The CIW Library: Books Not to Miss
Every year, CIW brings you talented senators, doctors, business people, chefs and so much more. Many of these accomplished professionals also happen to be brilliant authors who will be signing their books on site at CIW. Oh, and did we mention that they’re perfect holiday gifts?
Having a hard time narrowing your list down? Here are four CIW staff picks!
Ray Kelly’s Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City
Stuart Scott and Larry Platt’s Every Day I Fight
Bethany McLean’s The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Monday, October 12, 2015
Can the World Run on Batteries?
Philip Warburg’s Harness the Sun: America’s Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
Welcome to the Future of Retail
Bayard Winthrop’s I F**KING LOVE THAT COMPANY: How a New Generation of Brand Builders Is Defining the Post-Amazon World
Unlock Your Creativity in 90 Minutes or Less
Eugenia Cheng’s How to Bake Pi
Food as Medicine
Rebecca Katz’s The Healthy Mind Cookbook: Big-Flavor Recipes to Enhance Brain Function, Mood, Memory, and Mental Clarity
Rebecca Katz’s The Longevity Kitchen: Satisfying, Big-Flavor Recipes Featuring the Top 16 Age-Busting Power Foods
Michel Nischan’s Sustainably Delicious: Making the World a Better Place, One Recipe at a Time
The State of the Union
David Gregory’s How’s Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
Bethany McLean’s Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Bethany McLean’s The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Juan Zarate’s Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
Clarence Page’s Culture Worrier: Selected Columns 1984–2014: Reflections on Race, Politics and Social Change
Greg Ip’s Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
Robin Wright’s Rock the Casbah
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The Giving Solution: How Philanthropy is Changing the World
Nancy Lublin’s The XYZ Factor: The DoSomething.org Guide to Creating a Culture of Impact
Leading Under Pressure
Alexa Clay’s The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
Life’s Big Questions
Patricia Marx’s Let’s Be Less Stupid
David Gregory’s How’s Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
Ken Feinberg’s Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Upheaval
Race in America
Tanner Colby’s Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
Keeping the Peace
Kevin Coval’s The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poet in the Age of Hip-Hop
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Cybersecurity: It’s Time to Update your Password…Again
Gabriella Blum’s The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones – Confronting A New Age of Threat
Ray Kelly’s Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City
Terrorism: Behind the Headlines
William McCants’ The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
Scott Shane’s Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
Cultural Icons
Lesley-Anna Jones’ Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury
Cheryl Della Pietra’s Gonzo Girl
Stuart Scott and Larry Platt’s Every Day I Fight
Heroin: A National Epidemic
Wildcard: Anything Can Happen. And We Promise You It Will.
Nice Try.
Top of Their Game: Entrepreneurs and Their Startup Stories
Kay Koplovitz’s Been There, Run That
Martha Stewart’s Martha Stewart’s Appetizers *pre-signed copies available for sale
Martine Rothblatt’s Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
Thursday, October 15, 2015
What Would Shakespeare Tweet?
Deborah Fallows’ Dreaming in Chinese
Dana Suskind’s Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain
David Peterson’s The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
The Global Economy
Senator Claire McCaskill’s Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir
Genius: A Peek Inside the World’s Most Brilliant Minds
Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Friday, October 16, 2015
Edison Talks: Is There Time?
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Laura Vanderkam’s I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make Most of Their Time
Michael Strahan’s Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life
David Eagleman’s Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman’s The Brain: The Story of You
Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman’s The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Salman Khan’s The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
Judy Smith’s Good Self, Bad Self: How to Bounce Back from a Personal Crisis
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Unraveling of the American Justice System
Adam Benforado’s Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Time for “The Talk”: Your New Guide to Getting it On
Chris Donaghue’s Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture
Emily Nagoski’s Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Ducky Dolittle’s Sex with the Lights On: 200 Illuminating Sex Questions Answered
Abiola Abrams’ The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power
Sunday, October 18, 2015
The State of Mental Health in America
Patrick Kennedy’s A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
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