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Half Broke Horses

av Jeannette Walls • 2009

An alien colony on a gunnery range. A military cover-up. A weatherman caught in the middle.

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👽 Alien Encounters 🕵️ Military Coverups 🖖 First Contact 🧠 Mental Toughness 🌵 Desert Survival

Half Broke Horses

An alien colony on a gunnery range. A military cover-up. A weatherman caught in the middle.

av Jeannette Walls 2009 272 sidor

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👽 Alien Encounters 🕵️ Military Coverups 🖖 First Contact 🧠 Mental Toughness 🌵 Desert Survival

The World As It Is

av Ben Rhodes • 2018

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

The World As It Is

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

av Ben Rhodes 2018 433 sidor

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

Burn Book

av Kara Swisher • 2024

Decades interrogating tech's most powerful men, and the one question none of them could answer.

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🧪 Silicon Valley Culture 📔 Tech Industry Memoir 🖥️ Digital Journalism ⚖️ Accountability In Tech 🌐 Platform Society

Burn Book

Decades interrogating tech's most powerful men, and the one question none of them could answer.

av Kara Swisher 2024 305 sidor

3.94

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🧪 Silicon Valley Culture 📔 Tech Industry Memoir 🖥️ Digital Journalism ⚖️ Accountability In Tech 🌐 Platform Society

In the Plex

av Steven Levy • 2011

Inside Google: how two PhD students turned a search engine into the operating system of modern life.

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🏢 Corporate History 🌐 Internet History ⚙️ Engineering Culture 💻 Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Origin Stories

In the Plex

Inside Google: how two PhD students turned a search engine into the operating system of modern life.

av Steven Levy 2011 432 sidor

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🏢 Corporate History 🌐 Internet History ⚙️ Engineering Culture 💻 Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Origin Stories

Persian Girls

av Nahid Rachlin • 2006

One sister left Iran for America. One stayed through revolution. Letters bridged the distance.

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🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🌍 Immigrant Memoirs 🪞 Dual Identity 👭 Sisterhood Bonds 👩 Iranian Women

Persian Girls

One sister left Iran for America. One stayed through revolution. Letters bridged the distance.

av Nahid Rachlin 2006 304 sidor

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🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🌍 Immigrant Memoirs 🪞 Dual Identity 👭 Sisterhood Bonds 👩 Iranian Women

Barbarians at the Gate

av Bryan Burrough • 1989

A CEO's bid to buy his company unleashes Wall Street's biggest takeover war.

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🏢 Corporate Takeover 📰 Business Journalism 🪑 Boardroom Politics 💰 Leveraged Buyouts 📈 1980s Wall Street

Barbarians at the Gate

A CEO's bid to buy his company unleashes Wall Street's biggest takeover war.

av Bryan Burrough 1989 592 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Takeover 📰 Business Journalism 🪑 Boardroom Politics 💰 Leveraged Buyouts 📈 1980s Wall Street

Good Power

av Ginni Rometty • 2023

Turning a century-old company taught her power works best when given away. Here is how.

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👩‍💼 Women In Leadership 🛡️ Stewardship Leadership 📖 Business Memoir 💻 Tech Industry 🔮 Future Of Work

Good Power

Turning a century-old company taught her power works best when given away. Here is how.

av Ginni Rometty 2023 300 sidor

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👩‍💼 Women In Leadership 🛡️ Stewardship Leadership 📖 Business Memoir 💻 Tech Industry 🔮 Future Of Work

Tesla

av Margaret Cheney • 1981

How the inventor of the twentieth century wound up alone with a white pigeon.

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💡 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🔬 Scientific Biography 🧠 Eccentric Genius 📻 History Of Radio

Tesla

How the inventor of the twentieth century wound up alone with a white pigeon.

av Margaret Cheney 1981 400 sidor

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💡 Inventor Biographies ⚡ History Of Electricity 🔬 Scientific Biography 🧠 Eccentric Genius 📻 History Of Radio

Bitita's Diary

av Carolina Maria de Jesus • 1960

Seven years old, Black, and poor in rural Brazil: learning to read became her revenge.

