Nonfiction Books about Social Problems, Current Issues, and Economics

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Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
By Daniel H. Pink
153.1534 PIN
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does. He argues that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

The Art of Choosing
By Sheena Iyengar
153.83 IYE
Sheena Iyengar’s award-winning research reveals how and why we choose: whether or not choice is innate or bound by culture, why we sometimes choose against our best interests, and how much control we really have over what we choose.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By Michael Lewis
330.973 LEW
The author explains how the event we were told was impossible – the free fall of the American economy – finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
By Ken Auletta
338.761 AUL
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media landscape, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media business – from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft.

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By Jon Krakauer
BIO TILLMAN
The stunning, eloquent account of Pat Tillman, an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast who walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, Tillman felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later on April 22, 2004, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan under murky, heartbreaking circumstances.