The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
By: Merve Emre
3.25
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daught…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)"-Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
"The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)"-Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
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1. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
By: Stephen Jay Gould , Michael Shermer
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still b… read more
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2. Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
By: Isabel Briggs Myers , Peter B. Myers
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. read more
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3. The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
By: Tali Sharot
4.27
Format: 260 pages,
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4. The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
By: None , None
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don't even know how a p… read more
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5. Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
By: Anne Bogel
4.00
Format: None pages,
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6. Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
By: George Newbern , Luke Dittrich
3.50
Format: 140 pages,
For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksand The Hare with Amber Eyescomes a propulsive, … read more
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7. The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
By: Brad Stone
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or walking into a stranger's home, would … read more
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8. Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
By: Tori Telfer
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten fe… read more
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"If you meet her, you will like her. The con woman's likability is the single most tool she has, sharp as a chef's knife and fake as a theatre mask. Without her likability, she would be nothing. If yo…"-Tori Telfer, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
9. The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
By: Merve Emre
3.25
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daught… read more
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"The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Bri…"-Merve Emre, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
10. Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
By: Micaiah Johnson
4.15
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and i… read more
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"Wanting to shift someone's boundaries is a burden and a threat, not a gift or a compliment."-Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
11. The Common Good
By: Robert B. Reich
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed… read more
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12. In the Act
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more
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"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act
13. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
By: Scott Eyman
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more
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14. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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15. Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
By: Ariel Sabar
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, the gripping true story of a se… read more
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"For as long as Christians have found God in the written word, the written word has given forgers the power to play God."-Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
16. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
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"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
17. Homicide (Homicide: The Graphic Novel, 1)
By: Philippe Squarzoni
4.07
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in thi… read more
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18. White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland
By: Dick Lehr
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Prophet's Wife
By: Libbie Grant
3.78
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
A sweeping, lyrical tale of historical fiction that tells the unbelievable story of the early days … read more
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20. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
By: Shannon Gibney
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f… read more
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21. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
By: Phil Elwood
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more
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