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New Nonfiction Books July 2025 |
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Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty by Adam KucharskiThe award-winning mathematician shows how we prove what is true, what to do when we cannot and how to convince other people, as he surveys the history of the pathways that science has taken - logical, empirical, intuitive and more - to separate fact from fiction, with the same goal of finding perfect evidence and being rewarded with universal truth, and when existing methods fail, embracing uncertainty.
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple The author draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world - and our world today as we know it.
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The Project: How Project 2025 is Reshaping America by David A. GrahamThe award-winning journalist provides a clear guide to the playbook for the second Trump administration, offering context, distilling its essential elements, breaking down the Project's strategy for transforming and radically empowering the executive branch and explaining what its architects are doing with that power: enforcing traditional gender norms, decimating the civil service, performing mass deportations, reducing corporate regulation and worker protections, and more.
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The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. BenderLinguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna make clear that the fears promulgated by AI hypsters twist words to help the rich get richer by justifying data theft, motivating surveillance capitalism and devaluing human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines - in this sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of Big Tech's drive for profit, with little concern for whom it affects.
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Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups by Ed HelmsCoined during World War I, SNAFU is an acronym that stands for "Situation Normal: All F*cked Up". In other words, "things are pretty screwed up, but aren't they always?" Spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s, Ed Helms steps in as unofficial history teacher for a deep dive into each decade's craziest SNAFUs - from planting nukes on the moon to training felines as CIA spies to weaponizing the weather.
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What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory by Brian EnoEno invites readers to explore this vital question by offering the chance to understand how art is made by all of us, how it creates communities, opens our worlds and has the ability to transform us - in this curious, playful and richly illustrated, inspiring call to imagine a different future.
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace FlemingThis chronicle of one of American history's most notorious cults, including first-person accounts, follows Jim Jones from humble origins to "Jonestown" in Guyana, South America, tracing his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind control.
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The Scarr's Pizza Cookbook: New York-Style Pizza for Everybody by Scarr PimentelIn his debut cookbook, the owner of Scarr's Pizza, who puts his own healthy spin on the classic New York-style pizza slice, breaks down the anatomy of his famous pies, which use all-natural and organic recipes, through step-by-step photos to help you make a great pizza at home.
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