University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education
By: Joshua Hunt
3.81
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic expose of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike, and what that means for …
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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- education
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2. King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
By: David Remnick
4.27
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
There were mythic sports figures before him--Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio--but … read more
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- politics
- sports
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- nonfiction
3. Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
By: Donald T. Phillips , Mike Krzyzewski , Grant Hill
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In his more than twenty years coaching the Blue Devils, Coach Mike Krzyzewski has made his program … read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- business
4. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
By: Tim Marshall
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
6. Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
By: L. Jon Wertheim , Tobias J. Moskowitz
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran … read more
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7. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
8. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more
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9. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
By: Nick Bilton
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more
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- history
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"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
10. Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
By: John Feinstein
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league… read more
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11. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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12. 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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- historical
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- audiobook
"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
13. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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14. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- sports
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- audiobook
15. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
By: Dolly Parton
4.03
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of … read more
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- history
- audiobook
"My coat of many colors that my mama made for me, Made only from rags, but I wore it so proudly. Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be. In my coat of many colors my mama made for me…"-Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
16. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- nonfiction
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17. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
18. University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education
By: Joshua Hunt
3.81
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
The dramatic expose of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike, and what that means for … read more
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- sports
- education
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- audiobook
19. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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20. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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