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Саммари книг

Есть, молиться, любить

— Элизабет Гилберт • 2006

Italy for pleasure. India for prayer. Bali to see if the two can coexist.

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✈️ Travel Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🎒 Solo Female Travel 🍝 Food And Travel 🧘 Meditation Practice

Есть, молиться, любить

Italy for pleasure. India for prayer. Bali to see if the two can coexist.

— Элизабет Гилберт 2006 458 стр.

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✈️ Travel Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🎒 Solo Female Travel 🍝 Food And Travel 🧘 Meditation Practice

Стив Джобс

— Уолтер Айзексон • 2011

Jobs handpicked his biographer while dying. The result won't separate the genius from the cruelty.

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🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship 🏗️ Organizational Design 📜 Authorized Biography

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Стив Джобс

Jobs handpicked his biographer while dying. The result won't separate the genius from the cruelty.

— Уолтер Айзексон 2011 630 стр.

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🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship 🏗️ Organizational Design 📜 Authorized Biography

Становление

— Мишель Обама • 2018

How a Black girl from Chicago's South Side became First Lady: the story the headlines missed.

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🏛️ Political Memoirs 👑 First Lady Memoirs 🪜 Upward Mobility ⚖️ Work Life Balance ✊ Black Women's Voices

Становление

How a Black girl from Chicago's South Side became First Lady: the story the headlines missed.

— Мишель Обама 2018 426 стр.

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🏛️ Political Memoirs 👑 First Lady Memoirs 🪜 Upward Mobility ⚖️ Work Life Balance ✊ Black Women's Voices

В диких условиях

— Джон Кракауэр • 1996

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

В диких условиях

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

— Джон Кракауэр 1996 240 стр.

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

Bossypants

— Tina Fey • 2011

How a scarred, self-doubting improv nerd became SNL's head writer and the force behind 30 Rock.

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🎤 Comedy Memoir 👩‍🎤 Women In Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor 🤔 Imposter Syndrome

Bossypants

How a scarred, self-doubting improv nerd became SNL's head writer and the force behind 30 Rock.

— Tina Fey 2011 290 стр.

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🎤 Comedy Memoir 👩‍🎤 Women In Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor 🤔 Imposter Syndrome

Сказать жизни «Да!»: психолог в концлагере

— Виктор Э. Франкл • 1946

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

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📖 Holocaust Testimony 🧠 Existential Psychology 💪 Resilience 🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

Сказать жизни «Да!»: психолог в концлагере Саммари

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Сказать жизни «Да!»: психолог в концлагере

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

— Виктор Э. Франкл 1946 148 стр.

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📖 Holocaust Testimony 🧠 Existential Psychology 💪 Resilience 🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

When Breath Becomes Air

— Paul Kalanithi • 2016

Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.

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🩻 Terminal Illness 🩺 Medical Memoir 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧠 Neurosurgery 📜 Philosophy Of Medicine

When Breath Becomes Air

Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.

— Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 стр.

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🩻 Terminal Illness 🩺 Medical Memoir 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧠 Neurosurgery 📜 Philosophy Of Medicine

Бессмертная жизнь Генриетты Лакс

— Ребекка Склут • 2010

Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.

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🏥 Medical Ethics 🩺 Medical Racism 🔬 Cellular Biology 📰 Investigative Journalism 🌍 Science And Society

Бессмертная жизнь Генриетты Лакс

Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.

— Ребекка Склут 2010 362 стр.

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🏥 Medical Ethics 🩺 Medical Racism 🔬 Cellular Biology 📰 Investigative Journalism 🌍 Science And Society

Я — Малала

— Малала Юсуфзай • 2012

At 11, a secret BBC blog. At 15, a Taliban gunman on her school bus.

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🏫 Girls Education ⚔️ Taliban Rule 📢 Education Activism 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Bond

Я — Малала

At 11, a secret BBC blog. At 15, a Taliban gunman on her school bus.

— Малала Юсуфзай 2012 328 стр.

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🏫 Girls Education ⚔️ Taliban Rule 📢 Education Activism 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Bond

Everything I Know About Love

— Dolly Alderton • 2018

MSN Messenger, Camden parties, and a friendship that survived every man who didn't.

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👯‍♀️ Female Friendship 📖 Coming Of Age Memoir 📱 Millennial Experience 🍸 Drinking Culture 🎭 People Pleasing

Everything I Know About Love

MSN Messenger, Camden parties, and a friendship that survived every man who didn't.

— Dolly Alderton 2018 329 стр.

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👯‍♀️ Female Friendship 📖 Coming Of Age Memoir 📱 Millennial Experience 🍸 Drinking Culture 🎭 People Pleasing

Hillbilly Elegy

— J.D. Vance • 2016

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

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⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity 📈 Upward Mobility 🔁 Generational Cycles

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Hillbilly Elegy

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

— J.D. Vance 2016 274 стр.

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⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity 📈 Upward Mobility 🔁 Generational Cycles

Илон Маск

— Эшли Вэнс • 2015

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

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🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models 🔥 Extreme Leadership ⚙️ Engineering Culture

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Илон Маск

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

— Эшли Вэнс 2015 392 стр.

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🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models 🔥 Extreme Leadership ⚙️ Engineering Culture

Запасной

— Принц Гарри • 2023

Motherless at twelve, soldier at twenty, in love at thirty: then his family turned their backs.

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🏰 Royal Family 👑 British Monarchy 🧠 Trauma And Recovery 📰 Tabloid Culture 🩹 Mental Health Stigma

Запасной

Motherless at twelve, soldier at twenty, in love at thirty: then his family turned their backs.

— Принц Гарри 2023 557 стр.

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🏰 Royal Family 👑 British Monarchy 🧠 Trauma And Recovery 📰 Tabloid Culture 🩹 Mental Health Stigma

Вам стоит поговорить с кем-нибудь

— Лори Готтлиб • 2019

The gap between therapist and patient is a lie. A therapist's own breakdown proves it.

