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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

Honor, living with her mom and dad on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea, an environment controlled by the Earth Mother corporation in a post-apocalyptic world, becomes more fearful as she grows older and realizes that her nonconformist parents are putting the entire family at risk.

Journalist John Stossel shares his opinions on the United States government, addressing the role the government plays in solving our problems and rethinking our lives as independent individuals, and discussing big business, tax breaks, jobs, free trade, gun control, and more.

Examines the culture of fear, focusing on how the government, the media, and drug makers have created a society living in fear of illness, attack, and government regulation, and recounting some of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years.

Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson, parents of Stella, a genetically-enhanced child born as a result of mutations in the human genome caused by the SHEVA virus, lose the struggle to keep their daughter safe from a repressive government that wants to control the virus children by isolating them from the general population.

Traces the history of the American crowd in the United States from anti-colonial revolts to the crowds of the twenty-first century that fill sports arenas, commercial centers, and workplaces, describing how crowds have aided in the establishment of democracy, civil rights, and free speech rights, and discussing more dangerous forms such as lynch mobs and anti-immigrant riots.

Author presents a history of testing and tells why Americans are preoccupied with testing.

"For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming--meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted.

Desiree Six Haven trusts the Protectorate, which arranges everyone's career, mate, dreams, even the dates of their deaths, until her childhood friend, Darian, a convict escaped from the Terrorscape, arrives with devastating information.

Explores the hidden history of surveillance, from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice, tracking immigrants, and monitoring the poor as part of modern social work, and discusses the role computers and new technology play in American surveillance.

"Examines the varied ways in which our institutions are designed to keep women and other marginalized genders at a disadvantage and shows us why we need more than parity, visible diversity, and lone female CEOs to change this power game.

"The rise of so-called cancel culture has enable voices on social media to express disapproval for people's words or actions.

"This book deals with two very large and often amorphous concepts: privacy and surveillance in the context of both government and the marketplace.

"Around half of all people on earth use some form of social media.