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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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Democracy is under assault, not only in Ukraine but around the world. Moisés Naím opens up the autocrats' playbook to explain how they subvert democracy after claiming its mantle using a mixture of populism, polarization, and post-truth, and what is at stake if we fail to recognize what's happening and protect our freedoms.
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The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Gal Beckerman looks at the history of how new and unconventional ideas have spread, and if we can capture some of those elements in an online, social media world that seems devoid of quality conversation and in-depth inquiry.
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Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
In his new book (and documentary of the same name), Rupert Russell explains how moves in the commodities markets have created a pattern of rising prices of instability that have brought chaos and destruction to people and communities across the globe.
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The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Daniel Pink’s new book teaches us how to embrace regret as a process to help build better lives. In doing so, we can learn to use it to cultivate self-compassion and stronger connections with others.
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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Sofi Thanhauser has compiled a social history of five materials—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—explaining not only how we have shaped them, but how they have shaped us.
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Peter Goodman takes a close look at the robber barons of the modern era, explaining how they have grabbed the gains of globalization and profited off the pandemic, undermined working people, economic stability, and even our very democracy in the process.
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Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Katrine Marçal's new book shows us how gender bias has determined what technologies we have built, and even what we consider to be technology, undermining our ability to reach our full potential as human beings. It continues to be the case today, and it has never been as important as it is now to upend our ideas around gender to build a more balanced and sustainable world.
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Move: The Forces Uprooting Us
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Parag Khanna reminds us how "management guru Peter Drucker warned us that 'the greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself but to act with yesterday's logic.'" Accordingly, he offers us updated logic on how we might move about the world.
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Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Being able to frame the problems we face as sentient beings in an often hostile world has been a key ingredient in human evolution, and may still be the most important ability we have today.
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Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
We are all figuring things out as we go along to some extent, and that is a good thing. The more we realize this and embrace it, the easier it is to develop a creative process that leads to small wins and the ability to build on one toward the next to make big change.
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