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🛋️ Psychotherapy 📖 Therapist Memoir 🫥 Emotional Avoidance 🩹 Wounded Healers 🔁 Relationship Patterns

Вам стоит поговорить с кем-нибудь Саммари

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Вам стоит поговорить с кем-нибудь

The gap between therapist and patient is a lie. A therapist's own breakdown proves it.

— Лори Готтлиб 2019 464 стр.

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🛋️ Psychotherapy 📖 Therapist Memoir 🫥 Emotional Avoidance 🩹 Wounded Healers 🔁 Relationship Patterns

О чём молчит повар

— Энтони Бурден • 2000

Drugs, knives, and butter: a chef's 25-year journey through the hidden world that feeds you.

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🍽️ Restaurant Industry 👨‍🍳 Chef Memoirs 🔪 Kitchen Secrets 💉 Addiction Memoir 🌎 Immigrant Labor

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О чём молчит повар

Drugs, knives, and butter: a chef's 25-year journey through the hidden world that feeds you.

— Энтони Бурден 2000 321 стр.

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🍽️ Restaurant Industry 👨‍🍳 Chef Memoirs 🔪 Kitchen Secrets 💉 Addiction Memoir 🌎 Immigrant Labor

Продавец обуви. История компании Nike, рассказанная её основателем

— Фил Найт • 2016

A fake name, bickering misfits, and 18 years of near-collapse: the Nike story.

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🏢 Founder Memoir 💰 Bootstrapping 👟 Sports Business 💡 Innovation Culture 🤝 Radical Honesty

Продавец обуви. История компании Nike, рассказанная её основателем Саммари

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Продавец обуви. История компании Nike, рассказанная её основателем

A fake name, bickering misfits, and 18 years of near-collapse: the Nike story.

— Фил Найт 2016 400 стр.

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🏢 Founder Memoir 💰 Bootstrapping 👟 Sports Business 💡 Innovation Culture 🤝 Radical Honesty

The Boys in the Boat

— Daniel James Brown • 2013

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

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🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

The Boys in the Boat

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

— Daniel James Brown 2013 416 стр.

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🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

Just Kids

— Patti Smith • 2010

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

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🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists 🎸 Punk Rock Origins 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Just Kids

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

— Patti Smith 2010 220 стр.

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🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists 🎸 Punk Rock Origins 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Как писать книги

— Стивен Кинг • 2000

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

Иммерсивные

Как писать книги

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

— Стивен Кинг 2000 288 стр.

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

Тебе не причинить мне боль

— Дэвид Гогинс • 2018

You're only at 40 percent when you think you're done. A Navy SEAL's proof and method.

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🧠 Mental Toughness 🏃 Extreme Endurance 🪖 Military Discipline 🎯 Self-Accountability ⚡ Self-Discipline

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Тебе не причинить мне боль

You're only at 40 percent when you think you're done. A Navy SEAL's proof and method.

— Дэвид Гогинс 2018 326 стр.

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🧠 Mental Toughness 🏃 Extreme Endurance 🪖 Military Discipline 🎯 Self-Accountability ⚡ Self-Discipline

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

— Malcolm X • 1965

He enters prison a street hustler and leaves with a dictionary, a new name, and a mission.

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🏛️ Political Autobiography ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🇺🇸 Black American History 📖 Prison Education 🔄 Conversion Narrative

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

He enters prison a street hustler and leaves with a dictionary, a new name, and a mission.

— Malcolm X 1965 460 стр.

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🏛️ Political Autobiography ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🇺🇸 Black American History 📖 Prison Education 🔄 Conversion Narrative

Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман!

— Ричард Ф. Фейнман • 1985

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

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🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 🗣️ Science Communication 🔧 Tinkering

Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман!

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

— Ричард Ф. Фейнман 1985 352 стр.

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🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 🗣️ Science Communication 🔧 Tinkering

Team of Rivals

— Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Team of Rivals

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 стр.

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Бенджамин Франклин

— Уолтер Айзексон • 2003

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Бенджамин Франклин

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

— Уолтер Айзексон 2003 586 стр.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Born Standing Up

— Steve Martin • 2007

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Born Standing Up

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

— Steve Martin 2007 271 стр.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Корпорация гениев

— Эд Кэтмелл • 2014

Success makes you blind to what kills creativity. A Pixar co-founder explains how to see it clearly.

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🎨 Creative Leadership 🏢 Organizational Culture 👥 Team Dynamics 💬 Candor And Feedback 🔄 Embracing Failure

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Корпорация гениев

Success makes you blind to what kills creativity. A Pixar co-founder explains how to see it clearly.

— Эд Кэтмелл 2014 368 стр.

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🎨 Creative Leadership 🏢 Organizational Culture 👥 Team Dynamics 💬 Candor And Feedback 🔄 Embracing Failure

Too Much and Never Enough

— Mary L. Trump • 2020

The family blueprint: a psychologist explains how cruelty, money, and neglect made a president.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🔬 Family Systems Psychology 🏚️ Toxic Family Dynamics 👤 Emotional Neglect 🧬 Generational Trauma

Too Much and Never Enough

The family blueprint: a psychologist explains how cruelty, money, and neglect made a president.

— Mary L. Trump 2020 225 стр.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🔬 Family Systems Psychology 🏚️ Toxic Family Dynamics 👤 Emotional Neglect 🧬 Generational Trauma

Беспокойный ум

— Кей Редфилд Джеймисон • 1995

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

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🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert 🎨 Creativity And Madness 💊 Medication Ambivalence

Беспокойный ум

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

— Кей Редфилд Джеймисон 1995 219 стр.

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🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert 🎨 Creativity And Madness 💊 Medication Ambivalence

The River of Doubt

— Candice Millard • 2005

An unmapped Amazon tributary, a former president, and the expedition that nearly killed him.

