Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency
By: Andrew Reiner
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men—…
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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- psychology
- education
"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
By: Leonard Sax
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so… read more
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- social science
- parenting
- psychology
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
"Dr. Melvin Connors sums it up nicely in just three words: "culture stretches biology"-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
"Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight."-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
"Gender is important, gender is complicated and gender is meaningful. Know your child and celebrate the kind of girl or boy your child is becoming."-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
"Girls spend slightly more time playing with the doll than with the truck. Boys on the other hand typically spend great deal more time playing with the truck rather than with the doll."-Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
3. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
By: Lisa Damour
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more
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- parenting
- psychology
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
4. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable
By: Tim S. Grover
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats--Michael Jordan, Kobe … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
5. Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
By: Michael S. Kimmel
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
"[W]e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men." Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republica… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
6. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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- psychology
- audiobook
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
7. Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control
By: Dana K. White
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster? You want t… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
8. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- parenting
- psychology
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
9. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
By: Cordelia Fine
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reas… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"Our sexuality is body, culture, age, learning, habit, fantasies, worries, passions, and the relationships in which all these elements combine. That’s why sexuality can change with age, partner, exper…"-Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
"Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who produces the sperm doesn’t dictate, by universal principle, that parenting is out …"-Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
10. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
11. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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- parenting
- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
12. Bug Boys
By: Laura Knetzger
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Library Binding
Join two bug friends as they learn about the science of the world around them and the meaning of fr… read more
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13. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
By: Angela Saini
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
15. Each of Us a Desert
By: Mark Oshiro
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories… read more
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"The sound of sunlight is the gentle scurrying of lizards and mice, desperate to find shade and comfort. It's the earth, groaning and creaking as it wakes up, as the moisture within it is pulled away,…"-Mark Oshiro, Each of Us a Desert
16. It's On Me: Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life
By: Sara Kuburic
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From an existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and Instagram's popular "Millennial Thera… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- psychology
- education
17. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
By: Anita Hill
4.18
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
"An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
By: Warren Farrell
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What is the boy crisis?It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
19. Better Boys, Better Men: The New Masculinity That Creates Greater Courage and Emotional Resiliency
By: Andrew Reiner
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking and much-needed look at how modern masculinity is harming and holding back men—… read more
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- social science
- parenting
- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
20. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
By: Gemma Hartley
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fe… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
21. The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
By: Adam Bryant
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career. The chasm separating managers from leaders is wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Making the leap to leader requires killing your old self."-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
"You should have a life plan. But your life plan shouldn’t be thrown off by having a really bad boss who doesn’t like you. If your plan is so narrow that you can’t survive a bad boss then you are not …"-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
"You often have to be an actor when you’re a leader, That doesn’t mean that you’re not yourself and that you’re not authentic. It means that depending on the person you’re speaking to and what you nee…"-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
"Yes, you need toget all the input. Be collaborative. Get the data you need. But in the end, it's your call, and a lot of people have trouble with this ownership. Then they have trouble sticking with …"-Adam Bryant, The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
