Learn why one speaker thinks America’s natural gas boom has the power to reshape national security and international relations. Another author examines how the country can prepare itself for the retirement of the baby boomers. Explore the linguistic complexity of female friendships, the inner workings of the white supremacy movement, and the future of building healthy cities. Ever wonder just how intelligent your dogs are?
See the list below for recent releases by Festival presenters. The books are arranged by Festival track.
Spotlight Health
The Cutting Edge of Medicine and Science
National Geographic Kids Chapters: Danger on the Mountain: True Stories of Extreme Adventures!
Gregg Treinish
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity,
Carl Zimmer
Disrupting Health Systems
The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works,
Henry Waxman
Healthy Communities
The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World's Happiest People,
Dan Buettner
Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone,
John Cary
Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum,
Kennedy Odede
Being Mortal,
Atul Gawande
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity,
Andrew Solomon
Our Planet, Our Health
A Year in Rock Creek Park,
Melanie Choukas Bradley
The Joy of Forest Bathing: The Mysterious Japanese Art of Shinrin-Yoku,
Melanie Choukas Bradley
Wade Davis Photographs,
Wade Davis
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability,
Howard Frumkin
Children & Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know,
Philip Landrigan
Social Innovation in Africa: A Practical Guide for Scaling Impact,
Ndidi Nwuneli
The Emotional Foundations of Personality: A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach,
Kenneth L. Davis
Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States,
Tom Frieden
Spotlight Viewpoints
The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics,
John Hickenlooper
Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome,
Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz, Emily Kinglsey
The Heart of Power, With a New Preface: Health and Politics in the Oval Office,
David Blumenthal
The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America,
Ai-Jen Poo
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath,
Ted Koppel
Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I've loved),
Kate Bowler
When Breath Becomes Air,
Paul Kalanithi, Lucy Kalanithi
The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream,
Courtney E. Martin
The Future of Men: Men on Trial,
Jack Meyers
Tell Me the Truth, Doctor, Easy-to-Understand Answers to Your Most Confusing and Critical Questions,
Richard Besser
Here’s the Deal,
David Leonhardt
Aspen Ideas Festival
Seismic Shifts
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It,
Yascha Mounk
Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power,
Meghan O’Sullivan
A World In Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order,
Richard Haass
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State,
Graeme Wood
Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia,
Victor Cha
True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Kati Marton
Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing Their World,
Snigdha Poonam
Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose,
Kevin Rudd
Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time,
David Miliband
The Hijaz: The First Islamic State,
Dahlan Malik
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State,
Elizabeth Economy
Our Imperfect Union
Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense,
Mona Charen
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations,
Amy Chua
White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement-and How I Got Out,
Christian Picciolini
You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen,
Eric Liu
Democracy: A Case Study,
David Moss
William Howard Taft,
Jeff Rosen
Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging,
Alex Wagner
Unafraid: Living with Courage and Hope in Uncertain Times,
Adam Hamilton
How the Right Lost Its Mind,
Charles Sykes
Globalization Revisited
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth - and How to Fix It,
Dambisa Moyo
Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street,
Rana Foroohar
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,
J. D. Vance
The Art of Justice
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen,
Jose Antonio Vargas
Leadership in a Time of Change
Women and Leadership,
Deborah Rhode
Design for the New Normal
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming,
Paul Hawken and Katherine Wilkinson
The Patagonia Business Library/em>Yvon Chouinard,
Rose Marcario
Toward an Urban Ecology,
Kate Orff
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World,
Jeff Goodell
The Sexes
Healing From Hate: How Young Men Get Into — and Out of — Violent Extremism,
Michael Kimmel
Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World,
Reshma Saujani
Hidden Figures,
Margot Lee Shetterly
Excellence through Equity,
Pedro Noguera
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower,
Brittney Cooper
Freedom of Speech and the Marketplace of Ideas
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally),
John McWhorter
You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships,
Deborah Tannen
At the Stranger's Gate: Arrivals in New York,
Adam Gopnik
HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship,
Nadine Strossen
The Genius of Animals
The Genius of Birds,
Jennifer Ackerman
The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals,
Joel Sartore
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think,
Brian Hare
Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell,
Alexandra Horowitz
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel,
Carl Safina
Staying Human in a High-Tech World
Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age,
Michael Chertoff
Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together – and Why It Could Drive Us Apart,
Rachel Botsman
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined,
Sal Khan
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor,
Virginia Eubanks
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech,
Franklin Foer
The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life,
Anya Kamenetz
Moved by Music
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations,
Greil Marcus
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music,
Ann Powers
Aspen Lecture
Cuz: The Life and Time of Michael A,
Danielle Allen
Summoning Pearl Harbor,
Alexander Nemerov
Viewpoints
Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference,
Kathleen Kelly Janus
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World and How to Make it Work for You,
Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans
President Carter: The White House Years,
Stuart Eizenstat
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now,
Meg Jay
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America,
Jim Fallows & Deborah Fallows
Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values,
Rob Reich
By Hadley Stack, public programs intern