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"There are 99 chapters each about two pages long; each briefly explains and illustrates biases and fallacies to which people are subject to or commit. There is no index, but almost all entries have a bibliography. A book for dipping into, not for r..."
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From the Facebook COO and New York Times bestselling author of Lean In, and the New York Times bestselling author of Originals, a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about finding resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks....
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
"Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the...