The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
By: Andrew Yang
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. On Dialogue
By: David Bohm
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope… read more
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2. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
By: Bernie Sanders
3.94
Format: None pages,
Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platfor… read more
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3. How to Walk (Mindfulness Essentials, #4)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Jason DeAntonis
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
How to Walkis the fourth title in Parallax's popular Mindfulness Essentials Series of how-to titles… read more
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4. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
5. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
6. On the House: A Washington Memoir
By: John Boehner
3.91
Format: None pages, Audio CD
This program is read by the author. * INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 WALL STREET JOURNA… read more
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"A leader without followers is just a man out taking a walk"-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
"It's just golf... hit the ball, find the ball, hit it again"-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
"Get the right people on the bus, and then find them the right seat"-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
"The mark of a good leader is to prepare those who will succeed you."-John Boehner, On the House: A Washington Memoir
7. How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
By: Jimmy O. Yang
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shar… read more
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"Top Five Chinese Rules 1. Respect your parents, your elders and your teachers. Never talk back or challenge them under any circumstance. 2. Education is the most important thing. It's more important …"-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
"I take pride in playing immigrant characters. I've come across people who had a negative opinion about playing Asian characters that have an accent. I've even met Asian actors who won't audition for …"-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
"From eating at El Pollo Loco salsa bar to the Golden Globes buffet, I managed to stumble through this journey with the perseverance of an immigrant and the mindset of an American. I learned to thrive…"-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
8. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By: Cory Doctorow
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more
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9. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
10. Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
By: Richard Kreitner
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a provocative, timely and eye-opening excavation of… read more
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11. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
By: Andrew Yang
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asi… read more
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12. From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy: A Tale of Moral and Economic Folly and Decay
By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
4.15
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
In this tour de force essay, Hans-Hermann Hoppe turns the standard account of historical government… read more
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13. Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
By: Evan Osnos
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
*A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph… read more
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"I'm embarrassed to say, I thought you could defeat hate. You can't. It only hides. It crawls under the rocks, and, when given oxygen by any person in authority, it comes roaring back out. And what I …"-Evan Osnos, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
14. Trust: America's Best Chance
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.14
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation’s current predicament… read more
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"The truth is our election system is flawed. But it will only be improved if we trust it enough to use it to elect people committed to fixing it."-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance
"To love a country, as to love a person, is to love a flawed and exquisite creation, to see what is best in it, to be angry when it is not what it could be, precisely because you have seen glimmers of…"-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance
"When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some…"-Pete Buttigieg, Trust: America's Best Chance
15. It's On Me: Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life
By: Sara Kuburic
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From an existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and Instagram's popular "Millennial Thera… read more
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16. Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
By: Annie Lowrey
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--an… read more
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"When I told my parents, John and Celine, that I was writing a book, my dad responded, “I always knew you’d write one!,"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"They were not charity cases. They were businesses waiting to start, individuals striving to prosper, families searching for a better life. The main thing they lacked was cash."-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
". . .cash is highly effective at slashing the poverty rate. Moreover, GiveDirectly argues that cash is more valuable to its recipients than in-kind gifts, such as food or bed nets or sports equipment…"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"Here, poverty in the United States is a choice. Stagnant middle-class incomes are a choice. Technology-fueled mass unemployment is a choice. Racism is a choice. The patriarchy is a choice. This is no…"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
17. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
By: Tucker Carlson
4.29
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new Ameri… read more
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18. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
By: Shefali Luthra
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more
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19. Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
By: Ben Sasse
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult, an intimate and urgent … read more
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"Yet despite the complexity of contemporary society, there are still some simple formulas we can use to distill the path to social and economic flourishing. One of these, labeled the “Success Sequence,"-Ben Sasse, Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal
20. The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising
By: Krystal Ball
4.04
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti are co-hosts of Rising at The Hill TV, one of the fastest-growing po… read more
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21. Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency
By: Corey R. Lewandowski
3.88
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
Listening length: 7 hours and 41 minutes Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the… read more
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