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More Than a Game

av Phil Jackson • 2011

Meditation, a 15-point comeback, and two superstars who could barely look at each other.

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🏀 Basketball Memoir 🏆 Sports Leadership 🤝 Team Dynamics 🧘 Mindful Leadership 🧠 Athlete Psychology

More Than a Game

Meditation, a 15-point comeback, and two superstars who could barely look at each other.

av Phil Jackson 2011 343 sidor

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🏀 Basketball Memoir 🏆 Sports Leadership 🤝 Team Dynamics 🧘 Mindful Leadership 🧠 Athlete Psychology

Meetings With Remarkable Men

av G.I. Gurdjieff • 1960

A young seeker crosses Central Asia, finding teachers who upend everything he thought he knew.

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📜 Spiritual Memoir 🔮 Esoteric Traditions 🕉️ Wisdom Traditions 🧘 Inner Search 🛤️ Fourth Way

Meetings With Remarkable Men

A young seeker crosses Central Asia, finding teachers who upend everything he thought he knew.

av G.I. Gurdjieff 1960 303 sidor

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📜 Spiritual Memoir 🔮 Esoteric Traditions 🕉️ Wisdom Traditions 🧘 Inner Search 🛤️ Fourth Way

Roman by Polanski

av Roman Polański • 2007

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Roman by Polanski

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

av Roman Polański 2007 448 sidor

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Heroes of the Environment

av Harriet Rohmer • 2009

A teen cleans polluted water. A wrestler teaches recycling. Twelve environmental heroes in action.

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🪧 Environmental Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⭐ Youth Leadership 🏙️ Urban Farming ☀️ Renewable Energy

Heroes of the Environment

A teen cleans polluted water. A wrestler teaches recycling. Twelve environmental heroes in action.

av Harriet Rohmer 2009 113 sidor

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🪧 Environmental Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⭐ Youth Leadership 🏙️ Urban Farming ☀️ Renewable Energy

My Spiritual Journey

av Dalai Lama XIV • 2009

A Tibetan monk's path: why your happiness depends on everyone else's, and how to build it.

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🪷 Tibetan Buddhism 📖 Spiritual Memoirs ❤️ Compassion Practice ✊ Nonviolence Advocacy 🔬 Science And Spirituality

My Spiritual Journey

A Tibetan monk's path: why your happiness depends on everyone else's, and how to build it.

av Dalai Lama XIV 2009 304 sidor

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🪷 Tibetan Buddhism 📖 Spiritual Memoirs ❤️ Compassion Practice ✊ Nonviolence Advocacy 🔬 Science And Spirituality

The Giant Killer

av David A. Yuzuk • 2020

He was 4'9", a Green Beret, a spy, and homeless. His hit-and-run death solved nothing.

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🎖️ Vietnam War 🪖 Green Berets 🕵️ Undercover Operations 🧠 Veteran Ptsd 💀 Unsolved Death

The Giant Killer

He was 4'9", a Green Beret, a spy, and homeless. His hit-and-run death solved nothing.

av David A. Yuzuk 2020 318 sidor

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🎖️ Vietnam War 🪖 Green Berets 🕵️ Undercover Operations 🧠 Veteran Ptsd 💀 Unsolved Death

How to be a Billionaire

av Martin S. Fridson • 2001

Billionaires rarely invent. They assemble what exists, take massive risks, and dominate.

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💰 Wealth Accumulation 👑 Market Dominance ⚔️ Competitive Advantage 📈 Value Investing 🏛️ Political Influence

How to be a Billionaire

Billionaires rarely invent. They assemble what exists, take massive risks, and dominate.

av Martin S. Fridson 2001 336 sidor

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💰 Wealth Accumulation 👑 Market Dominance ⚔️ Competitive Advantage 📈 Value Investing 🏛️ Political Influence

God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel

av Costi W. Hinn • 2019

Benny Hinn's nephew grew up on private jets and healing crusades. Then he read the Bible.