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🌿 Amazon Exploration 💀 Expedition Histories 🆘 Survival Narratives 🏛️ Presidential Biographies ✊ Indigenous Rights

The River of Doubt

An unmapped Amazon tributary, a former president, and the expedition that nearly killed him.

— Candice Millard 2005 416 стр.

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🌿 Amazon Exploration 💀 Expedition Histories 🆘 Survival Narratives 🏛️ Presidential Biographies ✊ Indigenous Rights

Все обо всем

— Брэд Стоун • 2013

How one man's ferocious drive turned an online bookstore into the world's most feared company.

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👤 Founder Biographies 🏢 Corporate History 🚀 Tech Startups 🛒 E-Commerce 🧭 Corporate Culture

Все обо всем

How one man's ferocious drive turned an online bookstore into the world's most feared company.

— Брэд Стоун 2013 384 стр.

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👤 Founder Biographies 🏢 Corporate History 🚀 Tech Startups 🛒 E-Commerce 🧭 Corporate Culture

Моя жизнь. Автобиография

— Махатма Ганди • 1927

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence ⚖️ Social Justice 🏡 Simple Living

Моя жизнь. Автобиография

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

— Махатма Ганди 1927 454 стр.

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence ⚖️ Social Justice 🏡 Simple Living

A House in the Sky

— Amanda Lindhout • 2013

460 days in a dark room: how one woman built an escape inside her own mind.

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🏚️ Captivity Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🕊️ Trauma And Forgiveness 📰 Conflict Journalism 🌍 Women Adventurers

A House in the Sky

460 days in a dark room: how one woman built an escape inside her own mind.

— Amanda Lindhout 2013 384 стр.

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🏚️ Captivity Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🕊️ Trauma And Forgiveness 📰 Conflict Journalism 🌍 Women Adventurers

Lab Girl

— Hope Jahren • 2016

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

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👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs 🧠 Mental Health Memoirs 📚 Academic Life

Lab Girl

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

— Hope Jahren 2016 290 стр.

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👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs 🧠 Mental Health Memoirs 📚 Academic Life

Почему я прыгаю

— Наоки Хигасида • 2005

A nonverbal 13-year-old with autism answers the questions others are afraid to ask.

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🧩 Autism Spectrum 🌈 Neurodiversity 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Living With Autism ⌨️ Alternative Communication

Почему я прыгаю

A nonverbal 13-year-old with autism answers the questions others are afraid to ask.

— Наоки Хигасида 2005 135 стр.

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🧩 Autism Spectrum 🌈 Neurodiversity 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Living With Autism ⌨️ Alternative Communication

The Snowball

— Alice Schroeder • 2008

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

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🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

The Snowball

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

— Alice Schroeder 2008 832 стр.

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🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

Моя история

— Элизабет Смарт • 2013

A white veil, a man's voice, nine months. The 14-year-old who survived by becoming invisible.

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🏠 Abduction Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🙏 Faith And Resilience 🧠 Predator Psychology 📢 Victim Advocacy

Моя история

A white veil, a man's voice, nine months. The 14-year-old who survived by becoming invisible.

— Элизабет Смарт 2013 308 стр.

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🏠 Abduction Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🙏 Faith And Resilience 🧠 Predator Psychology 📢 Victim Advocacy

The Girls of Atomic City

— Denise Kiernan • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

The Girls of Atomic City

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

— Denise Kiernan 2013 373 стр.

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

Finding Ultra

— Rich Roll • 2012

At 39, he couldn't climb stairs; at 41 he finished a 320-mile triathlon on plants.

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🏃 Ultra-Endurance 🌱 Plant-Based Athletes 🧠 Mental Toughness 🥦 Plant-Based Nutrition 🔄 Midlife Transformation

Finding Ultra

At 39, he couldn't climb stairs; at 41 he finished a 320-mile triathlon on plants.

— Rich Roll 2012 288 стр.

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🏃 Ultra-Endurance 🌱 Plant-Based Athletes 🧠 Mental Toughness 🥦 Plant-Based Nutrition 🔄 Midlife Transformation

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

— Martin Luther King Jr. • 1986

Nonviolence as strategy: King's own story of breaking segregation and demanding a rebuilt America.

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊ Racial Justice 💰 Economic Justice 🕉️ Gandhian Philosophy

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence as strategy: King's own story of breaking segregation and demanding a rebuilt America.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1986

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊ Racial Justice 💰 Economic Justice 🕉️ Gandhian Philosophy

Gifted Hands

— Ben Carson • 1992

From failing inner-city student to the surgeon who separated twins joined at the head.

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🏥 Medical Memoirs 🧠 Surgical Pioneers 🌆 Overcoming Poverty 📚 Self-Education ✝️ Christian Testimony

Gifted Hands

From failing inner-city student to the surgeon who separated twins joined at the head.

— Ben Carson 1992

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🏥 Medical Memoirs 🧠 Surgical Pioneers 🌆 Overcoming Poverty 📚 Self-Education ✝️ Christian Testimony

Как почти во всём потерпеть неудачу и всё равно выиграть по-крупному

— Скотт Адамс • 2013

The Dilbert cartoonist failed at nearly everything. Then he quit goals and built systems instead.

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🔄 Systems Thinking 🧱 Habit Design ⚡ Energy Management 🧗 Embracing Failure 🗣️ Persuasion Techniques

Как почти во всём потерпеть неудачу и всё равно выиграть по-крупному

The Dilbert cartoonist failed at nearly everything. Then he quit goals and built systems instead.

— Скотт Адамс 2013 248 стр.

4.06

20 000+ оценок

🔄 Systems Thinking 🧱 Habit Design ⚡ Energy Management 🧗 Embracing Failure 🗣️ Persuasion Techniques

Beyond Band of Brothers

— Dick Winters • 2006

The commander of Easy Company on Brecourt Manor, Bastogne, and what it actually costs to lead men.

