The Power of Others
By: Michael Shaw Bond
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Teenage cliques, jihadist cells, army units, Arab Spring protesters, polar expeditions, and footbal…
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1. The Innocent Wife
By: Amy Lloyd
3.41
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
You Love Him. You Trust Him. So Why Are You So Scared? Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was… read more
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2. Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
3.92
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
NAME: Valentine Michael Smith ANCESTRY: Human ORIGIN: Mars Valentine Michael Smith is a human … read more
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"Secrecy begets tyranny."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."-Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
3. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
By: Daniel Goleman
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the au… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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"In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels"-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
"Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort"-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
"[Sharmayne Williams:]...puoi avere tutte le emozioni possibili, ma non devi permettere che siano loro a manovrarti."-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
"In the calculus of the heart it is the ratio of positive to negative emotions that determines the sense of well- being."-Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
4. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
By: Sylvain Neuvel
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls th… read more
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5. The Ruins
By: Scott Smith
3.68
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more
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"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."-Scott Smith, The Ruins
6. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
7. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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8. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
By: Jeremy Scahill
3.80
Format: None pages,
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9. Contagious: Why Things Catch On
By: Jonah Berger
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing Associatio… read more
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10. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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11. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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12. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
By: Paul Bloom
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of other… read more
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13. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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14. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
By: Sendhil Mullainathan , Eldar Shafir
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our… read more
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15. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
16. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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- nonfiction
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
17. Elder Race
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.11
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more
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18. 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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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"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
19. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
By: Ethan Kross
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
AN AWARD-WINNING PSYCHOLOGIST REVEALS THE HIDDEN POWER OF OUR INNER VOICE AND SHOWS HOW WE CAN HARN… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"When supporting others, we need to offer the comfort of Kirk and the intellect of Spock."-Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
"The same brain circuitry that becomes active when we are attracted to someone or consume desirable substances (everything from cocaine to chocolate) also activates when we share information about our…"-Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
"We often think of fight or flight as the main defensive reaction human beings turn to when faced with a threat. When under stress, we flee or hunker down for the impending battle. While this reaction…"-Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
20. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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- psychology
- self help
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
21. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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- nonfiction
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
22. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
By: Edward Ashton
3.75
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more
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"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
23. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
24. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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- psychology
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
25. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
26. Si no podemos viajar a la velocidad de la luz
By: Kim Cho-yeop
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
¿Tiene sentido un futuro perfecto desprovisto de amor? El miedo a la muerte, la pérdida de memor… read more
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27. Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
By: Woo-Kyoung Ahn
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale University to help students examine the biases… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse."-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
"Why did we create a society that not only forces most people to work to live but also makes even the most privileged feel like they have to work desperately hard all the time? We created a mythology …"-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
28. Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
By: Daniel T. Willingham
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this revolutionary, comprehensive, and accessible guide on how the brain learns, discover how to… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
29. Gut Renovation: Unlock the Age-Defying Power of the Microbiome to Remodel Your Health from the Inside Out
By: Roshini Raj
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Combining the latest developments and research discoveries, board-certified gastroenterologist and … read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
30. The Power of Others
By: Michael Shaw Bond
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Teenage cliques, jihadist cells, army units, Arab Spring protesters, polar expeditions, and footbal… read more
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- psychology
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31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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