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Long Walk to Freedom

av Nelson Mandela • 1994

After 27 years in prison, his first act of freedom was to shake his jailer's hand.

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📖 South African History ✊🏿 Anti-Apartheid Struggle ⛓️ Political Imprisonment ⚖️ Racial Justice 🕊️ Forgiveness And Reconciliation

Long Walk to Freedom

After 27 years in prison, his first act of freedom was to shake his jailer's hand.

av Nelson Mandela 1994 656 sidor

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📖 South African History ✊🏿 Anti-Apartheid Struggle ⛓️ Political Imprisonment ⚖️ Racial Justice 🕊️ Forgiveness And Reconciliation

Andrew Carnegie

av David Nasaw • 2006

How a penniless immigrant built the world's biggest steel empire, and then tried to die broke.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🧑‍💼 Captains Of Industry 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy 📜 Business History 💪 Self-Made Men

Andrew Carnegie

How a penniless immigrant built the world's biggest steel empire, and then tried to die broke.

av David Nasaw 2006 896 sidor

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🧑‍💼 Captains Of Industry 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy 📜 Business History 💪 Self-Made Men

On the Move

av Oliver Sacks • 2015

Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 🩺 Medical Memoir 🧬 Neurological Disorders 📖 Narrative Medicine 🔄 Neuroplasticity

On the Move

Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.

av Oliver Sacks 2015 397 sidor

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 🩺 Medical Memoir 🧬 Neurological Disorders 📖 Narrative Medicine 🔄 Neuroplasticity

A Doctor in the House

av Mahathir Mohamad • 2011

A country doctor, expelled by his party, returned to lead Malaysia and told the IMF no.

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🌏 Southeast Asian Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 📜 Political Memoirs 🏭 Developmental State 💹 Economic Nationalism

A Doctor in the House

A country doctor, expelled by his party, returned to lead Malaysia and told the IMF no.

av Mahathir Mohamad 2011 843 sidor

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🌏 Southeast Asian Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 📜 Political Memoirs 🏭 Developmental State 💹 Economic Nationalism

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

av Holger Weßling • 2019

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

👤 Author Biography 📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches 🧒 Children's Literature

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

av Holger Weßling 2019 27 sidor

👤 Author Biography 📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches 🧒 Children's Literature

Left for Dead

av Beck Weathers • 2000

Blind, frozen, and left for dead on Everest. He survived to save his marriage.

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🏔️ Mountaineering Memoirs 💀 Near-Death Experiences ❤️ Marriage Memoirs 🔗 Obsession And Recovery 🩺 Physical Rehabilitation

Left for Dead

Blind, frozen, and left for dead on Everest. He survived to save his marriage.

av Beck Weathers 2000 352 sidor

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🏔️ Mountaineering Memoirs 💀 Near-Death Experiences ❤️ Marriage Memoirs 🔗 Obsession And Recovery 🩺 Physical Rehabilitation

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

av Carmelo Anthony • 2021

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

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🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

av Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 sidor

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🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

It Doesn't Take a Hero

av H. Norman Schwarzkopf • 1992

He never claimed to be a hero. His command of Desert Storm proved the point.

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 Modern Military Memoir 🇻🇳 Vietnam War Reflections ⚔️ Warrior Ethos 🧠 Military Resilience

It Doesn't Take a Hero

He never claimed to be a hero. His command of Desert Storm proved the point.

av H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1992 530 sidor

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 Modern Military Memoir 🇻🇳 Vietnam War Reflections ⚔️ Warrior Ethos 🧠 Military Resilience

26 Marathons

av Meb Keflezighi • 2019

26 marathons taught an Olympian that patience outruns talent, and the hardest miles teach the most.

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🏃 Marathon Running 📖 Sports Memoir 🎯 Life Lessons From Sports 🧠 Mental Toughness 🙏 Faith And Athletics

26 Marathons

26 marathons taught an Olympian that patience outruns talent, and the hardest miles teach the most.

av Meb Keflezighi 2019 256 sidor

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🏃 Marathon Running 📖 Sports Memoir 🎯 Life Lessons From Sports 🧠 Mental Toughness 🙏 Faith And Athletics

Handcrafted

av Clint Harp • 2018

A gas station meeting, a derelict crack house, and a dumpster of wood launched a TV carpenter.

