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The Data Warehouse Toolkit
The founding guide to dimensional modeling, teaching how to shape business data into fact and dimension tables people can actually query, one real-world case study at a time.
God Has a Name
John Mark Comer walks line by line through Exodus 34:6-7, where God names himself, to show how the God you picture shapes the person you become.
The Descent of Man
Darwin finally turns his theory on ourselves, arguing that humans share ancestry, mind and even morality with other animals, and that mate choice helped shape us.
Theft of Swords
Two mismatched rogues take a too-good-to-be-true job to steal a sword, get framed for a king's murder, and stumble into a conspiracy and an ancient war that could reshape their world.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
An American correspondent who watched Nazi Germany up close draws on its own captured archives to tell how a vagabond agitator came to rule a continent, and how his empire destroyed itself.
Your Money or Your Life
A nine-step program that treats money as hours of your life, helps you define "enough," and maps a path to financial independence.
The Immortality Key
A lawyer turned amateur classicist argues that the ancient Greek Mysteries, and perhaps the earliest Christian Eucharist, were powered by psychedelic sacraments that let initiates 'die before dying.'
A Very Typical Family
Fifteen years after her actions sent her siblings to prison, Natalie Walker must return to Santa Cruz and reunite with them to inherit their late mother's house, in a darkly funny, tender debut about guilt, forgiveness and second chances.
Blitzed
A novelist turned historian argues that methamphetamine, opiates and cocaine ran through Nazi Germany, from the blitzkrieg to Hitler's own veins.
Man, Myth, Messiah
Rice Broocks argues from history that Jesus was no myth and no mere man, which leaves only one answer: the Messiah.
Chaos
A journalist's twenty-year obsession takes apart the official story of the Manson murders and follows the threads to Hollywood secrets, a protected parolee, and the CIA's mind-control experiments.
God's Not Dead
A campus pastor's brisk, confident tour of the scientific, philosophical and historical case for God, written for seekers, believers and skeptics alike.
The Real Anthony Fauci
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s heavily footnoted and widely disputed case that Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and the drug industry put profit and power ahead of public health, from AIDS to COVID-19.
The Molecule of More
A psychiatrist and a writer show how dopamine, the brain's chemical of anticipation, drives our love lives, ambitions, addictions, creativity and politics, and why lasting happiness means balancing it with the chemicals of the present.
Malcolm Gladwell on The American Way of Killing: Why US Gun Violence Is Different, with Dr. Abdullah Pratt
Malcolm Gladwell and ER doctor Abdullah Pratt tell Oprah why America's problem is violence, not crime, and why it can be solved.
Dr. Elissa Epel on Managing Stress, Threat vs. Challenge Responses, and Radical Acceptance (Huberman Lab Essentials)
Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how to turn threat into challenge, protect your cells from chronic stress, and drop the rope on what you can't change.
Deep Work
Cal Newport argues that undistracted concentration on hard problems is becoming rare and valuable, and gives four rules for building a working life around it.
The Home Depot: How Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ken Langone, and Pat Farrah Built America's Greatest Compounding Stock
Acquired traces Home Depot from two fired retail execs to the top-returning US stock since its 1981 IPO, through Nardelli's stumble and Frank Blake's rescue.
Sabrina Zohar on Why We Chase People Who Don't Want Us, and How to Break the Pattern
Dating coach Sabrina Zohar explains how childhood wiring drives who we chase and shares practical tools for boundaries, attachment, and healthier love.
Brad Beeler on How to Get Anyone to Tell You the Truth: Lessons from 25 Years in the Secret Service
Ex-Secret Service polygraph examiner Brad Beeler explains why people reveal the truth when they feel safe, not cornered.
Mikayla Nogueira on Jay Shetty: Viral Fame, Online Hate, a Marriage Shaped by Addiction, and Starting Over
Beauty creator Mikayla Nogueira tells Jay Shetty about her viral rise, online hate, her ex-husband's addiction, divorce, new love, and POV.
LL Cool J on Def Jam's Origins, Jiu-Jitsu, Mastery, and Why Dreams Don't Have Deadlines
LL Cool J tells Joe Rogan about launching Def Jam at 16, starting jiu-jitsu, the language of success, Musashi, lost civilizations, and AI.
The Walt Disney Company, Part 1: How Walt's Era Built the IP Flywheel (Acquired)
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace Walt Disney's repeated bet-the-company gambles, from Mickey to Disneyland, and the flywheel they created.
Jay Shetty on 5 Signs Someone Is Draining Your Energy and How to Protect It
Jay Shetty explains five signs of a draining relationship, the research linking 'hasslers' to faster aging, and tools for kinder boundaries.