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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

Economic Facts and Fallacies
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

George Washington on Leadership
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

I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter
Basic Books, 2008
6 Book

Letters to a Young Activist
Todd Gitlin
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book

Letters to a Young Conservative
Dinesh D'Souza
Basic Books, 2002
9 Book

Letters to a Young Journalist
Samuel G. Freedman
Basic Books, 2006
9 Book

Letters to a Young Lawyer
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
8 Book

Oceans of Grain
How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Basic Books, 2022
8 Book

Red Team
How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy
Micah Zenko
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

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

Rights from Wrongs
A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights
Alan Dershowitz
Basic Books, 2004
8 Book

Rise of the Robots
Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin Ford
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

Rock, Paper, Scissors
Game Theory in Everyday Life
Len Fisher
Basic Books, 2008
10 Book

The (Mis)behavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
Basic Books, 2004
7 Book

The Battle
How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
Arthur C. Brooks
Basic Books, 2010
8 Book

The Big Ratchet
How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species
Ruth DeFries
Basic Books, 2014
10 Book

The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Alan Jasanoff
Basic Books, 2018
8 Book

The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
Basic Books, 2018
7 Book

The Bottomless Well
The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
Mark P. Mills and Peter W. Huber
Basic Books, 2005
8 Book

The Cash Nexus
Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Niall Ferguson
Basic Books, 2002
8 Book

The China Strategy
Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
Edward Tse
Basic Books, 2010
8 Book

The Choice
Global Domination or Global Leadership
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Basic Books, 2004
9 Book

The Cigarette Century
The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Allan M. Brandt
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

The Climate Fix
What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
Roger Pielke Jr.
Basic Books, 2010
8 Book

The Creation of the Media
Political Origins of Modern Communications
Paul Starr
Basic Books, 2004
9 Book

The Dark Genius of Wall Street
The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
Edward J. Renehan
Basic Books, 2005
9 Book

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
9 Book

The Economic Naturalist
In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
Robert H. Frank
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
Moisés Naím
Basic Books, 2014
8 Book

The Essential Art of War
Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 2005
10 Book

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod
Basic Books, 2006
9 Book

The Evolution of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
David M. Buss
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book

The Future of Everything
The Science of Prediction
David Orrell
Basic Books, 2008
8 Book

The Good Book of Human Nature
An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel
Basic Books, 2016
8 Book

The Gridlock Economy
How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
Michael Heller
Basic Books, 2008
8 Book

The Gunning of America
Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Pamela Haag
Basic Books, 2016
9 Book

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

The Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2009
9 Book

The Hydrogen Revolution
A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy
Marco Alverà
Basic Books, 2021
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
8 Book

The Laws of Disruption
Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age
Larry Downes
Basic Books, 2009
8 Book

The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

The Mature Mind
The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
Gene Cohen
Basic Books, 2007