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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and NOT the original book. Preview: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin is a memoir of the author’s year-long experiment to see if she could maximize her happiness. Inside this companion:...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable and NOT the original book. Preview: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future is Kevin Kelly’s in-depth exploration of the imminent changes on the technological horizon that...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jessica Bennett's Feminist Fight Club and NOT the original book. Preview: Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett is a guide for women to counteract behaviors and trends in the workplace that disproportionately damage their ability to succeed. Bennett’s...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Hudson’s Pretty Happy and NOT the original book. Preview: Pretty Happy by Kate Hudson is a nonfiction diet and lifestyle guide, in which Hudson imparts hard-won wisdom about self-care practices that have helped her feel more integrated physically,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Arianna Huffington’s The Sleep Revolution and NOT the original book. Preview: The Sleep Revolution is a call to action to make sleep a priority and reclaim the night for the basic human need of rest. Millions of people use nighttime hours for activities...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dan Buettner’s The Blue Zones Solution and NOT the original book. Preview: The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner expands on research into the regions of the world where residents are more likely to live to the age of 100 and beyond, the Blue...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Moss’s Salt Sugar Fat and NOT the original book. Preview: Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is a compelling nonfiction investigation into how corporate food manufacturers have come to rely on salt, sugar, and fat as the mainstays of processed...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bader Ginsburg's & et al My Own Words and NOT the original book. Preview: My Own Words is a collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s public writing and speeches. It includes biographical information and a discussion of her intellectual interests...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to George Packer's The Unwinding and NOT the original book. Preview: The Unwinding by George Packer is an account of the decline of American institutions since 1978. The traditional pillars of American middle-class democracy—government, schools, churches,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind and NOT the original book. Preview: Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion is an application of Haidt’s research on moral psychology to the context of American...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and NOT the original book. Preview: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chronicles the lives and relationships of two young Nigerians named Ifemelu and Obinze, and explores the culture of the United States...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Maria Konnikova’s The Confidence Game and NOT the original book. Preview: The Confidence Game is a nonfiction examination of con games. It considers both the minds and methods of con artists and the minds and weaknesses of the people who fall victim...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, & Steel and NOT the original book. Preview: Guns, Germs, & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for the first edition that was published in 1997. Thirteen thousand years...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Matt Taibbi's The Divide and NOT the original book. Preview: The Divide by Matt Taibbi approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories...