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September 2026 Nonfiction Releases โ Latest from BookLab
Are you using AI or is AI using you? A bold, human-first field guide to staying sharp, relevant, and deeply human as artificial intelligence becomes a daily presence. Blends cultural insight, lived experience, and practical tools.
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AI will compress a century of scientific progress into a decade โ not by replacing scientists but by transforming every stage of how science gets done. A builder's case for optimism, from the founder of You.com and former chief scientist at Salesforce.
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If social media came for our attention, AI is coming for our capacity for attachment. Forty years of MIT research distilled into a warning about what happens when we start accepting the performance of empathy as empathy itself.
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Scott Barry Kaufman ยท Maslow's hierarchy rebuilt from the ground up โ what self-actualization actually looks like with modern science behind it.
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Will Durant ยท The first volume of the Story of Civilization โ 5,000 years of human culture told by one of the greatest writers who ever lived.
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Isaac Asimov ยท The sci-fi classic that predicted our obsession with predicting the future โ psychohistory, empire, and the math of collapse.
Read review โPillar guides โ the best books on the topics that matter most.
A practical reading guide to the Stoics โ from Marcus Aurelius to modern guides. Ranked and reviewed.
Read guide โThe lives that will inspire, humble, and push you to think bigger โ from Franklin to Musk.
Read guide โWhy we do what we do โ the essential reading on psychology, evolution, and what makes us human.
Read guide โA curated selection of the 30 best nonfiction books that will change your life. From Stoic philosophy to evolutionary psychology.
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See the list โWhy we do what we do โ psychology, evolution, and the science of being human.
Explore โA practical reading guide to the best Stoicism books โ from Marcus Aurelius to modern guides. Ranked and reviewed.
Explore โ5 books that explain how money really works, why inflation steals your savings, and what you can do about it.
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