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Category Archives: Non-fiction

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

A clearer view of how the world is put together, how it functions, and how we can nudge each other for the better.

Posted bypithysummaryMarch 2, 2026March 2, 2026Posted inArchives, 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.

Posted byCarlenJanuary 9, 2026February 2, 2026Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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.

Posted bypithysummaryDecember 4, 2025February 2, 2026Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Prisoners of Geography – Ten Maps that Explain Everything about the World

How geography can shape political decisions, economies, and futures.

Posted byCarlenOctober 13, 2025January 9, 2026Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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.

Posted byCarlenSeptember 1, 2025September 1, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Tracing cancer’s evolution throughout history and through the body.

Posted byCarlenJuly 27, 2025September 23, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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.

Posted byCarlenJune 9, 2025June 9, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data

Illuminating the underlying logic of statistics, and how it can be used for or against us.

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Warmth of Other Suns

The incredible mass movement of millions of blacks forging a path north in the early 1900s.

Posted bypithysummaryApril 3, 2025May 28, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025April 10, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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