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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
How the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinions can shape police behavior, for better or worse.
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
The limits of humans’ physical capabilities, and how endurance can, and cannot, change those limits.
Prisoners of Geography – Ten Maps that Explain Everything about the World
How geography can shape political decisions, economies, and futures.
The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
A suspenseful recounting of how the federal government created the student loan system, and how banks, Sallie Mae, and universities transformed it into the monster it is today.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Tracing cancer’s evolution throughout history and through the body.
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
How the powerful and secretive consulting company, McKinsey, has influenced huge companies and government entities around the world.
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data
Illuminating the underlying logic of statistics, and how it can be used for or against us.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The incredible mass movement of millions of blacks forging a path north in the early 1900s.
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
How U.S. foreign affairs shaped the world with the Order, and a view of what’s to come.