Editor's Choice
Looking for a new book to dive into? Our in-depth reviews cover some of the best new books being released into the world and use those books to gain a better understanding of the world, helping guide where to go—and what to read—next.
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A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug: The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy
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Sarah Lacy takes us on her journey through the patriarchy, and gives us a guide for personal and professional noncompliance with and resistance to it.
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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
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Alice Echols tells the story of her grandfather, It's a Wonderful Life, and a lie at the heart of the American narrative.
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The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth
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Eric Ries has written both a philosophical treatise for a new form of management and an entrepreneurial engineering guide to doing the work on the ground.
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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Scott Galloway tells the story of the four technology companies dominating the economy and world today, providing lessons on each that entertain, inform, and may cause some alarm.
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
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Chip and Dan Heath show us how to make the most of the moments that are presented to us, and how to manufacture more impactful moments for ourselves and others.
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Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing—Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
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W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne are back with a new book about how to implement blue ocean strategies.
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The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation
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John Hope Bryant has been championing financial literacy for at least 25 years, and he has now written a book to deliver the memo directly to you.
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Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
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Jennifer Riel and Roger Martin have written an essential how-to book on integrative thinking.
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The Hacking of the American Mind and a World Without Mind
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The inventions of our age baffle the mind—and their potential affects on us and the world are hard to even wrap our heads around. But with the help of Franklin Foer and Robert Lustig, you’ll be able to do just that.
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
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Tim Harford has written another great economic history that helps reveal how the modern economy came to be, and the benefits and risks associated with invention.
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