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🤑 Prosperity Gospel 🙌 Charismatic Movement 🚨 Spiritual Abuse 💰 Biblical Stewardship 📝 Theological Memoir

God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel

Benny Hinn's nephew grew up on private jets and healing crusades. Then he read the Bible.

av Costi W. Hinn 2019 224 sidor

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🤑 Prosperity Gospel 🙌 Charismatic Movement 🚨 Spiritual Abuse 💰 Biblical Stewardship 📝 Theological Memoir

Black Flags

av Joby Warrick • 2015

How a petty Jordanian criminal became the world's most hunted terrorist and the blueprint for ISIS.

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🕌 Jihadist Movements 🔎 Terrorist Biography ☯️ Sectarian Conflict 🎯 Counterterrorism 💥 Radicalization

Black Flags

How a petty Jordanian criminal became the world's most hunted terrorist and the blueprint for ISIS.

av Joby Warrick 2015 368 sidor

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🕌 Jihadist Movements 🔎 Terrorist Biography ☯️ Sectarian Conflict 🎯 Counterterrorism 💥 Radicalization

Autobiography

av John Stuart Mill • 1873

Greek at three, a breakdown at twenty, and the poet who taught him to feel.

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📖 Intellectual Autobiography ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🇬🇧 Victorian Britain 🧒 Child Prodigies

Autobiography

Greek at three, a breakdown at twenty, and the poet who taught him to feel.

av John Stuart Mill 1873 263 sidor

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📖 Intellectual Autobiography ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🇬🇧 Victorian Britain 🧒 Child Prodigies

Strangers Drowning

av Larissa MacFarquhar • 2015

They give kidneys and fortunes to strangers. Why their goodness is more unsettling than inspiring.

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🤲 Extreme Altruism ⚖️ Moral Demandingness 💡 Effective Altruism 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐾 Animal Rights

Strangers Drowning

They give kidneys and fortunes to strangers. Why their goodness is more unsettling than inspiring.

av Larissa MacFarquhar 2015 336 sidor

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🤲 Extreme Altruism ⚖️ Moral Demandingness 💡 Effective Altruism 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐾 Animal Rights

Fighter Pilot

av Robin Olds • 2010

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

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🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Fighter Pilot

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

av Robin Olds 2010 416 sidor

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🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Wise Guy

av Guy Kawasaki • 2019

He sold the world on the Macintosh. Then he found what's worth selling your life for.

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📘 Tech Memoirs 💻 Silicon Valley 🧳 Immigrant Experience ⚖️ Business Ethics 🧠 Mentorship

Wise Guy

He sold the world on the Macintosh. Then he found what's worth selling your life for.

av Guy Kawasaki 2019 272 sidor

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📘 Tech Memoirs 💻 Silicon Valley 🧳 Immigrant Experience ⚖️ Business Ethics 🧠 Mentorship

Leadership

av Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2018

Four presidents, shattered by crisis, rebuilt into great leaders: the pattern that connects them.

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🏛️ Presidential History 📜 Historical Case Studies 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🏋️ Adversity And Resilience 🧩 Team Building

Leadership

Four presidents, shattered by crisis, rebuilt into great leaders: the pattern that connects them.

av Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 496 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential History 📜 Historical Case Studies 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🏋️ Adversity And Resilience 🧩 Team Building

Like a Virgin

av Richard Branson • 2012

People before profits, gut over analysis: the Virgin founder's business lessons no classroom taught.

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🔥 Entrepreneurial Memoirs 🏷️ Brand Building 🏢 Corporate Culture 💡 Disruptive Innovation 👥 Customer Experience

Like a Virgin

People before profits, gut over analysis: the Virgin founder's business lessons no classroom taught.

av Richard Branson 2012 384 sidor

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🔥 Entrepreneurial Memoirs 🏷️ Brand Building 🏢 Corporate Culture 💡 Disruptive Innovation 👥 Customer Experience

Character Is Destiny

av John McCain • 2005

Character, not circumstance, writes your future. A senator's tour through the lives that prove it.

