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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Citizens of London – The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
The tremendous impact that US Ambassador Gil Winant, CBS reporter Ed Murrow, and businessman Averell Harriman had on the sprawling events of WWII.
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
How big corporations and Wall Street have transformed each of capitalism’s building blocks in their favor.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
The future of climate activism, and how to turn fury into action.
A Queer History of the United States
The remarkable, and oft invisible, influence of the LGBTQ+ community on the United States.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
How Joseph Lister and his use of antiseptics revolutionized the frightening state of 19th-century medicine.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
The unusual and often unseen powers of predictive statistics, and how they mold our lives and actions.
The New Jim Crow
How did this come to be in colorblind America: the mass incarceration and social immobilization of so many of its minorities?
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A book that spans the widest breadths—from the beginning of our species, through our cognitive, agricultural, and industrial revolutions, to the present.
The Making of Asian America: A History
A sweeping history of Asians in the Americas, their struggles and triumphs, which have been invisible for too long.