Japan Travel Guide: Things I Wish I Knew Before Going To Japan
By: Ken Fukuyama
3.60
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Japan - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture
By: Paul Norbury
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different count… read more
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2. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
By: Helen Russell
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural J… read more
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3. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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4. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By: Blaine Harden
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more
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5. 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
6. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
7. $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
By: Alex Hormozi
4.59
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Here’s exactly what this book will show you how to do: How To Charge a Lot More Than You Currently… read more
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"Aligning with other’s self interest is easier than persuading them to do what you want."-Alex Hormozi, $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
8. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
9. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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10. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
11. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
12. 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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13. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more
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"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
14. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
15. A Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more
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16. The Mermaid from Jeju
By: Sumi Hahn
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Yangsze Choo's Night Tiger and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko comes a magical saga that… read more
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"Tendrils of vine and fern fell from both sides of the gully, like green waterfalls spilling from rocks. Sunlight beamed through the trees, illuminating every tiny insect and mote in the air..."-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju
"The half moon disappeared behind a cloud, casting the scene into darkness. The silence between the boy and girl expanded. It filled with memories of promises made, words that the world had broken"."-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju
17. Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
By: Jenny Lawson
4.03
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happe… read more
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"Only monsters call when they could text."-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
"Nothing lasts forever. The good and the bad."-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
"My doctor nodded. “I think you’ll be fine no matter what,"-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
"I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel."-Jenny Lawson, Broken (In the Best Possible Way)
18. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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19. Japan Travel Guide: Things I Wish I Knew Before Going To Japan
By: Ken Fukuyama
3.60
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Eat Japan
By: Lonely Planet Food
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The complete companion to Japanese culinary culture Whether it's rubbing your chopsticks together, … read more
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