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🪚 Woodworking Memoir 🔨 Artisan Business 🔄 Career Pivots 👢 Bootstrapping 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-Run Business

Handcrafted

A gas station meeting, a derelict crack house, and a dumpster of wood launched a TV carpenter.

av Clint Harp 2018 239 sidor

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🪚 Woodworking Memoir 🔨 Artisan Business 🔄 Career Pivots 👢 Bootstrapping 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-Run Business

Kings of Crypto

av Jeff John Roberts • 2021

One startup made bitcoin simple. The regulators came. Then the rivals. Then the civil war.

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🪙 Cryptocurrency 🏦 Fintech Startups 🏛️ Crypto Exchanges 📈 Startup Scaling 🏢 Company Biography

Kings of Crypto

One startup made bitcoin simple. The regulators came. Then the rivals. Then the civil war.

av Jeff John Roberts 2021 236 sidor

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🪙 Cryptocurrency 🏦 Fintech Startups 🏛️ Crypto Exchanges 📈 Startup Scaling 🏢 Company Biography

Tokyo Vice

av Jake Adelstein • 2009

A foreign reporter in Tokyo unearths a yakuza secret that puts everyone he loves in danger.

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🐉 Japanese Underworld 🇯🇵 Gaijin In Japan 🔪 Loyalty And Betrayal ⚖️ Systemic Corruption

Tokyo Vice

A foreign reporter in Tokyo unearths a yakuza secret that puts everyone he loves in danger.

av Jake Adelstein 2009 335 sidor

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🐉 Japanese Underworld 🇯🇵 Gaijin In Japan 🔪 Loyalty And Betrayal ⚖️ Systemic Corruption

The House of Rothschild, Vol 2

av Niall Ferguson • 1998

Europe's most powerful bank was a family affair. The biggest risk was the family itself.

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👑 Banking Dynasties 🌐 International Finance ✡️ Jewish Emancipation ⚔️ War Financing 🏦 Merchant Banking

The House of Rothschild, Vol 2

Europe's most powerful bank was a family affair. The biggest risk was the family itself.

av Niall Ferguson 1998 592 sidor

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👑 Banking Dynasties 🌐 International Finance ✡️ Jewish Emancipation ⚔️ War Financing 🏦 Merchant Banking

Moonshot

av Mike Massimino • 2023

A NASA astronaut's rules for beating million-to-one odds and surviving your own spacewalks on Earth.

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🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🚪 Overcoming Rejection 🤝 Trust And Teamwork 📢 Crisis Communication 🔧 Managing Mistakes

Moonshot

A NASA astronaut's rules for beating million-to-one odds and surviving your own spacewalks on Earth.

av Mike Massimino 2023 210 sidor

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🧑‍🚀 Astronaut Memoirs 🚪 Overcoming Rejection 🤝 Trust And Teamwork 📢 Crisis Communication 🔧 Managing Mistakes

Trailblazer

av Marc Benioff • 2019

Shareholder primacy is broken. One CEO bet his company on a bigger idea, and it worked.

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🖥️ Tech Leadership 🌍 Stakeholder Capitalism 📢 Corporate Activism 🌐 Open Innovation 🧘 Mindful Leadership

Trailblazer

Shareholder primacy is broken. One CEO bet his company on a bigger idea, and it worked.

av Marc Benioff 2019 235 sidor

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🖥️ Tech Leadership 🌍 Stakeholder Capitalism 📢 Corporate Activism 🌐 Open Innovation 🧘 Mindful Leadership

Unfinished

av Priyanka Chopra Jonas • 2021

A brother's secret entry, a Miss World crown, and a barrier-breaking career across two continents.

