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  • Adam Ellwanger The best books on why looking for your ‘true self’ is pointless Book cover of Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery Book cover of Against Authenticity: Why You Shouldn't Be Yourself Book cover of The Pursuit of Happiness Book cover of The Ethics of Authenticity Book cover of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
  • John Hutchinson The best books about nationalism and identity Book cover of Cathleen Ni Houlihan Book cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Book cover of The Ethnic Origins of Nations Book cover of Nationalism Book cover of Thought and Change
  • Thomas Dyja The best books on how New York became New York (that aren’t Robert Caro’s The Power Broker) Book cover of The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 Book cover of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity Book cover of Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City Book cover of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Book cover of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
  • Nick Prior The best books on popular music, technology, and society Book cover of How Music Works Book cover of Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music Book cover of Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer Book cover of Why Music Matters Book cover of K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004 - 2016
  • Matthew Jefferies The best recent books on Bismarck and Imperial Germany (1871-1918) Book cover of Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914 Book cover of Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 Book cover of Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 Book cover of German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures Book cover of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
  • Tom Wheeler The best books on today’s roadmap to tomorrow Book cover of Future Shock Book cover of Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age Book cover of The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society Book cover of The Master Switch: the Rise and Fall of Information Empires Book cover of The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
  • Ben Hunt-Davis The best books to help you achieve your goals Book cover of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Book cover of The Worst Journey in the World Book cover of Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations Book cover of The Long Win: The Search for a Better Way to Succeed Book cover of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
  • Paul StJohn Mackintosh The best books of modern Lovecraftian horror Book cover of The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan Book cover of The Fisherman Book cover of The Imago Sequence and Other Stories Book cover of The Fuller Memorandum Book cover of Teatro Grottesco
  • Adam Broinowski The best books on Japanese postwar creative arts in their wider context Book cover of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War Book cover of Kazuo Ohno's World: From Without & Within Book cover of Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan Book cover of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan Book cover of A History of Japanese Theatre
  • Jeremy Appel The best books for understanding the political moment we’re in Book cover of A Brief History of Neoliberalism Book cover of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump Book cover of Age of Anger: A History of the Present Book cover of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Book cover of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent
  • Matt Qvortrup The best books for deep thinkers about politics, democracy, and philosophy Book cover of Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History Book cover of Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought Book cover of The Prince Book cover of On Liberty Book cover of Aristotle's Politics
  • Viren Murthy The best books to profoundly understand modern East Asian thought Book cover of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan Book cover of China from Empire to Nation-State Book cover of The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation Book cover of The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future Book cover of The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
  • Sarah Fayen Scarlett The best books about architecture and the visceral experience of social identity in industrial America Book cover of The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape Book cover of On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World Book cover of Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic Book cover of At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg Book cover of Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915
  • Joseph P. Forgas The best books on why populism and tribalism are threatening liberal democratic societies Book cover of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Book cover of The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge Book cover of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Book cover of The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy Book cover of Fascism: A Warning
  • Mark Burgess The best "science fiction" books that paint a vision of a near future society in trouble Book cover of Stand on Zanzibar Book cover of Atlas Shrugged Book cover of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Book cover of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Book cover of Future Shock
  • William Byers The best books on thinking, creativity, and mathematics Book cover of What Is Mathematics, Really? Book cover of Proofs and Refutations Book cover of The Origin of Concepts Book cover of The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life Book cover of The Palliative Society: Pain Today
  • Geoffrey Parker The best books on the 17th Century Book cover of Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Book cover of The Death of Woman Wang Book cover of The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 Book cover of The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age Book cover of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
  • Luke Clossey The best books for making sense of religious history Book cover of The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw Book cover of The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890-1920 Book cover of Motel of the Mysteries Book cover of The Life of the Buddha Book cover of The Way of Nature
  • Scott Waalkes The best books on the religious ethics of globalization Book cover of The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization Book cover of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Book cover of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Book cover of In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization Book cover of Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
  • David J. Agans The best timeless books to give engineers new perspectives Book cover of The Design of Everyday Things Book cover of The Elements of Style Book cover of The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow Book cover of The Immense Journey Book cover of Junkers
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