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The Gifts of Imperfection
May 19, 2022 · Brene Brown
In a society full of perfectionists, many hide in shame because they inevitably fall short of such an impossible standard. Psychologist and researcher...
Relationships and Parenting Psychology Self-Help -
Cosmos
May 17, 2022 · Carl Sagan
We’ve all looked up into the night sky and pondered the vast expanse beyond, been humbled in the presence of the ocean or mountains or the stars...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
May 12, 2022 · Neil Postman
The late NYU professor Neil Postman examines the cultural shift from the printed word to electronic media as the preferred form of communication. More...
Education Science and Technology Society and Culture -
How Google Works
May 10, 2022 · Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
It’s hard to imagine that Google was once a humble start-up company like so many others. As of 2015, it was a multinational company of 65,000 em...
Business Science and Technology -
The Grand Design
May 5, 2022 · Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
Why are we here? What is reality? Why is there something instead of nothing? Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow team up to champion science as human...
Science and Technology -
The One Thing
May 3, 2022 · Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
In the 1991 comedy City Slickers, there’s a memorable exchange between the film’s protagonists, in which the older, sage figure tells the ...
Business Economics and Finance Self-Help -
The Man Without a Face
Apr 28, 2022 · Masha Gessen
Who is Putin? In the early 1990s he was an obscure bureaucrat, but somehow he managed to become the president of one of the largest nations on earth. ...
Biography History Politics -
When
Apr 26, 2022 · Daniel H. Pink
The self-help shelves at bookstores and libraries are teeming with titles about how to successfully do x, y and z. This book is less about “how ...
Science and Technology Self-Help -
Liquid Rules
Apr 21, 2022 · Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik demonstrates his mastery of the material sciences by explaining everyday substances with everyday jargon people can grasp even without ...
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Icebound
Apr 19, 2022 · Andrea Pitzer
In the late 1500s, the era of European exploration continued at full tilt. The Dutch wondered if there was a passage to the north beyond the North Pol...
History
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