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Steve Jobs

av Walter Isaacson • 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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Steve Jobs

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

av Walter Isaacson 2011 630 sidor

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

Elon Musk

av Ashlee Vance • 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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Elon Musk

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

av Ashlee Vance 2015 392 sidor

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

Can't Hurt Me

av David Goggins • 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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Can't Hurt Me

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

av David Goggins 2018 326 sidor

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

De 38 breven från J.D. Rockefeller till sin son

av Fan Yiran • 2020

Greed rebranded as aspiration, luck as engineering: an oil titan's uncensored rules for his heir.

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💎 Wealth Philosophy 📈 Business Strategy 🪓 Self-Reliance ⚡ Execution 🎯 Leadership Philosophy

De 38 breven från J.D. Rockefeller till sin son Sammanfattning

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De 38 breven från J.D. Rockefeller till sin son

Greed rebranded as aspiration, luck as engineering: an oil titan's uncensored rules for his heir.

av Fan Yiran 2020 187 sidor

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💎 Wealth Philosophy 📈 Business Strategy 🪓 Self-Reliance ⚡ Execution 🎯 Leadership Philosophy

Livet måste ha mening

av Viktor E. Frankl • 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

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Livet måste ha mening

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

av Viktor E. Frankl 1946 148 sidor

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

Elon Musk

av Walter Isaacson • 2023

His rockets and his cruelty share one origin: the boy who learned to feel nothing.

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🧠 Founder Psychology 🏭 Vertical Integration ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🚀 Space Industry 🎯 Mission-Driven Companies

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Elon Musk

His rockets and his cruelty share one origin: the boy who learned to feel nothing.

av Walter Isaacson 2023 688 sidor

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🧠 Founder Psychology 🏭 Vertical Integration ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🚀 Space Industry 🎯 Mission-Driven Companies

Think Big

av Ben Carson • 1992

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

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

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Think Big

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

av Ben Carson 1992 291 sidor

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

Talking With Psychopaths and Savages

av Christopher Berry-Dee • 2017

Serial killers lack the brain wiring for empathy. Thirty interviews show what fills the void.

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🔪 Serial Killers 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🔬 Psychopathy Research 🎙️ Forensic Interviews 💔 Childhood Trauma

Talking With Psychopaths and Savages Sammanfattning

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Talking With Psychopaths and Savages

Serial killers lack the brain wiring for empathy. Thirty interviews show what fills the void.

av Christopher Berry-Dee 2017 288 sidor

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🔪 Serial Killers 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🔬 Psychopathy Research 🎙️ Forensic Interviews 💔 Childhood Trauma

Shoe Dog

av Phil Knight • 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

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Shoe Dog

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

av Phil Knight 2016 400 sidor

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

No Rules Rules

av Reed Hastings • 2020

Rules manage mediocrity. Netflix fired adequate people, stripped controls, and discovered speed.

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🏢 Corporate Culture 🎯 Talent Management 🗣️ Radical Candor 🚀 High Performance Teams 🧭 Workplace Autonomy

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No Rules Rules

Rules manage mediocrity. Netflix fired adequate people, stripped controls, and discovered speed.

av Reed Hastings 2020 464 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Culture 🎯 Talent Management 🗣️ Radical Candor 🚀 High Performance Teams 🧭 Workplace Autonomy

The Nvidia Way

av Tae Kim • 2024

The rules that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy now run a three-trillion-dollar company.

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🔌 Semiconductor Industry 🏢 Tech Company Histories 👤 Founder-Led Companies 🧭 Management Philosophy ♟️ Competitive Strategy

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The Nvidia Way

The rules that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy now run a three-trillion-dollar company.

av Tae Kim 2024 268 sidor

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🔌 Semiconductor Industry 🏢 Tech Company Histories 👤 Founder-Led Companies 🧭 Management Philosophy ♟️ Competitive Strategy

Setting the Table

av Danny Meyer • 2006

A stakeholder hierarchy that puts investors last. It built a restaurant empire anyway.

