Viking Summaries and Reviews

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Hidden Potential
The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam M. Grant
Viking, 2023
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Like, Comment, Subscribe
Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
Mark Bergen
Viking, 2022
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Rationality
What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker
Viking, 2021
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Think Again
The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Adam Grant
Viking, 2021
8 Book

Big Dirty Money
The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
Jennifer Taub
Viking, 2020
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Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
Viking, 2020
8 Book

Human Compatible
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
Viking, 2019
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Antisocial
Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Andrew Marantz
Viking, 2019
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More Than Enough
Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
Elaine Welteroth
Viking, 2019
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Biased
Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD
Viking, 2019
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A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence
How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
Kartik Hosanagar
Viking, 2019
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The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
Viking, 2018
8 Book

Crashed
How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Adam Tooze
Viking, 2018
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Hyperfocus
How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction
Chris Bailey
Viking, 2018
9 Book

Temp
How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
Louis Hyman
Viking, 2018
9 Book

The Ambition Decisions
What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life
Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace
Viking, 2018
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Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
Viking, 2018
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The Glass Universe
How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Dava Sobel
Viking, 2017
8 Book

The Power of Onlyness
Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
Nilofer Merchant
Viking, 2017
7 Book

Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
Viking, 2017
8 Book

The Push
A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
Tommy Caldwell
Viking, 2017
9 Book

The Great Unknown
Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy
Viking, 2017
9 Book

The Inevitable
Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly
Viking, 2016
9 Book

Negotiating the Nonnegotiable
How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts
Daniel Shapiro
Viking, 2016
9 Book

The Mind Club
Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner
Viking, 2016
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Originals
How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant
Viking, 2016
9 Book

The Confidence Game
Why We Fall for It… Every Time
Maria Konnikova
Viking, 2016
8 Book

How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Stephen Witt
Viking, 2015
8 Book

The Powerhouse
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
Steve LeVine
Viking, 2015
8 Book

The Sense of Style
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Steven Pinker
Viking, 2014
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The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Viking, 2014
9 Book

Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
Gerd Gigerenzer
Viking, 2014
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Thanks for the Feedback
The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
Viking, 2014
8 Book

The Up Side of Down
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
Megan McArdle
Viking, 2014
9 Book

Small Move, Big Change
Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently
Caroline L. Arnold
Viking, 2014
8 Book

Blessing the Hands That Feed Us
What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth
Vicki Robin
Viking, 2014
8 Book

Consciousness and the Brain
Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Stanislas Dehaene
Viking, 2014
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Mastery
Robert Greene
Viking, 2013
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The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown
Viking, 2013
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How to Create a Mind
The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil
Viking, 2013
7 Book

Finding Your Element
How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
Viking, 2013
8 Book

Give and Take
A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam Grant
Viking, 2013
9 Book

The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond
Viking, 2012
9 Book

Escape from Camp 14
One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine Harden
Viking, 2012
8 Book

What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Viking, 2010
9 Book

The Audacity to Win
The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
David Plouffe
Viking, 2009
9 Book

Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis – and Lost
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking, 2009
8 Book

Spent
Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Geoffrey Miller
Viking, 2009
9 Book

Uranium
War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Tom Zoellner
Viking, 2009
7 Book

Making It All Work
Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life
David Allen
Viking, 2008
8 Book

Bad Money
Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Kevin Phillips
Viking, 2008
7 Book

A Life Decoded
My Genome: My Life
J. Craig Venter
Viking, 2007
7 Book

Mending the Broken Bond
The 90-Day Answer to Developing a Loving Relationship with Your Child
Frank Lawlis
Viking, 2007
8 Book

The Stuff of Thought
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Viking, 2007
7 Book

How She Does It
How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success
Margaret Heffernan
Viking, 2007
9 Book

The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
Viking, 2006
7 Book

War on the Middle Class
How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back
Lou Dobbs
Viking, 2006
8 Book

Dynasties
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
David S. Landes
Viking, 2006
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The Great Influenza
The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
John Barry
Viking, 2004
8 Book

A Call To Service
My Vision for a Better America
John Kerry
Viking, 2003