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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!

Carl Hart’s High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

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

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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

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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

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Heroin: A National Epidemic

Carl Hart’s High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

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

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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 

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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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