From bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, a paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems from climate change to housing, education to healthcare. The book explores how one generation's solutions have become the next generation's problems—rules designed to solve environmental issues now prevent urban density and green energy projects, while systems meant to ensure governmental accountability have made it difficult to act. Klein and Thompson trace the barriers to progress and advocate for a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds.

In this gripping memoir, Sarah Wynn-Williams charts her career at Facebook from idealistic newcomer to disillusioned insider. The book reveals the absurd and often troubling reality of life among the global tech elite, mapping Facebook's rise from stumbling encounters with authoritarian regimes to its role in reshaping democracy itself.

Marshall Rosenberg presents a powerful approach to communicating with empathy and compassion. The book challenges the way most of us have been educated—to compete, judge, demand, and diagnose—and offers tools for speaking our true needs while connecting from the heart. A foundational text for anyone seeking to transform how they relate to others and themselves.

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday: he visited his wife's grave, then he joined the army. In Scalzi's universe, Earth's elderly are recruited into the Colonial Defense Forces, their consciousness transferred into enhanced young bodies to fight alien species competing for habitable planets. A witty, action-packed military sci-fi that explores what it means to start over when you thought life was ending.

Peter Hessler returns to China after a decade away to teach writing at a Sichuan university. Through his students' lives and stories, he explores how China has transformed and what has stayed the same, offering a deeply personal look at education, ambition, and identity in modern China.

The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.

All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life—Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.