4.33

20 000+

🫡 Military Leadership 📖 World War Ii Memoir 🤝 Brotherhood In War 👐 Servant Leadership 🪂 D-Day

Beyond Band of Brothers

The commander of Easy Company on Brecourt Manor, Bastogne, and what it actually costs to lead men.

— Dick Winters 2006 320 стр.

4.33

20 000+ оценок

🫡 Military Leadership 📖 World War Ii Memoir 🤝 Brotherhood In War 👐 Servant Leadership 🪂 D-Day

Повелители DOOM

— Дэвид Кушнер • 2003

Two coders, one lake house, and the game that turned office workers into after-hours warriors.

4.30

20 000+

🎮 Video Game History 🕹️ Game Development 🚀 Tech Startups 🤝 Creative Partnerships 💻 Hacker Ethos

Повелители DOOM

Two coders, one lake house, and the game that turned office workers into after-hours warriors.

— Дэвид Кушнер 2003 368 стр.

4.30

20 000+ оценок

🎮 Video Game History 🕹️ Game Development 🚀 Tech Startups 🤝 Creative Partnerships 💻 Hacker Ethos

Hatching Twitter

— Nick Bilton • 2013

Four friends created Twitter. Then they systematically destroyed each other.

4.04

19 000+

🚀 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 📱 Social Media ⚔️ Founder Feuds 🕵️ Corporate Intrigue

Hatching Twitter

Four friends created Twitter. Then they systematically destroyed each other.

— Nick Bilton 2013 321 стр.

4.04

19 000+ оценок

🚀 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 📱 Social Media ⚔️ Founder Feuds 🕵️ Corporate Intrigue

Алекс Фергюсон

— Алекс Фергюсон • 2013

26 years, 38 trophies: the standards, youth pipeline, and brutal honesty that built a dynasty.

3.94

18 000+

🏟️ Football Management 🏆 Sports Leadership 🧱 Team Building 🌱 Talent Development 💪 Mental Toughness

Алекс Фергюсон

26 years, 38 trophies: the standards, youth pipeline, and brutal honesty that built a dynasty.

— Алекс Фергюсон 2013 416 стр.

3.94

18 000+ оценок

🏟️ Football Management 🏆 Sports Leadership 🧱 Team Building 🌱 Talent Development 💪 Mental Toughness

Poor Charlie's Almanack

— Charles T. Munger • 2005

Outsmarting your own irrationality is the only lasting edge. Charlie Munger's manual.

4.40

18 000+

💰 Value Investing 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Mental Models 🌐 Multidisciplinary

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Outsmarting your own irrationality is the only lasting edge. Charlie Munger's manual.

— Charles T. Munger 2005 548 стр.

4.40

18 000+ оценок

💰 Value Investing 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Mental Models 🌐 Multidisciplinary

iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon

— Steve Wozniak • 2006

Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.

3.85

17 000+

🖥️ Personal Computing 🌉 Silicon Valley History 📞 Phone Phreaking 🔓 Hacker Ethos 🔧 Maker Culture

iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon

Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.

— Steve Wozniak 2006 330 стр.

3.85

17 000+ оценок

🖥️ Personal Computing 🌉 Silicon Valley History 📞 Phone Phreaking 🔓 Hacker Ethos 🔧 Maker Culture

That Will Never Work

— Marc Randolph • 2019

A single mailed CD, and the decade of near-failure it took to build Netflix.

4.22

17 000+

📖 Startup Memoirs 💻 Tech Startups 📦 Subscription Models 🗣️ Feedback Culture 🔍 Customer Discovery

That Will Never Work

A single mailed CD, and the decade of near-failure it took to build Netflix.

— Marc Randolph 2019 337 стр.

4.22

17 000+ оценок

📖 Startup Memoirs 💻 Tech Startups 📦 Subscription Models 🗣️ Feedback Culture 🔍 Customer Discovery

Disrupted

— Дэн Лайонс • 2016

Hired as the token elder, a journalist records the absurdities of a startup cult losing millions.

3.91

17 000+

💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 👴 Workplace Ageism 🌀 Corporate Cults 📣 Marketing Hype

Disrupted

Hired as the token elder, a journalist records the absurdities of a startup cult losing millions.

— Дэн Лайонс 2016 272 стр.

3.91

17 000+ оценок

💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 👴 Workplace Ageism 🌀 Corporate Cults 📣 Marketing Hype

Becoming Steve Jobs

— Brent Schlender • 2015

Steve Jobs was not born a visionary. His twelve years outside Apple made him one.

4.15

17 000+

📚 Founder Biographies 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 💻 Silicon Valley History 🌱 Leadership Evolution ✨ Product Design Philosophy

Becoming Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was not born a visionary. His twelve years outside Apple made him one.

— Brent Schlender 2015 482 стр.

4.15

17 000+ оценок

📚 Founder Biographies 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 💻 Silicon Valley History 🌱 Leadership Evolution ✨ Product Design Philosophy

Thinking in Pictures

— Temple Grandin • 1995

A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.

4.10

17 000+

👁️ Visual Thinking 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir 🐄 Animal Cognition ⚖️ Animal Welfare Ethics

Thinking in Pictures

A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.

— Temple Grandin 1995 308 стр.

4.10

17 000+ оценок

👁️ Visual Thinking 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir 🐄 Animal Cognition ⚖️ Animal Welfare Ethics

The World As It Is

— Ben Rhodes • 2018

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

4.30

12 000+

🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

The World As It Is

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

— Ben Rhodes 2018 433 стр.

4.30

12 000+ оценок

🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

Boys in the Trees

— Carly Simon • 2015

The girl who stuttered could not speak. The woman who sang could not stop.

