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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
By Adam Grant
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman called this #1 New York Times bestselling book “brilliant.”
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By Adam Grant
We live in a world obsessed with talent. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. This #1 New York Times bestseller offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations, using science and stories to show you how.
The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
By Matt Beane
One of the world’s top researchers on work and technology offers this urgent call and insightful guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots. The books reveals the hidden code that underwrites every successful expert-novice relationship and drives the inheritance of human skill, showing us how to make intelligent technologies part of the solution, not the problem
Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes
By Rob Knight, with Brendan Buhler
Allergies, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused—and someday cured—by the microscopic life inside us. How does this groundbreaking science influence your health, mood and more? Pioneering scientist Rob Knight pairs with award-winning science journalist Brendan Buhler to explain why these new findings matter to everyone.
Super Cells: Building With Biology
By Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim
This eye-popping tour of the new biological frontier describes the tantalizing array of inventions already being created with nature’s elemental building block: the cell. The authors, daring inventors in their own right, contend that we’re entering a new technological era, one in which we can create smarter technologies by making cells our partners in design. And they confront the thorny questions that come with playing with the power of life.
The Upstream Doctors
By Rishi Manchanda
In this eye-opening book, physician Rishi Manchanda explains why our health may depend even more on our social and environmental settings than on cutting-edge medical care. Manchanda argues that the future of our health depends on growing a new generation of health care practitioners who look upstream for the sources of our problems, rather than simply symptomatic relief. If our high-cost, sick-care system is to become a high-value, health care system, the Upstreamists will show us the way.
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
Edited by TED Books in collaboration with The Atlantic Cities
As the world’s cities balloon to more than 6 billion inhabitants by mid-century, we face both a dire emergency and a tremendous opportunity. This book celebrates 12 promising, provocative responses to this challenge, in realms ranging from transportation to food to art. It asks and begins to answer: How can we transform cities to be sustainable, efficient, beautiful, and invigorating to the human soul? And practically speaking, how do we get from here to there?