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🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🌟 Hollywood Breakthrough 🌏 Cultural Duality 💪 Female Ambition 🖤 Grief And Resilience

Unfinished

A brother's secret entry, a Miss World crown, and a barrier-breaking career across two continents.

av Priyanka Chopra Jonas 2021 246 sidor

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🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🌟 Hollywood Breakthrough 🌏 Cultural Duality 💪 Female Ambition 🖤 Grief And Resilience

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

av David Adam • 2014

Disturbing thoughts visit almost every mind. OCD hijacks the brain's ability to dismiss them.

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🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 💭 Intrusive Thoughts 🔬 Brain Science 🧪 Exposure Therapy 📰 Science Journalism

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

Disturbing thoughts visit almost every mind. OCD hijacks the brain's ability to dismiss them.

av David Adam 2014 336 sidor

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🧠 Mental Illness Memoir 💭 Intrusive Thoughts 🔬 Brain Science 🧪 Exposure Therapy 📰 Science Journalism

Shattered

av Frank Pastore • 2010

One pitch shattered his elbow and his identity. Rebuilding took a faith he used to mock.

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🏟️ Sports Memoirs ✝️ Conversion Narratives 🏛️ Faith And Politics 🛋️ Therapy And Faith 👧 Childhood Neglect

Shattered

One pitch shattered his elbow and his identity. Rebuilding took a faith he used to mock.

av Frank Pastore 2010

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🏟️ Sports Memoirs ✝️ Conversion Narratives 🏛️ Faith And Politics 🛋️ Therapy And Faith 👧 Childhood Neglect

The Sound of Gravel

av Ruth Wariner • 2016

A polygamist prophet's thirty-ninth child: poverty, abuse, her father's murder, and the long escape.

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🏜️ Mormon Fundamentalism ⛪ Religious Extremism 🧒 Childhood Survival 🚪 Escape Narratives 🧸 Parentified Children

The Sound of Gravel

A polygamist prophet's thirty-ninth child: poverty, abuse, her father's murder, and the long escape.

av Ruth Wariner 2016 336 sidor

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🏜️ Mormon Fundamentalism ⛪ Religious Extremism 🧒 Childhood Survival 🚪 Escape Narratives 🧸 Parentified Children

Surviving to Drive

av Guenther Steiner • 2023

Formula 1's most candid team boss on what breaks leaders at full speed, and how to rebuild.

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🏎️ Sports Leadership 🧭 Authentic Leadership 🤝 Servant Leadership 💪 Resilience Building 🎯 Purpose-Driven Leadership

Surviving to Drive

Formula 1's most candid team boss on what breaks leaders at full speed, and how to rebuild.

av Guenther Steiner 2023 304 sidor

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🏎️ Sports Leadership 🧭 Authentic Leadership 🤝 Servant Leadership 💪 Resilience Building 🎯 Purpose-Driven Leadership

The Splendid and the Vile

av Erik Larson • 2020

Peculiar habits, rooftop defiance, and the 57 nights that could have broken Britain but didn't.

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✈️ World War Ii 🎩 Winston Churchill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British History 🫡 Crisis Leadership ✈️ Battle Of Britain

The Splendid and the Vile

Peculiar habits, rooftop defiance, and the 57 nights that could have broken Britain but didn't.

av Erik Larson 2020 585 sidor

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✈️ World War Ii 🎩 Winston Churchill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British History 🫡 Crisis Leadership ✈️ Battle Of Britain

Fist Stick Knife Gun

av Geoffrey Canada • 1995

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

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🏙️ Urban Violence 🧱 Street Culture 🌱 Youth Mentorship 🔫 Gun Violence 💊 Drug Trade

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

av Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Violence 🧱 Street Culture 🌱 Youth Mentorship 🔫 Gun Violence 💊 Drug Trade

A Century Is Not Enough

av Sourav Ganguly • 2018

Dropped after one match, betrayed by his coach, he returned to captain India's fiercest cricket era.

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🏏 Indian Cricket 📖 Cricket Memoirs 🧠 Mental Toughness 🏆 Sports Redemption 👑 Sports Leadership

A Century Is Not Enough

Dropped after one match, betrayed by his coach, he returned to captain India's fiercest cricket era.

av Sourav Ganguly 2018 258 sidor

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🏏 Indian Cricket 📖 Cricket Memoirs 🧠 Mental Toughness 🏆 Sports Redemption 👑 Sports Leadership

The Housekeeper's Secret

av Sandra Schnakenburg • 2024

Beloved housekeeper's secret past: lost family, abusive asylum, promise kept for 50 years.

