TED Books
Now you can dig deeper into ideas with new, original books from TED. Long enough to explore a powerful idea but short enough to read in a single sitting, TED Books pick up where TED Talks leave off. This wide-ranging series will cover everything from architecture to business, space travel to love.
Chances are you probably have a pretty fixed idea of what makes you, you. But what if your personality was flexible, and ultimately in your control?
With the world at the threshold of profound change, David Rothkopf seeks the important questions of our time—ones that will remake the world and our understanding of it.
Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter—part of a group of scientists working to map our cosmic neighborhood. Why keep an eye out for asteroids?
Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. Dan Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation—how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives.
Kio Stark reveals how these simple, surprising encounters push us toward greater openness and tolerance--and also how these fleeting but powerful emotional connections can change you, and the world we share.
In this sweeping, provocative book, award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential backup plan for humanity and explains in fascinating detail just how it will happen.
In a world beset by the distractions and demands of technology, travel writer Pico Iyer reflects a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug and find stillness.
About TED Books
An 18-minute speech can plant a seed or spark the imagination; but many talks create a need to dig deeper, to learn more, to tell a longer story. TED Books fills this need. In September 2014, we published the first TED Book in print.
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