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Miss May Does Not Exist

— Carrie Courogen • 2024

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Miss May Does Not Exist

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

— Carrie Courogen 2024 400 стр.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Eye of the Beholder

— Laura J. Snyder • 2015

Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek lived blocks apart, using lenses to show the world what it had never seen.

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🧀 Dutch Golden Age 🖼️ Dutch Painting 🎨 Art And Science 👁️ Optics And Vision 📷 Camera Obscura

Eye of the Beholder

Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek lived blocks apart, using lenses to show the world what it had never seen.

— Laura J. Snyder 2015 448 стр.

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🧀 Dutch Golden Age 🖼️ Dutch Painting 🎨 Art And Science 👁️ Optics And Vision 📷 Camera Obscura

Home in the World

— Amartya Sen • 2021

What shaped a Nobel economist: Tagore's open-air school, a Kolkata coffee house, and a cancer ward.

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💰 Economic Inequality 🇮🇳 Indian History ✊🏽 Anti-Colonial Thought 🌍 Multicultural Identity 🔗 Polymathic Thinking

Home in the World

What shaped a Nobel economist: Tagore's open-air school, a Kolkata coffee house, and a cancer ward.

— Amartya Sen 2021

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💰 Economic Inequality 🇮🇳 Indian History ✊🏽 Anti-Colonial Thought 🌍 Multicultural Identity 🔗 Polymathic Thinking

The Lincoln Conspiracy

— Brad Meltzer • 2020

Baltimore 1861: a secret society, a plot to kill Lincoln, and the detective who uncovered it.

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🤫 Foiled Conspiracy ⚔️ Civil War Era 🕵️ Pinkerton Agency 🕯️ Secret Societies 🛤️ Underground Railroad

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Baltimore 1861: a secret society, a plot to kill Lincoln, and the detective who uncovered it.

— Brad Meltzer 2020 448 стр.

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🤫 Foiled Conspiracy ⚔️ Civil War Era 🕵️ Pinkerton Agency 🕯️ Secret Societies 🛤️ Underground Railroad

Self-Portrait in Black and White

— Thomas Chatterton Williams • 2019

What if ending racism means giving up race itself? One Black thinker's case for walking away.

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🧱 Social Construction Of Race ✊ Racial Abolitionism 👁️ Colorblindness Debate 🤝 Interracial Identity 🎨 Colorism

Self-Portrait in Black and White

What if ending racism means giving up race itself? One Black thinker's case for walking away.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams 2019 185 стр.

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🧱 Social Construction Of Race ✊ Racial Abolitionism 👁️ Colorblindness Debate 🤝 Interracial Identity 🎨 Colorism

Follow Every Rainbow

— Rashmi Bansal • 2012

Everest at 48, a baking empire from home: the pattern behind 25 Indian women who built empires.

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👩‍💼 Women Entrepreneurs 🇮🇳 Indian Women 💪 Overcoming Adversity ❤️ Passion Projects ⚖️ Work Life Balance

Follow Every Rainbow

Everest at 48, a baking empire from home: the pattern behind 25 Indian women who built empires.

— Rashmi Bansal 2012 361 стр.

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👩‍💼 Women Entrepreneurs 🇮🇳 Indian Women 💪 Overcoming Adversity ❤️ Passion Projects ⚖️ Work Life Balance

In an Uncertain World

— Robert E. Rubin • 2003

Markets and governments run on uncertain bets. A Treasury Secretary's method for weighing them.

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🏛️ Economic Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🎲 Uncertainty Navigation 🌐 Globalization 🏦 Wall Street Memoirs

In an Uncertain World

Markets and governments run on uncertain bets. A Treasury Secretary's method for weighing them.

— Robert E. Rubin 2003 448 стр.

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🏛️ Economic Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🎲 Uncertainty Navigation 🌐 Globalization 🏦 Wall Street Memoirs

Yes We (Still) Can

— Dan Pfeiffer • 2018

Obama pioneered a new political playbook. Then Fox News, Twitter, and Trump shredded it. Now what?

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🗣️ Political Communication 🗳️ Election Campaigns 🌐 Internet Politics 🔊 Media Echo Chambers 🚫 Misinformation Warfare

Yes We (Still) Can

Obama pioneered a new political playbook. Then Fox News, Twitter, and Trump shredded it. Now what?

— Dan Pfeiffer 2018 304 стр.