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📚 Character Education 🏛️ Moral Exemplars 🏺 Classical Virtues 🏋️ Modern Stoicism 🗿 Great Man History

Character Is Destiny

Character, not circumstance, writes your future. A senator's tour through the lives that prove it.

av John McCain 2005 336 sidor

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📚 Character Education 🏛️ Moral Exemplars 🏺 Classical Virtues 🏋️ Modern Stoicism 🗿 Great Man History

My Beloved World

av Sonia Sotomayor • 2013

Age seven: insulin injections in the Bronx. Age fifty-five: first Latina Supreme Court justice.

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🏛️ Legal Memoirs 📈 Poverty To Power 💉 Chronic Illness 🌎 Cultural Identity 🎓 First-Generation

My Beloved World

Age seven: insulin injections in the Bronx. Age fifty-five: first Latina Supreme Court justice.

av Sonia Sotomayor 2013 336 sidor

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🏛️ Legal Memoirs 📈 Poverty To Power 💉 Chronic Illness 🌎 Cultural Identity 🎓 First-Generation

The Intel Trinity

av Michael S. Malone • 2014

Intel was built by three founders who rarely got along. Their friction shaped the modern world.

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🌉 Silicon Valley History 💾 Semiconductor Industry 🏢 Corporate Histories 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🤝 Founder Dynamics

The Intel Trinity

Intel was built by three founders who rarely got along. Their friction shaped the modern world.

av Michael S. Malone 2014 560 sidor

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🌉 Silicon Valley History 💾 Semiconductor Industry 🏢 Corporate Histories 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🤝 Founder Dynamics

The Killing Zone

av Frederick Downs Jr. • 1978

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

The Killing Zone

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

av Frederick Downs Jr. 1978 240 sidor

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

Brave

av Rose McGowan • 2018

Raised in a sex cult, she escaped into Hollywood, where another patriarch was waiting.

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🏚️ Cult Survivors 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🏛️ Patriarchal Systems ✊ Fourth Wave Feminism

Brave

Raised in a sex cult, she escaped into Hollywood, where another patriarch was waiting.

av Rose McGowan 2018 258 sidor

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🏚️ Cult Survivors 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🏛️ Patriarchal Systems ✊ Fourth Wave Feminism

The Parrot's Perch

av Karen Keilt • 2019

Forty-five days in a Brazilian torture cell. Freedom was only the beginning of the fight.

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🏛️ Political Imprisonment 🦋 Survivor Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧊 Addiction Recovery 💔 Childhood Abuse

The Parrot's Perch

Forty-five days in a Brazilian torture cell. Freedom was only the beginning of the fight.

av Karen Keilt 2019 290 sidor

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🏛️ Political Imprisonment 🦋 Survivor Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧊 Addiction Recovery 💔 Childhood Abuse

Paris

av Paris Hilton • 2023

Her glamour was armor. Her brand was designed in solitary confinement at sixteen.

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🧚 Celebrity Memoirs ⛓️ Institutional Abuse 📱 Influencer Culture 🩹 Trauma Healing 🧠 Neurodiversity

Paris

Her glamour was armor. Her brand was designed in solitary confinement at sixteen.

av Paris Hilton 2023 336 sidor

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🧚 Celebrity Memoirs ⛓️ Institutional Abuse 📱 Influencer Culture 🩹 Trauma Healing 🧠 Neurodiversity

A Writer's Diary

av Virginia Woolf • 1953

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

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📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

av Virginia Woolf 1953 355 sidor

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📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

High Financier

av Niall Ferguson • 2010

A German exile predicted globalization. Then he built the London bank to finance it.

