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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam M Grant · Viking Pages: 322 Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled... |
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The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World
James Barron · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pages: 224 Format: Print book
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An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world's most sought-after stamp. When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly... |
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No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon's Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
W. Lee Warren · Zondervan Format: Hardcover
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A War Zone of the Soul Dr. W. Lee Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the Air Force in Iraq in 2004. When he traded a comfortable if demanding practice in San Antonio, Texas, for a ride on a C-130 into the combat zone,... |
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The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies to Take Control of Your Worry
Margaret Wehrenberg Psy.D. · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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Ready-to-use strategies to tame even your most anxiety-inducing moments. Suffer from a fear of flying? Break out in a sweat during presentations? Experience a sudden panic attack when in a confined space, like an elevator? Whether you're struggling with mild anxiety or battling more... |
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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way
P J O'Rourke · Pgw Pages: 263 Format: Hardcover
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P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions,... |
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs · Convergent Books Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan... |
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
David Horowitz · Humanix Books Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America - and the world.One of the nation's foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor... |
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Madwoman
Shara McCallum · Alice James Books Pages: 100 Format: Print book
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"These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controlled. The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and open-minded - a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader. Syntax, craft and cadence... |
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Paul Roberts · Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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It's something most of us have sensed for years--the rise of a world defined only by "mine" and "now." A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term... |
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