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Would you be willing to engage with me in a thought experiment?
Take your book collection. Try to categorize your books by academic discipline. (To make this doable, let’s stick with our nonfiction books).
Does your book collection a liberal arts curriculum make?
I tried this experiment with my Audible audiobook collection. The last 7 years of my life have been my audiobook years. I’ve listened to lots of audiobooks - and a record of my reading is preserved on Audible.com
Figuring out how to categorize my audiobooks by academic discipline proved surprisingly difficult. Sociology / Anthropology became somewhat of a catchall category. Many of my books are cross-disciplinary. Some books don’t fit into academic disciplines at all - they are undisciplined.
Still, it was fun to go through 7 years of book listening. I love these books. Taken together, these books have built my understanding of the world.
Do I have enough books, and the right books, to construct an education around?
My sense is that this would be an impoverished education in the extreme.
Mostly, I’m struck by how limited the knowledge that is represented in my audiobook collection.
The social sciences over-represented, the arts and the humanities (as well as most of the life and physical sciences) go begging.
The lack of intellectual diversity as represented in my audiobook collection is frankly depressing.
Perhaps we read what we like, and like what we know.
I invite you to join me in this exercise. We promise not to judge (too harshly).
Business:
The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything
The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
The Search: How Google & Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed Our Culture
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
Working With You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work
The Wal-Mart Effect
DisneyWar
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual
The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Leading Change
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
Rework
Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed
Steve Jobs
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation
Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data - Lifeblood of Big Business - and the End of Privacy as We Know It
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
Meatball Sundae
Economics:
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich
Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics
The Industries of the Future
Big Picture Economics: How to Navigate the New Global Economy
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Why We Work
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run - or Ruin - an Economy
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters, and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
Who Gets What - And Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century
The Haves and the Have Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
SuperFreakonomics
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
The New American Workplace
Zillow Talk: Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate
On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World
Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
The Big Con: How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
Discover Your Inner Economist
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Crunch
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
FREE: The Future of a Radical Price
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
The High-beta Rich: How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust
Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent
End This Depression Now!
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society
The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
A History of Future Cities
Unleashing the Second American Century: Four Forces for Economic Dominance
The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies
History:
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Time Travel: A History
How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
One Summer: America, 1927
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Paper: Paging Through History
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
The Untold History of the Potato
An Edible History of Humanity
The Invention of Air
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The Wordy Shipmates
Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
America, 1908: The Making of a Modern Nation
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Alexander Hamilton
How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
A Thread Across the Ocean
1776
The Devil in the White City
Undaunted Courage
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Library: An Unquiet History
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Noble Obsession: The Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the 19th Century
The Age of Napoleon
The Age of Shakespeare
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
The Americas: A Hemispheric History
People and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
The Triumph of the West: The Origin, Rise, and Legacy of Western Civilization
The Immortal Game
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
The Evolution of God
The Illustrious Dead: Napoleon, Typhus, and the Dream of World Conquest
The American Future: A History
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
Hamburger: A History
The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Why the West Rules - for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Unfamiliar Fishes
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Civilization: The West and the Rest
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Political Science:
This Brave New World: India, China and the United States
The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America's Gilded Capital
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Holy Cow!: An Indian Adventure
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
China, Inc.
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
The Places in Between
Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World
Brazillionaires
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us
Ask a Mexican
Spook Country
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Social Security Works!: Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
The Gamble
A Brief History of France: Brief Histories
France on the Brink, Second Edition
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
Travels in Siberia
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Made in Britain: How the Nation Earns Its Living
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan
Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges, and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Double Down: Game Change 2012
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West
Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Behavioral Economics:
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Blindspot
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes
Influence: Science and Practice
Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death
The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue (Plus Baconomics, Superfoods, and Other Secrets from the World of Food Trends)
You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Stumbling on Happiness
Mommies Who Drink: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Impulse Factor: The Hidden Force Behind the Choices We Make
Why We Make Mistakes
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
How We Decide
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Brains, and Behavior---The Science Behind Sex, Love and Attraction
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Should Not - and Put Ourselves in Great Danger
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Teacher Man
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
On Intelligence
The Female Brain
Super Crunchers
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Click: The Magic of Instant Connections
The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind
Why We Buy
The Art of Choosing
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits
Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer
The Man Who Lied to his Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
Imagine: How Creativity Works
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love
Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Science and Technology
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
What Technology Wants
The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
The World Without Us
Why Do Men Have Nipples?
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
The Ghost Map
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
The Demon Under The Microscope
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Animals Make Us Human
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
What's a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization
Sociology / Anthropology:
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
Higher Education in America
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable
Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
The Great Acceleration
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover from Great Success
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the New Innovation Era
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaste
The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization
Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - The Lessons from a New Science
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got From the Affluent Society to the Home Office
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few
The Ape in the Corner Office: Understanding the Workplace Beast in All of Us
The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
The City of Falling Angels
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
A Death in Belmont
Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
The Real Animal House
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Heat
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes
Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
The Numerati
Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
A Few Seconds of Panic: A 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
Hella Nation
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
Good Book: Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How It Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Keep the Change: A Clueless Tipper's Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity
The Italians
The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
American Desperado: My Life - From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset
Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future - and Locked Us In
Detroit: A Biography
Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger
Overbooked
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
Full Upright and Locked Position: Not-So-Comfortable Truths About Air Travel Today
Back of the House: The Secret Life of a Restaurant
Detroit: An American Autopsy
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact
Scribe: My Life in Sports
A Burglar's Guide to the City
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
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