Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It
By: Colin Diver
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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1. Python for Data Analysis
By: Wes McKinney
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. Principles: Life and Work
By: Jeremy Bobb , Ray Dalio
3.99
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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4. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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5. Learning Python
By: Mark Lutz , None
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
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6. The Gatekeepers : Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
By: Jacques Steinberg
2.83
Format: 64 pages,
In the fall of 1999, New York Timeseducation reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented … read more
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7. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
By: Sheryl Sandberg , Adam M. Grant , Adam Grant
3.93
Format: 512 pages,
From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of… read more
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8. Draft No. 4
By: John McPhee
4.34
Format: 640 pages,
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9. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
By: Frank Bruni
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more
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10. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
11. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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12. 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
13. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
14. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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15. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
By: Héctor García
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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"Walk slowly and you’ll go far"-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
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16. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
17. How to Be Eaten
By: Maria Adelmann
3.60
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in… read more
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"But something changes after tragedy,"-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten
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18. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
By: Gregory Zuckerman
4.03
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
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19. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
By: Ron Lieber
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more
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20. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Seling… read more
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21. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
By: James B. Stewart
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more
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22. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
By: Jonathan Kaufman
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Sassoons and the Kadoories--two Jewish families from Baghdad--had long been successful in busin… read more
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23. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By: Walter Isaacson
4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
24. Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
By: Jacob Goldstein
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money i… read more
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25. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixtee… read more
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"The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a high…"-Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
26. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more
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27. The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
By: Bob Woodward
4.27
Format: 12 pages, Audiobook
“I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of m… read more
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28. After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
By: Will Bunch
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great polit… read more
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29. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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30. The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together
By: Brennan Barnard
4.30
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the e… read more
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31. Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It
By: Colin Diver
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Some colleges will do anything to improve their national ranking. That can be bad for their student… read more
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