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"Our Biggest Fight" by Frank H. McCourt Jr. & Michael J. Casey

Is the design of the internet to blame for our current crises of disinformation, mental illness, and hyper-partisan division?

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"The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality" by Amanda Montell

Why does living in the so-called Information Age only seem to make life more confusing? Amanda Montell has some surprising answers.

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"The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours" by Chantel Prat

Today, a few brainy insights from neuroscientist Chantel Prat, author of "The Neuroscience of You," which our pal Adam Grant called her book "the sma…

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"The Friction Project" by Huggy Rao and Robert Sutton

How smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.

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"Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships" by Scott Rick

For the past few years, Scott Rick, a behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has been surveying couples, and h…

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"Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict" by William Ury

William Ury wrote the world’s best-selling book on negotiation. Now he's here to help us navigate conflict.

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"Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words" by Anne Curzan

Linguist and professor Anne Curzan encourages us all to lighten up when it comes to grammar rules.

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"The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight" by Andrew Leland

As a teenager, Andrew Leland started to lose his sight. One day, in all likelihood, he will be blind. In his moving new memoir, "The Country of the B…

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"Cultures of Growth" by Mary C. Murphy

Carol Dweck’s "Mindset" transformed our view of individual potential. Now her protégé, Mary Murphy, is here to explain how mindset can transcend indi…

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"Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down" by Corey Keyes

Do you ever feel kind of ... meh? Corey Keyes is here to help.

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