Public Policy

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 A Forbes Best True Crime Book of 2025 “Probably the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book I’ve read in months.” —David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times “Propulsive.” —The Washington Post “Engrossing...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2025 NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 “A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for...

"May prove to be the most important book of our time.”—Tim Urban, Wait But Why The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity. In 2023...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred...

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States’ most dangerous enemies takes readers inside the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary. In American Mercenary,Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild ride...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time...

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and...

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

From the CTO of Palantir comes a bold call to arms for resurrecting America’s industrial base, and winning the defense technology race that will define the twenty-first century.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...

One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Advance copies of Ray Dalio’s new book about how countries go broke have become a hot read in Washington.” —The New York Times “This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”...

*The basis for the documentary Join or Die—now streaming on Netflix!* Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our...

“Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent.” —Washington Post One of President Obama's 2025 Summer Reads As seen on CBS Mornings, CNN Anderson Cooper, ABC News Live, MSNBC Morning Joe, and many more Who works for the government and why does their work matter?...

It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through...

They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of...

Originally publishing in 1944, The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production....

The Lost Boy spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list and has profoundly influenced more than one million readers' lives. Following the tremendous success of Pulitzer Prize nominee A Child Called "It", this book continues the extraordinary tale of author Dave Pelzer's...

From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness solar power and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future. Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's–worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt our poles, poison our bodies, and...

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in...

America is in an undeclared state of emergency. Not since the Cold War has the US faced such powerful enemies—and our military isn’t ready. Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer of Palantir, issues an urgent call to action: Mobilize. The American industrial base once underwrote American victory. Builders and workers rallied to win World War II. For most of the twentieth century, great American companies from General Mills to Chrysler had defense businesses that sent mankind into space and won the Cold War. But the forges fell silent and the furnaces went dark.

We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? This program is read by the author. The Information State is an incisive examination of...

The next space race has arrived—driven by rival nations, billionaire-funded ventures, and breakthrough technologies all vying to alter the balance of power on Earth and beyond. "This isn’t science fiction; it’s the blueprint for the world we’re about to inherit.” —Ali Velshi, NBC...

In The Coming Food Crisis, John Klar rips back the curtain on the hidden power grab reshaping how and what we eat. Every year, more farm families vanish, replaced by corporate giants and imported products. As food prices soar and supply chains wobble, Klar exposes the powerful forces—political, activist, and corporate—turning America’s and the world's food supply into a tool of control.

Cyberattacks are the ultimate geopolitical weapon of the twenty-first century. They are used to damage presidential campaigns, shut down electric grids, sway public sentiment, and cost businesses and governments alike billions of dollars. Popular culture portrays cyberattacks as unstoppable and...

Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve.

American Government For Dummies helps you easily understand the concepts and historical events that define the U.S. government system. This guide covers all the content in a typical course on American government or civics, and it offers curious listeners a way to learn more about how the country...

In Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves, Will Hackman identifies three main obstacles to solving climate change: polarization, paralysis, and stale, ineffective messaging. He empowers people to turn their anxiety or apathy into passion, and anger into action at the personal, community, and government levels. The climate rallying cries to “Save the Planet” no longer work in our hyper-partisan world, nor do images of polar bears on melting glaciers. The problem isn’t scientific, fact-based, or even technological. It’s political, emotional, and ideological.

Aclamado por importantes economistas,traduzido para mais de 10 idiomas e com mais de um milhão de cópias vendidas, este audiolivro é a maneira mais curta e segura de entender a economia básica. Esta nova edição conta com o prefácio de Ubiratan Jorge Iorio.

Fentanyl is a first-person, insider account of how the crisis consumed the Biden Administration amid a series of other national security emergencies. It follows Jake Braun, a senior White House official, and his colleagues while they scramble to respond to the epidemic. As Mexican cartels ruthlessly executed their most radical transformation in 50 years, Braun and his colleagues architected the first U.S. government-wide strategy to combat fentanyl in history.

The book opens with the transformative impact of 9/11, which redefined the Coast Guard’s mission and thrust it into the heart of the homeland security apparatus. Laird weaves together perspectives from Admirals Thad Allen and Zukunft as they grapple with the legacy of the Deepwater modernization program, the rapid evolution of mission sets, and the chronic tension between ambition and budgetary constraint. In each chapter, real-world interviews spring to life, revealing how leaders navigate operational complexity, from disaster response and drug interdiction, to Arctic patrols and cyber ...

