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What's the Right Thing to Do?
by Michael J. Sandel
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by Jeanette Winterson
Published Jan 2026
Read Reviews"One of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle) weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of reading.
by Libby Copeland
Published Mar 2021
Read ReviewsA deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives.
by Wendell Potter
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsIn Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits
by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsIt is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. This groundbreaking book goes an important stage beyond either of these ideas: it demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor.
by Peter Singer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsFor the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the worlds population, we must become part of the solution.
by Dave Eggers
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsThe true story of one family, caught between Americas two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
by Glenn Greenwald
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsIf we are to remain a constitutional republic, Greenwald writes, we cannot abide radical theories of executive power, which are transforming the very core of our national character, and moving us from democracy toward despotism. This is not hyperbole. This is the crisis all Americansliberals and conservatives--now face.
In the spirit of ...
by Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
by Niall Ferguson
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsNiall Ferguson brings his renowned historical and economic depth of field to bear on a bold and sweeping reckoning with America's imperial status and its consequences.
by Paul Krugman
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA galvanizing new work from America's leading economic critica book that will set the terms of the political debate for years to come.
The Good, The Bad and The Difference
by Randy Cohen
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsThe man behind the New York Times Magazine's immensely popular column "The Ethicist"--syndicated in newspapers across the USA and Canada as "Everyday Ethics"-- presents a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world.
by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsOne of the world's most beloved leaders proposes a vision for overcoming suffering and bringing about individual and world peace for the next millennium.
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