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Living with a SEAL

av Jesse Itzler • 2015

A Navy SEAL lives with a millionaire for 31 days. One condition: total obedience.

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🦅 Navy Seal Training 💪 Extreme Fitness 🧠 Mental Toughness 💼 Entrepreneur Memoir 🎯 Comfort Zone Challenges

Living with a SEAL

A Navy SEAL lives with a millionaire for 31 days. One condition: total obedience.

av Jesse Itzler 2015 272 sidor

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🦅 Navy Seal Training 💪 Extreme Fitness 🧠 Mental Toughness 💼 Entrepreneur Memoir 🎯 Comfort Zone Challenges

Anything You Want

av Derek Sivers • 2011

Your business doesn't have to grow. One founder built a $20M company by refusing to.

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🏖️ Lifestyle Business 🥾 Bootstrapped Startups 💝 Customer Obsession 🐢 Anti-Growth 🧭 Values-Driven Business

Anything You Want

Your business doesn't have to grow. One founder built a $20M company by refusing to.

av Derek Sivers 2011 88 sidor

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🏖️ Lifestyle Business 🥾 Bootstrapped Startups 💝 Customer Obsession 🐢 Anti-Growth 🧭 Values-Driven Business

50/50

av Dean Karnazes • 2008

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

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

50/50

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

av Dean Karnazes 2008 333 sidor

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

My Left Foot

av Christy Brown • 1954

His mind was sound, his body locked. A left foot and yellow chalk proved it.

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🦽 Physical Disability Memoir 🇮🇪 Irish Autobiography 👩‍👦 Mother-Son Bond 🎨 Art As Catharsis ✍️ Writing The Self

My Left Foot

His mind was sound, his body locked. A left foot and yellow chalk proved it.

av Christy Brown 1954 184 sidor

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🦽 Physical Disability Memoir 🇮🇪 Irish Autobiography 👩‍👦 Mother-Son Bond 🎨 Art As Catharsis ✍️ Writing The Self

Fearless

av Eric Blehm • 2012

Addiction. A jail cell. Then a spot on SEAL Team Six. The transformation of Adam Brown.

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🦭 Navy Seals 🎖️ Military Biography 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🌅 Redemption Arc ✝️ Christian Testimony

Fearless

Addiction. A jail cell. Then a spot on SEAL Team Six. The transformation of Adam Brown.

av Eric Blehm 2012 257 sidor

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🦭 Navy Seals 🎖️ Military Biography 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🌅 Redemption Arc ✝️ Christian Testimony

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

av Laurel Thatcher Ulrich • 2007

The famous slogan was never just about misbehavior. It was about how history itself erases women.

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🏛️ Women's History ✊ Feminist History ⚔️ Women Warriors ✍️ Early Women Writers ⛓️ Slave Narratives

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

The famous slogan was never just about misbehavior. It was about how history itself erases women.

av Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 2007

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🏛️ Women's History ✊ Feminist History ⚔️ Women Warriors ✍️ Early Women Writers ⛓️ Slave Narratives

Sybil

av Flora Rheta Schreiber • 1973

Sixteen selves, one body, and a childhood so brutal the mind split to survive it.

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🎭 Dissociative Identity 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🏥 Clinical Case Studies 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🧩 Recovered Memory

Sybil

Sixteen selves, one body, and a childhood so brutal the mind split to survive it.

av Flora Rheta Schreiber 1973 481 sidor

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🎭 Dissociative Identity 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🏥 Clinical Case Studies 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🧩 Recovered Memory

The Code Breaker

av Walter Isaacson • 2021

How a bacterial defense system handed us the power to rewrite our own evolution.

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🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Molecular Biology ⚗️ Biotechnology ⚖️ Gene Editing Ethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalry

The Code Breaker

How a bacterial defense system handed us the power to rewrite our own evolution.

av Walter Isaacson 2021 536 sidor

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🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Molecular Biology ⚗️ Biotechnology ⚖️ Gene Editing Ethics 🏁 Scientific Rivalry

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

av Erica Armstrong Dunbar • 2019

In 1796, Ona Judge walked out of George Washington's house and onto a ship. She never returned.

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🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ American Slavery 🪶 Enslaved Women 🏃🏿‍♀️ Fugitive Slave Stories 🏘️ Free Black Communities

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

In 1796, Ona Judge walked out of George Washington's house and onto a ship. She never returned.

av Erica Armstrong Dunbar 2019 273 sidor

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🏛️ Early American Republic ⛓️ American Slavery 🪶 Enslaved Women 🏃🏿‍♀️ Fugitive Slave Stories 🏘️ Free Black Communities

The Man Who Knew Infinity

av Robert Kanigel • 1991

A Brahmin clerk sends a letter full of theorems to Cambridge, unlocking a genius and a tragedy.

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🧠 Mathematical Genius 🔢 Number Theory 🇮🇳 Colonial India 🏛️ Cambridge History 🚪 Academic Outsiders

The Man Who Knew Infinity

A Brahmin clerk sends a letter full of theorems to Cambridge, unlocking a genius and a tragedy.

av Robert Kanigel 1991 438 sidor

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🧠 Mathematical Genius 🔢 Number Theory 🇮🇳 Colonial India 🏛️ Cambridge History 🚪 Academic Outsiders

The Spy and the Traitor

av Ben Macintyre • 2018

Soviet golden boy, MI6's greatest mole, and the desperate 1985 escape that saved him.

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇷🇺 Soviet Intelligence 👥 Double Agents 🏃 Defection Stories ☢️ Nuclear Brinkmanship

The Spy and the Traitor

Soviet golden boy, MI6's greatest mole, and the desperate 1985 escape that saved him.

av Ben Macintyre 2018 384 sidor

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇷🇺 Soviet Intelligence 👥 Double Agents 🏃 Defection Stories ☢️ Nuclear Brinkmanship

Aftermath

av Rachel Cusk • 2012

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

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

Aftermath

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

av Rachel Cusk 2012 160 sidor

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

SEAL Team Six

av Howard E. Wasdin • 2011

The beatings taught him to dissociate. SEAL training weaponized it. Mogadishu shattered it.

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🪖 Military Memoir 🔱 Navy Seals 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎯 Special Operations 💔 Survivors Guilt

SEAL Team Six

The beatings taught him to dissociate. SEAL training weaponized it. Mogadishu shattered it.

av Howard E. Wasdin 2011 331 sidor

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🪖 Military Memoir 🔱 Navy Seals 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎯 Special Operations 💔 Survivors Guilt

Worshipping False Gods

av Arun Shourie • 1997

An icon of Indian justice never fought for freedom and served in the colonial government instead.

3.83

365

🏛️ Indian Politics 📜 Historical Revisionism 🌏 Post-Colonial Critique 🛕 Political Deification 🎭 National Mythmaking

Worshipping False Gods

An icon of Indian justice never fought for freedom and served in the colonial government instead.

av Arun Shourie 1997 680 sidor

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🏛️ Indian Politics 📜 Historical Revisionism 🌏 Post-Colonial Critique 🛕 Political Deification 🎭 National Mythmaking

Darkness Visible

av William Styron • 1990

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

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🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🌅 Depression Recovery 🛑 Suicide Prevention

Darkness Visible

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

av William Styron 1990 84 sidor

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🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir 🌅 Depression Recovery 🛑 Suicide Prevention

I Forgot to Die

av Khalil Rafati • 2015

How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🌑 Heroin Addiction 🏚️ Homelessness

I Forgot to Die

How a homeless heroin addict became the interventionist families call when hope runs out.

av Khalil Rafati 2015 183 sidor

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💉 Addiction Memoirs 🪜 Twelve Step Recovery 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🌑 Heroin Addiction 🏚️ Homelessness

Dongri To Dubai

av S. Hussain Zaidi • 2012

Gold smugglers, Bollywood dreams, and the constable's son who became a global terrorist.

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🏙️ Mumbai Underworld 🕵️ Organized Crime History 👑 Dons And Kingpins 🤝 Ethnic Gangs 📦 Smuggling Networks

Dongri To Dubai

Gold smugglers, Bollywood dreams, and the constable's son who became a global terrorist.

av S. Hussain Zaidi 2012 378 sidor

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🏙️ Mumbai Underworld 🕵️ Organized Crime History 👑 Dons And Kingpins 🤝 Ethnic Gangs 📦 Smuggling Networks

Brain on Fire

av Susannah Cahalan • 2012

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

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🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease 🧠 Neurological Disorders 👁️ Firsthand Psychosis

Brain on Fire

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

av Susannah Cahalan 2012 266 sidor

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🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease 🧠 Neurological Disorders 👁️ Firsthand Psychosis

Living with the Himalayan Masters

av Swami Rama • 1899

A young yogi among Himalayan sages: their miracles test you, and even their curses are teachings.

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🏔️ Himalayan Spirituality 🧘 Yogic Philosophy 🧵 Master Disciple Bond ✨ Spiritual Experience 🌀 Maya And Illusion

Living with the Himalayan Masters

A young yogi among Himalayan sages: their miracles test you, and even their curses are teachings.

av Swami Rama 1899 486 sidor

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🏔️ Himalayan Spirituality 🧘 Yogic Philosophy 🧵 Master Disciple Bond ✨ Spiritual Experience 🌀 Maya And Illusion

Shoe Dog

av Phil Knight • 2016

A $35 logo, a waffle iron, a $25 million bill: the chaotic birth of Nike.

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👟 Sports Business 🏗️ Brand Origin Stories 📖 Founder Memoirs 🤹 Misfit Teams 💸 Bootstrapping

Shoe Dog

A $35 logo, a waffle iron, a $25 million bill: the chaotic birth of Nike.

av Phil Knight 2016 400 sidor

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👟 Sports Business 🏗️ Brand Origin Stories 📖 Founder Memoirs 🤹 Misfit Teams 💸 Bootstrapping

Open Socrates

av Agnes Callard • 2025

Socrates' brutal insight: your life is governed by two tyrants, and neither one is you.

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🛠️ Applied Philosophy 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom 🤲 Intellectual Humility 🔍 The Examined Life 💬 Dialogue And Debate

Open Socrates

Socrates' brutal insight: your life is governed by two tyrants, and neither one is you.

av Agnes Callard 2025 416 sidor

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🛠️ Applied Philosophy 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom 🤲 Intellectual Humility 🔍 The Examined Life 💬 Dialogue And Debate

Diana

av Andrew Morton • 1993

The secret tapes: a princess bingeing, purging, and sharing her husband with another woman.

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👑 British Monarchy 🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 💔 Emotional Neglect 📸 Tabloid Culture

Diana

The secret tapes: a princess bingeing, purging, and sharing her husband with another woman.

av Andrew Morton 1993 432 sidor

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👑 British Monarchy 🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 💔 Emotional Neglect 📸 Tabloid Culture

Samsung Rising

av Geoffrey Cain • 2020

A family grocer built a tech empire on military discipline. Then the phones caught fire.

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🏭 Tech Industry History 🏢 Corporate Culture 🇰🇷 South Korean Economy 👑 Leadership Dynasties 💥 Product Failure

Samsung Rising

A family grocer built a tech empire on military discipline. Then the phones caught fire.

av Geoffrey Cain 2020 416 sidor

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🏭 Tech Industry History 🏢 Corporate Culture 🇰🇷 South Korean Economy 👑 Leadership Dynasties 💥 Product Failure

Onward

av Howard Schultz • 2007

Starbucks, losing $6 million a day, asked its founder to save it without sacrificing its values.

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🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 👔 Ceo Memoirs 🤝 People-First Business ☕ Customer Experience 🧭 Values-Driven Leadership

Onward

Starbucks, losing $6 million a day, asked its founder to save it without sacrificing its values.

av Howard Schultz 2007 350 sidor

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🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 👔 Ceo Memoirs 🤝 People-First Business ☕ Customer Experience 🧭 Values-Driven Leadership

The Billion Dollar Spy

av David E. Hoffman • 2015

A Soviet engineer's note gave the CIA billions in secrets; a single betrayal took it all away.

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇺🇸 Cia History 📡 Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Agent Handling 🪞 Counterintelligence

The Billion Dollar Spy

A Soviet engineer's note gave the CIA billions in secrets; a single betrayal took it all away.

av David E. Hoffman 2015 336 sidor

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇺🇸 Cia History 📡 Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Agent Handling 🪞 Counterintelligence

Eat, Pray, Love

av Elizabeth Gilbert • 2006

One year in Italy, India, and Indonesia: the journey that taught her how to live again.

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🍝 Culinary Journeys 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌍 Transformative Travel 🔄 Midlife Reinvention 🧭 Personal Quests

Eat, Pray, Love

One year in Italy, India, and Indonesia: the journey that taught her how to live again.

av Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 458 sidor

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🍝 Culinary Journeys 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🌍 Transformative Travel 🔄 Midlife Reinvention 🧭 Personal Quests

Trump

av Donald J. Trump • 2004

The dealmaker's playbook: how to brand yourself, negotiate from strength, and think like a winner.

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🏢 Business Memoirs 🏷️ Personal Branding 🤝 Deal Negotiation 🎲 Calculated Risk 👥 Team Building

Trump

The dealmaker's playbook: how to brand yourself, negotiate from strength, and think like a winner.

av Donald J. Trump 2004 320 sidor

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🏢 Business Memoirs 🏷️ Personal Branding 🤝 Deal Negotiation 🎲 Calculated Risk 👥 Team Building

Under Siege

av Eric Trump • 2025

A bullet missed his father's head by inches. The real war had been raging for years.

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📕 Political Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Political Families ⚖️ Weaponized Justice 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗳️ Election Integrity

Under Siege

A bullet missed his father's head by inches. The real war had been raging for years.

av Eric Trump 2025 272 sidor

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📕 Political Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Political Families ⚖️ Weaponized Justice 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗳️ Election Integrity

Do No Harm

av Henry Marsh • 2014

A brain surgeon confesses the gamble of every cut, the patients lost, the toll never paid.

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🧠 Neurosurgery ✍️ Surgical Memoir ⚠️ Medical Mistakes 🤝 Doctor-Patient Bond 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Do No Harm

A brain surgeon confesses the gamble of every cut, the patients lost, the toll never paid.

av Henry Marsh 2014 278 sidor

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🧠 Neurosurgery ✍️ Surgical Memoir ⚠️ Medical Mistakes 🤝 Doctor-Patient Bond 🕯️ End Of Life Care

The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

av Niall Ferguson • 1998

Five brothers in a Frankfurt ghetto became Europe's bankers by moving news faster than governments.

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💰 Financial History 🏦 European Banking 👑 Family Dynasties ⚔️ War Finance 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories

The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

Five brothers in a Frankfurt ghetto became Europe's bankers by moving news faster than governments.

av Niall Ferguson 1998 544 sidor

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💰 Financial History 🏦 European Banking 👑 Family Dynasties ⚔️ War Finance 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories

Dying to Be Me

av Anita Moorjani • 2012

Dying of cancer, she left her body and saw what lies beyond. Then her cancer disappeared.

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🔮 Near-Death Experiences 🧠 Mind-Body Healing 💖 Self-Love 🎗️ Cancer Memoirs ✨ Spontaneous Remission

Dying to Be Me

Dying of cancer, she left her body and saw what lies beyond. Then her cancer disappeared.

av Anita Moorjani 2012 191 sidor

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🔮 Near-Death Experiences 🧠 Mind-Body Healing 💖 Self-Love 🎗️ Cancer Memoirs ✨ Spontaneous Remission

No Shortcuts to the Top

av Ed Viesturs • 2006

Eighteen years, fourteen peaks, one rule that kept him alive when faster climbers died.

