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The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of exist... -
The Tell-Tale Brain - Ramachandran_ V. S_
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No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Kevin Maurer
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his... -
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I Am Malala - The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
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Howard Schultz & Joanne Lesley Gordon - Onward
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: Onward is not a puff piece. In just under 400 brisk pages, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz details the m... -
Good to Great - Jim Collins
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered i... -
Cooked_ A Natural History of Transformat - Michael Pollan
In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and... -
Cheryl Strayed - Wild- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty...