Books

Chase, Chance, and Creativity James H. Austin A neurologist argues that chance arrives in four distinct kinds, and only one of them is genuinely beyond your influence. 1 recommender Chasing Fog Laura Pashby Pashby chases fog across the Somerset Levels, the Thames and the Scottish haar, making a natural history of weather into an argument for not seeing clearly. 1 recommender Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea Shuchen Xiang China had its own traditions of openness to outsiders, and rather more of them than expected. 1 recommender Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism Michael J. McVicar An intellectual history of the theologian whose fringe theocratic programme shaped homeschooling, the religious right, and arguments now heard in the mainstream. 1 recommender Cinderella Liberator Rebecca Solnit Solnit retells Cinderella so that the heroine frees herself, and everyone else, rather than marrying up. 1 recommender City of Gold: Dubai Jim Krane A trading port turned capitalist experiment at impossible speed, and the bill that came due. 1 recommender Civilization Niall Ferguson Ferguson identifies six "killer apps" that let the West race ahead of the rest of the world, and asks whether that edge is fading. 1 recommender Climate of Hope Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg and Carl Pope argue climate progress will come from cities and markets, not treaties, and lay out what works Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Ethan Mollick A Wharton professor's practical guide to working with large language models, written from constant use. 1 recommender Cold Hard Truth Kevin O'Leary The Shark Tank investor's unsentimental case that money buys freedom, emotion kills deals, and excuses are what stand between you and wealth. Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids and Money Kevin O'Leary Why O'Leary thinks families should talk money openly, teach kids self-reliance early, and refuse to let love become an excuse for enabling. Collected Poems Jane Kenyon Kenyon spent her life in rural New Hampshire attending to weather, animals, marriage and depression, and died at forty-seven. Her plainness is a discipline, not a limit. 1 recommender Color Me Flo Florynce Kennedy The civil rights lawyer who told everyone to stop agonising and start organising, in her own voice. 1 recommender Comedy Sex God Pete Holmes Losing a marriage and a faith at once, then trying to keep the useful part of one of them. Coming Up for Air George Orwell A middle-aged insurance man revisits his boyhood town and finds it gone, in Orwell's novel of nostalgia and looming war. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Philip A. Fisher Philip Fisher's classic case for buying great growth companies and holding them, judged by the quality of their business and management. 1 recommender Company Commander Charles B. MacDonald Twenty-one years old and handed a rifle company in the Ardennes, written while it was all still raw 1 recommender Complete Works 1979-Today Zaha Hadid Everything Hadid built and everything she did not, from the early Suprematist paintings to the late parametric work, with the sketches that show how each began. 1 recommender Concordant Discord: The Interdependence of Faiths Concordant Discord: The Interdependence of Faiths R.C. Zaehner The Gifford Lectures of an Oxford scholar who thought the great religions were arguing about the same thing. 1 recommender Confessions of a Barbarian Edward Abbey Four decades of private journals, angrier and less certain than the polished desert essays that built the public Abbey reputation. 1 recommender Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins A former consultant's account of how economic pressure serves foreign policy. 1 recommender Consent: A Memoir Jill Ciment A woman married her teacher, who began the relationship when she was seventeen, and reconsiders it decades on. 1 recommender Consolations II David Whyte Ordinary words taken one at a time by a poet rather than a lexicographer, and found to mean something considerably harder. 1 recommender Conspiracy Ryan Holiday How a billionaire secretly funded a lawsuit to destroy a publication, told as a study in patience. Constitutional Chaos Andrew Napolitano A former judge's account of the state breaking its own rules, from entrapment to coerced pleas. Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives Hamid Keshmirshekan From Saqqakhaneh through the rupture of 1979 to the Tehran scene now, a survey that goes around the political narrative and arrives at the country anyway. 1 recommender Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney Two former girlfriends and a married couple entangle in Sally Rooney's sharp debut about intimacy and self-discovery. 1 recommender Conversations with Myself Nelson Mandela Mandela unedited: the private letters, prison notebooks and taped talks behind the public statesman, in his own hand Conviction Denise Mina A true-crime podcast names someone from the life a woman abandoned, and her carefully rebuilt existence collapses in an hour. 1 recommender Cosmic Queries Neil deGrasse Tyson The biggest questions, how it began, are we alone, how it ends, answered in the conversational StarTalk voice Counterfeit Kirstin Chen A burnt-out lawyer is recruited by an old roommate into a counterfeit handbag scheme built on being underestimated. 1 recommender Courage Is Calling Ryan Holiday Courage in its everyday form: the willingness to be disliked, to speak up, and to begin. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches Marvin Harris Sacred cows, pig taboos and witch hunts, each read as a solution to a problem you have not spotted. 1 recommender Crash Proof 2.0 Peter Schiff Schiff's pre-2008 forecast of collapse, with a defensive playbook of foreign stocks, commodities, and gold for investors who share his bearish, hard-money view. Create Your Own Future Brian Tracy Twelve factors Tracy argues separate people who shape their circumstances from those who wait to see what happens. Creativity and Problem Solving Brian Tracy A pocket guide treating creativity as a trainable habit of asking better questions, not a gift some people are born with.