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The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship....
Chris Fralic
2022-12-14T16:43:44.000Z
No Red Lights
Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone
As featured in The Wall Street Journal! A look back at entrepreneurial growth and venture capital in the last half century by one of the leading figures in the industry.Extensive media and online coverage of the business arena, news of start-ups, mergers, and deals are familiar headlines these days. But that wasn’t always the case. The early years ...
Chris Fralic
2022-12-14T16:43:44.000Z
Freezing Order
A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
NEW YORK TIMES...
Chris Fralic
2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZTold by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture--the story behind so many other s...
Chris Fralic
2022-12-14T16:43:44.000Z
Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars...
Chris Fralic
2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potentially most valuable emotion: regret.Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They're a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us ma...
Chris Fralic
2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZAlso recommended by
Steven JohnsonThe definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider—a research chemist and pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East ...
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2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZAlso recommended by
Gbenga SesanMusic Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way di...
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2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZFrom The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare.Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most ...
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2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZIn The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization: the Indo-European domestic cult. With a formidable command of primary sources, he shows this archaic religion to be the engine behind the social developments of the ancient world from remote pre-history down to late antiquity. This is the story of t...
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2022-12-14T16:43:44.000ZAlso recommended by
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After On by Rob Reid
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
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The Everything Store by Brad Stone
The Billionaire Who Wasn't by Conor O'Clery
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