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🗣️ Political Communication 🗳️ Election Campaigns 🌐 Internet Politics 🔊 Media Echo Chambers 🚫 Misinformation Warfare

Cooper's Creek

— Alan Moorehead • 1963

A starving party staggered into base, only to find their companions had left nine hours earlier.

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🇦🇺 Australian Exploration 🏜️ Outback Australia 💀 Expedition Disasters 🏛️ Colonial Ambition 🧭 Victorian Exploration

Cooper's Creek

A starving party staggered into base, only to find their companions had left nine hours earlier.

— Alan Moorehead 1963

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🇦🇺 Australian Exploration 🏜️ Outback Australia 💀 Expedition Disasters 🏛️ Colonial Ambition 🧭 Victorian Exploration

The World's Strongest Librarian

— Josh Hanagarne • 2013

A six-foot-seven librarian with Tourette's turns to kettlebells and breathing for relief.

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📚 Librarian Memoirs 🧠 Tourette Syndrome 💪 Strength Training 🌬 Breathwork 🤔 Faith Crisis

The World's Strongest Librarian

A six-foot-seven librarian with Tourette's turns to kettlebells and breathing for relief.

— Josh Hanagarne 2013 288 стр.

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📚 Librarian Memoirs 🧠 Tourette Syndrome 💪 Strength Training 🌬 Breathwork 🤔 Faith Crisis

What's It All About

— Michael Caine • 1992

A charity ward birth, a fish-porter father, and a Cockney accent that Hollywood couldn't erase.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎥 Hollywood Memoir 🇬🇧 British Cinema 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🎞️ Behind The Scenes

What's It All About

A charity ward birth, a fish-porter father, and a Cockney accent that Hollywood couldn't erase.

— Michael Caine 1992 466 стр.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎥 Hollywood Memoir 🇬🇧 British Cinema 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🎞️ Behind The Scenes

Growing Up Laughing

— Marlo Thomas • 2010

Comedy giants sat at her father's table. Their lessons helped break television's rules for women.

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Comedy History 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎤 Women In Comedy ✊ Feminist Memoir

Growing Up Laughing

Comedy giants sat at her father's table. Their lessons helped break television's rules for women.

— Marlo Thomas 2010 400 стр.

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Comedy History 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎤 Women In Comedy ✊ Feminist Memoir

Incompleteness

— Rebecca Goldstein • 2005

A genius turned a paradox into a proof that broke the promise of a complete mathematics.

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📐 Philosophy Of Math 📜 Intellectual History 🔁 Self-Reference 📏 Formalism 🔬 Logical Positivism

Incompleteness

A genius turned a paradox into a proof that broke the promise of a complete mathematics.

— Rebecca Goldstein 2005 300 стр.

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📐 Philosophy Of Math 📜 Intellectual History 🔁 Self-Reference 📏 Formalism 🔬 Logical Positivism

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

— Barbara Ransby • 2003

While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 👥 Collective Leadership 🗳️ Participatory Democracy ✊🏿 Black Women's Activism

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

While King gave the speeches, she built the grassroots network that made the movement move.

— Barbara Ransby 2003 496 стр.

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 👥 Collective Leadership 🗳️ Participatory Democracy ✊🏿 Black Women's Activism

Sound and Fury

— Dave Kindred • 2006

Their friendship electrified America: how a boxer and a broadcaster remade sports and each other.

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🫂 Dual Biography 🥊 Boxing History ✊ Athlete Activism 🎙️ Sports Journalism 📺 Television History

Sound and Fury

Their friendship electrified America: how a boxer and a broadcaster remade sports and each other.

— Dave Kindred 2006 384 стр.

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🫂 Dual Biography 🥊 Boxing History ✊ Athlete Activism 🎙️ Sports Journalism 📺 Television History

Elon Musk

— Evander Watson • 2016

Lessons from Musk: see the future, work through disaster, bet like the house is on fire.

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🚀 Startup Playbooks 💡 Entrepreneurial Mindset 🔬 Innovation Culture 🛡️ Resilience Strategies 🎯 Purpose-Driven Career

Elon Musk

Lessons from Musk: see the future, work through disaster, bet like the house is on fire.

— Evander Watson 2016 62 стр.

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🚀 Startup Playbooks 💡 Entrepreneurial Mindset 🔬 Innovation Culture 🛡️ Resilience Strategies 🎯 Purpose-Driven Career

The Wrath of Cochise

— Terry Mort • 2013

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

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🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

The Wrath of Cochise

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

— Terry Mort 2013 400 стр.

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🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

Two Sides of the Moon

— David Randolph Scott • 2004

The space race seen from both cockpits: an astronaut and cosmonaut compare notes.