3.67

12 000+

🎤 Singer-Songwriter Memoir 🎸 Women In Rock 🧠 Mental Health And Creativity 💔 Complicated Marriages 👩‍👧 Art And Motherhood

Boys in the Trees

The girl who stuttered could not speak. The woman who sang could not stop.

— Carly Simon 2015 384 стр.

3.67

12 000+ оценок

🎤 Singer-Songwriter Memoir 🎸 Women In Rock 🧠 Mental Health And Creativity 💔 Complicated Marriages 👩‍👧 Art And Motherhood

Start Something That Matters

— Blake Mycoskie • 2011

The TOMS playbook for starting a business people join: begin with a story, not a spreadsheet.

4.02

11 000+

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 📘 Startup Memoirs 🎤 Storytelling For Business 🦁 Fear Conquering 🛠️ Resourcefulness

Start Something That Matters

The TOMS playbook for starting a business people join: begin with a story, not a spreadsheet.

— Blake Mycoskie 2011 208 стр.

4.02

11 000+ оценок

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 📘 Startup Memoirs 🎤 Storytelling For Business 🦁 Fear Conquering 🛠️ Resourcefulness

Маги рынка

— Джек Д. Швагер • 1989

Different strategies, identical rules: why some traders survive and compound while most blow up.

4.28

10 000+

🧠 Trading Psychology 🛡️ Risk Management 📊 Behavioral Finance 🎯 Trader Discipline 📚 Trading Wisdom

Иммерсивные

Маги рынка

Different strategies, identical rules: why some traders survive and compound while most blow up.

— Джек Д. Швагер 1989 480 стр.

4.28

10 000+ оценок

🧠 Trading Psychology 🛡️ Risk Management 📊 Behavioral Finance 🎯 Trader Discipline 📚 Trading Wisdom

The New New Thing

— Michael Lewis • 1999

The dot-com boom had a human fuse: a man addicted not to money, but to the next disruption.

3.76

10 000+

💻 Silicon Valley History 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 💰 Venture Capital 🌐 Internet History ⚡ Disruption

The New New Thing

The dot-com boom had a human fuse: a man addicted not to money, but to the next disruption.

— Michael Lewis 1999 349 стр.

3.76

10 000+ оценок

💻 Silicon Valley History 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 💰 Venture Capital 🌐 Internet History ⚡ Disruption

Making Movies

— Sidney Lumet • 1995

How a director keeps a movie from dying the death of a thousand compromises.

4.29

10 000+

🎬 Filmmaking Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Editing Room 🔊 Sound Design

Making Movies

How a director keeps a movie from dying the death of a thousand compromises.

— Sidney Lumet 1995 240 стр.

4.29

10 000+ оценок

🎬 Filmmaking Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Editing Room 🔊 Sound Design

Michael Jordan

— Roland Lazenby • 2014

Before the global brand and the six rings: one locked door and a sophomore's broken pride.

4.31

8 000+

📖 NBA History 🏀 Basketball Greats 🗽 American Icons 🔥 Competitive Drive 💪 Overcoming Adversity

Michael Jordan

Before the global brand and the six rings: one locked door and a sophomore's broken pride.

— Roland Lazenby 2014 678 стр.

4.31

8 000+ оценок

📖 NBA History 🏀 Basketball Greats 🗽 American Icons 🔥 Competitive Drive 💪 Overcoming Adversity

Cicero

— Anthony Everitt • 2001

A provincial outsider became Rome's most powerful voice. He still could not save the Republic.

3.90

8 000+

🏛️ Late Roman Republic 📜 Political Biography 🗣️ Oratory And Rhetoric 🏚️ Fall Of The Republic ⚖️ Classical Republicanism

Cicero

A provincial outsider became Rome's most powerful voice. He still could not save the Republic.

— Anthony Everitt 2001 400 стр.

3.90

8 000+ оценок

🏛️ Late Roman Republic 📜 Political Biography 🗣️ Oratory And Rhetoric 🏚️ Fall Of The Republic ⚖️ Classical Republicanism

A Man for All Markets

— Edward O. Thorp • 2016

From Vegas card counting to quant hedge funds: one mathematician's edge over every system he faced.

4.24

8 000+

🧮 Quantitative Investing 📖 Financial Memoirs 🎲 Gambling Mathematics ⚖️ Risk Management 🔍 Market Inefficiencies

A Man for All Markets

From Vegas card counting to quant hedge funds: one mathematician's edge over every system he faced.

— Edward O. Thorp 2016 416 стр.

4.24

8 000+ оценок

🧮 Quantitative Investing 📖 Financial Memoirs 🎲 Gambling Mathematics ⚖️ Risk Management 🔍 Market Inefficiencies

The Cult of We

— Eliot Brown • 2021

An office landlord convinced Wall Street he was worth $47 billion. Then the IPO filing landed.

4.26

7 000+

💼 Startup Culture 📊 Corporate Governance 💰 Venture Capital 🫠 Founder Hubris 🔥 Unicorn Flameouts

The Cult of We

An office landlord convinced Wall Street he was worth $47 billion. Then the IPO filing landed.

— Eliot Brown 2021 430 стр.

4.26

7 000+ оценок

💼 Startup Culture 📊 Corporate Governance 💰 Venture Capital 🫠 Founder Hubris 🔥 Unicorn Flameouts

Meet the Frugalwoods

— Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

3.74

7 000+

🏦 Financial Independence 💰 Frugal Living 🔥 Fire Movement 🌱 Homesteading 🔨 Diy Lifestyle

Meet the Frugalwoods

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

— Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018 256 стр.

3.74

7 000+ оценок

🏦 Financial Independence 💰 Frugal Living 🔥 Fire Movement 🌱 Homesteading 🔨 Diy Lifestyle

Создавай и странствуй

— Джефф Безос • 2020

Bezos's shareholder letters: two decades of long-term bets while Wall Street demanded quarter wins.

