Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform
By: Patrick Henry Winston
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from org…
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1. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
By: Ryan Holiday
4.15
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aureli… read more
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2. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more
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3. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
By: Josh Kaufman
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Master the fundamentals, hone your business instincts, and save a fortune in tuition. The consensu… read more
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4. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
By: Edward R. Tufte
3.32
Format: 256 pages,
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data… read more
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5. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Zach Kleinman , Pete Carroll
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and… read more
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6. The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
By: Daniel Coyle
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
The Little Book of Talentis a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to… read more
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7. The Elements of Style
By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.
4.18
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more
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"He owned"-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
8. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
9. Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
By: None
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In an irresistible invitation to lighten up, look around, and live an unscripted life, a master of … read more
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10. 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
11. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
12. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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13. Four Thousand Weeks
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.22
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more
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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
14. 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
15. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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- business
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
16. The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
By: Nate Zinsser
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Believe and be unshakable. The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares th… read more
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"Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously."-Nate Zinsser, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
17. 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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"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
18. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
By: Titus Winters
4.20
Format: 599 pages, Paperback
The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more
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"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
19. The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
By: Laura Shin
3.70
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the… read more
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20. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform
By: Patrick Henry Winston
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from org… read more
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21. The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
By: Ben Buchanan
4.16
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
AI is revolutionizing the world. Here’s how democracies can come out on top. Artificial intelligen… read more
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