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🇧🇷 Brazilian Literature 🏚️ Childhood Poverty ✍🏾 Black Women Writers 📖 Literacy As Liberation ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Bitita's Diary

Seven years old, Black, and poor in rural Brazil: learning to read became her revenge.

av Carolina Maria de Jesus 1960 180 sidor

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🇧🇷 Brazilian Literature 🏚️ Childhood Poverty ✍🏾 Black Women Writers 📖 Literacy As Liberation ⚖️ Racial Inequality

The Warmth of Other Suns

av Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

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🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Warmth of Other Suns

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

av Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 sidor

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🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

Born Standing Up

av Steve Martin • 2007

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Born Standing Up

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

av Steve Martin 2007 271 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

The Visionaries

av Wolfram Eilenberger • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

The Visionaries

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

av Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 400 sidor

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service

av Michael Lewis • 2025

Government is full of brilliant people you have never heard of. Michael Lewis introduces them.

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🏛️ Public Service 🇺🇸 American Government 📋 Bureaucracy 🦸 Unsung Heroes 📰 Narrative Journalism

Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service

Government is full of brilliant people you have never heard of. Michael Lewis introduces them.

av Michael Lewis 2025 272 sidor

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🏛️ Public Service 🇺🇸 American Government 📋 Bureaucracy 🦸 Unsung Heroes 📰 Narrative Journalism

Humans of New York

av Brandon Stanton • 2015

Ten thousand New Yorkers, one photographer, and the question that revealed a city's hidden soul.

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🧱 Street Photography 🎤 Oral History 🏠 Everyday Lives 🗽 New York City Life 🖼️ Visual Storytelling

Humans of New York

Ten thousand New Yorkers, one photographer, and the question that revealed a city's hidden soul.

av Brandon Stanton 2015 428 sidor

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🧱 Street Photography 🎤 Oral History 🏠 Everyday Lives 🗽 New York City Life 🖼️ Visual Storytelling

Going Infinite

av Michael Lewis • 2023

He saw people as math problems, built a $40 billion crypto empire, then watched it dissolve.

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🪙 Crypto Collapse 💸 Financial Scandal 🌍 Effective Altruism 🧮 Bayesian Reasoning 👤 Character Study

Going Infinite

He saw people as math problems, built a $40 billion crypto empire, then watched it dissolve.

av Michael Lewis 2023 272 sidor

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🪙 Crypto Collapse 💸 Financial Scandal 🌍 Effective Altruism 🧮 Bayesian Reasoning 👤 Character Study

Boyd

av Robert Coram • 2002

The F-16 and the Gulf War were born from a fighter pilot's study of thermodynamics.

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✈️ Fighter Aviation ⚔️ Military Strategy 🔄 Maneuver Warfare 🧠 Decision Frameworks 🏛️ Military Reform

Boyd

The F-16 and the Gulf War were born from a fighter pilot's study of thermodynamics.

av Robert Coram 2002 504 sidor

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✈️ Fighter Aviation ⚔️ Military Strategy 🔄 Maneuver Warfare 🧠 Decision Frameworks 🏛️ Military Reform

If Truth Be Told

av Om Swami • 2014

A millionaire CEO renounces everything, even his name, to wander India as a penniless monk.

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🕉️ Eastern Spirituality 🛕 Monastic Life 👣 Guru-Disciple Relationship 🏔️ Himalayan Spirituality 🍂 Renunciation

If Truth Be Told

A millionaire CEO renounces everything, even his name, to wander India as a penniless monk.

av Om Swami 2014 266 sidor

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🕉️ Eastern Spirituality 🛕 Monastic Life 👣 Guru-Disciple Relationship 🏔️ Himalayan Spirituality 🍂 Renunciation

Unbreakable

av Jenni Rivera • 2013

Teen mom, banda queen, and a nine-year pursuit that ended with her abuser sentenced to life.

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🎤 Regional Mexican Music 🎵 Female Musicians 💔 Surviving Abuse ✊ Chicana Feminism 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Mothers

Unbreakable

Teen mom, banda queen, and a nine-year pursuit that ended with her abuser sentenced to life.

av Jenni Rivera 2013 240 sidor

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🎤 Regional Mexican Music 🎵 Female Musicians 💔 Surviving Abuse ✊ Chicana Feminism 👩‍👧‍👦 Single Mothers

The Tycoons

av Charles R. Morris • 2005

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

The Tycoons

Four rival industrialists, four methods, one generation: how America became the world's factory.

av Charles R. Morris 2005 400 sidor

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🚂 Railroads 💰 Robber Barons 🏭 Industrial Revolution 📊 Corporate Consolidation

The Predators' Ball

av Connie Bruck • 1988

Michael Milken built a junk-bond empire that fueled the '80s takeover binge. Then the FBI arrived.