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🕵️‍♀️ Investigative Memoir 🔑 Family Secrets 🏚️ Institutional Abuse 🏥 Mental Institutions 🧠 Trauma And Memory

The Housekeeper's Secret

Beloved housekeeper's secret past: lost family, abusive asylum, promise kept for 50 years.

av Sandra Schnakenburg 2024 290 sidor

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🕵️‍♀️ Investigative Memoir 🔑 Family Secrets 🏚️ Institutional Abuse 🏥 Mental Institutions 🧠 Trauma And Memory

Master Slave Husband Wife

av Ilyon Woo • 2023

Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.

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🏃 Slave Escapes ⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement 🎭 Racial Passing ⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law 🏛️ Antebellum America

Master Slave Husband Wife

Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.

av Ilyon Woo 2023 416 sidor

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🏃 Slave Escapes ⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement 🎭 Racial Passing ⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law 🏛️ Antebellum America

The Swerve

av Stephen Greenblatt • 2011

One manuscript, hunted across monasteries, reintroduced a dangerous idea: the soul is mortal.

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💡 History Of Ideas 🖼️ Renaissance Humanism 🏛️ Classical Recovery ✍️ Textual Transmission 📜 Lost Texts

The Swerve

One manuscript, hunted across monasteries, reintroduced a dangerous idea: the soul is mortal.

av Stephen Greenblatt 2011 356 sidor

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💡 History Of Ideas 🖼️ Renaissance Humanism 🏛️ Classical Recovery ✍️ Textual Transmission 📜 Lost Texts

Brave Genius

av Sean B. Carroll • 2013

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

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✊ 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.

av Sean B. Carroll 2013 594 sidor

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

The Quants

av Scott Patterson • 2010

In August 2007, models designed for once-in-ten-millennia failures broke three days running.

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🧮 Quantitative Finance 🏦 Wall Street History 💰 Hedge Funds 📊 Financial Modeling 🔧 Financial Engineering

The Quants

In August 2007, models designed for once-in-ten-millennia failures broke three days running.

av Scott Patterson 2010 352 sidor

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🧮 Quantitative Finance 🏦 Wall Street History 💰 Hedge Funds 📊 Financial Modeling 🔧 Financial Engineering

Isaac Newton

av James Gleick • 2003

His solitary, obsessive mind decoded the cosmos, while his secret alchemy and heresy stayed hidden.

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🔭 History Of Science ⚛️ History Of Physics 📚 Intellectual Biography 🏔️ Solitude And Creativity 🔬 Empirical Method

Isaac Newton

His solitary, obsessive mind decoded the cosmos, while his secret alchemy and heresy stayed hidden.

av James Gleick 2003 272 sidor

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🔭 History Of Science ⚛️ History Of Physics 📚 Intellectual Biography 🏔️ Solitude And Creativity 🔬 Empirical Method

Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1

av Garry Kasparov • 2003

A world champion dissects the six minds who built modern chess, and what they reveal about winning.

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🧱 Chess History 👑 World Champions ♟️ Positional Play ⚡ Dynamic Chess 🧠 Psychological Chess

Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1

A world champion dissects the six minds who built modern chess, and what they reveal about winning.

av Garry Kasparov 2003 464 sidor

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🧱 Chess History 👑 World Champions ♟️ Positional Play ⚡ Dynamic Chess 🧠 Psychological Chess

Marco Polo

av Laurence Bergreen • 2007

A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.

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🐪 Silk Road 🐎 Mongol Empire 🏰 Medieval Travel 🚢 Venetian Republic 🌏 Global Trade

Marco Polo

A merchant, a Mongol emperor, and seventeen years that redrew the map of the known world.

av Laurence Bergreen 2007 415 sidor

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🐪 Silk Road 🐎 Mongol Empire 🏰 Medieval Travel 🚢 Venetian Republic 🌏 Global Trade

Leadership in War

av Andrew Roberts • 2019

Wartime leaders share a playbook. So why do some become Churchill and others become Hitler?