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🚀 Space Race 🥶 Cold War History 🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoir 🌙 Lunar Exploration ⚙️ Technological Rivalry

Two Sides of the Moon

The space race seen from both cockpits: an astronaut and cosmonaut compare notes.

— David Randolph Scott 2004 448 стр.

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🚀 Space Race 🥶 Cold War History 🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoir 🌙 Lunar Exploration ⚙️ Technological Rivalry

Sisters in Law

— Linda R. Hirshman • 2015

A Republican rancher and a liberal litigator: the two firsts who together reshaped women's rights.

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🏛️ Supreme Court ⚖️ Constitutional Law 👩‍⚖️ Women In Law 📖 Judicial Biography 🚺 Gender Discrimination

Sisters in Law

A Republican rancher and a liberal litigator: the two firsts who together reshaped women's rights.

— Linda R. Hirshman 2015 432 стр.

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🏛️ Supreme Court ⚖️ Constitutional Law 👩‍⚖️ Women In Law 📖 Judicial Biography 🚺 Gender Discrimination

Profiles in Mental Health Courage

— Patrick J. Kennedy • 2024

When mental illness and addiction go untreated together, recovery slips away. Twelve lives show how.

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📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🔗 Co-Occurring Disorders 🔄 Addiction And Recovery 🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📢 Mental Health Advocacy

Profiles in Mental Health Courage

When mental illness and addiction go untreated together, recovery slips away. Twelve lives show how.

— Patrick J. Kennedy 2024 336 стр.

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📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🔗 Co-Occurring Disorders 🔄 Addiction And Recovery 🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📢 Mental Health Advocacy

The Autistic Brain

— Temple Grandin • 2013

The FBI made Whitey Bulger an informant. He turned his handlers into his hit squad.

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🕵️ Fbi Misconduct 🚔 Police Corruption 🏙️ Boston History 🐀 Informant Culture 🤝 Corrupt Alliances

The Autistic Brain

The FBI made Whitey Bulger an informant. He turned his handlers into his hit squad.

— Temple Grandin 2013 240 стр.

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🕵️ Fbi Misconduct 🚔 Police Corruption 🏙️ Boston History 🐀 Informant Culture 🤝 Corrupt Alliances

American Brutus

— Michael W. Kauffman • 2004

An actor shot Lincoln on Good Friday and vanished. What followed was history's most bungled manhunt.

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🔪 Assassination Plots 🏛️ Civil War America 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔍 Flawed Investigations 🎭 Celebrity Criminals

American Brutus

An actor shot Lincoln on Good Friday and vanished. What followed was history's most bungled manhunt.

— Michael W. Kauffman 2004 544 стр.

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🔪 Assassination Plots 🏛️ Civil War America 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🔍 Flawed Investigations 🎭 Celebrity Criminals

No Cure for Being Human

— Kate Bowler • 2021

She studied the prosperity gospel. Then she got incurable cancer. Everything she knew broke.

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🏥 Cancer Memoirs 🕊️ Faith And Doubt ⏳ Finitude And Limits 🚫 Anti-Self-Help ⏰ Time And Presence

No Cure for Being Human

She studied the prosperity gospel. Then she got incurable cancer. Everything she knew broke.

— Kate Bowler 2021 224 стр.

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🏥 Cancer Memoirs 🕊️ Faith And Doubt ⏳ Finitude And Limits 🚫 Anti-Self-Help ⏰ Time And Presence

Raiders and Rebels

— Frank Sherry • 1986

How brutalized sailors built a floating republic and waged a thirty-year war against global empire.

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🏴 Piracy History 🌊 Maritime History ⛵ Age Of Sail ⚓ Mutiny And Defiance ⚔️ Naval Warfare

Raiders and Rebels

How brutalized sailors built a floating republic and waged a thirty-year war against global empire.

— Frank Sherry 1986 399 стр.

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🏴 Piracy History 🌊 Maritime History ⛵ Age Of Sail ⚓ Mutiny And Defiance ⚔️ Naval Warfare

The Spirit of London

— Boris Johnson • 2011

Fire and plague forged London's unbreakable commercial soul: a history told through its survivors.

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🏙️ Urban History 🇬🇧 London History 👥 Collective Biography 🎩 Victorian London 💪 Urban Resilience

The Spirit of London

Fire and plague forged London's unbreakable commercial soul: a history told through its survivors.

— Boris Johnson 2011 450 стр.

