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15 Books To Read In 2021

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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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    Donald Miller
Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie.Years after writing his best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his
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Book May 1, 2012
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How to Think More About Sex
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    Alain de Botton
Covering such topics as adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st century sex will always be a balancing act of trust versus risk, and of primal desire versus studied civility. By examining sex from a subjective perspective, he uncovers new ideas on how we can achie
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Book Mar 13, 2012
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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    Jonathan Haidt
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual
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Book Sep 8, 2020
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The Psychology of Money
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    Morgan Housel
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money―investing, personal finance, and business decisions―is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do.
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Book Jun 15, 2018
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
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    Matthew Dicks
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew
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Book 2017
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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
  • by
    Sönke Ahrens
The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your pr
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Book Jan, 2019
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
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    Robert Iger , Joel Lovell
<b>A grand vision defined: The CEO of The Walt Disney Company shares the ideas and values he has used to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world, and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.</b><br /><br />In 2005, Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company during a dif
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Book Dec 1, 2017
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
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    Robin Hanson , Kevin Simler
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less w
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Book Feb 21, 2019
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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
  • by
    David Nott
For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out lifesaving operations in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the
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Book May 17, 2018
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
  • by
    Akala
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, histor
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The Wheel of Time Series
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    Robert Jordan
Written by Robert Jordan and completed posthumously by Brandon Sanderson, The Wheel of Time is one of the greatest epics of fantasy and a #1 internationally bestselling series. Taking place both in our past and our future, the saga tells the story of a man destined to face the Evil One and save the
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Book Sep 29, 2015
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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    Leigh Bardugo
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . . A convic
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