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Fear

av Bob Woodward • 2018

Top advisors believed the president endangered the country. They worked in secret to stop him.

3.87

65 000+

🏛️ Trump Presidency 🔥 White House Chaos ⚔️ Staff Power Struggles 📢 Populism 🕵️ Russia Investigation

Fear

Top advisors believed the president endangered the country. They worked in secret to stop him.

av Bob Woodward 2018 448 sidor

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🏛️ Trump Presidency 🔥 White House Chaos ⚔️ Staff Power Struggles 📢 Populism 🕵️ Russia Investigation

Monkey Business

av John Rolfe • 2000

Private jets, $209,000 bonuses, and a copy center that could destroy you. Two bankers tell all.

3.97

6 000+

🪙 Investment Banking ☣️ Toxic Workplaces 🤡 Career Disillusionment ⚖️ Work-Life Imbalance 📰 Financial Industry Exposé

Monkey Business

Private jets, $209,000 bonuses, and a copy center that could destroy you. Two bankers tell all.

av John Rolfe 2000 288 sidor

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🪙 Investment Banking ☣️ Toxic Workplaces 🤡 Career Disillusionment ⚖️ Work-Life Imbalance 📰 Financial Industry Exposé

The Education of a Coach

av David Halberstam • 2005

The greatest NFL dynasty began in failure, film rooms, and a quarterback picked 199th.

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🏈 Sports Biography 📋 Coaching Philosophy 🏗️ Organizational Culture 🔍 Talent Evaluation 👑 Sports Dynasties

The Education of a Coach

The greatest NFL dynasty began in failure, film rooms, and a quarterback picked 199th.

av David Halberstam 2005 288 sidor

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🏈 Sports Biography 📋 Coaching Philosophy 🏗️ Organizational Culture 🔍 Talent Evaluation 👑 Sports Dynasties

The Art Thief

av Michael Finkel • 2023

History's most prolific art thief never stole for money. He stole to possess beauty itself.

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100 000+

🖼️ Art Theft 🎨 Aesthetic Obsession 🧠 Collector Psychology 🕵️ Amateur Criminals 💔 Love And Crime

The Art Thief

History's most prolific art thief never stole for money. He stole to possess beauty itself.

av Michael Finkel 2023 224 sidor

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🖼️ Art Theft 🎨 Aesthetic Obsession 🧠 Collector Psychology 🕵️ Amateur Criminals 💔 Love And Crime

Showboat

av Roland Lazenby • 2016

Two selves fought inside Kobe Bryant: the showman his father wanted, the killer his mother forged.

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🏀 Sports Biography 👨‍👩‍👦 Parental Influence 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🔥 Obsession And Sacrifice 🔄 Self Reinvention

Showboat

Two selves fought inside Kobe Bryant: the showman his father wanted, the killer his mother forged.

av Roland Lazenby 2016 625 sidor

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🏀 Sports Biography 👨‍👩‍👦 Parental Influence 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🔥 Obsession And Sacrifice 🔄 Self Reinvention

Choosing to Run

av Des Linden • 2023

She lost Boston by two seconds. Then a nor'easter gave her one more shot at victory.

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👟 Professional Running ♀️ Women In Sports 🏃 Marathon Running 🧠 Mental Toughness 📋 Training Philosophy

Choosing to Run

She lost Boston by two seconds. Then a nor'easter gave her one more shot at victory.

av Des Linden 2023 272 sidor

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👟 Professional Running ♀️ Women In Sports 🏃 Marathon Running 🧠 Mental Toughness 📋 Training Philosophy

Main Currents Of Marxism

av Leszek Kołakowski • 2005

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

4.25

455

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

Main Currents Of Marxism

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

av Leszek Kołakowski 2005 1284 sidor

4.25

455 betyg

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

Loud

av Drew Afualo • 2024

A blueprint for living loud, reclaiming 'mean,' and making misogyny face consequences.

