Talk
By: Elizabeth Stokoe
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives o…
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1. Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
By: Matthew Syed
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront… read more
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- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
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"Creativity is, in many respects, a response."-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
"Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organizational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic Nationa…"-Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
2. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
By: Steele Savage , Edith Hamilton
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless … read more
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- nonfiction
3. In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
By: George K. Simon Jr.
4.00
Format: 371 pages,
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- nonfiction
- personal development
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- self help
4. The Art of Seduction
By: Robert Greene , Робърт Грийн
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," s… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- psychology
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5. The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
By: Daniel Coyle , John Farrell
3.46
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A New York Times bestselling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent comes… read more
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- self help
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- science
6. Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You
By: Susan Forward , Donna Frazier
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Emotional blackmail is a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to puni… read more
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- communication
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
7. 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
By: Peter Bregman
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Reviewcolumns (which is one of the most popular columns on H… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- psychology
- self help
8. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more
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9. The 48 Laws of Power
By: Robert Greene , Joost Elffers
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, S… read more
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10. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron
3.85
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
11. 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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12. The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users
By: Guy Kawasaki , Peg Fitzpatrick
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Art of the Startand Enchantment, a no-nonsense guide to becoming… read more
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13. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
By: Brian Tracy
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provi… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- psychology
- self help
"The Key to Success is Action"-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
"Do anything, but get started."-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
"For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything."-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
"Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse."-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
14. Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
By: None
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
The nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change … read more
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15. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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16. 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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- communication
- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"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
17. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
18. Komplett Gänsehaut
By: Sophie Passmann
3.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Nach ihrem vieldiskutierten Bestseller »Alte, weiße Männer« entlarvt Sophie Passmann in ihrem neuen… read more
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19. Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
By: Scott H. Young
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for p… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
20. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
21. The Laws of Human Nature
By: Robert Greene
4.37
Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- psychology
- self help
"Fo each weakness there is a corresponding strength."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
22. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
23. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
24. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more
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- psychology
- science
25. We Do What We Do in the Dark
By: Michelle Hart
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more
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"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark
26. Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
By: John Sellars
4.20
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful li… read more
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- personal development
- psychology
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"Queremos creer que la humanidad ha evolucionado —y, con suerte, mejorado— en los últimos dos mil años, pero Séneca nos demuestra que muchos de los asuntos con los que la gente se debate hoy en día no…"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
"Marco Aurelio podría muy bien haberse mostrado como un emperador romano en busca de una reputación como sabio filósofo estoico, pero lo que uno se encuentra en las Meditaciones no es más que un hombr…"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
"El proceso pasa por tres fases, señala Séneca: la primera, un primer impulso involuntario, es decir, una reacción fisiológica natural que escapa a nuestro control; la segunda, un juicio —que sí está …"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
"Crisipo comparaba el hecho de estar bajo los efectos de una emoción con correr demasiado deprisa. Una vez que se ha cogido cierta cantidad de impulso, no es fácil detenerse. El movimiento está fuera …"-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live
27. A Kind of Spark
By: Elle McNicoll
4.52
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more
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"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
28. Isaac and the Egg
By: Bobby Palmer
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more
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29. Somebody Loves You
By: Mona Arshi
3.60
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, k… read more
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30. Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
By: Ayelet Fishbach
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover a "compelling" framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mind… read more
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- personal development
- psychology
- nonfiction
- science
31. Talk
By: Elizabeth Stokoe
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives o… read more
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