How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don't
By: Leslie R. Crutchfield
3.72
Format: 240 pages, ebook
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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2. 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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- nonfiction
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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
3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
4. Leaders Eat Last
By: Simon Sinek
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated follow-up to Simon Sinek's global bestseller Start with WhySimon Sinek is an… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
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5. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
By: Charles Duhigg
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
A new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing howyou th… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- politics
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7. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
By: bell hooks
4.18
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
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8. Stick Your Neck Out: A Street-Smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond
By: John Graham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meeting challenges and resolving conflicts are things that can be done by anyone with the passion t… read more
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9. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
By: Ori Brafman , Rod A. Beckstrom
3.87
Format: None pages,
If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off … read more
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10. The Other Einstein
By: Marie Benedict
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the … read more
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11. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
By: None
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" … read more
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12. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
By: Tori Dunlap
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
"Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism."-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"…the culture [had]…a manipulative but disingenuous 'we're not coworkers, we're family' mind-set. (Always be wary of a company that says seemingly well-meaning shit as this. We share a cubicle, not a …"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"But when you confuse shames emotional alarm (I feel disconnected from money, what do I want to do about that?) with who you are (I’ll never get my shit together, I’m just bad with money), you’ve been…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
"We live in a patriarchal world—a system that aids and abets inequality. In this system that has gatekept financial information and tools from marginalized groups, it is an act of protest to be financ…"-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
13. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
14. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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- nonfiction
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
15. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- leadership
16. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
17. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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- nonfiction
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
18. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
19. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
20. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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- business
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
21. Some Choose Darkness (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #1)
By: Charlie Donlea
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A taut, gripping novel about the deadly secrets hiding in plain sight... The truth is easy to mi… read more
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22. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- business
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
23. The Last Lecture
By: Randy Pausch
4.26
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their de… read more
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- nonfiction
"Please don't die."-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
"I don't believe in the no-win scenario"-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
"Focus on other people, not on yourself."-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
"Never make a decision until you have to."-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
24. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
25. Come, Sweet Day: Holding On To Hope In Dark Times
By: Julianne Donaldson
4.43
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Created to provide solace, strength, and inspiration, Come, Sweet Day is for anyone feeling weighed… read more
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26. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
By: Eli Saslow
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist cha… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
"He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships."-Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
27. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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- history
28. Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change
By: Joseph Grenny
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling guide to leading positive change in any organization—updated with ne… read more
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- business
- leadership
29. How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don't
By: Leslie R. Crutchfield
3.72
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Discover how those who change the world do so with this thoughtful and timely book Why do some cha… read more
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- sociology
- nonfiction
- social justice
- activism
- society
- business
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30. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
By: Sami Sage
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more
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- activism
- politics
- nonfiction
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
31. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
By: Sharon McMahon
4.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American hero… read more
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