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🏙️ Urban History 🇬🇧 London History 👥 Collective Biography 🎩 Victorian London 💪 Urban Resilience

The Book of Drugs

— Mike Doughty • 2012

May 3, 2000: he poured the whiskey out. It was the first thing he didn't finish.

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🎵 Music Memoirs 🕊️ Recovery Memoirs 🪜 Twelve-Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma

The Book of Drugs

May 3, 2000: he poured the whiskey out. It was the first thing he didn't finish.

— Mike Doughty 2012 256 стр.

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🎵 Music Memoirs 🕊️ Recovery Memoirs 🪜 Twelve-Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma

Cooking as Fast as I Can

— Cat Cora • 2015

She became Iron Chef's first woman. The real story is everything she survived to get there.

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🍳 Restaurant Kitchens 📺 Celebrity Chefs 💔 Childhood Trauma 👩‍🍳 Women In Food 🏳️‍🌈 Coming Out Memoir

Cooking as Fast as I Can

She became Iron Chef's first woman. The real story is everything she survived to get there.

— Cat Cora 2015 256 стр.

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🍳 Restaurant Kitchens 📺 Celebrity Chefs 💔 Childhood Trauma 👩‍🍳 Women In Food 🏳️‍🌈 Coming Out Memoir

Old Rage

— Sheila Hancock • 2022

Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.

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🇬🇧 British Memoirs 🎭 Celebrity Memoirs 🗳️ Political Commentary 🕯️ Quaker Spirituality ⚒️ Class Consciousness

Old Rage

Sheila Hancock, 89, plans her funeral, rages at Brexit, and finds the pandemic strangely stoic.

— Sheila Hancock 2022 238 стр.

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🇬🇧 British Memoirs 🎭 Celebrity Memoirs 🗳️ Political Commentary 🕯️ Quaker Spirituality ⚒️ Class Consciousness

Let Your Mind Run

— Deena Kastor • 2018

Her body could run. Her mind had to learn. The mental training that built an Olympian.

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🏃 Distance Running 🏃‍♀️ Women In Sports 🧠 Sports Psychology 😊 Positive Psychology 🌱 Growth Mindset

Let Your Mind Run

Her body could run. Her mind had to learn. The mental training that built an Olympian.

— Deena Kastor 2018 296 стр.

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🏃 Distance Running 🏃‍♀️ Women In Sports 🧠 Sports Psychology 😊 Positive Psychology 🌱 Growth Mindset

Beethoven

— Edmund Morris • 2005

A deaf composer whose life was chaos but whose music was perfect order: the Beethoven paradox.

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🎵 Classical Music 🎼 Composer Biographies 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🧠 Genius And Madness 💫 Romanticism

Beethoven

A deaf composer whose life was chaos but whose music was perfect order: the Beethoven paradox.

— Edmund Morris 2005 256 стр.

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🎵 Classical Music 🎼 Composer Biographies 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🧠 Genius And Madness 💫 Romanticism

You Gotta Want It

— Jake Paul • 2016

Grind harder than anyone, bet on new platforms early, and build a team that multiplies your reach.

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📱 Social Media Fame 🎬 Content Creation 💪 Hustle Culture 🏋️ Daily Discipline 🚀 Young Entrepreneurs

You Gotta Want It

Grind harder than anyone, bet on new platforms early, and build a team that multiplies your reach.

— Jake Paul 2016

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📱 Social Media Fame 🎬 Content Creation 💪 Hustle Culture 🏋️ Daily Discipline 🚀 Young Entrepreneurs

Promise Me, Dad

— Joe Biden • 2017

A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.

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🏛️ White House Memoirs 🕯️ Parental Grief 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons ⛪ Catholic Faith

Promise Me, Dad

A vice president's son is dying of cancer. Foreign crises don't pause for grief.

— Joe Biden 2017 272 стр.

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🏛️ White House Memoirs 🕯️ Parental Grief 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons ⛪ Catholic Faith

A Life on the Edge

— Jim Whittaker • 1999

First American to summit Everest. Then he brought Soviets and Chinese up the same mountain.

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🧗 High-Altitude Climbing 🏔️ Mountain Expeditions 🥇 First Ascents 🧭 Expedition Leadership ⚠️ Risk And Survival

A Life on the Edge

First American to summit Everest. Then he brought Soviets and Chinese up the same mountain.

— Jim Whittaker 1999 320 стр.

