Top 10
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Patrick McGee. Scribner, May 13 ($30, ISBN 978-1-6680-5337-9)
Apple’s long-standing reliance on Chinese manufacturing is causing the company trouble as Beijing leans on it to export more of its operations to the country, according to this investigation.
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Megan Greenwell. Dey Street, June 10 ($29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-329935-1)
Journalist Greenwell probes the harmful effects of private equity firms through profiles of an affordable housing organizer, a physician, a former Toys R Us employee, and a small-town reporter.
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI
John Cassidy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr. 29 ($35, ISBN 978-0-374-60108-9)
The New Yorker staff writer chronicles how 19th-century Luddites, German and Russian communists, and the Wages for Housework campaign have pushed back against capitalism.
Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World
Jaz Brisack. One Signal, Apr. 29 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-8079-5)
Labor organizer Brisack places their efforts to unionize Starbucks and Tesla in the context of a broader surge in organizing and offers tips on how readers can follow their example.
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
Faiz Siddiqui. St. Martin’s, May 6 ($30, ISBN 978-1-250-32717-8)
The brash and volatile behavior that has recently devalued Musk’s business holdings were evident from his early days in Silicon Valley, according to Washington Post journalist Siddiqui.
Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
Ashley Cordes. MIT, Apr. 22 ($35 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-262-55253-0)
Cordes, an Indigenous media professor at the University of Oregon, examines how traditional Native American currencies carried cultural meaning beyond their financial worth and how cryptocurrencies might affect tribal sovereignty in the present.
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Gardiner Harris. Random House, Apr. 8 ($32, ISBN 978-0-593-22986-6)
This exposé argues that the pharmaceutical conglomerate has marketed dangerous drugs to kids, contributed to the opioid crisis, and covered up research showing its products increase the risk of developing cancer, among other misdeeds.
Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work
Shari Dunn. Harper Business, Feb. 25 ($32, ISBN 978-0-06-335406-7)
Black workers are routinely denied job offers and promotions because of double standards and racist notions of who counts as “qualified,” contends journalist Dunn.
Slow Down or Die
Timothée Parrique, trans. by Claire Benoit. Europa Compass, May 27 ($19 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88966-101-6)
The French economist argues that prioritizing sustainability and equity above economic growth is a necessary precondition for stemming climate change and ameliorating poverty.
World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy
Catherine Bracy. Dutton, Mar. 4 ($32, ISBN 978-0-593-47348-1)
The venture capital model is bad for start-ups and consumers, according to this examination of how VC firms have weakened the labor and housing markets, among other sectors.
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Atria
Stream Big: The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Screen by Nathan Grayson (Feb. 18, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-5676-3) charts the livestream platform’s history from startup to Amazon acquisition through profiles of nine content creators.
Balance
Never Date a Broke Dude: The Financial Freedom Playbook by Pattie Ehsaei (May 6, $30, ISBN 978-0-306-83619-0) pairs personal finance tips with advice on how to find a romantic partner whose ambition and work ethic complement one’s own.
Benbella
Time to Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business That Rocked the Fashion Industry by Julie Wainwright (June 10, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-63774-686-8) provides business advice based on the author’s experience founding the RealReal, an online marketplace for secondhand luxury items.
Blackstone
Forget That! 22 Lessons You Must Unlearn to Succeed by Roger E. Flax (Apr. 22, $25, ISBN 979-8-8748-2162-3) suggests that readers can get ahead in the workplace by ignoring such common maxims as “do one thing at a time” and “don’t talk to strangers.”
Broadleaf
Minding the Wealth Gap: Our Playbook to Close It Together by Cliff Goins (Apr. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-5064-9768-6) tells the stories of Black businesspeople working to close the racial wealth gap, including an accounting firm partner who organized a resource network for minority-owned businesses and a corporate lawyer who helps people of color become homeowners.
Cambridge Univ.
The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry by Michael Aldous and John D. Turner (June 19, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-009-48952-2) argues that one can tell a lot about British society by examining how CEOs from the past 100 years secured their roles and how they performed after reaching the top.
Crown
Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible by Rachel Laryea (June 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-73504-6) surveys how Black individuals across the globe are finding ways to turn a profit while making capitalism more equitable.
Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Bridget Read (May 6, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-44392-7) traces the history of multilevel marketing schemes, finding that they crop up whenever people feel economically left behind.