4.29

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🧠 Internalized Misogyny 💪 Body Neutrality 🎤 Reclaiming Your Voice 🏡 Self-Sufficiency 🚧 Setting Boundaries

Loud

A blueprint for living loud, reclaiming 'mean,' and making misogyny face consequences.

av Drew Afualo 2024 256 sidor

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🧠 Internalized Misogyny 💪 Body Neutrality 🎤 Reclaiming Your Voice 🏡 Self-Sufficiency 🚧 Setting Boundaries

Spycatcher

av Peter Wright • 1987

MI5's first scientist built secret listening devices, then spent his career hunting a Soviet mole.

3.73

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇬🇧 British Intelligence 📡 Technical Surveillance 🔍 Mole Hunts 🛡️ Counterespionage

Spycatcher

MI5's first scientist built secret listening devices, then spent his career hunting a Soviet mole.

av Peter Wright 1987 392 sidor

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇬🇧 British Intelligence 📡 Technical Surveillance 🔍 Mole Hunts 🛡️ Counterespionage

My Bondage and My Freedom

av Frederick Douglass • 1855

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

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🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

My Bondage and My Freedom

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

av Frederick Douglass 1855 432 sidor

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🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

The Afrikaners

av Hermann Giliomee • 2003

Three centuries of one people's making: from diverse origins to apartheid and the reckoning after.

4.18

136

🏛️ South African History 🌍 Settler Colonialism 🏴 Nationalism Studies 💬 Language And Identity ⚫ Racial Segregation

The Afrikaners

Three centuries of one people's making: from diverse origins to apartheid and the reckoning after.

av Hermann Giliomee 2003 720 sidor

4.18

136 betyg

🏛️ South African History 🌍 Settler Colonialism 🏴 Nationalism Studies 💬 Language And Identity ⚫ Racial Segregation

Courage to Soar

av Simone Biles • 2016

Foster care. Adoption. A Texas gym. How an Olympic champion was made, by the teenager who lived it.

4.14

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🏅 Sports Memoirs 🥇 Olympic Athletes 🤸 Gymnastics 👨‍👩‍👧 Adoption Stories 💪 Survivor Memoirs

Courage to Soar

Foster care. Adoption. A Texas gym. How an Olympic champion was made, by the teenager who lived it.

av Simone Biles 2016 256 sidor

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🏅 Sports Memoirs 🥇 Olympic Athletes 🤸 Gymnastics 👨‍👩‍👧 Adoption Stories 💪 Survivor Memoirs

A Long Way Home

av Saroo Brierley • 2013

Lost as a boy in India, Saroo Brierley spent years searching for home with Google Earth.

4.12

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📖 Adoption Memoir 🔍 Search For Identity 🧒 Childhood Survival 🌏 International Adoption 🎭 Dual Identity

A Long Way Home

Lost as a boy in India, Saroo Brierley spent years searching for home with Google Earth.

av Saroo Brierley 2013 288 sidor

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📖 Adoption Memoir 🔍 Search For Identity 🧒 Childhood Survival 🌏 International Adoption 🎭 Dual Identity

Brilliant Blunders

av Mario Livio • 2013

Five scientific blunders that advanced their fields further than a correct answer ever could.

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🔬 History Of Science 💥 Productive Failure 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🧪 Scientific Method 🎯 Cognitive Bias

Brilliant Blunders

Five scientific blunders that advanced their fields further than a correct answer ever could.

av Mario Livio 2013 342 sidor

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🔬 History Of Science 💥 Productive Failure 🧠 Intellectual Humility 🧪 Scientific Method 🎯 Cognitive Bias

Life, God, and Other Small Topics

av Eric Metaxas • 2011

A pacifist pastor joined the plot to kill Hitler. His theology explains why.

4.03

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🏰 German History 📚 20th Century Theology ✊ Resistance To Tyranny 🕊️ Faith Under Persecution ⚖️ Ethics Of Pacifism

Life, God, and Other Small Topics

A pacifist pastor joined the plot to kill Hitler. His theology explains why.

av Eric Metaxas 2011 394 sidor

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🏰 German History 📚 20th Century Theology ✊ Resistance To Tyranny 🕊️ Faith Under Persecution ⚖️ Ethics Of Pacifism

Madness

av Marya Hornbacher • 2008

At four, she never slept. At thirty, she'd survived mania, addiction, and the psychiatric ward.