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🎖️ Military Leadership 📖 Historical Case Studies 📚 Comparative Biography 👤 Great Man Theory ⚔️ Military History

Leadership in War

Wartime leaders share a playbook. So why do some become Churchill and others become Hitler?

av Andrew Roberts 2019 256 sidor

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🎖️ Military Leadership 📖 Historical Case Studies 📚 Comparative Biography 👤 Great Man Theory ⚔️ Military History

Same Kind of Different as Me

av Ron Hall • 2006

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

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👥 Dual Memoir ⛪ Faith Testimony 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🏚️ Homelessness Narratives ⛓️ Modern-Day Slavery

Same Kind of Different as Me

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

av Ron Hall 2006 237 sidor

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👥 Dual Memoir ⛪ Faith Testimony 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🏚️ Homelessness Narratives ⛓️ Modern-Day Slavery

King John and the Road to Magna Carta

av Stephen Church • 2015

John lost a continent, defied the pope, and signed a charter that still checks power.

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🏰 Medieval Politics 👑 Plantagenet England ⚔️ Feudal Monarchy 📜 Royal Biography 🏛️ Magna Carta

King John and the Road to Magna Carta

John lost a continent, defied the pope, and signed a charter that still checks power.

av Stephen Church 2015 330 sidor

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🏰 Medieval Politics 👑 Plantagenet England ⚔️ Feudal Monarchy 📜 Royal Biography 🏛️ Magna Carta

The Journey of Robert Monroe

av Ronald Russell • 2007

A radio producer leaves his body and maps the territories that wait after death.

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👻 Out-Of-Body Experiences 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌌 Altered States 🔬 Paranormal Research 🏛️ Transpersonal Psychology

The Journey of Robert Monroe

A radio producer leaves his body and maps the territories that wait after death.

av Ronald Russell 2007 408 sidor

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👻 Out-Of-Body Experiences 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌌 Altered States 🔬 Paranormal Research 🏛️ Transpersonal Psychology

Make Something Wonderful

av Steve Jobs • 2023

Steve Jobs in his own words: the real philosophy behind Apple, Pixar, and the black turtleneck.

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🏞️ Silicon Valley History 🎨 Product Design 📈 Corporate Turnarounds 🧭 Leadership Principles 💡 Innovation Culture

Make Something Wonderful

Steve Jobs in his own words: the real philosophy behind Apple, Pixar, and the black turtleneck.

av Steve Jobs 2023 194 sidor

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🏞️ Silicon Valley History 🎨 Product Design 📈 Corporate Turnarounds 🧭 Leadership Principles 💡 Innovation Culture

Buffett

av Roger Lowenstein • 1995

When a salad oil scandal knocked American Express flat, Buffett bet everything. The story of how.

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🏢 Corporate Biography 💰 Value Investing 📉 Contrarian Investing 📈 Compound Interest 🛒 Buy And Hold

Buffett

When a salad oil scandal knocked American Express flat, Buffett bet everything. The story of how.

av Roger Lowenstein 1995 638 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Biography 💰 Value Investing 📉 Contrarian Investing 📈 Compound Interest 🛒 Buy And Hold

The Heart of a Woman

av Maya Angelou • 2009

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

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🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood 🌍 Pan-African Movement ✈️ Expat Life In Africa

The Heart of a Woman

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

av Maya Angelou 2009 352 sidor

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🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood 🌍 Pan-African Movement ✈️ Expat Life In Africa

The Campaigns of Alexander

av Arrian

How Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and was conquered by his own ambition.

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🏛️ Ancient Warfare 📜 Classical Biography ⚔️ Military Genius 👑 Charismatic Leader 🗺️ Conquest And Empire

The Campaigns of Alexander

How Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and was conquered by his own ambition.

av Arrian 430 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Warfare 📜 Classical Biography ⚔️ Military Genius 👑 Charismatic Leader 🗺️ Conquest And Empire

Extraordinary Circumstances

av Cynthia Cooper • 2007

From internal auditor to whistleblower: her hunt for the fraud inside a $38 billion company.

