MALCOLM GLADWELL ’84
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.
Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. (Little, Brown and Company)
E.G.N. LAFLEUR ’22
“Thy holy cities are a wilderness…” From honesty about the vagaries of the body’s desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the Don River, Lafleur’s poems in The Magi Come to Toronto probe what it means to be a queer person of faith formed by Toronto’s splendour and cruelty. In erotic, religious and historical poems, Lafleur draws us back to the closeness of past and present, the compulsion of vocation, and the vast grace of the liturgical year. (Kith Books)
SAMER SERAJ ’15
In mathematical contests and olympiads, there are four subject areas: algebra, counting, number theory, and geometry. These areas are addressed in the four books of the Rigorous Elementary Mathematics series. While there are many books that are geared towards helping students to learn how to solve problems on contests, those books tend to assume prerequisite knowledge without proofs, and they instead focus on applying theorems to problems. This four-volume series fills the gap in the literature by proving many of the relevant theorems in a logically sequenced framework from the ground up. (Existsforall Academy Inc.)
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