Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It
By: David Goldhill
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health ca…
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1. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
By: Gary Taubes
4.17
Format: 601 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a… read more
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"[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis."-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
"The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century"-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
"Cohen testified that there was no 'direct relationship' linking heart disease to dietary fats, and that he had been able to induce the same blood-vessel complications seen in heart disease merely by …"-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
2. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
3. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
By: Glenn Greenwald
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
No Place to Hide is a groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who br… read more
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4. Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It
By: David Goldhill
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health ca… read more
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5. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
4.54
Format: None pages,
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the g… read more
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- politics
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6. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi
4.34
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more
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"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
7. Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
By: Adam M. Grant
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and lead… read more
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8. The Magic of Thinking Big
By: David J. Schwartz
4.20
Format: None pages,
The Magic of Thinking Biggives you useful methods, not empty promises. Dr. Schwartz presents a care… read more
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9. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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10. The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
3.79
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe at all? Why are we here? Whatever presumptions one might bring to the question…"-Lawrence M. Krauss, The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
"When I am carrying an object such as a ruler, and moving fast compared to you, my ruler will be measured by you to be smaller than it is for me. I might measure it to be 10 cm, say: [Image] But to yo…"-Lawrence M. Krauss, The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
11. Black Rednecks and White Liberals
By: Thomas Sowell
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which … read more
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12. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more
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13. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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14. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more
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15. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
By: Seth Godin
4.00
Format: 279 pages,
The old saying is wrongwinners do quit, and quitters do win. Every new project (or job, or hobby, o… read more
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16. Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
By: Frank Herbert
3.96
Format: 609 pages, Paperback
Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the… read more
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"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,"-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
"The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
17. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
18. 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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19. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
By: Annie Duke
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more
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20. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
4.52
Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more
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- medical
- politics
- nonfiction
- health
21. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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- health
22. 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
23. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
By: Katherine Eban
4.42
Format: 512 pages, ebook
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more
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- health
- medical
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- business
24. The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
By: Ichiro Kishimi
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our re… read more
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- business
"All you can do in regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in."-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?"-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy."-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It's okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it's fine to be 'just as you are'. If you are unable to re…"-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
25. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
26. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- health
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
27. Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
By: Joe Coulombe
3.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love—and a work environment that your emplo… read more
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28. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more
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"When good men come to bad ends,"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
29. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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30. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
By: Marty Makary
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t… read more
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- health
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31. Talking Across the Divide: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World
By: Justin Lee
3.95
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you… read more
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