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🏦 Corporate Fraud 📣 Whistleblowing 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Ethical Decision Making 🔍 Fraud Detection

Extraordinary Circumstances

From internal auditor to whistleblower: her hunt for the fraud inside a $38 billion company.

av Cynthia Cooper 2007 416 sidor

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🏦 Corporate Fraud 📣 Whistleblowing 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Ethical Decision Making 🔍 Fraud Detection

Killing Hitler

av Roger Moorhouse • 2006

Over forty attempts on Hitler's life failed. The near-misses and the luck that saved him.

3.83

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🏴 Nazi Germany 🌍 World War II ✊ German Resistance 🗺️ Resistance Movements 🎯 Political Assassination

Killing Hitler

Over forty attempts on Hitler's life failed. The near-misses and the luck that saved him.

av Roger Moorhouse 2006 400 sidor

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🏴 Nazi Germany 🌍 World War II ✊ German Resistance 🗺️ Resistance Movements 🎯 Political Assassination

Out with It

av Katherine Preston • 2013

She chased a cure for her stutter for decades; the real breakthrough came when she stopped chasing.

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🗣️ Stuttering Memoirs 💬 Speech Therapy ❤️ Disability Acceptance 🌟 Disability Pride 🧠 Neurodiversity

Out with It

She chased a cure for her stutter for decades; the real breakthrough came when she stopped chasing.

av Katherine Preston 2013 256 sidor

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🗣️ Stuttering Memoirs 💬 Speech Therapy ❤️ Disability Acceptance 🌟 Disability Pride 🧠 Neurodiversity

To Pixar and Beyond

av Lawrence Levy • 2016

Goldman Sachs rejected Pixar. Its CFO took a different road to a billion-dollar IPO.

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🎬 Animation Industry 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🎯 Creative Leadership 🍎 Steve Jobs

To Pixar and Beyond

Goldman Sachs rejected Pixar. Its CFO took a different road to a billion-dollar IPO.

av Lawrence Levy 2016 259 sidor

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🎬 Animation Industry 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🎯 Creative Leadership 🍎 Steve Jobs

Hard Landing

av Thomas Petzinger Jr. • 1995

A busted union here, a rigged screen there: how two men's rivalry built modern air travel.

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✈️ Airline Industry 🏢 Corporate History 📜 Deregulation ⚒️ Labor Wars 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds

Hard Landing

A busted union here, a rigged screen there: how two men's rivalry built modern air travel.

av Thomas Petzinger Jr. 1995 616 sidor

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✈️ Airline Industry 🏢 Corporate History 📜 Deregulation ⚒️ Labor Wars 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds

Everyone You Hate is Going to Die

av Daniel Sloss • 2021

A comedian's case for why being alone, heartbroken, and uncomfortable is the real goal.

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🤬 Anti-Self-Help 🎤 Comedic Memoir 💔 Modern Dating ☣️ Toxic Relationships 🩹 Breakup Recovery

Everyone You Hate is Going to Die

A comedian's case for why being alone, heartbroken, and uncomfortable is the real goal.

av Daniel Sloss 2021 259 sidor

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🤬 Anti-Self-Help 🎤 Comedic Memoir 💔 Modern Dating ☣️ Toxic Relationships 🩹 Breakup Recovery

The Dark Side of the Mind

av Kerry Daynes • 2019

A forensic psychologist spends her career studying stalkers, until one starts hunting her.

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🧠 Forensic Psychology 🔍 True Crime Memoir 🧸 Childhood Trauma 😈 Criminal Motivation 🚶 Stalking

The Dark Side of the Mind

A forensic psychologist spends her career studying stalkers, until one starts hunting her.

av Kerry Daynes 2019 250 sidor

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7 000+ betyg

🧠 Forensic Psychology 🔍 True Crime Memoir 🧸 Childhood Trauma 😈 Criminal Motivation 🚶 Stalking

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