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An exploration of how extreme athletes break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as “flow” In this groundbreaking book, New York Times–bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-ha...
Austen Allred
2022-07-24T16:50:55.000ZThe founder of Domino's Pizza, self-made multimillionaire Tom Monaghan, owner of the Detroit Tigers and amateur disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, reveals through his life story the personal qualities and business practices that have made him "the Entrepreneurial Hero of the 1980s" (Inc. Magazine). 8 pages of black-and-white photographs....
Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times and #1 LA Times bestseller LIVING WITH A SEAL, now with two bonus chapters. Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler will try almost anything. His life is about being bold and risky. So when Jesse felt himself drifting on autopilot, he hire...
Austen Allred
2021-10-24T17:12:08.000Z
The Hypomanic Edge
The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America
Explores the American pervasiveness of hypomania, a genetically based, mild form of mania that endows certain people with high energy, creativity, and a propensity for risk-taking....
From the elite performance coach who authored the international bestseller Relentless and whose clients have included Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwyane Wade, comes this brutally honest formula for winning in business, sports, or any arena where the battle is fiercely unforgiving. In Winning, Tim Grover shows why he is one of the world’s most ...
Austen Allred
2021-07-18T14:57:10.000ZAlso recommended by
Patrick OShaughnessyRyland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's ju...
Austen Allred
2021-07-18T14:57:08.000Z
A First-Rate Madness
Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
This New York Times bestseller is a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership.Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disord...
Austen Allred
2021-05-11T03:44:35.000ZAlso recommended by
Brianne KimmelAs it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption—even murder and genocide—generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.In Lying, best-selli...
Austen Allred
2021-03-27T04:32:56.000ZFrom the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction 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...
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2021-03-22T00:49:31.000ZAn adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism, childhood, and the importance of loyalty and courage- no matter the cost....
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The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Hackers by Steven Levy
Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
Titan by Ron Chernow
The Last Lone Inventor by Evan I. Schwartz
Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik
Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
Walt Disney by Bob Thomas
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