Milkyway Media: 151 books

Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar’s Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond (2017) is a handbook for people who are curious about investing in digital financial instruments. Cryptoassets include digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, along with a range of other investment...

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (2018) by Daniel H. Pink is a meditative yet practical exploration of time. Most success in life comes down to a matter of good timing. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons from the World’s Happiest People (2017) by Dan Buettner explores how personal choices, cultural milieu, and geographical location all help promote happiness. Buettner draws lessons from cultural practices in some of the world’s “Blue Zones,” or geographic...

In Principles: Life and Work (2017), Ray Dalio describes core practices he developed during his career as an investor. Dalio believes that by applying these principles to their lives, readers can improve their relationships, enhance group decision making, and more easily adapt to changing circumstances. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

In I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t) (2007), Brené Brown explores the causes and impacts of shame, as well as its remedies. She directly addresses women and provides strategies and practices to create what she calls “shame resilience.”… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012) by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon explores how a range of business theories can help build not only successful companies, but also happy lives. Those who obtain their MBAs at Harvard Business School or other prestigious universities...

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal (2016) provides an overview of the history of animal cognition research and the most recent discoveries about animal intelligence. As researchers continue to improve methods for testing animals’ cognitive abilities, they are discovering...

Thomas Sowell’s book Discrimination and Disparities (2018) is an extended essay by a respected conservative economist and thinker. It addresses questions of why success is elusive, and explains what so many people get wrong about social disparity. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff was published in early January 2018, four days ahead of schedule because of skyrocketing demand provoked by President Donald Trump’s attempt to block its publication. The book paints a vivid portrait of bumbling ineptitude on the part...

In Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers (2009), Karyl McBride uses her extensive experience as a family therapist to offer a guide to recovery for adult daughters of narcissistic mothers. The program is designed to help these women overcome a vicious cycle of dysfunctional...

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (2018) describes author Michelle McNamara’s quest to identify a California serial killer who committed a rash of rapes and murders during the 1970s and 1980s. The book examines both the serial killer’s crimes...

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (with Ola Rosling and Anna RoslingRönnlund) is a work of nonfiction that systematically debunks common misunderstandings about the world. The sweeping scope of human history is, by and...

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood (2011) by physicians Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey is a detailed study of attention deficit disorder (ADD) first published in 1994. The authors define the disorder, describe its subtypes,...

What I Know For Sure (2014) by Oprah Winfrey is a compilation of 14 years’ worth of columns Winfrey wrote for O Magazine. In columns targeted to American women, Oprah dispenses life advice and inspiration in the form of glimpses into her remarkable life… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.