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1 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER - Tim Duggan Books
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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2 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A Van der Kolk - Viking
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A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;... |
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3 - Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History
Roman Bystrianyk - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing... |
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4 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann - Doubleday
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. With the twists and turns of a thriller Grann unearths the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager,... |
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5 - Chaos
Kevin Stillwell
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A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people,... |
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6 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan - Knopf
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A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club * With a foreword by David Allen Sibley. "Unexpected and spectacular" - Ann Patchett, best-selling author... |
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8 - How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Jason Stanley - Random House Trade Paperbacks
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"No single book is as relevant to the present moment." - Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen"One of the defining books of the decade." - Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on CrimeNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * With a new preface... |
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9 - The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
Mustafa Suleyman - Random House Audio
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance - from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft... |
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10 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey - Crown
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I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.... |
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11 - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman; Amazon.com - Farrar
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional;... |
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13 - Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson - Spiegel & Grau
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A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible... |
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14 - Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
Lucy Adlington - Harper Paperbacks
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita... |
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15 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks - Perennial
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"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural... |
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