Books
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The Teacher Wars
A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana GoldsteinTeaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprece... -
No Good Men Among the Living
America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliba... -
The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Dayo OlopadeAfrica is a continent on the move. It’s often hard to notice, though—the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynami... -
Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true... -
Now I Know Who My Comrades Are
Voices from the Internet Underground
In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence a... -
The Meat Racket
The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read. How much do you kn... -
The Up Side of Down
Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
Megan McArdleMost new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professi... -
The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. Now, with a remarkabl... -
Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspen... -
The Smartest Kids in the World
And How They Got That Way
Amanda RipleyIn a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learn... -
The Pioneer Detectives
Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?
Explore one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time, the Pioneer Anomaly: in the 1980s, NASA scientists detected an unknown force acting o... -
Beautiful Souls
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Eyal PressHistory has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authorit... -
On Internet Freedom
Every few years, a new book comes out arguing that the future of the Internet is at risk. And every few years, it really is. This book, by one of t... - book | January 01, 2013 | Fellows
The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred KaplanThe Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the l... -
Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Christopher HayesOver the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church... - book | March 20, 2012 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
The Richer Sex
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
Bestselling journalist Liza Mundy’s smart, deeply reported analysis of the most important cultural shift since the rise of feminism: the coming era... -
The Escape Artists
Noam ScheiberA star White House journalist provides a gripping look inside the meeting rooms, the in-boxes, and the super-sharp minds of the pedigreed propeller... -
Manana Forever?
Jorge G. CastañedaWhy are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans lov... -
Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding — And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Charles KennyAs the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe ... -
Fighting for Darfur
Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide
Rebecca HamiltonAround the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can ma... -
The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Evgeny Morozov“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the... -
The Tenth Parallel
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Eliza GriswoldThe tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity an...