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🍽️ Restaurant Management 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🙌 Servant Leadership ✨ Customer Experience 🔧 Service Recovery

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Setting the Table

A stakeholder hierarchy that puts investors last. It built a restaurant empire anyway.

av Danny Meyer 2006 336 sidor

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🍽️ Restaurant Management 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🙌 Servant Leadership ✨ Customer Experience 🔧 Service Recovery

Livet måste ha mening

av Viktor E. Frankl • 1946

A psychiatrist survived the camps and found: meaning, not pleasure or power, is our deepest drive.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🧠 Psychiatric Memoir 💔 Suffering And Meaning 🎯 Personal Responsibility 🔨 Meaningful Work

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Livet måste ha mening

A psychiatrist survived the camps and found: meaning, not pleasure or power, is our deepest drive.

av Viktor E. Frankl 1946 165 sidor

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🧠 Psychiatric Memoir 💔 Suffering And Meaning 🎯 Personal Responsibility 🔨 Meaningful Work

The Choice

av Edith Eger • 2017

Auschwitz taught her the mind is the only prison we can escape; now she helps others.

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📖 Trauma Memoir 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🎭 Existential Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Reframing

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The Choice

Auschwitz taught her the mind is the only prison we can escape; now she helps others.

av Edith Eger 2017 321 sidor

4.57

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📖 Trauma Memoir 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🎭 Existential Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Reframing

By Way of Deception

av Victor Ostrovsky • 1990

A spy agency with zero oversight inevitably serves itself. A Mossad insider shows the bodies.

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🕵️ Israeli Intelligence 📢 Whistleblower Accounts 🔍 Espionage Tradecraft ⚠️ Intelligence Failures 🏛️ Institutional Corruption

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By Way of Deception

A spy agency with zero oversight inevitably serves itself. A Mossad insider shows the bodies.

av Victor Ostrovsky 1990 372 sidor

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🕵️ Israeli Intelligence 📢 Whistleblower Accounts 🔍 Espionage Tradecraft ⚠️ Intelligence Failures 🏛️ Institutional Corruption

The Thinking Machine

av Stephen Witt • 2025

Two $500 gaming cards in a student bedroom triggered the AI revolution. Nvidia was ready.

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💾 Semiconductor Industry 🏗️ Tech Company Building 🧠 Deep Learning ♟️ Competitive Strategy 🔄 Disruptive Innovation

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The Thinking Machine

Two $500 gaming cards in a student bedroom triggered the AI revolution. Nvidia was ready.

av Stephen Witt 2025 272 sidor

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💾 Semiconductor Industry 🏗️ Tech Company Building 🧠 Deep Learning ♟️ Competitive Strategy 🔄 Disruptive Innovation

Obsessed

av Allison Britz • 2017

After one nightmare, her brain outlaws pencils, cracks, and food. Obedience only costs more.

3.91

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🧠 OCD Memoir 🔑 Exposure Therapy ✝️ Scrupulosity 🌪️ Interior Struggle 🏫 High School Setting

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Obsessed

After one nightmare, her brain outlaws pencils, cracks, and food. Obedience only costs more.

av Allison Britz 2017 368 sidor

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🧠 OCD Memoir 🔑 Exposure Therapy ✝️ Scrupulosity 🌪️ Interior Struggle 🏫 High School Setting

Greenlights

av Matthew McConaughey • 2020

He turned down $14.5 million and wrestled in Mali to prove worst breaks are delayed breakthroughs.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 📖 Self-Help Memoir 🧠 Personal Philosophy ➖ Subtractive Living 🎨 Creative Discipline

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Greenlights

He turned down $14.5 million and wrestled in Mali to prove worst breaks are delayed breakthroughs.

av Matthew McConaughey 2020 289 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 📖 Self-Help Memoir 🧠 Personal Philosophy ➖ Subtractive Living 🎨 Creative Discipline

Excellence Wins

av Horst Schulze • 2019

Arm employees with $2,000 to solve problems, no permission. The system that makes that pay off.

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🏆 Service Excellence 💫 Customer Experience 🔓 Employee Empowerment 🏛 Organizational Culture 🤝 Servant Leadership

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Excellence Wins

Arm employees with $2,000 to solve problems, no permission. The system that makes that pay off.

av Horst Schulze 2019 224 sidor

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🏆 Service Excellence 💫 Customer Experience 🔓 Employee Empowerment 🏛 Organizational Culture 🤝 Servant Leadership

I May Be Wrong

av Björn Natthiko Lindeblad • 2020

A Swedish forest monk's final lesson: stop believing every thought, and uncertainty becomes freedom.

