat way—just in the subtle, slow-drip poison of bad advice, empty ambition, and systems designed to keep you mediocre. Laws of Life is a wake-up call in plain English. No hype or cheerleading, just straight-up truth about what actually works in the real world. Written by someone who’s lived it, lost it, and built it back better, this book delivers 17 no-nonsense principles that will reshape how you approach success, freedom, relationships, money, and meaning. In the All New 2nd Edition The all new second edition ...

The only concise, high-impact handbook you’ll ever need to master system design. The Ultimate System Design Cheatsheet isn’t another 400-page textbook full of theory. It’s a fast, practical, no-fluff guide that distills years of experience, research, and top interview questions into one compact, visual, and easy-to-recall handbook. Whether you’re preparing for FAANG-level interviews, architecting a startup system, or simply trying to understand how large-scale applications actually work — this cheatsheet will give you absolute clarity in record time.

Master industrial automation and ladder logic from scratch to confidently troubleshoot any factory floor. Whether you are commuting to your first job as a maintenance technician or upskilling for a career shift, this empowering audio experience breaks down complex systems. You will step into the...

Master the Art of Designing Modern Software Systems — From Beginner to Expert, with Real-World Examples and Interview Prep. If you’re a beginner just starting out, or a developer preparing for system design interviews, or a senior architect looking to sharpen your knowledge, Modern Software System Design & Architecture is your complete guide to building reliable, scalable, and real-world systems.Who This Book Is For? Newcomers: Learn the fundamentals of reliable and scalable system design with simple, beginner-friendly explanations. Experienced Engineers: Prepare confidently for system ...

Human Design is a blueprint that reveals the unique way you’re designed to move through life; how you make decisions, use your energy, relate to others, and experience the world around you. When you understand your design, things begin to shift. Decisions feel clearer, resistance softens, and life starts to feel more natural and aligned. At first glance, Human Design can seem overwhelming. Charts, symbols, centers, gates, and unfamiliar language can make the system feel more complicated than it really is. But at its core, Human Design is simply a tool for understanding yourself more deeply.

In God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and religion scholar Stephen Prothero argues that persistent attempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlook the distinct problem that each...

From “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live. We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for...

This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people - specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism) - and invites listeners to "build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability".  

What if hell isn't waiting for you after death? What if you're already in it? Miguel A. Segura spent over two decades as a paranormal investigator in Spain — Ouija sessions, EVP recordings, whole nights in the country's most active abandoned and haunted sites. But the evidence that changed everything wasn't hidden in some haunted building. It was sitting in plain sight, in broad daylight, in the ordinary machinery of the world. This book makes one unflinching argument: that the design of reality itself points to a maker who built this place to hurt. Not through faith. Through what you can...