NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the...

2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).

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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

3) Lovely one: a memoir

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Jackson, Ketanji Brown

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America's highest court within the span of one generation. Named 'Ketanji Onyika,' meaning 'Lovely One,' based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth....

4) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 211 week(s).

5) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 98 week(s).

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

6) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

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Larson, Erik

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 20 week(s).

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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...

7) Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

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Harmon, Mark

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.

8) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 74 week(s).

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...