Crown Currency
Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge by Melody Wilding (Mar. 4, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-44465-8) proffers guidance on how to build rapport with and understand the psychology of bosses.
Dey Street
No One Is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life by Lakeysha Hallmon (Feb. 4, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-331589-1) recounts how the author founded Village Market, an online platform that connects Black-owned companies with customers in their communities.
DK
The Creative Entrepreneur: A Guide to Building a Successful Creative Business from Industry Titans by Carolyn Dailey (Mar. 4, $21.99, ISBN 978-0-7440-9214-1) examines how 10 individuals in the art, fashion, music, and gaming industries have built profitable enterprises around their artistic endeavors.
Ecco
How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing by Tim Minshall (May 6, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-343465-3). Tracing how cars, medicines, phones, and other goods are created and transported to consumers, Cambridge University
engineering professor Minshall offers suggestions on how to bolster the global supply chain. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Flatiron
Talk to Me Nice: The Seven Trust Languages for a Better Workplace by Minda Harts (July 22, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-33998-0) suggests that using acknowledgment, feedback, sensitivity, transparency, and other “trust languages” can help managers better communicate and resolve conflict.
Harper
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future
We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (May 13, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-341856-1). AI is unable to deliver on its most enthusiastic proponents’ promises and will increase digital surveillance while degrading human labor, according to this treatise.
Harper Business
AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence by Gary Rivlin (Mar. 25, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-334749-6). The Pulitzer winner reports on Silicon Valley power players’ rush to acquire and fund AI start-ups in the wake of ChatGPT’s success.
Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter by Juliet Schor (June 3, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-338243-5). Sociologist Schor studies how Basecamp, Kickstarter, and other companies that have adopted four-day workweeks have improved employee well-being while maintaining productivity.
HarperOne
Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform by Steve Magness (Feb. 4, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-333992-7) posits that having a well-defined sense of identity,
purpose, and place is key to a fulfilling life and career. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Harvard Business Review
The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women—and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and Maria del Mar Martinez (Mar. 11, $32, ISBN 978-1-64782-718-2). Three McKinsey diversity and inclusion officers use real-life stories to explore why women are held back in the workplace and how they can achieve parity with their male peers.
There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift by Kevin Evers (Apr. 8, $30, ISBN 979-8-89279-017-8) delves into the pop star’s commercial acumen, tracing how savvy business decisions have dovetailed with her artistry to catapult her to unprecedented financial success.
Harvard Univ.
The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong by Rebecca Haw Allensworth (Feb. 11, $35, ISBN 978-0-674-29542-1). Professional licensing boards are plagued by capricious rulings, self-dealing, and a high tolerance for ethical lapses, according to this study.
Haymarket
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World by Vicky Osterweil (July 1, $26.95, ISBN 979-8-88890-366-7) recounts how the House of Mouse used union-busting campaigns and legal battles over intellectual property to achieve pop culture dominance.
Kogan Page
Community Building for Marketers: How to Connect, Engage and Foster Growth by Areej AbuAli (Mar. 25, $34.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-3986-1693-6) draws on the example of such companies as Buffer and Sanity to provide guidance on how businesses can promote the development of customer communities.
Culture-Led Brands: Drive Growth, Build Resilience and Cultivate Resonance by Leila Fataar (Apr. 29, $41.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-3986-1899-2) dispenses advice on how companies can boost business and hone their messaging by engaging with cultural trends.
Lyons
The Rise of Major League Soccer: Building a Global Giant by Rick Burton and Norm O’Reilly (May 6, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4930-8671-9) examines how Major League Soccer is attempting to become the equal of its better-known European counterparts by signing stars like Lionel Messi and scoring a sponsorship deal with Apple, among other strategies.
Melville House
A Living: Working-Class Americans Talk to Their Doctor by Michael D. Stein (Apr. 22, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-68589-190-9). The author, a primary care doctor, details how people who perform manual labor for a living feel about their work. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
MIT
Invisible Barriers: Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace by Stephane Carcillo and Marie-Anne Valfort (May 27, $55 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-262-55213-4) explores how people of color, women, and older workers, among other disadvantaged groups, are held back in the workplace, and surveys potential solutions.
North Atlantic
What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture by Gabriela M. Alcalde (Apr. 15, $20.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88984-213-2). Women of color are too often tokenized and tasked with remedying social inequities in the workplace, according to this call for change.
