"Unlock the Secrets of Success with Give and Take" - Dive into the world of success and discover what it takes to rise to the top. In this award-winning book, Wharton's highest-rated professor, Adam Grant, reveals the unexpected factors that determine individual success in today's rapidly changing world. Learn to interact with others in ways that can make or break your climb up the success ladder with Give and Take.

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Give and Take

"Finding My Voice" is a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work." Written by Valerie Jarrett, the ultimate Obama insider and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House, the book takes readers on a journey through Jarrett's life as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history. From her work ensuring equality for women and girls to reforming our criminal justice system, Jarrett shares her forthright, optimistic perspective on the importance of leadership and the responsibilities of citizenship in the twenty-first century, inspiring readers to lift their own voices.

My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Finding My Voice

This collection of essays by a New Yorker writer explores the era of the self, malleable truth, feminism, and politics. From the rise of the internet to the writer's own experiences with ecstasy and engagement with our culture's drive towards self-optimization, the essays are a fierce, clear, and humorous look at our current landscape. With a rare gift for elucidating nuance and complexity, this debut collection announces the author as an important voice for many years to come.

Trick Mirror

Experience the transformation of a beloved company through the eyes of its CEO. Learn about the values and ideas that drove the reinvention of The Walt Disney Company and its rise to become the largest media company in the world. In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares his leadership lessons, including optimism, courage, decisiveness, and fairness, that apply not just to CEOs, but to anyone seeking personal and professional growth. Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at Iger's partnerships with industry legends and his passion for storytelling, creativity and imagination.

Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

The Ride of a Lifetime

This book delves into the collapse of the Soviet Union, offering an immersive account that blends historical scholarship with firsthand reporting. With echoes of John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestseller offers an illuminating look at a pivotal moment in global history.

The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Lenin's Tomb

Factfulness by Hans Rosling is an eye-opening book about understanding the world we live in. Rosling reveals the ten biases that distort our perspective and teaches readers how to focus on facts instead. Through lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness empowers readers to see the world clearly and respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. This book is an urgent and essential read for anyone looking to reduce stress and think more clearly about global issues.

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness

A powerful and galvanizing memoir tracing the author's journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. The book offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy, revealing the intricacies of politics and geopolitics and reminding us how the United States can lead in the world.

A Memoir

The Education of an Idealist

This thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone interested in the impact of technology on our ability to think deeply. Carr's bestseller delves into the important debate around the internet and its effects on our cognitive abilities. The 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword examining the impact of smartphones and social media.

What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

The Shallows

Explore the resurgence of authoritarianism in the 21st century with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy. As liberal democracy wanes and populism and nationalism gain traction across the globe, Applebaum offers insight into the appeal of the strongman leader and political systems that prioritize loyalty above all else. Through historical examples and investigative reporting in several countries, she sheds light on the practical motivations that drive individuals toward authoritarianism and highlights the dangers of a one-party state. Discover the seductive power of totalitarian thinking in this thought-provoking and timely book.

The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Twilight of Democracy

Identical twin sisters grow up together in a small, southern black community and later choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. One sister secretly passes for white, while the other raises her black daughter in the same southern town they once escaped. As their daughters' storylines intersect, Brit Bennett weaves together multiple strands and generations of this family, exploring the lasting influence of the past on a person's decisions, desires, and expectations. A riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing.

A Novel

The Vanishing Half

This near-future novel explores the impacts of climate change, technology, politics, and human behavior. The Ministry for the Future was established to advocate for future generations and protect all living creatures. Through fictional eyewitness accounts, Kim Stanley Robinson weaves a visionary and powerful story of a future that is almost upon us. This impactful and original book presents both hope and despair in equal measure, making it one of the most powerful novels on climate change ever written.

The Ministry for the Future

This riveting book unveils the story of the East India Company as it took control of Asia and ran a country with devastating consequences. At the heart of this story lies the creation of a government run by English traders who collected taxes through a private army. The company, transformed into an aggressive colonial power, ruled almost all of India south of Delhi for 47 years, leaving a painful legacy in its wake.

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

The Anarchy

Discover a mesmerizing collection of seven short stories written by renowned author Haruki Murakami. Delve into the lives of men who find themselves alone, encountering vanishing cats, smoky bars, mysterious women, baseball, and even the Beatles. Murakami's observation skills and trademark humor come together to weave tales that will captivate readers and leave a lasting impression. This contemporary classic is a must-read for any lover of fiction.

Stories (Vintage International)

Men Without Women

This book tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr.'s imprisonment in the days leading up to the 1960 presidential election, and the efforts of three of John F. Kennedy's civil rights staffers who went rogue to free him. This move changed the face of the Democratic Party and propelled Kennedy to the White House. The book covers the nine extraordinary days that followed King's arrest, which were integral in changing the course of one of the closest elections in American history. It's a gripping tale filled with electoral machinations, moral courage, and important lessons for our own time.

The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election

Nine Days

Discover the dangers of eroding democratic institutions and norms in "How Democracies Die". Written by Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, this eye-opening book uses historical and global examples to show how democracies can break down and ultimately fail. From Trump's presidency to political crises in Latin America and Europe, Levitsky and Ziblatt offer insightful research and perspectives on how to save democracies from authoritarianism. This nonpartisan book is a must-read for all Americans concerned about the current state of affairs.

How Democracies Die

This memoir follows Suki Kim as she teaches English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign. The students march daily, praising Kim Jong-il, and Suki learns the tune. She accepts a job teaching at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology and struggles to teach her students under the watchful eye of the regime. Suki feels lonely and claustrophobic as she shares meals with her pupils and must hide her notes and photographs. This book offers a rare glimpse into the world's most unknowable country and the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."

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