From the author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature. After seven years, Greene turns from power and social strategy to awe — reconnecting with nature, art, science, childhood perception, and the fringes of consciousness. Stories, exercises, and meditations. The same move Duckworth made with Situated: an author complicating his own reputation. 496 pages. Published by Viking.
- You finished The Laws of Human Nature and wanted the inner life, not another strategy manual
- You liked Mastery, Four Thousand Weeks, or The Denial of Death
- You want a long book that tries to change how you see, not how you win
First book from the Real Vision founder. The framework: demographics force debt-driven liquidity; that liquidity is the hidden chart under almost every major asset; technology and crypto are the life rafts. Thirty years of macro compressed into one thesis. Sits alongside The Bitcoin Standard and The Sovereign Individual — a builder's map of a broken monetary system, actionable without being a get-rich pamphlet. Published by Harriman House.
- You want the macro chart that supposedly explains why every asset rhymes
- You liked The Bitcoin Standard or The Sovereign Individual
- You think demographics-plus-debt is the story under the noise
Gleick wrote Chaos and The Information. Here the telephone becomes the instrument that remade intimacy, monopoly, Bell Labs, and the information age — speech at a distance as a civilisational break, not a gadget history. If October's The New Dark Ages diagnosed what screens are doing to us, this is the prequel: what the wire did before the screen existed. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- You liked The Information, Chaos, or The Shallows
- You want a technology understood as a change in human nature
- You want the prequel to October's New Dark Ages — what the wire did before the screen
Not another Napoleon biography — the twenty-six marshals as a study of loyalty, rivalry, and self-delusion. A team of rivals that becomes a nest of vipers. Roberts at full narrative power. Already published in the UK (Allen Lane, October 8). US edition from Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster.
- You want leadership as a human problem, not a business-book abstraction
- You liked Napoleon the Great, Team of Rivals, or The Pursuit of Power
- You're interested in what victory does to the people who win it
Harvard researcher and former philosophy professor. The claim isn't "AI will take your job" — it's that machine learning's attention to particulars over universal laws is already changing what we think knowledge, evidence, and a self are. Short and essayistic, at the same altitude as Turkle and Socher. AI as a change in the human mind, not a change in the job market. 184 pages. Published by MIT Press.
- You're tired of AI books that only do utopia or doom
- You liked The Shallows or Everything Is Miscellaneous
- You want the philosophical version of how the model actually sees
Strogatz (Infinite Powers, The Joy of X, Cornell) and Townsend on the small set of ideas — mostly linear algebra — underneath Netflix recommendations, medical imaging, GPS, and AI. The sting: the maths is drifting beyond the grasp of the people who built it, and quantum makes it worse. The layer underneath the hype, for anyone who wants to know what "the model" actually is. 304 pages. Published by Little, Brown.
- You want to know what "the model" actually is, underneath the hype
- You liked Infinite Powers or The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- You suspect the discovery bottleneck is linear algebra, not magic
Harvard neuroscientist walks into the lab and shows the tools — implants, laser-controlled neurons — plus the grind of the actual work. How we know what we claim to know about the brain. Not another "your brain on X" airport book — the methods book underneath BookLab's usual ideas-first psychology lane. 288 pages. Published by Abrams Press.
- You want the lab, not the TED talk
- You liked Behave or Determined by Sapolsky
- You're suspicious of neuroscience headlines and want to see the methods