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🧗 High-Altitude Climbing 🏔️ Mountain Expeditions 🥇 First Ascents 🧭 Expedition Leadership ⚠️ Risk And Survival

Rommel

— Charles Messenger • 2009

What a general's victories teach about leadership, and his cyanide death about complicity.

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🧑‍✈️ Military Leadership 🏛️ World War Ii History 💪 Adversity Leadership 🧠 Strategic Thinking ⚖️ Moral Compromise

Rommel

What a general's victories teach about leadership, and his cyanide death about complicity.

— Charles Messenger 2009 224 стр.

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🧑‍✈️ Military Leadership 🏛️ World War Ii History 💪 Adversity Leadership 🧠 Strategic Thinking ⚖️ Moral Compromise

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

— T Kira Madden • 2019

A fatherless girl in Boca Raton craves a fierce love and finds it in dangerous places.

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🧒 Fatherlessness 🌐 Mixed-Race Identity 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Confessional Memoir

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

A fatherless girl in Boca Raton craves a fierce love and finds it in dangerous places.

— T Kira Madden 2019 336 стр.

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🧒 Fatherlessness 🌐 Mixed-Race Identity 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ✍️ Confessional Memoir

A Life in Light

— Mary Pipher • 2022

How to find sustaining light when everything falls apart, from a psychologist who lived through it.

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🧘 Contemplative Memoir 👵 Mindful Aging 🌿 Nature And Healing 💔 Family Dysfunction 👯 Female Friendships

A Life in Light

How to find sustaining light when everything falls apart, from a psychologist who lived through it.

— Mary Pipher 2022 301 стр.

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🧘 Contemplative Memoir 👵 Mindful Aging 🌿 Nature And Healing 💔 Family Dysfunction 👯 Female Friendships

The Ones We've Been Waiting for

— Charlotte Alter • 2020

Shaped by 9/11, debt, and recession, a generation enters power with clashing visions for America.

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🗳️ Generational Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 📱 Digital Activism

The Ones We've Been Waiting for

Shaped by 9/11, debt, and recession, a generation enters power with clashing visions for America.

— Charlotte Alter 2020 368 стр.

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🗳️ Generational Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 📱 Digital Activism

What We Carry

— Maya Shanbhag Lang • 2020

Alzheimer's erases her mother, and a daughter learns the family stories she carried were fictions.

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🏠 Family Memoirs 🤲 Caregiver Memoirs 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 🌏 Immigrant Experience

What We Carry

Alzheimer's erases her mother, and a daughter learns the family stories she carried were fictions.

— Maya Shanbhag Lang 2020 306 стр.

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🏠 Family Memoirs 🤲 Caregiver Memoirs 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 🌏 Immigrant Experience

The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. • 1957

An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.

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🇺🇸 Presidential Biography 🗽 Interwar America 🌱 Political Origins 🌊 Progressive Era 🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy

The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33

An aristocrat's reluctant turn toward populism, set against the crash of an economic order.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 стр.

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🇺🇸 Presidential Biography 🗽 Interwar America 🌱 Political Origins 🌊 Progressive Era 🏛️ Aristocratic Legacy

Lucky

— Jonathan Allen • 2021

How Biden really won: not strategy, but opponent blunders, a pandemic, and one endorsement.

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🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🏛️ Democratic Party ⚔️ Primary Battles 🎙️ Campaign Journalism 🔄 Political Comebacks

Lucky

How Biden really won: not strategy, but opponent blunders, a pandemic, and one endorsement.

— Jonathan Allen 2021 17 стр.

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🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🏛️ Democratic Party ⚔️ Primary Battles 🎙️ Campaign Journalism 🔄 Political Comebacks

C.G. Jung

— Colin Wilson • 1984

Jung built a psychology on his own visionary crisis, then called it science.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 📜 Psychological Biography 🌑 Depth Psychology ⚗️ Alchemy And Psychology 🏛️ Myth And Psyche

C.G. Jung

Jung built a psychology on his own visionary crisis, then called it science.

— Colin Wilson 1984 160 стр.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 📜 Psychological Biography 🌑 Depth Psychology ⚗️ Alchemy And Psychology 🏛️ Myth And Psyche

Bobby Kennedy

— Larry Tye • 2016

McCarthy's protégé became civil rights' champion. How Bobby Kennedy transformed.

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🏛️ Kennedy Dynasty 🔴 Cold War Politics ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🔄 Political Transformation 🏗️ Organized Labor

Bobby Kennedy

McCarthy's protégé became civil rights' champion. How Bobby Kennedy transformed.

— Larry Tye 2016 608 стр.

