In "Autocracy, Inc.," Anne Applebaum exposes the global web of dictators and their enablers who have formed a corrupt, mutually-supporting network to undermine democracy, repress their citizens, and rewrite the rules of international politics in their favor.

Ethan Mollick explores the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, offering insights, frameworks, and strategies for individuals and organizations to thrive in a future where AI becomes an increasingly powerful collaborator and competitor in domains from creativity to education to work itself.

Factfulness by Hans Rosling reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective on the world, and provides a fact-based framework for understanding global progress and thinking more clearly about the future.

In "Cultish," Amanda Montell explores the fascinating world of cults and how their persuasive language and techniques permeate our everyday lives, from religious sects to fitness trends to multi-level marketing schemes.

In "Bad Therapy," journalist Abigail Shrier argues that today's pervasive "therapeutic" culture and overzealous mental health interventions are harming young people by promoting learned helplessness, pathologizing normal emotions, and inhibiting the development of resilience.

Invisible Women exposes the gender data gap that underlies our male-default world, revealing the hidden ways in which the failure to collect data on women's lives leads to bias, discrimination, and disadvantage in everything from healthcare to the workplace to public policy - and offers a roadmap for closing this gap to build a more equitable future for all.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond argues that the fates of human societies across history have been shaped not by innate differences between peoples, but by environmental differences in the wild plant and animal species available for domestication on each continent.

In "The Comfort Crisis," Michael Easter investigates how our modern culture of constant comfort may be making us less resilient, more prone to illness, and robbing us of the very experiences that make us feel most alive.

In "On Tyranny," Timothy Snyder draws urgent lessons from the 20th century's bitter experience with tyranny to equip ordinary citizens today with the tools to recognize encroaching authoritarianism and fight back before it's too late.

"Walkable City" is an engaging and persuasive manifesto that shows how putting pedestrians first can make our cities safer, healthier, more sustainable, and more economically vibrant.