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🏦 Investment Banking 👪 Family Dynasties 📜 Financial History 🏛️ City Of London 🧳 Exile And Identity

High Financier

A German exile predicted globalization. Then he built the London bank to finance it.

av Niall Ferguson 2010 576 sidor

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🏦 Investment Banking 👪 Family Dynasties 📜 Financial History 🏛️ City Of London 🧳 Exile And Identity

The Art of Rest

av Claudia Hammond • 2019

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

The Art of Rest

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

av Claudia Hammond 2019 304 sidor

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

Barbarian Days

av William Finnegan • 2015

Surfing saved a lonely kid in Hawaii. Fifty years of chasing waves nearly undid him.

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🌊 Surf Culture 🏄 Surf Travel 📖 Literary Memoir 🌀 Obsessive Pursuits 🌺 Coming Of Age

Barbarian Days

Surfing saved a lonely kid in Hawaii. Fifty years of chasing waves nearly undid him.

av William Finnegan 2015 447 sidor

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🌊 Surf Culture 🏄 Surf Travel 📖 Literary Memoir 🌀 Obsessive Pursuits 🌺 Coming Of Age

Washington's Spies

av Alexander Rose • 2006

Washington's spies weren't professionals. They were neighbors who took their secret to the grave.

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🦅 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🎖️ Military Intelligence 🔐 Spycraft 🔢 Secret Codes

Washington's Spies

Washington's spies weren't professionals. They were neighbors who took their secret to the grave.

av Alexander Rose 2006 384 sidor

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🦅 American Revolution 🕵️ Espionage History 🎖️ Military Intelligence 🔐 Spycraft 🔢 Secret Codes

Spirit Run

av Noé Álvarez • 2020

He joined a 6,000-mile indigenous run, and his mother's silence finally made sense.

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🏃 Running Memoirs 🌿 Indigenous Spirituality 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏔️ Ultrarunning

Spirit Run

He joined a 6,000-mile indigenous run, and his mother's silence finally made sense.

av Noé Álvarez 2020 218 sidor

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🏃 Running Memoirs 🌿 Indigenous Spirituality 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏔️ Ultrarunning

The Life and Loves of a He Devil

av Graham Norton • 2014

Diva worship, doomed romance, and drinking off-duty: the passions that built a talk show icon.

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🎤 Showbiz Memoir ☘️ Irish Identity 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🍷 Social Drinking 👑 Pop Culture Icons

The Life and Loves of a He Devil

Diva worship, doomed romance, and drinking off-duty: the passions that built a talk show icon.

av Graham Norton 2014 400 sidor

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🎤 Showbiz Memoir ☘️ Irish Identity 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🍷 Social Drinking 👑 Pop Culture Icons

iCon

av Jeffrey S. Young • 2005

Fired at thirty from Apple. Twelve years later, he returned to rescue it.

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🚀 Startup Stories 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Design Thinking 👁️ Product Vision 💡 Innovation Culture

iCon

Fired at thirty from Apple. Twelve years later, he returned to rescue it.

av Jeffrey S. Young 2005 368 sidor

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🚀 Startup Stories 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Design Thinking 👁️ Product Vision 💡 Innovation Culture

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

av John Wood • 2006

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

av John Wood 2006 272 sidor

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Uncertainty

av David Lindley • 1996

You cannot measure everything. Einstein spent decades fighting that fact. What it cost him.

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🧪 Quantum Physics 📜 History Of Science 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History

Uncertainty

You cannot measure everything. Einstein spent decades fighting that fact. What it cost him.

av David Lindley 1996 272 sidor

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🧪 Quantum Physics 📜 History Of Science 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

av Stephen W. Hawking • 1993

Black holes are not black, imaginary time behaves like space, and everything is determined.

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🌌 Cosmology ⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🕳️ Black Holes 🔗 Quantum Gravity 📝 Science Essays

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Black holes are not black, imaginary time behaves like space, and everything is determined.

av Stephen W. Hawking 1993 182 sidor

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🌌 Cosmology ⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🕳️ Black Holes 🔗 Quantum Gravity 📝 Science Essays

Driving Honda

av Jeffrey Rothfeder • 2014

Honda's real edge is a culture of paradox: individuals over teams, factory floors over boardrooms.

