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Healthcare is being pushed to its limits. Workforce shortages are growing. Clinician burnout is accelerating. Consumers are demanding a radically different experience. And artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept—it is rapidly becoming the foundation of a new kind of healthcare system.

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world. Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They are bigger than the stock market and rival even the global banking system in influence. But they are...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A People Best Book of November 2025 · An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological...

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world. Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are...

From a brilliant, young, Harvard-trained anthropologist and contributor to The New Yorker comes a fascinating investigation into the spiritual practice of shamanism, from its beginnings to the present moment, for readers disaffected with organized religion who seek a more personal approach to...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone. “The magic of Tim Wu’s The Age of...

The pre-eminent exponent of anti-monopoly law explains why we have no option but to break Big Tech’s monopolies, and that doing so would unleash innovation and growth. Today’s dominant tech platforms – the places where we exchange information and buy things online – could be the most...

Marty Schott and Bo Bishop are trying to extricate themselves from a dangerous business partnership with a Russian oligarch when a midnight phone call shatters their plans. Bo's brother-in-law has been murdered—and the Portland police detective on the scene recognizes them instantly. He's questioned them before. He hasn't forgotten. As Marty and Bo dig for answers, they uncover a hidden wire, criminal activity inside their own company, and a killer who isn't finished.

The Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern finance: hundreds of hedge funds, venture capitalists, stock pickers, bond traders, and private equity managers visit him every year, asking for money. He helms the engine room of the modern academy: the six-billion-dollar endowment he presides over allows the school to compete for students, faculty, prestige, moral purpose and solvency. The CIO is a winner in bourgeois America's highest dream: "doing well by doing good.

Marty and Bo were just trying to keep their struggling startup alive - but now they've got a bigger problem - keeping themselves alive. Most investor pitch meetings don't end in murder - but then Marty and Bo haven't had a lot of luck lately. They've been struggling to keep their startup business alive. It's not high-tech, it's not highly successful and the pressure to find capital has strained their bank accounts and Marty's marriage.

When everything you've built falls apart, do you have the courage to start over and find love again? What happens when a successful plastic surgeon discovers that he can fix everyone's face but can't repair his broken marriage? Dr. Nick Jordan thought he had it all figured out—a thriving practice in New Orleans, a beautiful wife, and a life that looked perfect from the outside. But when his twenty-year marriage crumbles and his practice begins hemorrhaging money, Nick finds himself facing a terrifying question: at fifty, is it too late to start over?

A wildly original narrative of philosophy in crisis, The Haunted Present traces the dreams and struggles of Theodor Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault, and Paul K. Feyerabend, to reveal the true fault lines of our world today It is the winter 1949: Theodor W. Adorno returns from the USA to...

May 1945. The world celebrates the fall of Nazi Germany and the reported death of Adolf Hitler—yet, one young Jewish survivor sees the impossible: Hitler alive and slipping into the shadows. Second Lieutenant Cy Jacobson, fresh from West Point and untested in real combat, is thrust into his first assignment—investigate a vast Nazi tunnel complex hidden beneath the rolling Austrian hills.

French Dirt is a love story between a man and his garden. It's about plowing, planting, watering, and tending. It's about cabbage, tomatoes, parsley, and eggplant. Most of all, it's about the growing friendship between an American outsider and a close-knit community of French farmers.

Two north Texas construction workers, Boogie and Lottie, try their best to live what they call the redneck life, when aliens begin to abduct them repeatedly for study. Their humorous encounters become increasingly horrific, so the men must look inward, to what they love most, to set them free.

The inventor behind the Leatherman multi-tool and founder of the beloved company presents his inspiring personal story as a practical how-to guide for entrepreneurs, artists, and creatives of all kinds who want to pursue their own big ideas. On a budget trip to Europe in 1975, Tim Leatherman...

The War is over, but for petty criminal Charlie his darkest days are only just beginning. Charlie Briggs is never off-duty, even when a botched job means he's forced to lay low in a sleepy Hampshire town for the holiday season. Always searching for his next unwitting victim, or a shiny trinket he can pilfer, he can't believe his luck when he happens upon a rare book so valuable it will set him up for life.

The body of a tourist turns up frozen in Patagonia's largest glacier, killed by a gunshot to the belly thirty years ago. Of course, you have no idea that this will change your life. You’ve lived all of it in Barcelona, on the other side of the world. To grasp what’s happening, you first need to know a few things: Your father had a brother he never told you about. This brother has just died, leaving you as the sole heir to a mysterious property in El Chaltén, an idyllic town in Patagonia.

Brought to you by Penguin. What are the origins of shamanism and what is its future? Do shamans believe in their powers? What exactly is trance? And what can we learn from indigenous healing practices? In this enlightening book, anthropologist Manvir Singh offers a new explanation for one of the...

In the seemingly perfect neighborhood of Briar Vale, the Miller family's new home was meant to be their dream come true—a symbol of success and a gateway to a brighter future. But behind the gleaming façades and manicured lawns, something far more sinister waits. What begins as small, eerie occurrences soon spirals into a nightmare of unsettling events, threatening to unravel both the family's sanity and their safety.