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Measuring work loneliness book cover
November 2026

Measuring work loneliness

This illuminating Research Handbook explores why the challenges loneliness and social connection pose have never been more pressing, despite being common experiences across time and space. Leading experts advance an integrated, multi-level understanding of loneliness, paying particular attention to community and societal levels of analysis, to support research and policy development in this crucial field. Read more

Connie Hadley headshotConnie HadleyFounder and chief scientist, Institute for Life at WorkPre-order a copy
Building a Fearless Organization: A Fieldbook for Creating Psychological Safety at Work book cover
November 9, 2026

Building a Fearless Organization: A Fieldbook for Creating Psychological Safety at Work

This field guide will be designed to complement The Fearless Organization, an essential resource for fostering team learning and psychological safety. It will provide practical tools and actionable steps to create an interpersonal climate where team members feel empowered to express ideas, ask questions, acknowledge mistakes, and raise concerns early and often. Read more

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Rebooting the Machines: A New Human Vision for Artificial Intelligence book cover
November 10, 2026

Rebooting the Machines: A New Human Vision for Artificial Intelligence

In her groundbreaking new book, Dr. Ayanna Howard argues that AI, including robotics, is not built with a moral center. That means that if we want it to serve all humanity, we must provide the compass.

In this call to action around the moral and ethical questions surrounding AI, Dr. Howard offers the big ideas and practical suggestions needed to shape AI toward a moral and ethical role in the world. Read more

Ayanna Howard headshotAyanna HowardPresident, Spelman CollegePre-order a copy
Your Life Needs a Strategy: How to Increase Your Odds of Doing Extraordinary Things book cover
February 9, 2027

Your Life Needs a Strategy: How to Increase Your Odds of Doing Extraordinary Things

We're drawn to stories of people who succeed against the odds. But what if those stories aren't just inspiring? What if they reveal a strategy?

In Your Life Needs a Strategy, Martin Reeves, Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, and Hamad Buamim argue that extraordinary success is rarely the product of talent or effort alone, and it's never just luck. Read more

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The Good Boss Project: Becoming the Manager You Mean to Be book cover
March 9, 2027

The Good Boss Project: Becoming the Manager You Mean to Be

A fresh and life-affirming vision of management as one of the most meaningful jobs you didn't know you had, revealing how growing your employees is the key to fueling the bottom line and fueling your soul, from an acclaimed author and beloved NYU Stern professor.

What does it feel like to be a boss who meant something, grew someone, and did something bigger than themselves? Read more

Dolly Chugh headshotDolly ChughNYU Stern professor of management and organizationsPre-order a copy
We Die in the Dark: The Hunt for Serial Killers in the Secret City Beneath Las Vegas book cover
April 2027

We Die in the Dark: The Hunt for Serial Killers in the Secret City Beneath Las Vegas

In this riveting true crime thriller, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari hunts the serial killers stalking Las Vegas, and finds a larger story about the disintegration of the American Dream.

This is the strangest serial killer story ever told: Hidden in the tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip is a secret city, one that homeless people have built, and the police are afraid to enter. Read more

Johann Hari headshotJohann HariBestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsPre-order a copy
The Streets Don’t End at the Corner: Gakirah Barnes, Digital Violence, and the Search for Humanity book cover
May 2027

The Streets Don’t End at the Corner: Gakirah Barnes, Digital Violence, and the Search for Humanity

The powerful story of what one teenager's digital life reveals about grief, gun violence, and the limits of social media

When seventeen-year-old Gakirah Barnes was gunned down in the streets of Chicago’s South Side, the media labeled her as the “gun-toting gang girl of Chicago.” But the digital trace she left behind told a far more complicated story.

Drawing on more than a decade of research, Desmond Upton Patton… Read more

Desmond Patton headshotDesmond Patton31st Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, University of PennsylvaniaPre-order a copy
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