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A grounded look at the energy, food, and materials that actually underpin modern life — and what the future will really demand.

A lone astronaut wakes with no memory aboard a spaceship and must piece together his mission to save humanity.

A sweeping history of Silicon Valley, tracing how Palo Alto's particular brand of capitalism shaped California and the world.

A case for a politics of building — more housing, energy, and innovation — as the path to a future of plenty.

A son's tender memoir of his father, a doctor and human-rights activist murdered in 1980s Medellín.

Gladwell revisits social epidemics, digging into the darker mechanics behind how things tip, spread, and get engineered.