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🧘 Buddhist Practice 🌍 Western Buddhism 🌿 Mindful Living 💗 Self-Compassion 💀 Mortality

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I May Be Wrong

A Swedish forest monk's final lesson: stop believing every thought, and uncertainty becomes freedom.

av Björn Natthiko Lindeblad 2020 257 sidor

4.27

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🧘 Buddhist Practice 🌍 Western Buddhism 🌿 Mindful Living 💗 Self-Compassion 💀 Mortality

The Emperor of All Maladies

av Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2010

Cancer's biography: a killer that turns out to be a warped reflection of our own biology.

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📜 Medical History 🔬 Cancer Biology 📖 Disease Biography 🧬 Genetics 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine

The Emperor of All Maladies Sammanfattning

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The Emperor of All Maladies

Cancer's biography: a killer that turns out to be a warped reflection of our own biology.

av Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 472 sidor

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📜 Medical History 🔬 Cancer Biology 📖 Disease Biography 🧬 Genetics 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine

Moonwalk

av Michael Jackson • 1988

A pop icon's craft rules: learn from masters, own your work, convert every snub into fuel.

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🎵 Pop Music 💿 Music Industry ⭐ Celebrity Memoir 🎨 Creative Process 🎯 Perfectionism

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Moonwalk

A pop icon's craft rules: learn from masters, own your work, convert every snub into fuel.

av Michael Jackson 1988 283 sidor

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🎵 Pop Music 💿 Music Industry ⭐ Celebrity Memoir 🎨 Creative Process 🎯 Perfectionism

Pep Guardiola

av Guillem Balagué • 2012

How a village boy's vision built football's greatest dynasty, then consumed him.

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🧠 Coaching Philosophy 🤝 Team Culture ⚽ Total Football 🏟️ Elite Football ♟️ Tactical Innovation

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Pep Guardiola

How a village boy's vision built football's greatest dynasty, then consumed him.

av Guillem Balagué 2012 352 sidor

4.07

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🧠 Coaching Philosophy 🤝 Team Culture ⚽ Total Football 🏟️ Elite Football ♟️ Tactical Innovation

Be Water, My Friend

av Shannon Lee • 2020

Bruce Lee’s philosophy of fluidity turned into daily practices for resilience and self-discovery.

4.17

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🧘 Eastern Wisdom 🥋 Martial Arts Wisdom 💧 Adaptability 🫗 Beginner's Mind 🪞 Self-Knowledge

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Be Water, My Friend

Bruce Lee’s philosophy of fluidity turned into daily practices for resilience and self-discovery.

av Shannon Lee 2020

4.17

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🧘 Eastern Wisdom 🥋 Martial Arts Wisdom 💧 Adaptability 🫗 Beginner's Mind 🪞 Self-Knowledge

You Are Worth It

av Kyle Carpenter • 2019

He fell on a grenade and survived. The recovery required something rarer than courage.

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🪖 Military Resilience 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧭 Personal Integrity 🤲 Servant Leadership 🪂 Extreme Challenges

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You Are Worth It

He fell on a grenade and survived. The recovery required something rarer than courage.

av Kyle Carpenter 2019 320 sidor

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🪖 Military Resilience 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧭 Personal Integrity 🤲 Servant Leadership 🪂 Extreme Challenges

The Demon of Unrest

av Erik Larson • 2024

A dueling code, a hunger for fame, and the 113 days that ignited America's deadliest war.

4.17

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🏛️ Civil War Origins ⛓️ American Slavery ⚔️ Honor Culture 📉 Political Failure 🔴 Presidential Crisis

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The Demon of Unrest

A dueling code, a hunger for fame, and the 113 days that ignited America's deadliest war.

av Erik Larson 2024 592 sidor

4.17

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🏛️ Civil War Origins ⛓️ American Slavery ⚔️ Honor Culture 📉 Political Failure 🔴 Presidential Crisis

Rome Sweet Home

av Scott Hahn • 1993

A Presbyterian minister set out to prove Catholicism wrong and studied his way into it instead.

