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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell asks readers to look beyond talent alone, toward opportunity, practice, timing, culture, and the institutions that make achievement possible.
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Worth Reading
Independent reading selections for creativity, craft, curiosity, and meaning.
Worth Reading is AuthZ’s shelf of independent reading selections, not a collection of literary essays. We choose books that help people create, develop their craft, follow their curiosity, or find language for questions that matter to them. Each note explains what a book might make possible in a reader’s life.
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Origin Story
David Christian retells the history of the universe, life, and humanity through major thresholds of complexity and their fragile conditions.
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Maps of Time
David Christian connects cosmology, life, human societies, and the modern world in a chronological introduction to Big History.