4.04

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🧠 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🍷 Dual Diagnosis 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 🏥 Psychiatric Hospitals

Madness

At four, she never slept. At thirty, she'd survived mania, addiction, and the psychiatric ward.

av Marya Hornbacher 2008 299 sidor

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🧠 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🍷 Dual Diagnosis 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 🏥 Psychiatric Hospitals

Crypto Confidential

av Nathaniel Eliason • 2024

A 7,700 percent gain, then zero: one insider's ride through the crypto casino.

4.21

500+

🪙 Crypto Markets 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧪 Behavioral Economics ⚠️ Cautionary Tales 🎙️ Insider Tell-All

Crypto Confidential

A 7,700 percent gain, then zero: one insider's ride through the crypto casino.

av Nathaniel Eliason 2024 304 sidor

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🪙 Crypto Markets 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧪 Behavioral Economics ⚠️ Cautionary Tales 🎙️ Insider Tell-All

The Facebook Effect

av David Kirkpatrick • 2010

The bet: real names would make the internet better. Then 500 million people showed up.

3.86

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📱 Social Media History 🏢 Corporate Biography 🌉 Silicon Valley History 🔗 Platform Economics 📈 Viral Growth

The Facebook Effect

The bet: real names would make the internet better. Then 500 million people showed up.

av David Kirkpatrick 2010 386 sidor

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📱 Social Media History 🏢 Corporate Biography 🌉 Silicon Valley History 🔗 Platform Economics 📈 Viral Growth

A Life in Football

av Ian Wright • 2016

Most footballers are scouted as children. He was 21 and still playing Sunday league.

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🏴 English Football ⚽ Football Memoir 💪 Overcoming Rejection ✊ Racism In Sport 🐢 Late Bloomers

A Life in Football

Most footballers are scouted as children. He was 21 and still playing Sunday league.

av Ian Wright 2016 320 sidor

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🏴 English Football ⚽ Football Memoir 💪 Overcoming Rejection ✊ Racism In Sport 🐢 Late Bloomers

Founding Brothers

av Joseph J. Ellis • 2000

The American founding hung on private dinners, personal feuds, a duel, and one last letter.

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🏛️ Early American Republic 📜 Founding Fathers 🤝 Political Compromise ⚔️ Political Rivalries 🔗 Slavery And The Founding

Founding Brothers

The American founding hung on private dinners, personal feuds, a duel, and one last letter.

av Joseph J. Ellis 2000 288 sidor

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🏛️ Early American Republic 📜 Founding Fathers 🤝 Political Compromise ⚔️ Political Rivalries 🔗 Slavery And The Founding

St. Thomas Aquinas

av G.K. Chesterton • 1923

A friar's proof: the senses are holy, common sense leads to truth, Aristotle walks with saints.

4.01

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📜 Thomism 🏛️ Scholasticism 🤝 Faith And Reason 🔬 Natural Theology 🇬🇷 Aristotelian Philosophy

St. Thomas Aquinas

A friar's proof: the senses are holy, common sense leads to truth, Aristotle walks with saints.

av G.K. Chesterton 1923 143 sidor

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📜 Thomism 🏛️ Scholasticism 🤝 Faith And Reason 🔬 Natural Theology 🇬🇷 Aristotelian Philosophy

Investing the Templeton Way

av Lauren C. Templeton • 2008

Profiting from panic: the global bargain-hunting method that buys stocks at 80% below their value.

3.99

205

🧱 Value Investing 🌍 Global Investing 🔄 Contrarian Investing 📉 Market Cycles 🧠 Investor Psychology

Investing the Templeton Way

Profiting from panic: the global bargain-hunting method that buys stocks at 80% below their value.

av Lauren C. Templeton 2008 296 sidor

3.99

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🧱 Value Investing 🌍 Global Investing 🔄 Contrarian Investing 📉 Market Cycles 🧠 Investor Psychology

A History of the World in 21 Women

av Jenni Murray • 2018

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

A History of the World in 21 Women

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

av Jenni Murray 2018 304 sidor

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

Free the Children

av Craig Kielburger • 1998

A 12-year-old Canadian reads about a murdered activist, then goes to find the child laborers.

