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Das Glück in mir

von Elizabeth Gilbert • 2006

Italy for pleasure. India for prayer. Bali to see if the two can coexist.

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✈️ Travel Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🎒 Solo Female Travel 🍝 Food And Travel 🧘 Meditation Practice

Das Glück in mir

Italy for pleasure. India for prayer. Bali to see if the two can coexist.

von Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 458 Seiten

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✈️ Travel Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🎒 Solo Female Travel 🍝 Food And Travel 🧘 Meditation Practice

Steve Jobs

von Walter Isaacson • 2011

Jobs handpicked his biographer while dying. The result won't separate the genius from the cruelty.

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🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship 🏗️ Organizational Design 📜 Authorized Biography

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Steve Jobs

Jobs handpicked his biographer while dying. The result won't separate the genius from the cruelty.

von Walter Isaacson 2011 630 Seiten

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🖥️ Tech Industry History 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🔨 Obsessive Craftsmanship 🏗️ Organizational Design 📜 Authorized Biography

Becoming – Meine Geschichte

von Michelle Obama • 2018

How a Black girl from Chicago's South Side became First Lady: the story the headlines missed.

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🏛️ Political Memoirs 👑 First Lady Memoirs 🪜 Upward Mobility ⚖️ Work Life Balance ✊ Black Women's Voices

Becoming – Meine Geschichte

How a Black girl from Chicago's South Side became First Lady: the story the headlines missed.

von Michelle Obama 2018 426 Seiten

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🏛️ Political Memoirs 👑 First Lady Memoirs 🪜 Upward Mobility ⚖️ Work Life Balance ✊ Black Women's Voices

In die Wildnis

von Jon Krakauer • 1996

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

In die Wildnis

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

von Jon Krakauer 1996 240 Seiten

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📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

Bossypants

von Tina Fey • 2011

How a scarred, self-doubting improv nerd became SNL's head writer and the force behind 30 Rock.

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🎤 Comedy Memoir 👩‍🎤 Women In Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor 🤔 Imposter Syndrome

Bossypants

How a scarred, self-doubting improv nerd became SNL's head writer and the force behind 30 Rock.

von Tina Fey 2011 290 Seiten

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🎤 Comedy Memoir 👩‍🎤 Women In Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Self-Deprecating Humor 🤔 Imposter Syndrome

…trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager

von Viktor E. Frankl • 1946

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

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📖 Holocaust Testimony 🧠 Existential Psychology 💪 Resilience 🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

…trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager Zusammenfassung

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…trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

von Viktor E. Frankl 1946 148 Seiten

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📖 Holocaust Testimony 🧠 Existential Psychology 💪 Resilience 🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

Bevor ich jetzt gehe

von Paul Kalanithi • 2016

Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.

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🩻 Terminal Illness 🩺 Medical Memoir 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧠 Neurosurgery 📜 Philosophy Of Medicine

Bevor ich jetzt gehe

Stage IV cancer at 36: a neurosurgeon's memoir of losing the future and finding what matters.

von Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 Seiten

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🩻 Terminal Illness 🩺 Medical Memoir 🎗️ Cancer Memoir 🧠 Neurosurgery 📜 Philosophy Of Medicine

Die Unsterblichkeit der Henrietta Lacks

von Rebecca Skloot • 2010

Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.

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🏥 Medical Ethics 🩺 Medical Racism 🔬 Cellular Biology 📰 Investigative Journalism 🌍 Science And Society

Die Unsterblichkeit der Henrietta Lacks

Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.

von Rebecca Skloot 2010 362 Seiten

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🏥 Medical Ethics 🩺 Medical Racism 🔬 Cellular Biology 📰 Investigative Journalism 🌍 Science And Society

Ich bin Malala

von Malala Yousafzai • 2012

At 11, a secret BBC blog. At 15, a Taliban gunman on her school bus.

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🏫 Girls Education ⚔️ Taliban Rule 📢 Education Activism 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Bond

Ich bin Malala

At 11, a secret BBC blog. At 15, a Taliban gunman on her school bus.

von Malala Yousafzai 2012 328 Seiten

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🏫 Girls Education ⚔️ Taliban Rule 📢 Education Activism 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 👨‍👧 Father Daughter Bond

Everything I Know About Love

von Dolly Alderton • 2018

MSN Messenger, Camden parties, and a friendship that survived every man who didn't.

