As the summer winds to a close and COVID surges again, I can’t think of a better distraction than some brain candy. Here are my top choices from the new idea books for August and September:
Book sales in Sweden hit an all-time high in the first half of 2021 as people travelled less and entertained themselves at home more than usual during the pandemic, setting the industry u...
A book is a must, as you head off to visit family and friends, or take time off during the summer to unwind. A good book can bring in new thinking and perspective from the past. And it ca...
When Oxford academic Dr Kira Allmann began volunteering at a library, she did not imagine it would result in a report calling for urgent government support for libraries to address deep d...
Pages of research have been dedicated to the link between reading and wellbeing. Just six minutes spent with a book each day is said to reduce stress levels by 68%, while non-readers are ...
In 2020, Barack Obama published the first volume of his Presidential memoirs, A Promised Land. It’s a book that charms every bit as much as it surprises, revealing the former US president...
Since the summer of 2020, when George Floyd's death shocked the nation, more companies have been promising new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Part of that work includ...
We're already almost halfway through 2021: The days are longer, the grass is greener, and reader's favorite books of the year (so far!) are starting to emerge. Many of the new books from...
When Wharton management professor Adam Grant sat down to write his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, he wanted to make the case for why executives should re...
Reading a great book is a great investment: in two hours, you can soak up the lessons that it took the authors at least two years to digest and distill.
“If you want to get better at something, read a book about it.”
Escaping into a good book has perhaps never been quite as needed as during the past year.
However uncomfortable we may feel about the subject, death is in the news at the moment. Many of us have lost people during the pandemic and, even if we want to shield children from heari...
American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, the Swedish Academ...
Jane Goodall made a fervent plea at the World Economic Forum’s recent Sustainable Development Impact Summit that we take action on climate change before the “window of time” closes.