4.14

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🧒 Child Labor ✊ Youth Activism 🌍 Global Poverty 📜 Children's Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

Free the Children

A 12-year-old Canadian reads about a murdered activist, then goes to find the child laborers.

av Craig Kielburger 1998

4.14

500+ betyg

🧒 Child Labor ✊ Youth Activism 🌍 Global Poverty 📜 Children's Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

A Quantum Life

av Hakeem Oluseyi • 2021

A crack addict hiding in Stanford labs. A newborn daughter. Solar telescopes and a second chance.

4.48

500+

🔭 Scientist Memoirs 🩹 Addiction And Recovery 📈 Upward Mobility 🎓 Black In Academia 🧪 Racism In Science

A Quantum Life

A crack addict hiding in Stanford labs. A newborn daughter. Solar telescopes and a second chance.

av Hakeem Oluseyi 2021 356 sidor

4.48

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🔭 Scientist Memoirs 🩹 Addiction And Recovery 📈 Upward Mobility 🎓 Black In Academia 🧪 Racism In Science

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

av Chris Hadfield • 2013

An astronaut's survival rules for Earth: plan for disaster, obsess over details, put the team first.

4.17

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🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🚀 Space Exploration 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🤝 Team Dynamics 🧘 Humility And Competence

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

An astronaut's survival rules for Earth: plan for disaster, obsess over details, put the team first.

av Chris Hadfield 2013 295 sidor

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🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🚀 Space Exploration 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🤝 Team Dynamics 🧘 Humility And Competence

The Memory Palace

av Mira Bartok • 2011

She lost her memory. She found her schizophrenic mother's paintings. A reunion in art.

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8 000+

💔 Childhood Trauma 🎨 Art As Refuge 🧠 Memory And Identity 🧩 Mentally Ill Parents 🩹 Brain Injury Memoir

The Memory Palace

She lost her memory. She found her schizophrenic mother's paintings. A reunion in art.

av Mira Bartok 2011 320 sidor

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💔 Childhood Trauma 🎨 Art As Refuge 🧠 Memory And Identity 🧩 Mentally Ill Parents 🩹 Brain Injury Memoir

Secrets in the Cellar

av John Glatt • 2009

A father's dungeon beneath his home. Twenty-four years, one daughter, seven children in the dark.

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 🏚️ Hidden Captivity 💔 Familial Abuse 🎭 Double Lives 🚫 Sexual Violence

Secrets in the Cellar

A father's dungeon beneath his home. Twenty-four years, one daughter, seven children in the dark.

av John Glatt 2009 256 sidor

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 🏚️ Hidden Captivity 💔 Familial Abuse 🎭 Double Lives 🚫 Sexual Violence

Hollywood Babylon

av Kenneth Anger • 1959

Morphine, sex crimes, unsolved murders: real silent Hollywood, exposed by a 1959 tell-all.

3.65

6 000+

🎬 Early Hollywood 🥂 Hollywood Scandals 🎟️ Hays Code Era ⭐ Star System 🗞️ Scandal Journalism

Hollywood Babylon

Morphine, sex crimes, unsolved murders: real silent Hollywood, exposed by a 1959 tell-all.

av Kenneth Anger 1959 305 sidor

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🎬 Early Hollywood 🥂 Hollywood Scandals 🎟️ Hays Code Era ⭐ Star System 🗞️ Scandal Journalism

Quantum

av Manjit Kumar • 2007

Einstein and Bohr's 30-year argument revealed a universe stranger than either could accept.