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💰 Junk Bond Era 🦈 Corporate Raiders ⚔️ Hostile Takeovers 👮 Insider Trading 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Predators' Ball

Michael Milken built a junk-bond empire that fueled the '80s takeover binge. Then the FBI arrived.

av Connie Bruck 1988 400 sidor

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💰 Junk Bond Era 🦈 Corporate Raiders ⚔️ Hostile Takeovers 👮 Insider Trading 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Sonny Boy

av Al Pacino • 2024

South Bronx to The Godfather to fifty million lost. Pacino's most unguarded confession.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Craft 💫 The Cost Of Fame 🍷 Addiction And Recovery 🏙️ Rise From Poverty

Sonny Boy

South Bronx to The Godfather to fifty million lost. Pacino's most unguarded confession.

av Al Pacino 2024 384 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Craft 💫 The Cost Of Fame 🍷 Addiction And Recovery 🏙️ Rise From Poverty

The Innovators

av Walter Isaacson • 2011

The digital revolution wasn't born in garages but in teams of hackers, engineers, and visionaries.

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🖥️ Computer History 🤝 Collaborative Innovation 🏞️ Silicon Valley Origins 🌐 Internet History 💻 Digital Revolution

The Innovators

The digital revolution wasn't born in garages but in teams of hackers, engineers, and visionaries.

av Walter Isaacson 2011 542 sidor

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🖥️ Computer History 🤝 Collaborative Innovation 🏞️ Silicon Valley Origins 🌐 Internet History 💻 Digital Revolution

An Autobiography

av Agatha Christie • 1977

She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🏡 English Childhood 🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction 🏥 Wartime Nursing ✍️ Creative Process

An Autobiography

She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.

av Agatha Christie 1977 576 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🏡 English Childhood 🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction 🏥 Wartime Nursing ✍️ Creative Process

I Came Upon a Lighthouse

av Shantanu Naidu • 2021

A young man wrote Ratan Tata about saving stray dogs. The reply began an unlikely friendship.

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🐾 Animal Welfare 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 👴 Mentorship 🇮🇳 Indian Business 🏢 Corporate Leadership

I Came Upon a Lighthouse

A young man wrote Ratan Tata about saving stray dogs. The reply began an unlikely friendship.

av Shantanu Naidu 2021 232 sidor

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🐾 Animal Welfare 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 👴 Mentorship 🇮🇳 Indian Business 🏢 Corporate Leadership

John D. Rockefeller - The Original Titan

av J.R. MacGregor • 2019

From bookkeeper to America's most ruthless monopolist, then to its most strategic philanthropist.

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🧱 Gilded Age Titans 🛢️ Oil Industry History 🏭 Industrial Consolidation 🔗 Monopoly Power 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy

John D. Rockefeller - The Original Titan

From bookkeeper to America's most ruthless monopolist, then to its most strategic philanthropist.

av J.R. MacGregor 2019 173 sidor

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🧱 Gilded Age Titans 🛢️ Oil Industry History 🏭 Industrial Consolidation 🔗 Monopoly Power 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy

Life and Death in Shanghai

av Nien Cheng • 1986

When Red Guards destroyed her Shanghai home, she used Mao's own words to survive prison.

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🔥 Cultural Revolution 👮 Totalitarian Regimes ⛓️ Political Imprisonment 🧱 Survival Memoirs 📜 Modern Chinese History

Life and Death in Shanghai

When Red Guards destroyed her Shanghai home, she used Mao's own words to survive prison.

av Nien Cheng 1986 547 sidor

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🔥 Cultural Revolution 👮 Totalitarian Regimes ⛓️ Political Imprisonment 🧱 Survival Memoirs 📜 Modern Chinese History

What the Animals Taught Me

av Stephanie Marohn • 2012

She built a sanctuary for broken animals and discovered they were mending her.

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🐾 Animal Sanctuaries 💞 Human-Animal Bond 🦉 Animal Wisdom 🙏 Animal Therapy 🌿 Spiritual Ecology

What the Animals Taught Me

She built a sanctuary for broken animals and discovered they were mending her.

av Stephanie Marohn 2012 192 sidor

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🐾 Animal Sanctuaries 💞 Human-Animal Bond 🦉 Animal Wisdom 🙏 Animal Therapy 🌿 Spiritual Ecology

Hey, Kiddo

av Jarrett J. Krosoczka • 2018

His mother lost to heroin, his grandparents take him in. Drawing becomes his refuge.