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🕊️ Conversion Memoirs 📖 Catholic Apologetics ✝️ Protestant To Catholic 🤝 Covenant Theology 🍞 Eucharistic Theology

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Rome Sweet Home

A Presbyterian minister set out to prove Catholicism wrong and studied his way into it instead.

av Scott Hahn 1993 198 sidor

4.43

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🕊️ Conversion Memoirs 📖 Catholic Apologetics ✝️ Protestant To Catholic 🤝 Covenant Theology 🍞 Eucharistic Theology

The Pink Marine

av Greg Cope White • 2016

A gay teen followed his best friend into Marine boot camp in 1979, hiding who he was.

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🪖 Military Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🤫 Secretly Gay 🏆 Underdog Triumph 🤝 Male Friendship

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The Pink Marine

A gay teen followed his best friend into Marine boot camp in 1979, hiding who he was.

av Greg Cope White 2016 266 sidor

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🪖 Military Memoir 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Memoir 🤫 Secretly Gay 🏆 Underdog Triumph 🤝 Male Friendship

Pimp

av Iceberg Slim • 1967

A pimp's confession: the mind games, the cocaine, and the coldness that cost him everything.

4.00

14 000+

🏙️ Street Memoir 🚧 Jim Crow America 🔪 Criminal Underworld 📉 Rise And Fall ⛓️ Coercive Control

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Pimp

A pimp's confession: the mind games, the cocaine, and the coldness that cost him everything.

av Iceberg Slim 1967 311 sidor

4.00

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🏙️ Street Memoir 🚧 Jim Crow America 🔪 Criminal Underworld 📉 Rise And Fall ⛓️ Coercive Control

Season of Life

av Jeffrey Marx • 2004

Three lies turn boys into lonely men. An NFL star built a team on the opposite.

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🔄 Redefining Manhood ⚠️ Toxic Masculinity 🏝️ Male Isolation 💬 Emotional Literacy 🎭 Shame And Vulnerability

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Season of Life

Three lies turn boys into lonely men. An NFL star built a team on the opposite.

av Jeffrey Marx 2004 192 sidor

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🔄 Redefining Manhood ⚠️ Toxic Masculinity 🏝️ Male Isolation 💬 Emotional Literacy 🎭 Shame And Vulnerability

The Real Anthony Fauci

av Robert F. Kennedy Jr. • 2021

When regulators own vaccine patents and collect royalties, who audits the auditors? RFK Jr.'s case.

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🏛️ Regulatory Capture 💊 Pharma Influence 💰 Institutional Corruption ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🏥 Public Health Critique

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The Real Anthony Fauci

When regulators own vaccine patents and collect royalties, who audits the auditors? RFK Jr.'s case.

av Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2021 934 sidor

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🏛️ Regulatory Capture 💊 Pharma Influence 💰 Institutional Corruption ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🏥 Public Health Critique

Beyond Possible

av Nimsdai Purja • 2020

Fourteen death-zone peaks, six months. The old record: nearly eight years.

4.15

5 000+

🏔️ Himalayan Climbing 🎖️ Special Forces Memoir ⛑️ High-Altitude Survival 💪 Extreme Endurance 🇳🇵 Nepalese Mountaineering

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Beyond Possible

Fourteen death-zone peaks, six months. The old record: nearly eight years.

av Nimsdai Purja 2020 320 sidor

4.15

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🏔️ Himalayan Climbing 🎖️ Special Forces Memoir ⛑️ High-Altitude Survival 💪 Extreme Endurance 🇳🇵 Nepalese Mountaineering

Steve Jobs' Life By Design

av George Beahm • 2014

The design principles behind Jobs's life, not his products: ten lessons from the Stanford speech.

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217

🧭 Life Design 💻 Tech Entrepreneurship 🎨 Product Design 🔨 Craftsmanship 🎯 Prioritization

Steve Jobs' Life By Design Sammanfattning

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Steve Jobs' Life By Design

The design principles behind Jobs's life, not his products: ten lessons from the Stanford speech.

av George Beahm 2014 224 sidor

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🧭 Life Design 💻 Tech Entrepreneurship 🎨 Product Design 🔨 Craftsmanship 🎯 Prioritization

Play Nice But Win

av Michael Dell • 2021

Wall Street declared his company dead. He bet $24 billion on the long term. The long term won.

