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From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes poss...
Outsmart Your Instincts
How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward
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Evolution is killing innovation! “Just trust your gut” is great advice when your instincts tell you to run from a lion in the jungle. But when it comes to thinking innovatively about your business, those same instincts can be your own worst enemy. Cognitive biases—the instinctual mental shortcuts we all have in our brains that shape how we see and ...
Love in the Time of Cholera
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino...
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Tendai BitiExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key h...
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Donald GloverThe Fortress of Solitude
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The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling ...
Cold Mountain
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Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature.Based on local history & family stories passed down by Frazier’s great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the ...
Snow Falling on Cedars
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Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing...
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessee...
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Jocko WillinkLolita
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Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postw...
The Culture Code
The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups [By DC]-[Paperback]
Bryan Callen
Feb 02, 2018Also recommended by
Graham Duncan100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
Bryan Callen
Jan 27, 2018Also recommended by
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Road Dog by Dov Davidoff
Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem
The Straight-A Conspiracy by Hunter Maats
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
The 4-Hour Chef by Timothy Ferriss
The 4 Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Symposium by Plato
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche