We all know the stock market crashed in 1929, plunging the world into the Great Depression. But what we don’t know is the gripping, human drama of the flawed men … Read more
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke is a non-fiction, science-grounded exploration of how dopamine drives addiction—from smartphones to substances—and how to practice dopamine fasting and self-binding to restore a healthy pleasure–pain … Read more
Washington runs on soundbites and shortcuts; How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will is Senator John Kennedy’s unapologetic manual for resisting both—while showing why the capital … Read more
We’re busy, successful, and secretly starving for meaning, and Tuesdays with Morrie solves that by translating end-of-life clarity into everyday choices we can actually live by. Instead of self-help clichés, … Read more
Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity is a sweeping, idea-dense work that asks a deceptively simple question with enormous consequences for policy, technology, biodiversity, and everyday conduct: how should we … Read more
Modern prosperity didn’t arrive because factories suddenly sprouted; it emerged because a culture made the pursuit and sharing of useful knowledge both honorable and inevitable. In A Culture of Growth, … Read more
Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is more than a royal memoir; it’s a meticulous reckoning with grief, identity, love, the press, and the cost of duty. If you’ve … Read more
I’m Glad My Mom Died isn’t just a celebrity memoir; it’s a manual for naming abuse, reclaiming a body, and rebuilding a self. Its problem-to-solve is brutal and universal: how … Read more
We drown in screens that promise reality, yet leave us spiritually thirsty; Christ and the Media names the thirst—and shows why the well is often poisoned. Malcolm Muggeridge argues that … Read more
If a novel about memory and war keeps getting challenged, are we protecting kids—or protecting our myths? It’s Banned Books Week again (Oct. 5–11, 2025), and PEN America’s latest Banned in … Read more
If you feel stuck between ambition and circumstance, Wings of Fire shows how a boy from Rameswaram turned scarcity into India’s space-and-missile renaissance—without losing humility or hope. It solves the … Read more
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History is more than a graphic novel—it’s a memory machine that solves the problem of how to tell atrocity without numbing the … Read more
The History of Rome, Vol. V solves a single, urgent problem: how a five-hundred-year republican system collapsed into a military monarchy and what social, military, and cultural forces made that … Read more
The History of Rome, Volume IV: The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen is a seminal work in historical scholarship, originally written in German and translated into English by William Purdie Dickson. … Read more
Games People Play solves the baffling, repeat-loop problem of why good people keep behaving in predictably self-sabotaging ways. Eric Berne’s central insight is simple and surgical: many everyday conflicts are … Read more
Logic Made Easy by Deborah J. Bennett is a transformative book that unravels the common errors in logical reasoning and demonstrates how language often deceives us into making fallacious conclusions. … Read more
In our fast-paced world, success is often seen as the ultimate achievement. But what happens when the very trait that drives us—ego—becomes the biggest barrier to that success? Ryan Holiday’s … Read more
It’s that feeling of being stuck, paralyzed by a problem you can’t see a way around; this book offers the way through. By mastering our perception, action, and will, we … Read more
When a single accusation can erase a lifetime of work, Dershowitz argues that cancel culture short-circuits both free speech and due process, replacing evidence with outrage. Cancel culture is “the … Read more
So much of early Rome is fogged by legend; Mommsen’s Volume 1 shows how geography, institutions, and law—not miracles—built a city that became a state. He answers the core problem: … Read more
The Search for the Beautiful Woman, a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty by Cho Kyo, is a definitive guide to how “beautiful” has been defined, traded, and contested … Read more
The Souls of Black Folk solves the problem of profound ignorance of what it means to live as a Black person in a world that refuses to see your humanity. … Read more
Extinction isn’t the end of the story—it’s the plot twist life has already survived, repeatedly. Newitz asks the only pragmatic question left: how do we make it through the next … Read more
We keep hitting planetary and economic limits because our factories are blunt instruments, not scalpels. Drexler’s answer is a manufacturing paradigm—atomically precise manufacturing (APM)—that aims to make physical things with … Read more
What happens when the grand, nation-defining dream of space exploration is no longer championed by governments, but is instead rebooted by a handful of billionaires fueled by childhood fantasies and … Read more
We are living through a human-driven die-off so fast and far-reaching that even scientists borrow the language of catastrophe to name it: the sixth mass extinction. The book’s plain-English thesis: … Read more
In plain English, AI 2041 argues that ten very plausible AI scenarios — spanning jobs, health, security, and privacy — are coming fast and that our choices, not the code … Read more
If the brain is the most complex object in the known universe, the problem The Future of the Mind solves is simple: how close we are—practically and ethically—to reading, healing, … Read more
We argue about climate, growth, food, and energy using slogans. In his How the World Really Works, Smil replaces slogans with literacy: what energy is, where your food comes from, … Read more
Extreme heat, heat waves, and wet-bulb temperature are not abstractions anymore; they’re the daily grammar of climate change, and Jeff Goodell’s The Heat Will Kill You First is the most … Read more