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🏢 Corporate Turnarounds 📖 Founder Memoirs 🔒 Going Private 🧠 Decision Frameworks 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions

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Play Nice But Win

Wall Street declared his company dead. He bet $24 billion on the long term. The long term won.

av Michael Dell 2021 336 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Turnarounds 📖 Founder Memoirs 🔒 Going Private 🧠 Decision Frameworks 🤝 Mergers And Acquisitions

Lights Out

av Thomas Gryta • 2020

GE spent decades building the world's most admired numbers. The company behind them was a mirage.

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⚖️ Corporate Governance 🏢 Organizational Culture 📉 Corporate Decline 🧮 Earnings Manipulation 💰 Financial Engineering

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Lights Out

GE spent decades building the world's most admired numbers. The company behind them was a mirage.

av Thomas Gryta 2020 368 sidor

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⚖️ Corporate Governance 🏢 Organizational Culture 📉 Corporate Decline 🧮 Earnings Manipulation 💰 Financial Engineering

The Frontiersmen

av Allan W. Eckert • 1967

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

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🏞️ Frontier History 🪶 Native American History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties

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The Frontiersmen

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

av Allan W. Eckert 1967 652 sidor

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🏞️ Frontier History 🪶 Native American History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties

The Assault on Truth

av Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson • 1984

The case against Freud: he knew child abuse was real and called it fantasy anyway.

3.99

494

🏛️ History Of Psychoanalysis 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🧠 Trauma And Memory 🤝 Believing Survivors 🏢 Institutional Coverup

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The Assault on Truth

The case against Freud: he knew child abuse was real and called it fantasy anyway.

av Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 1984

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494 betyg

🏛️ History Of Psychoanalysis 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🧠 Trauma And Memory 🤝 Believing Survivors 🏢 Institutional Coverup

Burn Rate

av Andy Dunn • 2022

He hid bipolar disorder while building Bonobos. A jail cell forced the secret out.

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🏢 Startup Memoirs 🧠 Bipolar Memoir 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 🚀 Startup Culture 💬 Vulnerable Leadership

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Burn Rate

He hid bipolar disorder while building Bonobos. A jail cell forced the secret out.

av Andy Dunn 2022 304 sidor

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🏢 Startup Memoirs 🧠 Bipolar Memoir 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 🚀 Startup Culture 💬 Vulnerable Leadership

The Man Who Shocked The World

av Thomas Blass • 2004

Sixty-five percent obey orders to shock a stranger. The biography of the psychologist who proved it.

3.93

220

👥 Social Psychology 📜 History Of Psychology ⚖️ Research Ethics 🎖️ Obedience To Authority 🔄 Situational Influence

The Man Who Shocked The World Sammanfattning

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The Man Who Shocked The World

Sixty-five percent obey orders to shock a stranger. The biography of the psychologist who proved it.

av Thomas Blass 2004 392 sidor

3.93

220 betyg

👥 Social Psychology 📜 History Of Psychology ⚖️ Research Ethics 🎖️ Obedience To Authority 🔄 Situational Influence

The Infinity Machine

av Sebastian Mallaby • 2026

Superintelligence is arriving on schedule. Everything else about its creation went wrong.

4.43

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🧪 Ai Labs 👤 Founder Stories ⚙️ Technological Determinism 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚠️ Ai Safety

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The Infinity Machine

Superintelligence is arriving on schedule. Everything else about its creation went wrong.

av Sebastian Mallaby 2026 480 sidor

4.43

2 000+ betyg

🧪 Ai Labs 👤 Founder Stories ⚙️ Technological Determinism 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚠️ Ai Safety

Family of Spies

av Christine Kuehn • 2025

A 1994 letter claimed her grandfather helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor. Every word was true.

