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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
2021-07-18T14:57:10.000ZRyland 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
2021-05-11T03:44:35.000ZAs 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...
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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....
The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But...
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2020-12-06T21:39:39.000ZAfter the Internet, what came next?Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person...
Austen Allred
2020-11-06T11:49:58.000ZTroublemakers by Leslie Berlin
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Foundation by Isaac-Asimov
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford by Jack Weatherford