3.85

6 000+

🤖 Tech Entrepreneurship ⏳ Long-Term Thinking 💡 Innovation Culture 🎯 Customer-Centric Business 🏗️ Founder Philosophy

Создавай и странствуй

Bezos's shareholder letters: two decades of long-term bets while Wall Street demanded quarter wins.

— Джефф Безос 2020 288 стр.

3.85

6 000+ оценок

🤖 Tech Entrepreneurship ⏳ Long-Term Thinking 💡 Innovation Culture 🎯 Customer-Centric Business 🏗️ Founder Philosophy

Wizard

— Marc J. Seifer • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

3.73

6 000+

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

Wizard

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

— Marc J. Seifer 1996 678 стр.

3.73

6 000+ оценок

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

Confessions of an Advertising Man

— David Ogilvy • 2004

Entertaining ads rarely sell. Great ones make a concrete promise, then repeat it for decades.

6 000+

🎨 Advertising Craft ✍️ Copywriting 🏗️ Brand Building 🧠 Sales Psychology 🥃 Madison Avenue

Confessions of an Advertising Man

Entertaining ads rarely sell. Great ones make a concrete promise, then repeat it for decades.

— David Ogilvy 2004 208 стр.

6 000+ оценок

🎨 Advertising Craft ✍️ Copywriting 🏗️ Brand Building 🧠 Sales Psychology 🥃 Madison Avenue

Tried by War

— James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

4.09

5 000+

🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

— James M. McPherson 2008 329 стр.

4.09

5 000+ оценок

🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

The Long Loneliness

— Dorothy Day • 1952

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

4.02

5 000+

✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🥖 Voluntary Poverty 🧑 Personalism

The Long Loneliness

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

— Dorothy Day 1952 288 стр.

4.02

5 000+ оценок

✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🥖 Voluntary Poverty 🧑 Personalism

Stalling for Time

— Gary Noesner • 2010

The FBI's lead negotiator reveals why listening beats raiding, and how Waco became the proof.

3.93

5 000+

🔍 True Crime Memoirs 🕵️ Fbi Memoirs 🤝 Hostage Negotiation 🧠 Negotiation Psychology 🚨 Crisis Management

Stalling for Time

The FBI's lead negotiator reveals why listening beats raiding, and how Waco became the proof.

— Gary Noesner 2010 226 стр.

3.93

5 000+ оценок

🔍 True Crime Memoirs 🕵️ Fbi Memoirs 🤝 Hostage Negotiation 🧠 Negotiation Psychology 🚨 Crisis Management

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

— Laura Hillman • 2003

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

4.16

5 000+

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors 💪 Wartime Resilience 📜 German Jewish History

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

— Laura Hillman 2003 288 стр.

4.16

5 000+ оценок

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors 💪 Wartime Resilience 📜 German Jewish History

American Icon

— Bryce G. Hoffman • 2012

GM and Chrysler took government bailouts; Ford bet $23.6 billion on a Boeing executive instead.

4.42

5 000+

🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 🚗 Auto Industry 🚨 Crisis Leadership 📊 Data-Driven Management 🔄 Culture Change

American Icon

GM and Chrysler took government bailouts; Ford bet $23.6 billion on a Boeing executive instead.

— Bryce G. Hoffman 2012 432 стр.

4.42

5 000+ оценок

🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 🚗 Auto Industry 🚨 Crisis Leadership 📊 Data-Driven Management 🔄 Culture Change

J.K. Rowling

— Marc Shapiro • 2000

A single mother, a café table, a sleeping baby: where the world's biggest book series began.

3.90

4 000+

🖋️ Author Biographies 👧 Young Reader Biographies 💰 Rags To Riches ✍️ Writer's Journey 🏔️ Creative Perseverance

J.K. Rowling

A single mother, a café table, a sleeping baby: where the world's biggest book series began.

— Marc Shapiro 2000 287 стр.

3.90

4 000+ оценок

🖋️ Author Biographies 👧 Young Reader Biographies 💰 Rags To Riches ✍️ Writer's Journey 🏔️ Creative Perseverance

Inferno

— Catherine Cho • 2020

A bioweapon is encoded in Dante's Inferno, and the symbologist decoding it just lost his memory.

4.24

4 000+

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🎨 Art History Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt Fiction 🧬 Bioengineered Threats 🖼️ Renaissance Art

Inferno

A bioweapon is encoded in Dante's Inferno, and the symbologist decoding it just lost his memory.

— Catherine Cho 2020 240 стр.

4.24

4 000+ оценок

🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🎨 Art History Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt Fiction 🧬 Bioengineered Threats 🖼️ Renaissance Art

The Bridge

— David Remnick • 2010

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

4.10

4 000+

📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

The Bridge

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

— David Remnick 2010 672 стр.

4.10

4 000+ оценок

📖 Political Biographies 🗳️ Race And Politics 🏙️ Chicago Politics 🧬 Biracial Experience 🤝 Political Pragmatism

Думай масштабно

— Бен Карсон • 1992

From bottom of the class to top of pediatric neurosurgery: the habits his mother taught first.

4.20

4 000+

✝️ Christian Self-Help 🏥 Medical Memoir 📚 Self-Education 🤝 Mentorship 🎯 Personal Responsibility

Иммерсивные

Думай масштабно

From bottom of the class to top of pediatric neurosurgery: the habits his mother taught first.

— Бен Карсон 1992 291 стр.

4.20

4 000+ оценок

✝️ Christian Self-Help 🏥 Medical Memoir 📚 Self-Education 🤝 Mentorship 🎯 Personal Responsibility

Aftermath

— Rachel Cusk • 2012

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

3.67

4 000+

💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays ✊ Feminist Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs

Aftermath

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

— Rachel Cusk 2012 160 стр.

3.67

4 000+ оценок

💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays ✊ Feminist Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs

A Freewheelin' Time

— Suze Rotolo • 2008

The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.