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🚗 Automotive Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 🗾 Japanese Management 🏭 Lean Manufacturing 💡 Innovation Culture

Driving Honda

Honda's real edge is a culture of paradox: individuals over teams, factory floors over boardrooms.

av Jeffrey Rothfeder 2014 309 sidor

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🚗 Automotive Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 🗾 Japanese Management 🏭 Lean Manufacturing 💡 Innovation Culture

Writing My Wrongs

av Shaka Senghor • 2013

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

Writing My Wrongs

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

av Shaka Senghor 2013 268 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

Mark Twain

av Ron Chernow • 2025

America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.

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📖 Literary Biography 🏛️ Gilded Age America 💔 Grief And Loss 🎭 Public Persona 💸 Business Failure

Mark Twain

America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.

av Ron Chernow 2025 1200 sidor

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📖 Literary Biography 🏛️ Gilded Age America 💔 Grief And Loss 🎭 Public Persona 💸 Business Failure

Innovate Like Edison

av Michael J. Gelb • 2007

Edison's genius was not a gift. It was five deliberate practices any team can learn.

3.83

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💡 Innovation Methods 📜 Inventor Biographies 💭 Idea Generation 🤝 Collaborative Innovation 🎯 Customer Focus

Innovate Like Edison

Edison's genius was not a gift. It was five deliberate practices any team can learn.

av Michael J. Gelb 2007 476 sidor

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💡 Innovation Methods 📜 Inventor Biographies 💭 Idea Generation 🤝 Collaborative Innovation 🎯 Customer Focus

Red Paint

av Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe • 2022

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

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🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

Red Paint

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

av Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 2022 240 sidor

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🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

Masters of Command

av Barry S. Strauss • 2012

Three ancient generals, ten common instincts, and the single rhythm of war that still defines power.

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⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🫡 Military Leadership 🔍 Comparative History ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🏛️ Political Ambition

Masters of Command

Three ancient generals, ten common instincts, and the single rhythm of war that still defines power.

av Barry S. Strauss 2012 320 sidor

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⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🫡 Military Leadership 🔍 Comparative History ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🏛️ Political Ambition

The Complete Memoirs

av Pablo Neruda • 1974

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Complete Memoirs

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

av Pablo Neruda 1974 498 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

Hard Work

av Roy Williams • 2009

An alcoholic father. Selling calendars to get by. Then Dean Smith called. Roy Williams' full climb.

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📋 Coaching Memoirs 💪 Overcoming Adversity 🤝 Team Culture 🎓 Mentorship 🏆 Sports Leadership

Hard Work

An alcoholic father. Selling calendars to get by. Then Dean Smith called. Roy Williams' full climb.

av Roy Williams 2009 336 sidor

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📋 Coaching Memoirs 💪 Overcoming Adversity 🤝 Team Culture 🎓 Mentorship 🏆 Sports Leadership

A Jane Austen Education

av William Deresiewicz • 2011

What a graduate student learned from Jane Austen that no amount of academia could teach him.

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🏛️ Jane Austen 📚 Books About Books ✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Bibliotherapy 🌱 Coming Of Age

A Jane Austen Education

What a graduate student learned from Jane Austen that no amount of academia could teach him.

av William Deresiewicz 2011 255 sidor

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🏛️ Jane Austen 📚 Books About Books ✍️ Literary Memoir 💊 Bibliotherapy 🌱 Coming Of Age

The Lost Painting

av Jonathan Harr • 2005

A lost Caravaggio, a Dublin Jesuit home, and the restorer who trusted his eye.

