Every season, the Next Big Idea Club editorial staff reviews dozens of upcoming books to identify the most exciting, must-read nonfiction titles. We start with a broad pool of nominees, and then share them with our curators—Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Malcolm Gladwell—to identify a small handful finalists and, ultimately, two official season selections.
Today, we’re excited to share our list of nominees for Fall 2021. Neither our staff nor our curators have read each and every title below, but we believe that the two best nonfiction books of the season are among them. So if you’re looking for some exciting new reading, the nominees are…
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. View on Amazon
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
By Dr. Lisa Miller
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience—from a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning researcher. View on Amazon
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By Elsa Panciroli
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
The story of our most ancient of ancestors: mammals. This book reframes the narrative of mammal evolution, and proves they weren’t just precursors—they were pioneers. View on Amazon
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being
By Rob Cross
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
A plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being. View on Amazon
Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact
By Jenn Lim
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
The co-founder and CEO of Delivering Happiness updates the Delivering Happiness model for our new abnormal, showing organizations of every kind how to cultivate a culture that can adapt to change, be highly profitable, and support all its people. View on Amazon
Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition
By Natalie Franke
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
This fresh, inspiring call to community and connection from an entrepreneur and leader is perfect for anyone feeling alone and ready to set off on a journey to true belonging. View on Amazon
Business Doing Good: Engaging Women and Elevating Communities
By Shannon Deer and Cheryl Miller
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Business Doing Good outlines six principles that business leaders can implement to hire women who have experienced incarceration, poverty, addiction, and/or engagement in the sex trade. If we are going to end poverty and create economic development, women who have overcome challenging pasts cannot be excluded. View on Amazon
Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success
By Cassandra Worthy
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
Dynamic corporate speaker and coach Cassandra Worthy introduces a growth mindset practice that helps readers to view change and the emotions surrounding it as a gift. View on Amazon
Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail)
By Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
An indispensable guide to decision-making and risk-taking for anyone who finds themselves afraid of making a wrong choice in their career, from one of the most highly regarded female tech executives in Silicon Valley. View on Amazon
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
By Max Chafkin
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics. View on Amazon
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
By Ryan Holiday
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
Through engaging stories about historic and contemporary leaders, including Charles De Gaulle, Florence Nightingale, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Holiday shows you how to conquer fear and practice courage in your daily life. View on Amazon
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
By Sarah Stein Greenberg
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
From the Executive Director of Stanford’s acclaimed school of design, Creative Acts for Curious People is filled with memorable stories, ideas, and more than eighty innovative exercises that focus on the art of learning, discovery, and leading the way through unknown creative territory. View on Amazon
Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
By Deborah Tuerkheimer
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
Drawing on case studies, moving first-hand accounts, science, and the law, Tuerkheimer guides us toward accurate credibility judgments and equitable treatment of those whose suffering has long been disregarded or dismissed. View on Amazon
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History
By Anna Aslanyan
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
An entertaining and surprising look at world history events to reveal the consequences of decisions taken by translators. View on Amazon
Disruption Proof: Empower People, Create Value, Drive Change
By Brant Cooper
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
CEO and bestselling author Brant Cooper teaches leaders how to ensure their organizations are resilient, agile, and dynamic enough to endure long-term, weathering the storms of disruption and uncertainty. View on Amazon
The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
By Eric J. Johnson
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
A guide to the inner workings of how decisions are made—and an essential toolkit for helping others make decisions better. View on Amazon
Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work
By Amelia Dunlop
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
With equal parts courage and insight, Amelia Dunlop tells her story of what it means to discover her own sense of love and worth in her twenty-year career as a management consultant at the world’s largest professional services firm. View on Amazon
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
By Jessica Nordell
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age. View on Amazon
Everyday Vitality: Turning Stress into Strength
By Samantha Boardman
Publication Date: August 10, 2021
Drawing from scientific research and her own clinical experience, psychiatrist Samantha Boardman shares strategies for cultivating vitality—the positive feeling of aliveness and energy that lies at the core of well-being and at the heart of a good day. View on Amazon
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society
By Azeem Azhar
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data―and our ability to deal with its effect. View on Amazon
The Family Firm : A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
By Emily Oster
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. View on Amazon
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
By Antonio Damasio
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
Damasio helps us understand the relationship between consciousness and the mind, why being conscious is not the same as either being awake or sensing, the central role of feeling, and why the brain is essential for the development of consciousness. View on Amazon
Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
By April Rinne
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and those they lead to adapt and thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. View on Amazon
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
By Oliver Burkeman
Publication Date: August 10, 2021
Acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining, philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life. View on Amazon
Go Where There Is No Path: Stories of Hustle, Grit, Scholarship, and Faith
By Christopher Gray
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your world—from a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity. View on Amazon
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By Meghan O’Gieblyn
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
The inexorable rise of technology—with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control—and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding mean that the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. View on Amazon
Going There: A Memoir
By Katie Couric
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
