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The Expectation Effect (2022) explores the connection between our minds, our bodies, and our outcomes. It explores how our expectations can form our realities, and reveals the extent to which self-fulfilling prophecies shape our lives.

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David Robson is a science writer, whose work has been published in the Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. His first book, The Intelligence Trap, has been published in 15 languages.

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The Power of Strangers (2021) explores why we don’t talk to strangers – and why we definitely should. It looks at how humans evolved to communicate and collaborate with strangers and reveals why our modern alienation from one another is such a problem.

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Joe Keohane is a journalist who has worked as a senior editor at Medium, Esquire, Entrepreneur, and Hemispheres. His writing – on subjects as diverse as travel, social sciences, business, and tech – has appeared in New York magazine, the Boston Globe, the New Yorker, Wired, Boston magazine, and the New Republic.

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Framers (2021) takes a bird’s eye view of the issues facing our world today, from pandemics to political polarization, and presents a visionary solution. That solution lies with framing –⁠ the conscious or unconscious act of viewing the world through a particular lens. By recognizing and rethinking the frames we use, we can optimize our attitudes toward the world and give ourselves a leg up in the face of major social, economic, and scientific challenges.

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Kenneth Cukier is a journalist and a senior editor at the Economist. He is the coauthor of Big Data, a New York Times best seller, and hosts Babbage, a science and technology podcast.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is a professor at Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute. He advises Angela Merkel as part of Germany’s Digital Council, and he coauthored Big Data with Kenneth Cukier.

Francis de Véricourt is a professor of management science and director of the Center for Decisions, Models, and Data at Berlin’s European School of Management and Technology.

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Stop Reading the News (2020) shows us how we can live a calmer, healthier, and more thoughtful life if we simply stop reading the news. By practicing what the author calls radical abstinence from the news media, we can rescue our minds from the overload of information, and focus on what actually matters in life.

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Rolf Dobelli is an author and businessman who was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1966. He began his writing career in 2003 as a novelist, with the publication of Fünfunddreissig, but is best known for his nonfictional work, The Art of Thinking Clearly. In 1999, he co-founded getAbstract, a publisher of book summaries and article abstracts.

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Late Bloomers (2019) explores why modern society is obsessed with early achievement. It explains the damaging effects a super-charged education can have on young people’s mental health, as well as how our family, our peers, and the media influence the life paths we take. Drawing on his own experiences, author Rich Karlgaard suggests that blooming later in life is not something to be ashamed of, but something to be celebrated instead.

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Rich Karlgaard is an American journalist, award-winning entrepreneur, and the publisher of Forbes magazine. He’s also the author of three books, including Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness, which made the Wall Street Journal best-seller list.

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The Reality Game (2020) sheds light on the murky world of “computational propaganda” – political manipulation using digital tools. Samuel Woolley argues that fake news, viral conspiracy theories, and Twitter bot armies don’t just sow confusion and discord; in his view, they also subvert the democratic process. That means it’s high time we fought back and reclaimed our digital space from today’s unaccountable mega-platforms.

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Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the study of politics, persuasion, and social media. Wooley cofounded the Computational Propaganda Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative that explores digital politics. He is also the founding director of the Digital Intelligence Lab and has written about computational propaganda for Wired, the Atlantic, Motherboard, TechCrunch, Slate, and the Guardian.

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Reading People (2017) is a study of the different lenses you can use to understand personality – both your own and those of others. It sheds light on concepts like introversion and extroversion, as well as introducing readers to famous personality type indexes like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

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