The Inequality Machine: How universities are creating a more unequal world - and what to do about it
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
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1. Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
By: Lucy Crehan
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Secondary school teacher and education consultant Lucy Crehan was frustrated with ever-changing gov… read more
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"A clumsy bird that flies first will get to the forest earlier. (Chinese proverb)"-Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
"These few bad apples are dealt with, without the imposition of a controlling system that makes everyone feel rotten."-Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
"Learning enables one to become a better, not just a smarter, person. The ultimate purpose of learning is to self-perfect and to contribute to others at the same time."-Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
"Other studies have shown that not only do East Asians persist longer in the face of challenge, they are also more likely to see it out. Not only that, they are actually spurred on to work harder in t…"-Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers
2. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
By: None
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work … read more
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3. The Gatekeepers : Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
By: Jacques Steinberg
2.83
Format: 64 pages,
In the fall of 1999, New York Timeseducation reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented … read more
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4. Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
By: David J. Linden
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnecte… read more
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5. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
By: Robert D. Putnam
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling A… read more
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6. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About it
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.15
Format: None pages,
America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of … read more
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7. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
By: Frank Bruni
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more
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8. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
9. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
11. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
By: Cordelia Fine
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reas… read more
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"Our sexuality is body, culture, age, learning, habit, fantasies, worries, passions, and the relationships in which all these elements combine. That’s why sexuality can change with age, partner, exper…"-Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
"Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who produces the sperm doesn’t dictate, by universal principle, that parenting is out …"-Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
12. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
By: Ron Lieber
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more
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13. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Seling… read more
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14. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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15. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more
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"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
16. Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
By: Becky Munsterer Sabky
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Grown & Flown 's “Best Book on College Admissions and Paying for College” “The most h… read more
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17. The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
By: Helen Thorpe
4.26
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving… read more
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"If there was any part of the global crisis that the United States owned, it was the chaos that was unfolding in the Middle East. The United States had not played a direct role in the ethnic cleansing…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside the building…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside this buildin…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
18. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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19. The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Indelible and extraordinary.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated: A Memoir, New York Times Book Rev… read more
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20. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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21. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
By: Joseph Henrich
4.12
Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more
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"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
22. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
By: Clive Thompson
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with… read more
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"More than introversion or logic, though, coding selects for people who can handle endless frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"When you meet a coder, you're meeting someone whose core daily experience is of unending failure and grinding frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"For years, coders have been programming computers so that they perform repetitive tasks for us. Now they automate our repetitive thoughts."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
23. 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
24. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST
By: Martin Baron
4.20
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more
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25. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By: Frank Wilczek
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more
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"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
26. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
By: Tom Eisenmann
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a f… read more
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27. True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
By: Cindy L. Otis
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"If I could pick one book to hand to every teen—and adult—on earth, this is the one. True or False … read more
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28. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
By: Anthony Abraham Jack
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students … read more
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29. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
By: Jessica Waite
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more
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30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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31. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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