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🏛️ Kennedy Dynasty 🔴 Cold War Politics ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🔄 Political Transformation 🏗️ Organized Labor

alibaba

— Liu Shiying • 2009

A math-failing English teacher beat eBay with one rule: give everything away for free.

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🏮 Chinese Business 🚀 Internet Startups 👤 Founder Stories 🔗 Platform Business Models ⚡ Market Disruption

alibaba

A math-failing English teacher beat eBay with one rule: give everything away for free.

— Liu Shiying 2009 240 стр.

3.62

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🏮 Chinese Business 🚀 Internet Startups 👤 Founder Stories 🔗 Platform Business Models ⚡ Market Disruption

Football Done Right

— Michael Lombardi • 2023

Five coaches built the modern NFL. A former GM names them, then ranks everyone else.

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🏈 Nfl History 📋 Football Coaching 🔍 Talent Evaluation 🏆 Player Rankings ♟️ Football Strategy

Football Done Right

Five coaches built the modern NFL. A former GM names them, then ranks everyone else.

— Michael Lombardi 2023 305 стр.

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🏈 Nfl History 📋 Football Coaching 🔍 Talent Evaluation 🏆 Player Rankings ♟️ Football Strategy

Midnights with the Mystic

— Cheryl Simone • 2008

She spent nights by a fireside questioning a realized yogi. His answers rewired her entire reality.

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🧘 Yogic Philosophy 🕉️ Guru-Disciple Relationship 🐍 Kundalini Awakening 🧿 Chakra System 🔄 Karma And Reincarnation

Midnights with the Mystic

She spent nights by a fireside questioning a realized yogi. His answers rewired her entire reality.

— Cheryl Simone 2008 328 стр.

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Benjamin Franklin

— Hourly History • 2016

Ran away at 17 with empty pockets; by 70, he charmed France into bankrolling America.

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📜 Founding Fathers 🏛️ Colonial America 💡 American Enlightenment 🧱 Self Made Lives 🏙️ Civic Innovation

Benjamin Franklin

Ran away at 17 with empty pockets; by 70, he charmed France into bankrolling America.

— Hourly History 2016 43 стр.

4.18

500+ оценок

📜 Founding Fathers 🏛️ Colonial America 💡 American Enlightenment 🧱 Self Made Lives 🏙️ Civic Innovation

The Upstarts

— Brad Stone • 2017

How two apps turned trust into a product, and the brutal global battle to keep it.

4.04

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🏡 Sharing Economy 📲 Platform Businesses 🚀 Startup Sagas 🌉 Silicon Valley Culture ⚖️ Regulatory Disruption

The Upstarts

How two apps turned trust into a product, and the brutal global battle to keep it.

— Brad Stone 2017 384 стр.

4.04

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🏡 Sharing Economy 📲 Platform Businesses 🚀 Startup Sagas 🌉 Silicon Valley Culture ⚖️ Regulatory Disruption

Front Row at the Trump Show

— Jonathan Karl • 2020

How a presidency became a TV show, and the press became the supporting cast.

4.27

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🇺🇸 Trump Presidency 🎤 White House Press Corps 📰 Political Journalism 🎭 Media Manipulation 🤥 Post-Truth Politics

Front Row at the Trump Show

How a presidency became a TV show, and the press became the supporting cast.

— Jonathan Karl 2020 368 стр.

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The Way of the Explorer

— Edgar D. Mitchell • 1996

An astronaut's secret ESP test from the moon launched a quest to prove a conscious universe.

3.84

222

👨‍🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌉 Science Spirituality Bridge 🪐 Nonlocal Consciousness 🔮 Parapsychology

The Way of the Explorer

An astronaut's secret ESP test from the moon launched a quest to prove a conscious universe.

— Edgar D. Mitchell 1996 240 стр.

3.84

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👨‍🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌉 Science Spirituality Bridge 🪐 Nonlocal Consciousness 🔮 Parapsychology

Chris Hoy

— Chris Hoy • 2009

Olympic gold at 32, years after the graphs said he would peak. The margin was never physical.

4.10

367

🚴 Professional Cycling 🏅 Olympic Sports 🧠 Sports Psychology 📈 Peak Performance 📖 Athlete Memoirs

Chris Hoy

Olympic gold at 32, years after the graphs said he would peak. The margin was never physical.

— Chris Hoy 2009 320 стр.

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🚴 Professional Cycling 🏅 Olympic Sports 🧠 Sports Psychology 📈 Peak Performance 📖 Athlete Memoirs

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