Like many of those who've gone before her, Andi turned this break up into an opportunity and wrote us a tell-all disguised as a break up advice book.

Free speech alone is not sufficient for delivering the conditions for reasoned debate. It is impossible without trust and sincerity, and Stanley suggests this is the first critical piece in the puzzle he calls The Ways of Silencing.

It's no secret that we don't live in a post racial society, and it's also clear that having these conversations are not easy. To better understand a framework in how to approach them, or to better understand the struggles so many people face today this book is excellent.

I'm currently working on a book about writing fearlessly, a subject about which I have written for the last eight years, and which I have begun teaching in the last two or three. This has provided me with an unusual creative launching pad.

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The San Francisco based construction giant has been at the forefront of what journalist Naomi Klein has called "disaster capitalism" as it has profited from the wreckage of failed wars and environmental disasters.

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In 1963, a black Trinidadian writer published a critical examination of the sport of cricket that would soon become hailed by critics across the globe as one of the greatest books about sports--any sport--ever written. The writer was Cyril Lionel Robert James, better known as C. L. R. James.

Most people know Laura Ingalls Wilder as author of the beloved 'Little House on the Prairie' children's books. What fans may not know is how late in life Wilder bloomed as a writer. After more than two decades as a farm wife, she became a newspaper columnist in her 40s.

"I've seen a lot of women struggling in their relationship. They want more connection. I wrote the book, in part, to offer these women empathy."

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"The wall between machines and humans, between computer science and biology, is collapsing and I think the next century and probably the future of life itself will be shaped by this algorithmic view of the world."