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The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. Every year, we present more than 450 forums on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. 

 

10% of all proceeds go to Marcus Books, the nation's oldest Black-owned independent bookstore.

 

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Under Fire and Under Water: Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West Volume 16 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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What's Killing America: Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities
The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom
The Point of No Return: American Democracy at the Crossroads
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation
The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Megathreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
I Have Something to Tell You--For Young Adults: A Memoir
Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics
The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz
Dancing in Their Light: A Daughter's Unfinished Memoir
With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words
Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect
50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision
Secret California: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Oldest San Francisco
The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
California, a Slave State
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
San Francisco Homicide Inspector 5-Henry-7: My Inside Story of the Night Stalker, City Hall Murders, Zebra Killings, Chinatown Gang Wars, and a City U
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America's Top Secrets
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
When We Walk by: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book
What's Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration
In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety
How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
The Tiger Protocol: An Integrative, 5-Step Program to Treat and Heal Your Autoimmunity
Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook
I Feel Love: Mdma and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health
The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease
The Age-Proof Brain: New Strategies to Improve Memory, Protect Immunity, and Fight Off Dementia
The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest
Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late
The Power of the Downstate: Recharge Your Life Using Your Body's Own Restorative Systems
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Heal Breast Cancer Naturally: 7 Essential Steps to Beating Breast Cancer
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do
The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Not Too Old for That: How Women Are Changing the Story of Aging
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything--Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
Becoming the Instrument: Lessons on Self-Mastery from Music to Life
Enough about Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha: Masks, Meditation, and Improvised Play to Induce Liberated States
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside Youtube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
Risk: A User's Guide
Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice
Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World
Negotiating the New START Treaty
Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization
A Hinge of History: Governance in an Emerging New World
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
A God of Our Invention
The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
That Is Not Your Mind!: Zen Reflections on the Surangama Sutra
Beyond: How Humankind Thinks about Heaven
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Homer: The Very Idea
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
Freedom
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality