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7 Book

100 Plus

How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Careers, Relationships, Family, and Faith
Sonia Arrison
Basic Books, 2011
7 Book

A Crude Look at the Whole

The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
John H. Miller
Basic Books, 2016
9 Book

A Traitor to His Species

Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg
Basic Books, 2020
8 Book

Alone Together

Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle
Basic Books, 2012
10 Book

Applied Economics

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

Basic Economics

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

Bloodlands

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
Basic Books, 2012
6 Book

Born Digital

Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Urs Gasser and John Palfrey
Basic Books, 2008
9 Book

Buzz

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

Captains of Consciousness

Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Stuart Ewen
Basic Books, 2001
8 Book

Code

Version 2.0
Lawrence Lessig
Basic Books, 2006
8 Book

Commodore

The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Edward J. Renehan Jr.
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

Confronting Iran

The Failure Of American Foreign Policy And The Next Great Conflict In The Middle East
Ali M. Ansari
Basic Books, 2006
9 Book

Deep Medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2019
9 Book
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

Emotional Design

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

Empire

The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Niall Ferguson
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book

Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
Basic Books, 2015
6 Book

Erotic Capital

The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom
Catherine Hakim
Basic Books, 2011
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

For Profit

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

Free Speech

A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
Basic Books, 2022
8 Book
Richard Brookhiser
Basic Books, 2008
8 Book

Getting (More of) What You Want

How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything in Business and in Life
Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

Group Genius

The Creative Power of Collaboration
Keith Sawyer
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

High Wire

The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Peter Gosselin
Basic Books, 2008
Book

How Boards Work

And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
Dambisa Moyo
Basic Books, 2021
8 Book

How We Talk

The Inner Workings of Conversation
N. J. Enfield
Basic Books, 2017
9 Book
Douglas Hofstadter
Basic Books, 2008
6 Book
Todd Gitlin
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book
Dinesh D'Souza
Basic Books, 2002
9 Book
Samuel G. Freedman
Basic Books, 2006
9 Book
Alan M. Dershowitz
Basic Books, 2001
8 Book

Moore’s Law

The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary
Arnold Thackray et al.
Basic Books, 2015
9 Book

Morality

Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
Jonathan Sacks
Basic Books, 2020
8 Book

My Time

Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life
Abigail Trafford
Basic Books, 2003