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⚛️ Quantum Physics 📜 History Of Science 🌌 Nature Of Reality 🎭 Copenhagen Interpretation 💭 Philosophy Of Physics

Quantum

Einstein and Bohr's 30-year argument revealed a universe stranger than either could accept.

av Manjit Kumar 2007 448 sidor

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⚛️ Quantum Physics 📜 History Of Science 🌌 Nature Of Reality 🎭 Copenhagen Interpretation 💭 Philosophy Of Physics

Seven Women

av Eric Metaxas • 2015

The seven women history admires had something in common that most accounts leave out.

4.18

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🕊️ Christian Biography 🙏 Heroines Of Faith 🔥 Faith Under Fire ⚖️ Christian Activism 📖 Vocation And Calling

Seven Women

The seven women history admires had something in common that most accounts leave out.

av Eric Metaxas 2015 256 sidor

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🕊️ Christian Biography 🙏 Heroines Of Faith 🔥 Faith Under Fire ⚖️ Christian Activism 📖 Vocation And Calling

Balancing Heaven and Earth

av Robert A. Johnson • 1998

Under the ice at eleven: a realm of light. A memoir of holding heaven and earth together.

4.38

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🧠 Jungian Psychology ✨ Spiritual Memoir 🌙 Dream Work 🔨 Inner Work ⚔️ Hero's Journey

Balancing Heaven and Earth

Under the ice at eleven: a realm of light. A memoir of holding heaven and earth together.

av Robert A. Johnson 1998 320 sidor

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🧠 Jungian Psychology ✨ Spiritual Memoir 🌙 Dream Work 🔨 Inner Work ⚔️ Hero's Journey

Palm Sunday

av Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎭 Dark Humor Memoirs ☮️ Anti War Perspectives

Palm Sunday

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

av Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎭 Dark Humor Memoirs ☮️ Anti War Perspectives

Dinner for Vampires

av Bethany Joy Lenz • 2024

One Tree Hill gave her fame. A small church took her freedom, her fortune, and her faith.

4.23

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🏚️ Cult Survivor Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Abuse ⛪ Faith Deconstruction 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Charismatic Leader

Dinner for Vampires

One Tree Hill gave her fame. A small church took her freedom, her fortune, and her faith.

av Bethany Joy Lenz 2024 303 sidor

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🏚️ Cult Survivor Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Abuse ⛪ Faith Deconstruction 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Charismatic Leader

What I Know for Sure

av Oprah Winfrey • 2014

Oprah's most personal lessons on joy, resilience, and the power of owning your story.

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📖 Inspirational Memoir ✨ Spiritual Essays 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💪 Resilience Building 😊 Joy Cultivation

What I Know for Sure

Oprah's most personal lessons on joy, resilience, and the power of owning your story.

av Oprah Winfrey 2014 240 sidor

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📖 Inspirational Memoir ✨ Spiritual Essays 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💪 Resilience Building 😊 Joy Cultivation

First Principles

av Thomas E. Ricks • 2020

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers 📜 Early American Republic 📚 Intellectual History 🏺 Greco-Roman Thought 🫡 Civic Virtue

First Principles

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

av Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 sidor

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🏛️ Founding Fathers 📜 Early American Republic 📚 Intellectual History 🏺 Greco-Roman Thought 🫡 Civic Virtue

Three Cups of Deceit

av Jon Krakauer • 2011

The humanitarian's origin story was fiction, and his charity paid for chartered jets, not schools.

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🔍 Investigative Journalism 🦸 Manufactured Heroism 📺 Media Manipulation 📝 Fabricated Memoirs 📊 Nonprofit Accountability

Three Cups of Deceit

The humanitarian's origin story was fiction, and his charity paid for chartered jets, not schools.

av Jon Krakauer 2011 77 sidor

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🔍 Investigative Journalism 🦸 Manufactured Heroism 📺 Media Manipulation 📝 Fabricated Memoirs 📊 Nonprofit Accountability

Pryor Convictions

av Richard Pryor • 1995

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Pryor Convictions

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

av Richard Pryor 1995 261 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

There Was a Country

av Chinua Achebe • 2012

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

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🌍 Postcolonial Africa ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🪖 Nigerian Civil War 📖 African Memoirs 🚩 Ethnic Conflict

There Was a Country

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

av Chinua Achebe 2012 352 sidor

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🌍 Postcolonial Africa ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🪖 Nigerian Civil War 📖 African Memoirs 🚩 Ethnic Conflict

The Path to Power

av Robert A. Caro • 1982

Before the presidency, a Texas hill country boy learned the dark arts of power on a college campus.