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🏔️ Mountaineering Memoirs ⛰️ Himalayan Expeditions 🗻 Eight-Thousanders ❄️ Death Zone Survival 🧭 Expedition Leadership

No Shortcuts to the Top

Eighteen years, fourteen peaks, one rule that kept him alive when faster climbers died.

av Ed Viesturs 2006 368 sidor

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🏔️ Mountaineering Memoirs ⛰️ Himalayan Expeditions 🗻 Eight-Thousanders ❄️ Death Zone Survival 🧭 Expedition Leadership

How Full Is Your Bucket?

av Tom Rath • 2004

From Rosengård to world football: proof that rage, not politeness, wins titles.

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9 000+

🏃 Sports Memoir 🥅 Elite Football 🌍 Immigrant Identity 🏴 Outsider Mentality 🧠 Performance Psychology

How Full Is Your Bucket?

From Rosengård to world football: proof that rage, not politeness, wins titles.

av Tom Rath 2004 160 sidor

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🏃 Sports Memoir 🥅 Elite Football 🌍 Immigrant Identity 🏴 Outsider Mentality 🧠 Performance Psychology

The Art of Intelligence

av Henry A. Crumpton • 2012

Recruiting a spy means navigating greed, ideology, and revenge, and why it still beats technology.

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🕵️ Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Human Intelligence 🤫 Spy Recruitment 🧠 Spy Motivations ⚖️ Ethical Ambiguity

The Art of Intelligence

Recruiting a spy means navigating greed, ideology, and revenge, and why it still beats technology.

av Henry A. Crumpton 2012 11 sidor

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🕵️ Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Human Intelligence 🤫 Spy Recruitment 🧠 Spy Motivations ⚖️ Ethical Ambiguity

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

av Herbert P. Bix • 2000

Hirohito was no puppet. A hidden record of how Japan's emperor directed the Pacific War.

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🗾 Japanese History 🏯 Imperial Japan ⚔️ Pacific War 🎌 Japanese Militarism ⚖️ War Responsibility

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Hirohito was no puppet. A hidden record of how Japan's emperor directed the Pacific War.

av Herbert P. Bix 2000 832 sidor

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🗾 Japanese History 🏯 Imperial Japan ⚔️ Pacific War 🎌 Japanese Militarism ⚖️ War Responsibility

My Stroke of Insight

av Jill Bolte Taylor • 2006

A brain scientist's stroke switched off her inner critic and revealed a peaceful right-brain state.

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🧠 Neuroscience 🚑 Stroke Recovery 🔄 Neuroplasticity ↔️ Brain Hemispheres 🌊 Emotional Regulation

My Stroke of Insight

A brain scientist's stroke switched off her inner critic and revealed a peaceful right-brain state.

av Jill Bolte Taylor 2006 193 sidor

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🧠 Neuroscience 🚑 Stroke Recovery 🔄 Neuroplasticity ↔️ Brain Hemispheres 🌊 Emotional Regulation

The Bridge

av David Remnick • 2010

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

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

The Bridge

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

av David Remnick 2010 672 sidor

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

Tricks of the Mind

av Derren Brown • 2006

A mentalist reveals how cognitive biases, cold reading, and placebos hijack your brain every day.

4.04

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 💭 Memory Techniques 🃏 Cold Reading 🔍 Modern Skepticism

Tricks of the Mind

A mentalist reveals how cognitive biases, cold reading, and placebos hijack your brain every day.

av Derren Brown 2006 400 sidor

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 💭 Memory Techniques 🃏 Cold Reading 🔍 Modern Skepticism

Down with the System

av Serj Tankian • 2024

System of a Down's frontman on metal, meditation, and a family history the world still denies.