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🖼️ Lost Masterpieces 🎨 Caravaggio 🔍 Provenance Research 🖌️ Art Restoration 🏛️ Baroque Art

The Lost Painting

A lost Caravaggio, a Dublin Jesuit home, and the restorer who trusted his eye.

av Jonathan Harr 2005

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🖼️ Lost Masterpieces 🎨 Caravaggio 🔍 Provenance Research 🖌️ Art Restoration 🏛️ Baroque Art

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

av Alan Deutschman • 2000

Fired at thirty, Jobs failed a decade before returning to remake the company that rejected him.

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🔄 Tech Turnarounds 🌉 Silicon Valley 🎭 Second Acts 🎨 Product Design ✨ Creative Perfectionism

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

Fired at thirty, Jobs failed a decade before returning to remake the company that rejected him.

av Alan Deutschman 2000 352 sidor

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🔄 Tech Turnarounds 🌉 Silicon Valley 🎭 Second Acts 🎨 Product Design ✨ Creative Perfectionism

Lipstick Jihad

av Azadeh Moaveni • 2005

A pink headscarf, a bugged apartment: she returned to Iran to belong, but the country disagreed.

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🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🇮🇷 Post-Revolutionary Iran 🌉 Hyphenated Identities 👩 Women In Iran 🎤 Foreign Correspondence

Lipstick Jihad

A pink headscarf, a bugged apartment: she returned to Iran to belong, but the country disagreed.

av Azadeh Moaveni 2005 272 sidor

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🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🇮🇷 Post-Revolutionary Iran 🌉 Hyphenated Identities 👩 Women In Iran 🎤 Foreign Correspondence

Public Enemies

av Bryan Burrough • 2004

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

3.98

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🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Public Enemies

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

av Bryan Burrough 2004 640 sidor

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🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Grant

av Ron Chernow • 2017

Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.

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📖 Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 📜 Military Strategy 🔄 Revisionist History 🔗 Emancipation

Grant

Failed farmer, rumored drunk. How Ulysses Grant won the Civil War and fought the Klan as president.

av Ron Chernow 2017 1104 sidor

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📖 Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 📜 Military Strategy 🔄 Revisionist History 🔗 Emancipation

In Defense of Open Society

av George Soros • 2019

Economists ignore a simple feedback loop, and that blindness is handing power to authoritarians.

3.37

404

💰 Economic Philosophy 📉 Boom-Bust Cycles 🗽 Open Societies 💸 Financial Crises 🛑 Authoritarian Rise

In Defense of Open Society

Economists ignore a simple feedback loop, and that blindness is handing power to authoritarians.

av George Soros 2019 224 sidor

3.37

404 betyg

💰 Economic Philosophy 📉 Boom-Bust Cycles 🗽 Open Societies 💸 Financial Crises 🛑 Authoritarian Rise

We're Going to Need More Wine

av Gabrielle Union • 2017

Growing up Black in a white suburb, surviving assault, failed IVF: a Hollywood star chooses herself.

4.19

37 000+

👤 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🗣️ Code Switching 🙏 Survivor Stories 🩹 Trauma Healing

We're Going to Need More Wine

Growing up Black in a white suburb, surviving assault, failed IVF: a Hollywood star chooses herself.

av Gabrielle Union 2017 272 sidor

4.19

37 000+ betyg

👤 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🗣️ Code Switching 🙏 Survivor Stories 🩹 Trauma Healing

This American Woman

av Zarna Garg • 2025

From homeless teenager in Mumbai to stand-up comedian in America: a life built on saying no.

4.32

16 000+

🕌 Indian Diaspora 🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 💍 Arranged Marriage 📦 Immigrant Memoirs 🔥 Cultural Rebellion

This American Woman

From homeless teenager in Mumbai to stand-up comedian in America: a life built on saying no.

av Zarna Garg 2025 320 sidor

4.32

16 000+ betyg

🕌 Indian Diaspora 🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 💍 Arranged Marriage 📦 Immigrant Memoirs 🔥 Cultural Rebellion

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