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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,314 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 618,840 ratings — published 2011
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,429,536 ratings — published 2018
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,197,512 ratings — published 1936
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 436,726 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 239,329 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 311,368 ratings — published 2014
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 183,194 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,663 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 892,299 ratings — published 2008
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 345,109 ratings — published 2019
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 185,164 ratings — published 1984
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,492,659 ratings — published 2016
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 764,499 ratings — published 1997
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 367,595 ratings — published 2020
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 486,384 ratings — published 2012
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217,462 ratings — published 2017
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 23,935 ratings — published 2014
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 494,522 ratings — published 1988
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 942,454 ratings — published 1946
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 912,502 ratings — published 2005
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,516 ratings — published 2015
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 578,278 ratings — published 2012
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,913 ratings — published 1981
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 245,968 ratings — published 1999
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 199,688 ratings — published 2016
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 201,532 ratings — published 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 868,977 ratings — published 2000
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 228,775 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 476,027 ratings — published 1997
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 190,863 ratings — published 2013
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
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avg rating 4.19 — 22,532 ratings — published 2014
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 845,651 ratings — published 1989
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 137,175 ratings — published 2011
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 135,712 ratings — published 2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 66,348 ratings — published 2020
Think and Grow Rich (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 396,426 ratings — published 1937
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,255 ratings — published 1976
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 125,591 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,578 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 474,004 ratings — published 1997
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 599,555 ratings — published -500
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 182,730 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,829 ratings — published 2018
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 183,026 ratings — published 2006
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 274,621 ratings — published 1980
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 121,105 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 48,786 ratings — published 2017
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 375,465 ratings — published 2011
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 49,376 ratings — published 1988
“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )”
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“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Tao Te Ching
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Tao Te Ching