4.42

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🎵 Music Memoirs ✊ Artist Activism 🕊️ Genocide Recognition 🧬 Inherited Trauma 🧘 Meditation Practice

Down with the System

System of a Down's frontman on metal, meditation, and a family history the world still denies.

av Serj Tankian 2024 352 sidor

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🎵 Music Memoirs ✊ Artist Activism 🕊️ Genocide Recognition 🧬 Inherited Trauma 🧘 Meditation Practice

A Moveable Feast

av Ernest Hemingway • 1964

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

4.02

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

A Moveable Feast

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

av Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

Churchill

av Andrew Roberts • 2018

Every adventure, failure, and speech was training for the day Britain had to stand alone.

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🏛️ Political Biography 🇬🇧 Britain At War ⚔️ Wartime Leadership 📜 Great Man History 🕊️ Appeasement

Churchill

Every adventure, failure, and speech was training for the day Britain had to stand alone.

av Andrew Roberts 2018 1105 sidor

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🏛️ Political Biography 🇬🇧 Britain At War ⚔️ Wartime Leadership 📜 Great Man History 🕊️ Appeasement

Beyond The Story

av Myeongseok Kang • 2023

Seven trainees, a near-bankrupt label, and the improbable decade that made them a global phenomenon.

4.62

11 000+

🎤 K-Pop 🎵 Boy Bands 👥 Fandom Culture 🎧 Music Industry 🌊 Korean Wave

Beyond The Story

Seven trainees, a near-bankrupt label, and the improbable decade that made them a global phenomenon.

av Myeongseok Kang 2023 544 sidor

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🎤 K-Pop 🎵 Boy Bands 👥 Fandom Culture 🎧 Music Industry 🌊 Korean Wave

Without Their Permission

av Alexis Ohanian • 2013

A college project became a top-ten site. Why that path is open to everyone.

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🚀 Tech Startups 🌐 Internet Culture 📖 Founder Memoir 🛠️ Lean Startup 🗽 Internet Freedom

Without Their Permission

A college project became a top-ten site. Why that path is open to everyone.

av Alexis Ohanian 2013 272 sidor

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🚀 Tech Startups 🌐 Internet Culture 📖 Founder Memoir 🛠️ Lean Startup 🗽 Internet Freedom

Mossad

av Michael Bar-Zohar • 2010

Audacity and moral compromise: the real missions that built the Mossad legend.

4.19

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🇮🇱 Israeli Intelligence 🕵️ State Espionage 🌍 Middle East Conflict 🎯 Targeted Killing ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Mossad

Audacity and moral compromise: the real missions that built the Mossad legend.

av Michael Bar-Zohar 2010 388 sidor

4.19

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🇮🇱 Israeli Intelligence 🕵️ State Espionage 🌍 Middle East Conflict 🎯 Targeted Killing ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Bibi

av Benjamin Netanyahu • 2022

A commando's memoir: how hostage rescues, economic overhaul, and a new diplomatic map remade Israel.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Politics 📜 Political Memoir 🕊️ Middle East Peace 🎖️ Military Leadership 🛡️ Counterterrorism

Bibi

A commando's memoir: how hostage rescues, economic overhaul, and a new diplomatic map remade Israel.

av Benjamin Netanyahu 2022 733 sidor

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🇮🇱 Israeli Politics 📜 Political Memoir 🕊️ Middle East Peace 🎖️ Military Leadership 🛡️ Counterterrorism

Aleister Crowley

av Gary Lachman • 2014

Before the 1960s, a Victorian magician wrote the rulebook for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

3.44

500+

🕯️ Occult Biography 📜 Western Esotericism ✨ Ceremonial Magic 🏛️ Magical Orders 🔥 Spiritual Rebellion

Aleister Crowley

Before the 1960s, a Victorian magician wrote the rulebook for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

av Gary Lachman 2014 400 sidor

3.44

500+ betyg

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