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Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

By Thomas M Shapiro

From a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how families rise and fall today

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Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity

By Jill Louise Busby

An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack.

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Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency

By Andrew Reiner

A thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men--and all of society--and what we can do to promote a new masculinity that allows men of all ages to thrive.

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By Sam Kean

The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.

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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane

By Samanth Subramanian

One of the Wall Street Journal 's 10 Best Books of 2020 One of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2020 A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World .

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Einstein Was Right: The Science and History of Gravitational Waves

An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves--ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by the movement of large masses--as part of the theory of general relativity. A century later, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed Einstein's prediction, detecting gravitational waves generated by the collision of two black holes.