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Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a landmark work of financial nonfiction that reconstructs the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis through the stories of the contrarian investors who saw the collapse coming — and profited from it. Released on March 15, 2010, by W. W. Norton & Company, it spent 28 weeks on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, was shortlisted for the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, received the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Book Award, and served as the basis for the acclaimed 2015 film adaptation. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter called it "the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game" and "essential reading."
Feb 16, 2026
First published in 1988 and never out of print, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is one of the most consequential works of media criticism of the twentieth century, presenting a systematic propaganda model to explain how U.S. Mass media serve elite economic and political interests without any need for overt coercion.
Feb 19, 2026
Published by IMPACT Books in November 2016, Draw With Jazza – Creating Characters is a how-to instructional guide by YouTube artist and animator Josiah "Jazza" Brooks, designed to walk aspiring cartoonists and comic artists through a repeatable, four-stage process for inventing and drawing original characters across genres — from sci-fi and steampunk to comic book heroes and alien races.
Feb 14, 2026
Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method is the foundational primary source in which the Italian physician and educator sets out the scientific and philosophical principles behind the approach to child education she developed in Rome's Casa dei Bambini — required reading for anyone who wants to understand the movement at its source rather than through secondary interpretation.
Feb 18, 2026
Now in a second edition from The Guilford Press, The Mindful Way through Depression is a structured self-help guide co-authored by four leading mindfulness and cognitive-therapy researchers — Mark Williams of Oxford University, John Teasdale of Cambridge University, Zindel Segal of the University of Toronto, and Jon Kabat-Zinn — that delivers an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program designed to break the mental habits that drive recurring depression, accompanied by downloadable audio meditations narrated by Kabat-Zinn.
Feb 16, 2026
Freakonomics, the debut non-fiction collaboration between University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner, published by William Morrow on April 12, 2005, applies economic theory to a deliberately provocative range of subjects — from sumo wrestling corruption and crack-cocaine earnings to the role of legalized abortion in reducing crime — and went on to sell over 4 million copies worldwide by late 2009, spawning a multi-media franchise that redefined popular economics writing.
Mar 4, 2026
Lillian Jacobs's Ultimate Video Game Trivia Challenge delivers 600 multiple-choice questions spanning classic and modern games, RPGs, music, characters, and gaming history — a purpose-built reference and quiz companion for enthusiasts who want to test the full breadth of their gaming knowledge.
Feb 26, 2026A scientifically grounded approach to breaking depressive cycles through mindfulness, offering practical tools for chronic unhappiness but requiring significant commitment and best suited for mild to moderate depression.
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