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Inside the 2021 Longlist | Big Ideas & New Perspectives

By Gabbi Cisneros

The best Big Ideas & New Perspectives books of the year take a magnifying glass to established expectations, unpacking why those ideas and norms exist, how they impact us all, and the many possible ways to go about changing them.

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Unfear for Wellbeing

By Gaurav Bhatnagar, Mark Minukas

Unfear is not about eliminating fear. The goal is to shift the story we carry within us about fear and to see the opportunity for learning and growth that fear offers us as an individual, a team, and an organization.

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Inside the 2021 Longlist | Narrative & Biography

By Dylan Schleicher

Dylan Schleicher takes a look inside the best books in Narrative & Biography, the most quintessentially human-focused category in a year in which all books seemed more heavily focused on our shared humanity.

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Books to Watch | December 14, 2021

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

By Porchlight

“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times

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Inside the 2021 Longlist | Current Events & Public Affairs

By Dylan Schleicher

Getting up his courage to dive into their anxiety-inducing subjects, Dylan Schleicher examines the best books 2021 had to offer in the Current Events & Public Affairs category.

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The Problems and Promise of Working from Home

By Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Petersen

Right now, our priorities are backward. Instead of changing our lives to make ourselves better workers, we have to change our work to make our lives better.

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Inside the 2021 Longlist | Personal Development & Human Behavior

By Emily Porter

Our Communications & Publicity Manager, Emily Porter, dives into the Personal Development & Human Behavior Longlist selections.

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Books to Watch | December 7, 2021

By Porchlight

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Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

By Porchlight

Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: Modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans.