Education
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THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
🖋️ Daniel Kahneman
🏢 Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal lives and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
🥈 02
GRIT
🖋️ Angela Duckworth
🏢 Scribner
A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
🥉 03
THING EXPLAINER
🖋️ Randall Munroe
🏢 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Cells, elevators, smartphones, nuclear reactors and more are demystified with simply annotated blueprints. From the author of "What If?"
04
SPEAKING AMERICAN
🖋️ Josh Katz
🏢 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The creator of the New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.
05
I AM MALALA
🖋️ Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
🏢 Little, Brown
The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women’s education who was shot by the Taliban and later won the Nobel Peace Prize. Originally published in 2013.
06
ON WRITING
🖋️ Stephen King
🏢 Scribner
A memoir that is a master class on the writer's craft.
07
WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION
🖋️ Cathy O'Neil
🏢 Crown
How decisions that impact our lives are made by algorithms instead of people.
08
BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2016
🖋️ edited Rachel Kushner
🏢 Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A wide-ranging anthology selected by high school students.
09
HOW NOT TO BE WRONG
🖋️ Jordan Ellenberg
🏢 Penguin
A mathematician shows how his discipline helps us think about problems of politics, medicine and commerce.
10
OTHER-WORDLY
🖋️ Yee-Lum Mak
🏢 Chronicle
From the blog of the same name, 64 intriguing words from a dozen languages.