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🎨 Graphic Memoir ✍️ Cartoonist Memoir 💊 Parental Addiction 👴 Grandparent Bonds 🖌️ Healing Through Art

Hey, Kiddo

His mother lost to heroin, his grandparents take him in. Drawing becomes his refuge.

av Jarrett J. Krosoczka 2018 320 sidor

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🎨 Graphic Memoir ✍️ Cartoonist Memoir 💊 Parental Addiction 👴 Grandparent Bonds 🖌️ Healing Through Art

The Road to Mecca

av Muhammad Asad • 1954

Beneath the Arabian sky, an Austrian journalist felt four thousand years of ancestral memory return.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🏜️ Desert Spirituality 🐪 Bedouin Life 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

The Road to Mecca

Beneath the Arabian sky, an Austrian journalist felt four thousand years of ancestral memory return.

av Muhammad Asad 1954 375 sidor

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🏜️ Desert Spirituality 🐪 Bedouin Life 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

American Sniper

av Chris Kyle • 2012

160 kills, four tours, and a personal cost he didn't count until he came home.

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🏅 Military Memoir ⚓ Navy Seals 🎯 Sniper Craft 🏙️ Urban Warfare 🌍 Post-9/11 Wars

American Sniper

160 kills, four tours, and a personal cost he didn't count until he came home.

av Chris Kyle 2012 502 sidor

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🏅 Military Memoir ⚓ Navy Seals 🎯 Sniper Craft 🏙️ Urban Warfare 🌍 Post-9/11 Wars

Paul

av N.T. Wright • 2018

Paul didn't switch religions. He saw a crucified Jew running the universe.

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📖 New Testament Studies ✝️ Pauline Theology 🔄 New Perspective On Paul 🏛️ Early Christianity 🕎 Jewish Context

Paul

Paul didn't switch religions. He saw a crucified Jew running the universe.

av N.T. Wright 2018 480 sidor

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📖 New Testament Studies ✝️ Pauline Theology 🔄 New Perspective On Paul 🏛️ Early Christianity 🕎 Jewish Context

American Sketches

av Walter Isaacson • 2009

Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.

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📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism 💻 Digital Media Disruption 🔬 Scientific Biography

American Sketches

Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.

av Walter Isaacson 2009 308 sidor

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📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism 💻 Digital Media Disruption 🔬 Scientific Biography

How Life Imitates Chess

av Garry Kasparov • 2001

The decisions that win chess matches also win markets. A grandmaster translates the playbook.

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🧠 Strategic Thinking 📊 Decision Frameworks 🛡️ Mental Resilience 🔮 Intuition Development 🏔️ Peak Performance

How Life Imitates Chess

The decisions that win chess matches also win markets. A grandmaster translates the playbook.

av Garry Kasparov 2001 240 sidor

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🧠 Strategic Thinking 📊 Decision Frameworks 🛡️ Mental Resilience 🔮 Intuition Development 🏔️ Peak Performance

Good Profit

av Charles G. Koch • 2015

Most profit relies on exploitation. Charles Koch built a $100 billion company by doing the opposite.

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🏛️ Management Philosophy 🧭 Organizational Culture 🏪 Internal Markets 🎯 Incentive Design 💥 Creative Destruction

Good Profit

Most profit relies on exploitation. Charles Koch built a $100 billion company by doing the opposite.

av Charles G. Koch 2015 288 sidor

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🏛️ Management Philosophy 🧭 Organizational Culture 🏪 Internal Markets 🎯 Incentive Design 💥 Creative Destruction

Dawood's Mentor

av S. Hussain Zaidi • 2019

The wrestler who built the Dawood empire, then pulled off the Mumbai mafia's only clean break.

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🏙️ Mumbai Underworld 💼 Organized Crime 🚢 Smuggling Operations 🔫 Gang Warfare 🤝 Underworld Loyalty

Dawood's Mentor

The wrestler who built the Dawood empire, then pulled off the Mumbai mafia's only clean break.

av S. Hussain Zaidi 2019 300 sidor

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🏙️ Mumbai Underworld 💼 Organized Crime 🚢 Smuggling Operations 🔫 Gang Warfare 🤝 Underworld Loyalty

Hour of the Heart

av Irvin D. Yalom • 2024

A legendary therapist's final casebook: single sessions on Zoom, and the relationship is the cure.

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🧠 Existential Psychotherapy 📋 Clinical Case Studies 💞 Therapeutic Relationship ⏳ Brief Therapy 🗣️ Self-Disclosure

Hour of the Heart

A legendary therapist's final casebook: single sessions on Zoom, and the relationship is the cure.

av Irvin D. Yalom 2024 288 sidor

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🧠 Existential Psychotherapy 📋 Clinical Case Studies 💞 Therapeutic Relationship ⏳ Brief Therapy 🗣️ Self-Disclosure

The Fish That Ate the Whale

av Rich Cohen • 2012

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

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🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

av Rich Cohen 2012 288 sidor

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🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

Bad Boy

av Walter Dean Myers • 2001

He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.

