'Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics' by Tim Marshall
"Prisoners of Geography" is 320 pages and uses maps to offer insight into world history, answering everything from Putin's obsession with Crimea to why the USA became a superpower.
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'The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia' by David McCandless
'The Visual Miscellaneum' uses graphs, charts, and illustrations in its 256 pages to help readers make sense of facts and statistics. It covers topics from how long it takes different condiments to spoil to world maps of Internet search terms.
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'Real Artists Don't Starve' by Jeff Goins
This 240-page book explores the competitive benefits of being creative, and opines creative people have a powerful tool that needs to be harnessed.
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'Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations' by Dan Ariely
This 128-page TED book investigates the nature of motivation and is written by behavioral economist Dan Ariely. The book provides lessons on approaching important choices in one's own life.
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'The War of Independence' by John Fiske
Originally published in 1890, this 115-page book provides a historical perspective on the American Revolution 100 years following the war, rather than today's more than 230 years. It was written by a historian and scholar who graduated from Harvard Law School.
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'We should all be feminists' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
MacArthur Genius Grant winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie expanded on a popular TED talk by the same name to write her 64-page book. She provides a modern-day definition of feminism, and explores the sexual politics at work in society today.
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'Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words' by Randall Munroe
'Thing Explainer' is intentionally short and simple to understand. The 64-page book uses drawings and the 1,000 most common words to give readers simple explanations for different complicated subjects.