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15 000+

🔍 World War Ii Espionage 🌊 Pearl Harbor 🔐 Family Secrets 🔎 Investigative Memoir 🏛️ Ancestral Reckoning

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Family of Spies

A 1994 letter claimed her grandfather helped Japan attack Pearl Harbor. Every word was true.

av Christine Kuehn 2025 272 sidor

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15 000+ betyg

🔍 World War Ii Espionage 🌊 Pearl Harbor 🔐 Family Secrets 🔎 Investigative Memoir 🏛️ Ancestral Reckoning

Start With Yourself

av Emma Grede • 2026

Before the business plan: four inner shifts that helped one dropout build three iconic brands.

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1 000+

👩‍💼 Women In Business 📖 Entrepreneur Memoir 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 💸 Money Mindset 🎭 Imposter Syndrome

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Start With Yourself

Before the business plan: four inner shifts that helped one dropout build three iconic brands.

av Emma Grede 2026 320 sidor

4.14

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👩‍💼 Women In Business 📖 Entrepreneur Memoir 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 💸 Money Mindset 🎭 Imposter Syndrome

The Making of Martin Luther

av Richard Rex • 2017

A misremembered sentence and a desperate hunger for certainty: the Reformation's hidden engine.

3.94

📜 Reformation History 🧠 Intellectual History 🔄 Revisionist History ⛪ Medieval Christianity 🏛️ Historical Myths

The Making of Martin Luther Sammanfattning

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The Making of Martin Luther

A misremembered sentence and a desperate hunger for certainty: the Reformation's hidden engine.

av Richard Rex 2017 296 sidor

3.94

64 betyg

📜 Reformation History 🧠 Intellectual History 🔄 Revisionist History ⛪ Medieval Christianity 🏛️ Historical Myths

Ett oroligt sinne

av Kay Redfield Jamison • 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

Ett oroligt sinne

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

av Kay Redfield Jamison 1995 219 sidor

4.06

86 000+ betyg

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

Mein Kampf

av Adolf Hitler • 1925

The manifesto that blueprinted the Third Reich: racial empire, absolute rule, and total war.

3.18

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🏛️ Political Manifestos ⚡ Authoritarianism 📢 Propaganda Techniques 👥 Mass Psychology 💀 Racial Ideology

Mein Kampf

The manifesto that blueprinted the Third Reich: racial empire, absolute rule, and total war.

av Adolf Hitler 1925 722 sidor

3.18

44 000+ betyg

🏛️ Political Manifestos ⚡ Authoritarianism 📢 Propaganda Techniques 👥 Mass Psychology 💀 Racial Ideology

Masters of Doom

av David Kushner • 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

Masters of Doom

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

av David Kushner 2003 368 sidor

4.30

20 000+ betyg

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

The Everything Store

av Brad Stone • 2013

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

4.14

77 000+

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

The Everything Store

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

av Brad Stone 2013 384 sidor

4.14

77 000+ betyg

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

The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son

av J.D. Rockefeller • 2020

38 letters from Rockefeller to his son: what the world's richest man wanted his heir to know.

4.45

1 000+

🏦 Wealth Building 👔 Business Mentorship 🎯 Personal Accountability ✉️ Epistolary Wisdom 🏋️ Self-Reliance

The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son

38 letters from Rockefeller to his son: what the world's richest man wanted his heir to know.

av J.D. Rockefeller 2020 187 sidor

4.45

1 000+ betyg

🏦 Wealth Building 👔 Business Mentorship 🎯 Personal Accountability ✉️ Epistolary Wisdom 🏋️ Self-Reliance

Into the Wild

av Jon Krakauer • 1996

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

4.02

1 000 000+

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

Into the Wild

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

av Jon Krakauer 1996 240 sidor

4.02

1 000 000+ betyg

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

The 50th Law

av 50 Cent • 2008

Fear makes you small and predictable. The antidote, from a man shot nine times.

4.16

14 000+

⚡ Power Dynamics 💸 Hustle Culture 🦁 Fear Management ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🔗 Self-Reliance

The 50th Law

Fear makes you small and predictable. The antidote, from a man shot nine times.

av 50 Cent 2008 304 sidor

4.16

14 000+ betyg

⚡ Power Dynamics 💸 Hustle Culture 🦁 Fear Management ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🔗 Self-Reliance

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