4.43

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🏛️ Presidential Biographies 🎭 Political Manipulation ⚡ Power Accumulation 🕯️ Backroom Politics 🌾 Escape From Poverty

The Path to Power

Before the presidency, a Texas hill country boy learned the dark arts of power on a college campus.

av Robert A. Caro 1982 768 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential Biographies 🎭 Political Manipulation ⚡ Power Accumulation 🕯️ Backroom Politics 🌾 Escape From Poverty

How to Be Like Mike

av Pat Williams • 2001

His edge wasn't talent. It was a mental playbook you can run.

4.31

346

🏟️ Sports Leadership 🧠 Athletic Mindset ⛰️ Peak Performance 💪 Mental Toughness 🔥 Competitive Drive

How to Be Like Mike

His edge wasn't talent. It was a mental playbook you can run.

av Pat Williams 2001 368 sidor

4.31

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🏟️ Sports Leadership 🧠 Athletic Mindset ⛰️ Peak Performance 💪 Mental Toughness 🔥 Competitive Drive

Coming Home

av Brittney Griner • 2024

293 days in a Russian prison, and the arms dealer traded for her freedom.

4.37

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🏅 Athlete Memoirs 🏀 Women In Sports 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Athletes ⛓️ Wrongful Detention 🧗 Captivity Survival

Coming Home

293 days in a Russian prison, and the arms dealer traded for her freedom.

av Brittney Griner 2024 320 sidor

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🏅 Athlete Memoirs 🏀 Women In Sports 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Athletes ⛓️ Wrongful Detention 🧗 Captivity Survival

The House of Medici

av Christopher Hibbert • 1975

Why Florence's uncrowned kings were bankers who built the Renaissance and survived assassination.

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🏛️ Renaissance Italy 🌺 Florentine History 🏦 Banking Dynasties 👑 Family Dynasties 🎨 Patronage And Art

The House of Medici

Why Florence's uncrowned kings were bankers who built the Renaissance and survived assassination.

av Christopher Hibbert 1975 364 sidor

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🏛️ Renaissance Italy 🌺 Florentine History 🏦 Banking Dynasties 👑 Family Dynasties 🎨 Patronage And Art

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

av Stephen Rebello • 1990

Bored with his own glamour, Hitchcock gambled his fortune on a cheap psycho thriller and won.

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🎬 Film Production 🔪 Horror Cinema 🧠 Psychological Horror 🎞️ Auteur Theory 🖤 True Crime Origins

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Bored with his own glamour, Hitchcock gambled his fortune on a cheap psycho thriller and won.

av Stephen Rebello 1990 204 sidor

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🎬 Film Production 🔪 Horror Cinema 🧠 Psychological Horror 🎞️ Auteur Theory 🖤 True Crime Origins

In Search of The Color Purple

av Salamishah Tillet • 2021

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

4.21

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📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

In Search of The Color Purple

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

av Salamishah Tillet 2021 223 sidor

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📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

Mandela's Way

av Richard Stengel • 2009

Mandela's rules: why he led from behind, retired early, and saw his enemies as mentors.

4.11

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🌍 African Leadership 🦁 Moral Courage 🤝 Principled Negotiation ⏳ Long-Term Thinking ☮️ Conflict Resolution

Mandela's Way

Mandela's rules: why he led from behind, retired early, and saw his enemies as mentors.

av Richard Stengel 2009 243 sidor

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🌍 African Leadership 🦁 Moral Courage 🤝 Principled Negotiation ⏳ Long-Term Thinking ☮️ Conflict Resolution

Men of Mathematics

av Eric Temple Bell • 1937

From Descartes to Cantor, the story of mathematics is one of obsession and early graves.

4.10

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