Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop
By: Loretta Graziano Breuning
3.90
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
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1. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
2. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walkand coauthor of The Grand Design(wi… read more
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3. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
By: Marshall Goldsmith , Mark Reiter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladderThe … read more
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4. Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money
By: Dave Ramsey , Rachel Cruze
3.89
Format: 704 pages,
Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze teach parents how to raise money-smart kids in a debt-filled world. In… read more
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5. The Suicide Shop
By: Jean Teulé , Sue Dyson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a … read more
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6. Games People Play
By: Eric Berne
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback
We think we're relating to other people. Actually we're all playing games. Forty years ago, Games P… read more
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7. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
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8. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
9. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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10. Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
By: Scott H. Young
3.95
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and ad… read more
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
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"In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering. In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the e…"-Scott H. Young, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
11. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
12. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
13. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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14. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
By: Simone Stolzoff
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more
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"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
15. 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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"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
16. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
By: Coleman Hughes
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more
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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
17. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
By: Carole Hooven
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Testosterone: Misunderstood. Mythologized. Controversial. A Harvard evolutionary biologist debun… read more
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18. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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19. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
By: W. David Marx
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more
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20. Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
By: Hugo Mercier
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can … read more
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21. Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop
By: Loretta Graziano Breuning
3.90
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Rewire your brain to avoid the trap of comparison and status-seeking to achieve more contentment an… read more
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