3.85

4 000+

🎵 Folk Music Revival 🎸 Music Memoirs ✌️ 1960s Counterculture ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🪞 Self-Discovery Memoirs

A Freewheelin' Time

The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.

— Suze Rotolo 2008 369 стр.

3.85

4 000+ оценок

🎵 Folk Music Revival 🎸 Music Memoirs ✌️ 1960s Counterculture ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🪞 Self-Discovery Memoirs

50/50

— Dean Karnazes • 2008

Fifty marathons, fifty states, fifty days. The miles were not the hardest thing.

3.78

4 000+

👟 Ultrarunning 📖 Running Memoirs 🏃 Endurance Sports 🧠 Mental Toughness ✈️ Adventure Travel

50/50

Fifty marathons, fifty states, fifty days. The miles were not the hardest thing.

— Dean Karnazes 2008 333 стр.

3.78

4 000+ оценок

👟 Ultrarunning 📖 Running Memoirs 🏃 Endurance Sports 🧠 Mental Toughness ✈️ Adventure Travel

Timothy Keller

— Collin Hansen • 2023

The mentors, authors, and skeptics that shaped the pastor who brought the Bible back to Manhattan.

4.53

3 000+

🏙️ Urban Ministry 📜 Reformed Theology 🧠 Intellectual Biography 🌱 Spiritual Formation 🎭 Cultural Engagement

Timothy Keller

The mentors, authors, and skeptics that shaped the pastor who brought the Bible back to Manhattan.

— Collin Hansen 2023 309 стр.

4.53

3 000+ оценок

🏙️ Urban Ministry 📜 Reformed Theology 🧠 Intellectual Biography 🌱 Spiritual Formation 🎭 Cultural Engagement

Keynes Hayek

— Nicholas Wapshott • 2011

Keynes said spend during crashes. Hayek said get out of the way. That fight never ended.

3.92

2 000+

🧠 History Of Economic Thought ⚔️ Intellectual Rivalry 🏛️ Austrian Economics 💰 Fiscal Policy 📊 Macroeconomics

Keynes Hayek

Keynes said spend during crashes. Hayek said get out of the way. That fight never ended.

— Nicholas Wapshott 2011 300 стр.

3.92

2 000+ оценок

🧠 History Of Economic Thought ⚔️ Intellectual Rivalry 🏛️ Austrian Economics 💰 Fiscal Policy 📊 Macroeconomics

A Gift of Hope

— Danielle Steel • 2012

She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.

3.98

2 000+

🏠 Homelessness 🚐 Street Outreach 🧸 Dignity Restoration 🎒 Direct Aid 🏚️ Housing Insecurity

A Gift of Hope

She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.

— Danielle Steel 2012 144 стр.

3.98

2 000+ оценок

🏠 Homelessness 🚐 Street Outreach 🧸 Dignity Restoration 🎒 Direct Aid 🏚️ Housing Insecurity

Tao of Charlie Munger

— David Clark • 2017

Why Charlie Munger says no to almost everything, and how a very few yeses built Berkshire.

4.11

2 000+

💰 Value Investing 🧠 Mental Models 📊 Behavioral Economics 🤔 Intellectual Humility 🔄 Contrarian Thinking

Tao of Charlie Munger

Why Charlie Munger says no to almost everything, and how a very few yeses built Berkshire.

— David Clark 2017 256 стр.

4.11

2 000+ оценок

💰 Value Investing 🧠 Mental Models 📊 Behavioral Economics 🤔 Intellectual Humility 🔄 Contrarian Thinking

The Obamas

— Jodi Kantor • 2011

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

3.69

2 000+

🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

The Obamas

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

— Jodi Kantor 2011

3.69

2 000+ оценок

🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

Guitar Zero

— Gary F. Marcus • 2012

Can a middle-aged brain learn guitar? A neuroscientist tests the science of musical skill.

3.64

2 000+

🧠 Music Cognition 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📈 Skill Acquisition 🎵 Music Education

Guitar Zero

Can a middle-aged brain learn guitar? A neuroscientist tests the science of musical skill.

— Gary F. Marcus 2012 286 стр.

3.64

2 000+ оценок

🧠 Music Cognition 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📈 Skill Acquisition 🎵 Music Education

Only in Naples

— Katherine Wilson • 2015

She arrives in Naples hungry for escape. A lavish Italian mother-in-law feeds her a new life.

3.74

2 000+

🧳 Expat Memoir 🍝 Food Memoir 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Italian Family Life ☀️ Southern Italy ✈️ Armchair Travel

Only in Naples

She arrives in Naples hungry for escape. A lavish Italian mother-in-law feeds her a new life.

— Katherine Wilson 2015 287 стр.

3.74

2 000+ оценок

🧳 Expat Memoir 🍝 Food Memoir 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Italian Family Life ☀️ Southern Italy ✈️ Armchair Travel

Kushner, Inc.

— Vicky Ward • 2019

A $1.8 billion building, a marriage of dynasties, and the White House roles that followed.

3.53

2 000+

🏰 Family Dynasties 💸 Financial Scandals ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 👨‍👦 Nepotism 🕵️ White Collar Crime

Kushner, Inc.

A $1.8 billion building, a marriage of dynasties, and the White House roles that followed.

— Vicky Ward 2019 304 стр.

3.53

2 000+ оценок

🏰 Family Dynasties 💸 Financial Scandals ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 👨‍👦 Nepotism 🕵️ White Collar Crime

I, Steve

— George Beahm • 2011

The drive, the team, and the taste: Jobs' own rules for building things that matter.

3.45

2 000+

🎨 Design Thinking 🚀 Innovation Management 📱 Product Design 🎬 Creative Leadership 🏔️ Entrepreneurial Grit

I, Steve

The drive, the team, and the taste: Jobs' own rules for building things that matter.

— George Beahm 2011 160 стр.