Over four decades, Western militaries have chased revolutions in warfare—from the Revolution in Military Affairs and network‑centric warfare to fifth‑generation airpower and today’s drone‑saturated battlefields. Much has been promised. Far less has actually worked in practice. In Lessons in Military Transformation, Robbin Laird cuts through the rhetoric and asks a harder question: how did transformation really happen inside squadrons, on flight decks, in command centers, and across allied coalitions when theory collided with operational friction and adaptive adversaries? Drawing ...

American democracy depends on united support by the largest economic class in the nation—the middle class. But this class faces a crisis of internal division, threatening America’s future. If conflict continues to worsen, it could lead to violence, threatening democracy itself. Since the 1980s, the upper middle class—the affluent group just below the top one percent—has reaped far more benefit from economic growth than the rest of the class. This division has provoked anger among those without the opportunity to move up.

For millennia, human societies have viewed the ocean as a dumping ground for waste products of all kinds. The sources of marine pollution are extensive, including oil spills, sewage, fertilizers, pesticides, industrial wastes, heavy metals, ocean acidification, plastics, and even invasive...

Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest...

Energy is no longer just a commodity. It is power. It is strategy. It is the hidden force shaping the modern world. From oil shocks and war-driven price spikes to fragile shipping lanes and strained electrical grids, The New Energy War reveals how energy has returned to the center of global conflict—and why it affects everything from inflation and food prices to elections and economic stability. In this gripping and deeply readable book, you will discover: Why oil and gas still dominate global power, despite the rise of renewables How conflicts in the Middle East ripple through global ...

¿Cómo se generan resultados cuando el entorno deja de ser predecible? Durante años, millones de personas han observado un fenómeno difícil de explicar. Profesionales, emprendedores, equipos y líderes que, en medio de la incertidumbre, no solo avanzan, sino que construyen, se adaptan y logran resultados sostenibles. Este libro traduce ese fenómeno que muchos conocen como arepa power en un sistema. El Código +58 es una forma de pensar, decidir y ejecutar en contextos donde no hay garantías, donde la información está incompleta y donde la capacidad de adaptación marca la diferencia...

In The Element Gap: Rare Earths and the Limit of Progress, Bernd Riemann provides a rigorous technical and geopolitical analysis of the physical constraints governing modern industrial civilization. This five-part study evaluates the convergence of atomic chemistry, thermodynamic law, and international relations to define the specific barriers to a digitized, electrified future. Part I: The Atomic Foundation Human progress is not a linear path of innovation but a series of collisions with the physical properties of matter. Riemann introduces the concept of the periodic trap, establishing ...

As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era.

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What happens when the systems that feed eight billion people break? The Food Shock Atlas is the first comprehensive, country-by-country analysis of twelve disruption scenarios that could reshape global food security within the next decade. Drawing on trade data, agricultural production statistics, climate projections, and geopolitical risk assessments current through March 2026, this atlas maps the vulnerabilities of all 195 countries across twelve distinct shock pathways — and scores each nation's resilience. The twelve scenarios span the full spectrum of food system fragility: Black Sea...

When you’re from the Bronx, people perceive a certain toughness. It is that Bronx attitude that permeates this memoir. A childhood surrounded by family imbued the author with a sense of duty and empowerment that got this daughter of Puerto Rican parents through a journey in uncharted territory like a college application process and so many things that people in her family had not experienced but expected from her. She writes about culture shock in college and lovely moments of identity and purpose, which lead her to a thirty-year career in New York media. The author describes her ...

We're Number One!?: America's Uncertain Standing in the World compares the domestic policies of the United States to other countries across a wide variety of social, political, and economic metrics. This book demonstrates conclusively that despite America's wealth, its strong economy, its...

En El desfase elemental: Tierras raras y los límites del progreso, Bernd Riemann proporciona un análisis técnico y geopolítico riguroso de las restricciones físicas que rigen la civilización industrial moderna. Este estudio, estructurado en cinco partes diferenciadas, evalúa la convergencia de la química atómica, las leyes de la termodinámica y las relaciones internacionales para definir las barreras específicas que enfrenta un futuro digitalizado y electrificado. La obra trasciende la narrativa convencional de la innovación como un recurso infinito para ofrecer un marco ...

Exploring the growing phenomenon of women gun owners in middle America, this book challenges the conventional narratives that often dominate discussions of gun culture. By applying a feminist and critical cultural framework, A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives of Women Who Shoot argues that...