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10 Book

The Biological Mind

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

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
Basic Books, 2012
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Robert Axelrod
Basic Books, 2006
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The (Mis)behavior of Markets

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
Basic Books, 2004
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Applied Economics

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

For Profit

A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 2022
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Free Speech

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

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

Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
Jonathan Sacks
Basic Books, 2020
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The Hydrogen Revolution

A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy
Marco Alverà
Basic Books, 2021
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A Traitor to His Species

Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg
Basic Books, 2020
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The Sword and the Shield

The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Peniel E. Joseph
Basic Books, 2020
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Buzz

The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2018
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Beverly Daniel Tatum
Basic Books, 2017
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Deep Medicine

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

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
Basic Books, 2015
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The New Education

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

Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Stuart Ewen
Basic Books, 2001
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Winner Take All

China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World
Dambisa Moyo
Basic Books, 2012
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Too Big to Know

Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
David Weinberger
Basic Books, 2012
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The Cigarette Century

The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Allan M. Brandt
Basic Books, 2007
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The Future of Everything

The Science of Prediction
David Orrell
Basic Books, 2008
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Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
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Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
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The Economic Naturalist

In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
Robert H. Frank
Basic Books, 2007
9 Book
Douglas Hofstadter
Basic Books, 2008
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The Revenge of Gaia

Earth's Climate Crisis & the Fate of Humanity
James Lovelock
Basic Books, 2006
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The Partnership Charter

How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (Or Fix the One You're in)
David Gage
Basic Books, 2004
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The Dark Genius of Wall Street

The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
Edward J. Renehan
Basic Books, 2005
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The Evolution of Desire

Strategies of Human Mating
David M. Buss
Basic Books, 2003
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Samuel G. Freedman
Basic Books, 2006
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The Happiness Hypothesis

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

The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Niall Ferguson
Basic Books, 2003
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Dinesh D'Souza
Basic Books, 2002
9 Book
Alan M. Dershowitz
Basic Books, 2001
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The Mystery of Capital

Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando de Soto
Basic Books, 2000
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
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Oceans of Grain

How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Basic Books, 2022
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The Nowhere Office

Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
Julia Hobsbawm
Basic Books, 2022
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One Nation Under God

How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse
Basic Books, 2015
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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
Basic Books, 2018
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How We Talk

The Inner Workings of Conversation
N. J. Enfield
Basic Books, 2017
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Alone Together

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

Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Basic Books, 2016
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The Gunning of America

Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Pamela Haag
Basic Books, 2016
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The Good Book of Human Nature

An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel
Basic Books, 2016
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Why Information Grows

The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Cesar Hidalgo
Basic Books, 2015
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The Master Algorithm

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
Basic Books, 2015