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🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age ✊🏾 Racial Identity 🏙️ Harlem Life 🥊 Urban Violence 🌧️ Depression Memoirs

Bad Boy

He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.

av Walter Dean Myers 2001 240 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age ✊🏾 Racial Identity 🏙️ Harlem Life 🥊 Urban Violence 🌧️ Depression Memoirs

The Accidental Billionaires

av Ben Mezrich • 2009

The $1,000 server payment and a 65/30 split that turned old friends into courtroom enemies.

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🏢 Startup Founding 💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 🤝 Founder Dynamics 💔 Betrayal Narratives

The Accidental Billionaires

The $1,000 server payment and a 65/30 split that turned old friends into courtroom enemies.

av Ben Mezrich 2009 274 sidor

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🏢 Startup Founding 💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 🤝 Founder Dynamics 💔 Betrayal Narratives

R. N. Kao

av Mr Nitin A Gokhale • 2019

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

3.92

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🕵️ Indian Intelligence 🥷 Covert Operations 📜 Intelligence History 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Espionage

R. N. Kao

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

av Mr Nitin A Gokhale 2019 240 sidor

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🕵️ Indian Intelligence 🥷 Covert Operations 📜 Intelligence History 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Espionage

Empire of the Summer Moon

av S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

av S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 sidor

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Brown Girl Dreaming

av Jacqueline Woodson • 2014

Before she could read, she wrote. A Black girlhood in verse across the South and Brooklyn.

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🎭 Memoir In Verse 🏚️ Jim Crow South ✍️ Young Writers 🌾 Black Southern Literature ✊ Civil Rights Childhood

Brown Girl Dreaming

Before she could read, she wrote. A Black girlhood in verse across the South and Brooklyn.

av Jacqueline Woodson 2014 337 sidor

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🎭 Memoir In Verse 🏚️ Jim Crow South ✍️ Young Writers 🌾 Black Southern Literature ✊ Civil Rights Childhood

Michael Jackson, Inc.

av Zack O'Malley Greenburg • 2014

He bought the Beatles' catalog against all advice. It's now worth a billion dollars.

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🎵 Music Business 🎩 Music Moguls 📜 Music Publishing ⚖️ Intellectual Property ⭐ Celebrity Branding

Michael Jackson, Inc.

He bought the Beatles' catalog against all advice. It's now worth a billion dollars.

av Zack O'Malley Greenburg 2014 306 sidor

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🎵 Music Business 🎩 Music Moguls 📜 Music Publishing ⚖️ Intellectual Property ⭐ Celebrity Branding

The Tell

av Amy Griffin • 2025

One MDMA session surfaced the memory her perfect life was built to outrun.

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📖 Trauma Memoir 👶 Childhood Trauma 🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🧘 Somatic Healing 🔒 Repressed Memory

The Tell

One MDMA session surfaced the memory her perfect life was built to outrun.

av Amy Griffin 2025 288 sidor

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📖 Trauma Memoir 👶 Childhood Trauma 🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🧘 Somatic Healing 🔒 Repressed Memory

Alibaba

av Duncan Clark • 2016

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Alibaba

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

av Duncan Clark 2016 304 sidor

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Hope

av Pope Francis • 2025

His family narrowly escaped a shipwreck: the pope on why mercy and memory build a future.

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🕯️ Spiritual Autobiography ✝️ Catholic Social Teaching 🙏 Jesuit Spirituality 💛 Mercy And Forgiveness 🌍 Immigrant Experience

Hope

His family narrowly escaped a shipwreck: the pope on why mercy and memory build a future.

av Pope Francis 2025 320 sidor

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🕯️ Spiritual Autobiography ✝️ Catholic Social Teaching 🙏 Jesuit Spirituality 💛 Mercy And Forgiveness 🌍 Immigrant Experience

Call Sign Chaos

av Jim Mattis • 2019

Lead from the squad to the strategy table: a doctrine forged in combat and wide reading.

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🎖️ Military Leadership 📖 Leadership Memoirs 📚 History And Strategy ⚖️ Military Ethics 🎯 Decentralized Command

Call Sign Chaos

Lead from the squad to the strategy table: a doctrine forged in combat and wide reading.

av Jim Mattis 2019 320 sidor

4.29

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