3.45

2 000+ оценок

🎨 Design Thinking 🚀 Innovation Management 📱 Product Design 🎬 Creative Leadership 🏔️ Entrepreneurial Grit

Great Thinkers

— The School of Life • 2016

From Plato's cave to Freud's couch: the ideas that built our world, made practical for yours.

4.35

1 000+

🏛️ Western Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy 🛠️ Practical Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ⚖️ Political Theory

Great Thinkers

From Plato's cave to Freud's couch: the ideas that built our world, made practical for yours.

— The School of Life 2016 480 стр.

4.35

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🏛️ Western Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy 🛠️ Practical Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ⚖️ Political Theory

Bad Habits

— Jenny McCarthy • 2012

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

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⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🔨 Religious Deconstruction 😰 Catholic Guilt 🌌 Spiritual Seeking 🎬 Hollywood Tell-All

Bad Habits

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

— Jenny McCarthy 2012 222 стр.

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⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🔨 Religious Deconstruction 😰 Catholic Guilt 🌌 Spiritual Seeking 🎬 Hollywood Tell-All

Letters

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 2012

The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.

4.09

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📜 Literary Correspondence 🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers 🪖 World War Ii Memoir ☮️ Antiwar Literature ✍️ The Writing Craft

Letters

The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 стр.

4.09

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📜 Literary Correspondence 🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers 🪖 World War Ii Memoir ☮️ Antiwar Literature ✍️ The Writing Craft

The Visionaries

— Wolfram Eilenberger • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

3.91

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

The Visionaries

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

— Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 400 стр.

3.91

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

Appetite for America

— Stephen Fried • 2010

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

4.21

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🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

Appetite for America

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

— Stephen Fried 2010 751 стр.

4.21

1 000+ оценок

🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

England's Mistress

— Kate Williams • 2006

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

3.91

1 000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Georgian England 👩‍🎨 Women's Biography 🎨 Artist's Muse 🎭 Performance Art 🌟 Celebrity Biography

England's Mistress

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

— Kate Williams 2006 415 стр.

3.91

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Keynes

— Robert Skidelsky • 2009

The 2008 crash was an indictment of an economics that abandoned Keynes. Markets don't self-correct.

3.78

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💰 Keynesian Economics 📉 Financial Crises 📋 Financial Regulation 📊 Macroeconomic Policy 🏛️ Political Economy

Keynes

The 2008 crash was an indictment of an economics that abandoned Keynes. Markets don't self-correct.

— Robert Skidelsky 2009 256 стр.

3.78

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💰 Keynesian Economics 📉 Financial Crises 📋 Financial Regulation 📊 Macroeconomic Policy 🏛️ Political Economy

Troublemakers

— Leslie Berlin • 2017

The seven years when a California peninsula birthed personal computing, biotech, and video games.

4.09

500+

🌉 Silicon Valley 🖥️ Personal Computing 💰 Venture Capital 👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🎮 Video Game History

Troublemakers

The seven years when a California peninsula birthed personal computing, biotech, and video games.

— Leslie Berlin 2017 512 стр.

4.09

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🌉 Silicon Valley 🖥️ Personal Computing 💰 Venture Capital 👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🎮 Video Game History

Brave Genius

— Sean B. Carroll • 2013

Forged in the Resistance, a philosopher and a biologist fought the Cold War with different weapons.

4.28

500+

✊ French Resistance 🧠 Intellectual History 🧬 Molecular Biology 🎭 Existentialism ✍️ Dissident Intellectuals

Brave Genius

Forged in the Resistance, a philosopher and a biologist fought the Cold War with different weapons.

— Sean B. Carroll 2013 594 стр.

4.28

500+ оценок

✊ French Resistance 🧠 Intellectual History 🧬 Molecular Biology 🎭 Existentialism ✍️ Dissident Intellectuals

Richard Dawkins

— Mark Ridley • 2006

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

3.77

485

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐾 Natural Selection 🤝 Altruism 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Science Advocacy

Richard Dawkins

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

— Mark Ridley 2006 304 стр.

3.77

485 оценок

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐾 Natural Selection 🤝 Altruism 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Science Advocacy

Mother Tongue

— Christine Gilbert • 2016

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

3.72

449

🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

Mother Tongue

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

— Christine Gilbert 2016 333 стр.

3.72

449 оценок

🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

— Vic Armstrong • 2011

Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.

3.67

403

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 💥 Action Filmmaking 🎥 Behind The Scenes ✨ Special Effects 🪂 Hollywood Stunts

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.

— Vic Armstrong 2011

3.67

403 оценок

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 💥 Action Filmmaking 🎥 Behind The Scenes ✨ Special Effects 🪂 Hollywood Stunts

The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs

— Alan Ken Thomas • 2011

Products over profits, simplicity as strategy, staying curious: 250 quotes from Steve Jobs.

3.28

360

🗣️ Quote Collections 🎨 Design Thinking 💡 Corporate Innovation ✨ Simplicity In Design 🖥️ Tech Leadership

The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs

Products over profits, simplicity as strategy, staying curious: 250 quotes from Steve Jobs.

— Alan Ken Thomas 2011 176 стр.

3.28

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🗣️ Quote Collections 🎨 Design Thinking 💡 Corporate Innovation ✨ Simplicity In Design 🖥️ Tech Leadership

Рудольф Штайнер

— Гэри Лахман • 2007

He saw spirits as a child. As an adult, he built a thousand schools.

3.97

299

🔮 Esoteric Biography 🕊️ Spiritual Movements 🔬 Science And Spirit 🌿 Holistic Farming 🏫 Alternative Education

Рудольф Штайнер

He saw spirits as a child. As an adult, he built a thousand schools.

— Гэри Лахман 2007 311 стр.

3.97

299 оценок

🔮 Esoteric Biography 🕊️ Spiritual Movements 🔬 Science And Spirit 🌿 Holistic Farming 🏫 Alternative Education

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