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9 Book
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
10 Book

The Biological Mind

How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Alan Jasanoff
Basic Books, 2018
9 Book

For Profit

A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 2022
8 Book

False Alarm

How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg
Basic Books, 2021
9 Book

The New Education

How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
Cathy N. Davidson
Basic Books, 2017
7 Book

The Story Factor

Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Annette Simmons
Basic Books, 2006
8 Book
Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 2005
9 Book

The Happiness Hypothesis

Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books, 2005
8 Book

Red Team

How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy
Micah Zenko
Basic Books, 2015
9 Book

Free Speech

A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Buzz

The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2018
8 Book

Rest

Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Basic Books, 2016
8 Book

The Nowhere Office

Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
Julia Hobsbawm
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Deep Medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2019
8 Book

How We Talk

The Inner Workings of Conversation
N. J. Enfield
Basic Books, 2017
8 Book

The Master Algorithm

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book
Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 1993
10 Book
Robert Axelrod
Basic Books, 2006
8 Book

Emotional Design

Why we love (or hate) everyday things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2005
7 Book

Basic Economics

A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2000
10 Book

Applied Economics

Thinking Beyond Stage One
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2003
8 Book

The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need

Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child
Paul Pearsall
Basic Books, 2005
9 Book

Vanguard

How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
Basic Books, 2020
8 Book

Code

Version 2.0
Lawrence Lessig
Basic Books, 2006