From an award-winning American journalist and bestselling author comes a tell-all memoir about breaking boundaries, persevering, and witnessing the reckoning in media. View on Amazon
The Gold Standard: Giving Your Customers What They Didn’t Know They Wanted
By Colin Cowie
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Learn how to cultivate the most incredible customer experiences on Earth through this essential guide by Colin Cowie, distinguished purveyor of unforgettable “wow” events for the world’s most demanding clients. View on Amazon
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion
By Wendy Suzuki
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
World-renowned neuroscientist and author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life explains how to harness the power of anxiety into unexpected gifts. View on Amazon
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
By David DeSteno
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
Pioneering psychology professor David DeSteno demonstrates why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them—and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof). View on Amazon
How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace
By Melinda Briana Epler
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
Uniquely insightful and extremely timely, How to Be an Ally humanizes diversity and inclusion and facilitates greater empathy and understanding between people of all identities. It teaches us that every individual can learn about the imbalance in opportunity and work to correct it. View on Amazon
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
By Lee McIntyre
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
Researcher Lee McIntyre explores how we can most effectively get through to those who distrust science, while avoiding the conversational traps of fact-flinging and condescension. View on Amazon
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
By Michael Bhaskar
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge. View on Amazon
The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas
By Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Readers will come to understand the unexpected reasons why the ideas and initiatives they are most passionate about get rejected. Readers also will learn how to identify and disarm these forces of resistance, and discover how the frictions that hold us back can be transformed into catalysts for change. View on Amazon
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
By Blythe Grossberg
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent. View on Amazon
Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact
By Liz Wiseman
Publication Date: October 19, 2021
Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions? Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level. View on Amazon
Lead: How Women in Charge Claim Their Authority
By Ellen M. Snee
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Lead draws on Dr. Snee’s groundbreaking research on women’s leadership development, her coaching and consulting work to advance talented women, and her earlier life as a Catholic nun. View on Amazon
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth
By Sam Quinones
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
From the bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores fentanyl and the quiet yet groundbreaking steps that communities are taking to end the opioid crisis nationwide. View on Amazon
Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team
By John U. Bacon
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
An uplifting leadership book about a coach who helped transform the nation’s worst high school hockey team into one of the best. Bacon’s strategy is straightforward: set high expectations, make them accountable to each other, and inspire them all to lead their team. View on Amazon
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
By John V. Petrocelli
Publication Date: July 27, 2021
Expanding upon his viral TEDx Talk, psychology professor and social scientist John V. Petrocelli reveals the critical thinking habits you can develop to recognize and combat pervasive false information and delusional thinking that has become a common feature of everyday life. View on Amazon
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
By Dorie Clark
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Clark shares unique principles, frameworks, and her own experiences to show how you can leverage the same 24 hours everyone has to break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and career. View on Amazon
Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs
By Reid Hoffman, with June Cohen and Deron Triff
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn’t talent, network, or strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial mindset—and that mindset can be cultivated. View on Amazon
A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work
By Juliet Funt
Publication Date: August 3, 2o21
An efficiency expert explains how to liberate your talent, reduce waste, and help teams do more meaningful work by incorporating strategic pauses—what she calls “white space”—into your workdays and personal life. View on Amazon
Move: The Forces Uprooting Us
By Parag Khanna
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
A compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change. View on Amazon
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
By Indra Nooyi
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo. View on Amazon
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
By Paul Polman and Andrew Winston
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Runaway climate change and persistent inequality are ravaging the world and humanity. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business. View on Amazon
No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
By Kate Bowler
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn’t choose? View on Amazon
Nudge: The Final Edition
By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard University’s Cass R. Sunstein. View on Amazon
The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams
By Sidarta Ribeiro
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and the essential role of dreams in the formation of who we are and the world we have made. View on Amazon
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis
By Alice Bell
Publication Date: July 8, 2021
Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis. View on Amazon
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
By Anushay Hossain
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
Reflecting on her own pregnancy experience—including nearly dying in labor—author and policy analyst Anushay Hossain explores women’s relationship with and treatment by the U.S. health care system. View on Amazon
Play Nice but Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader
By Michael Dell
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. View on Amazon
The Pop-up Pitch: The Two-Hour Creative Sprint to the Most Persuasive Presentation of Your Life
By Dan Roam
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
The Pop-up Pitch weaves together the latest insights on visual cognition, behavioral economics, and classic story structures in an easy-to-learn and inspiring storytelling algorithm. View on Amazon
Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
By Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Publication Date: August 31, 2021
Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratized vision of power. While hierarchies tend to stay in place, by agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. View on Amazon
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
By Jay J. Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our groups have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior—and how these shared identities can inspire both personal change and social movements. View on Amazon
The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul
By Brad Stulberg
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Bestselling author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success. At the heart of this model is groundedness, a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain. View on Amazon
Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws
By Steven Goldbach and Geoff Tuff
Publication Date: September 15, 2021
The authors show how the best leaders don’t simply “respond” to trends and wait for the future to arrive—they provoke it. View on Amazon
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
By Steven Pinker
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
A primer in logical thinking and an entertaining expedition through all the trapdoors we can tumble through when we try to parse reality or bend it to our will. View on Amazon
Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval
By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
From the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) comes the ultimate book on transforming the way we select, retain, and train our employees in a radically changed business environment. View on Amazon
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
By Minda Harts
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
From the powerhouse author of The Memo, the essential self-help book for women of color to heal—and thrive—in the workplace. View on Amazon
Risk: A User’s Guide
By Stanley McChrystal, with Anna Butrico
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown. View on Amazon
Roar: Into the Second Half of Your Life (Before It’s Too Late)
By Michael Clinton
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Discover how to make the second half of your life happy and productive with this perceptive and inspiring guidebook that will help you achieve your dreams and get more out of life—whether or not retirement is in your future plans. View on Amazon
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
By Bruce Jones
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
From a brilliant Brookings Institution writer, a vivid, timely, and insightful examination of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. View on Amazon
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy
By Adam Tooze
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything—from the acclaimed author of Crashed. View on Amazon
Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World
By Shelly Tygielski
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
An empowering treatise on propelling profound social change by going inward, from a mindfulness teacher and activist who has turned personal practice into movements. View on Amazon
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
By Suzanne O’Sullivan
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
A riveting exploration of the phenomenon of psychosomatic disorders, mass hysteria, and other culture-bound syndromes occurring around the world. View on Amazon
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It
By Cass R. Sunstein
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
We’ve all had to fight our way through administrative sludge—filling out complicated online forms, mailing in paperwork, standing in line at the motor vehicle registry. This kind of red tape can impair health, reduce growth, entrench poverty, and exacerbate inequality, so Sunstein explains what we can do to reduce it. View on Amazon
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done
By Elizabeth Ricker
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher turned Silicon Valley technologist invites readers to join her on a wild and edifying romp through the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking. View on Amazon
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
By Nichola Raihani
Publication Date: August 31, 2021
In the tradition of Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani’s The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. View on Amazon
Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive
By Jonathan Fields
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Discover your unique imprint for work that fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it. View on Amazon
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Edward Glaeser, one of our great urbanists, and David Cutler, one of our great public health experts, have joined forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated. View on Amazon
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
By Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors that reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values, and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. View on Amazon
The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too
By David Sumpter
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
In his new book, Swedish mathematician David Sumpter offers up ten empowering, illuminating equations that make our world go round, governing everything from investment banking to betting companies to social media giants, combining real world examples and practical ways that we can use these equations in our daily life. View on Amazon
Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans
By David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Drawing on their backgrounds in psychiatry and politics, Brendel and Stelzer use the principles of active inquiry to help organizations build workplaces fit for humans, ones that are simultaneously humane and increase our potential for productivity and success. View on Amazon
Thursday Is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want
By Joe Sanok
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Create your own schedule, maximize your leisure time, and work less while making more by following the revolutionary—yet realistic—four-day work week outlined in this groundbreaking book. View on Amazon
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
By Tarana Burke
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the “me too” movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words. View on Amazon
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
By Jill Louise Busby
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Trick Mirror meets White Fragility—an intimate and insolent essay collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from cultural commentator Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack. View on Amazon
Water: A Biography
By Giulio Boccaletti
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
A revelatory history—spanning continents and millennia—of how humanity’s relationship to moving water has shaped civilization, transformed political institutions, and defined people’s lives. View on Amazon
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
By Eric Garcia
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
Garcia uses his own life as a springboard to discuss the social and policy gaps that exist in supporting those on the spectrum, giving his community a platform to articulate their own needs, rather than having others speak for them—which has been the standard for far too long. View on Amazon
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
By Debbie Millman
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
The author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields. View on Amazon
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
By Jacob Helberg
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
From the former News Policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia—which could potentially crush democracy. View on Amazon
You Are What You Click: How Being Selective, Positive, and Creative Can Transform Your Social Media Experience
By Brian A. Primack
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
An empowering, forward-thinking solution for creating intentional and healthy social media habits from an expert on media, technology, and health. View on Amazon
At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor
By Carey Nieuwhof
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. View on Amazon
Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health
By Talya Miron-Shatz
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
The past year has shown that confusion exists prominently in our medical conversations. We need a new guide to navigating these complex decisions, and psychology professor Miron-Shatz is here to provide one. View on Amazon
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