Norton
Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software by Darryl Campbell (Apr. 8, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-07895-1) argues that managers’ misguided faith in the ability of such software as PowerPoint and AI to resolve problems has resulted in real-world disasters.
Open Field
Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite by Laysha Ward (Feb. 18, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-65393-7) draws on the author’s experiences as a Target executive to offer advice on how readers can find a sense of purpose at work.
Portfolio
Reverse the Search: How to Turn Job Seeking into Job Shopping by Madeline Mann (Apr. 1, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-71766-0). The Self Made Millennial YouTube creator adapts for the page her advice on how to capture the attention of hiring managers and secure job offers.
Princeton Univ.
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters by Diane Coyle (Apr. 1, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-17902-5) calls for changing the metrics used to understand economic growth, contending that the increasing importance of intangible assets and a relative scarcity of natural resources has made traditional standards obsolete.
Prometheus
Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics as Cults by Mara Einstein (Feb. 4, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4930-8615-3) identifies how corporations cajole consumers into purchasing their products, including by producing gamified store apps and using marketing to induce anxiety that only their products can resolve.
PublicAffairs
Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee by Wes Adams and Tamara Myles (Apr. 1, $30, ISBN 978-1-5417-0453-4). Instilling a sense of purpose in workers boosts their productivity and happiness, according to this leadership manual.
Random House
Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning by Vanessa Priya Daniel (Mar. 4, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-59621-0) highlights the prominent role that women of color have played in social movements throughout history and profiles contemporary women leaders who are fighting for change.
Rowman & Littlefield
Organize Your Business Like a Boss: An Entrepreneur’s Six-Step System to Gaining More Time, Money, and Freedom by Jane Stoller (May 20, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-5381-9925-1) details how business owners can make more efficient use of their time by streamlining workflow, changing their marketing, and focusing on their employees.
Simon & Schuster
You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) by Sabina Nawaz (Mar. 4, $30.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-2318-1) offers guidance on how supervisors can earn the admiration of and stay attuned to the needs of their employees.
Simon Acumen
Moving Beyond Broke: The Power of Perseverance in Personal Finance by Dasha Kennedy (Mar. 11, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-2501-7). The Broke Black Girl blogger draws on her own struggles with money to provide advice on building wealth and feeling more confident about one’s finances.
St. Martin’s
The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin by Paul Vigna (July 8, $28, ISBN 978-1-250-34328-4) traces the history of currency, suggesting that while it once shared a complicated relationship with religious institutions, it has now become a religion unto itself.
Stanford Business
Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting
the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism by Andrew J. Hoffman (May 20, $35, ISBN 978-1-5036-4246-1) contends that if capitalism is to survive, business schools must stop teaching that government regulation is bad and that maximizing shareholder value is a company’s only imperative.
Tiny Reparations
Big Asian Energy: An Unapologetic Guide for Breaking Barriers to Leadership and Success by John Wang (May 27, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-47543-0) discusses how Asian American workers can climb the corporate ladder by advocating for themselves and being less deferential.
Ulysses
The Financial Abundance Blueprint: A Black Woman’s Guide to Achieve Financial Literacy, Build a Successful Career, and Break Boundaries by Amanda Henry (Apr. 15, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64604-713-0) aims to provide women of color with guidance on networking, developing a personal brand, and starting a business, among other topics.
Univ. of Chicago
Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work by Daryl Fairweather (Apr. 11, $25, ISBN 978-0-226-83952-3) explains how readers can use the principles of economics to decide whether to have kids, where to live, and how to navigate the job market.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Crusading for Globalization: U.S. Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945 by Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl (Feb. 11, $55, ISBN 978-1-5128-2715-6) chronicles how in the second half of the 20th century, a coterie of executives from Coca Cola, General Electric, and other American companies successfully campaigned for free trade policies that enabled their expansion into foreign markets.
Wiley
Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces: Advancing Sensory Processing and Cognitive Well-Being in the Built Environment by Kay Sargent (Mar. 18, $48, ISBN 978-1-394-30933-7) explores how to reimagine workflow, office lighting, and layout schemes to accommodate the needs and sensitivities of neurodivergent workers.
Yale Univ.
King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency by Paul Blustein (Mar. 18, $35, ISBN 978-0-300-27096-9). Despite forecasts of its downfall, the U.S. dollar isn’t going to lose its international standing anytime soon, according to this treatise.
