Fooled by the Winners: How Survivor Bias Deceives Us
By: David Lockwood
3.63
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
By: Adam M. Grant
3.96
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of beco… read more
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"Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new."-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"Dissenting opinions are useful, even when they are wrong."-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives"-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
"The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers"-Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
2. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Semi-Finalist in the Science & Technology category in the Choice Awards. Foreword by Steven Pinker,… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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5. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
By: Jordan Ellenberg
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world a… read more
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6. The World America Made
By: Robert Kagan
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to fo… read more
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7. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
By: Terrence Real
3.62
Format: 57 pages,
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence R… read more
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8. Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
By: Joseph McCormack
4.36
Format: 94 pages, ebook
Get heard by being clear and concise The only way to survive in business today is to be a lean comm… read more
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9. How Will You Measure Your Life?
By: Clayton M. Christensen , Karen Dillon , James Allworth
3.73
Format: 112 pages, ebook
In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harva… read more
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10. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
11. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
12. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- science
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
13. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
By: Annie Duke
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
By: Scott Hershovitz
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a University of Michigan professor of law and philosophy, a delightfully funny and thought-pro… read more
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- science
"If we treat people inhumanely, we should never be surprised when they return the favor."-Scott Hershovitz, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
"Philosophy should address every aspect of our lives — the sacred, the profane, and even the mundane."-Scott Hershovitz, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
"Why are some words bad? The idea that they could be bothered me as a kid. Words are strings of sounds. How could sounds be bad? But of course: words aren’t just strings of sound. They are strings of …"-Scott Hershovitz, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
16. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- science
17. The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
By: Matthew Connelly
3.83
Format: 540 pages, Hardcover
A captivating study of US state secrecy that examines how officials use it to hoard power and preve… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
18. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
19. The War Girls
By: V.S. Alexander
4.09
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Kristin Harmel, and Pam Jenoff, this new historical fiction novel f… read more
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20. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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- science
21. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Burn the Negative
By: Josh Winning
3.38
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse… read more
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23. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more
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24. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
25. Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling author of Nudge reveals h ow we became so burdened by red tape and … read more
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26. You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters
By: Vanessa Bohns
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Named a 2021 Best Book for Ethical Leaders by Notre Dame’s Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership a… read more
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- science
27. Human-Centered Communication: A Business Case Against Digital Pollution
By: Ethan Beute
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
DIGITAL POLLUTION IS THE PROBLEM. HUMAN-CENTERED COMMUNICATION IS THE SOLUTION.We’re spending more … read more
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28. Fooled by the Winners: How Survivor Bias Deceives Us
By: David Lockwood
3.63
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Fooled by the Winners will change the way you think about the stock market, health care, global war… read more
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29. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.38
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more
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30. The Adversity Hack
By: Meg Poag
4.15
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
What if you could experience more joy in your life and work through your challenges, so you wouldn’… read more
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