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👯‍♀️ Female Friendship 📖 Coming Of Age Memoir 📱 Millennial Experience 🍸 Drinking Culture 🎭 People Pleasing

Everything I Know About Love

MSN Messenger, Camden parties, and a friendship that survived every man who didn't.

von Dolly Alderton 2018 329 Seiten

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👯‍♀️ Female Friendship 📖 Coming Of Age Memoir 📱 Millennial Experience 🍸 Drinking Culture 🎭 People Pleasing

Hillbilly Elegy

von J.D. Vance • 2016

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

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⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity 📈 Upward Mobility 🔁 Generational Cycles

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Hillbilly Elegy

Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.

von J.D. Vance 2016 274 Seiten

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⛰️ Appalachian Memoir 🏭 White Working Class 🧸 Childhood Adversity 📈 Upward Mobility 🔁 Generational Cycles

Elon Musk

von Ashlee Vance • 2015

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

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🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models 🔥 Extreme Leadership ⚙️ Engineering Culture

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Elon Musk

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

von Ashlee Vance 2015 392 Seiten

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🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models 🔥 Extreme Leadership ⚙️ Engineering Culture

Spare

von Prince Harry • 2023

Motherless at twelve, soldier at twenty, in love at thirty: then his family turned their backs.

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🏰 Royal Family 👑 British Monarchy 🧠 Trauma And Recovery 📰 Tabloid Culture 🩹 Mental Health Stigma

Spare

Motherless at twelve, soldier at twenty, in love at thirty: then his family turned their backs.

von Prince Harry 2023 557 Seiten

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🏰 Royal Family 👑 British Monarchy 🧠 Trauma And Recovery 📰 Tabloid Culture 🩹 Mental Health Stigma

Vielleicht solltest du mal mit jemandem darüber reden

von Lori Gottlieb • 2019

The gap between therapist and patient is a lie. A therapist's own breakdown proves it.

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🛋️ Psychotherapy 📖 Therapist Memoir 🫥 Emotional Avoidance 🩹 Wounded Healers 🔁 Relationship Patterns

Vielleicht solltest du mal mit jemandem darüber reden Zusammenfassung

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Vielleicht solltest du mal mit jemandem darüber reden

The gap between therapist and patient is a lie. A therapist's own breakdown proves it.

von Lori Gottlieb 2019 464 Seiten

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🛋️ Psychotherapy 📖 Therapist Memoir 🫥 Emotional Avoidance 🩹 Wounded Healers 🔁 Relationship Patterns

Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs

von Anthony Bourdain • 2000

Drugs, knives, and butter: a chef's 25-year journey through the hidden world that feeds you.

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🍽️ Restaurant Industry 👨‍🍳 Chef Memoirs 🔪 Kitchen Secrets 💉 Addiction Memoir 🌎 Immigrant Labor

Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs Zusammenfassung

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Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs

Drugs, knives, and butter: a chef's 25-year journey through the hidden world that feeds you.

von Anthony Bourdain 2000 321 Seiten

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🍽️ Restaurant Industry 👨‍🍳 Chef Memoirs 🔪 Kitchen Secrets 💉 Addiction Memoir 🌎 Immigrant Labor

Shoe Dog

von Phil Knight • 2016

A fake name, bickering misfits, and 18 years of near-collapse: the Nike story.

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🏢 Founder Memoir 💰 Bootstrapping 👟 Sports Business 💡 Innovation Culture 🤝 Radical Honesty

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Shoe Dog

A fake name, bickering misfits, and 18 years of near-collapse: the Nike story.

von Phil Knight 2016 400 Seiten

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🏢 Founder Memoir 💰 Bootstrapping 👟 Sports Business 💡 Innovation Culture 🤝 Radical Honesty

The Boys in the Boat

von Daniel James Brown • 2013

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

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🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

The Boys in the Boat

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

von Daniel James Brown 2013 416 Seiten

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🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

Just Kids: Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft

von Patti Smith • 2010

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

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🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists 🎸 Punk Rock Origins 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Just Kids: Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met broke in New York and pledged a lifetime of art.

von Patti Smith 2010 220 Seiten

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🏙️ 1970s New York 🎨 Artistic Soulmates 🥖 Starving Artists 🎸 Punk Rock Origins 🌈 Gay Coming Of Age

Das Leben und das Schreiben

von Stephen King • 2000

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

Das Leben und das Schreiben Zusammenfassung

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Das Leben und das Schreiben

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

von Stephen King 2000 288 Seiten

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

Can't Hurt Me

von David Goggins • 2018

You're only at 40 percent when you think you're done. A Navy SEAL's proof and method.

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🧠 Mental Toughness 🏃 Extreme Endurance 🪖 Military Discipline 🎯 Self-Accountability ⚡ Self-Discipline

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Can't Hurt Me

You're only at 40 percent when you think you're done. A Navy SEAL's proof and method.

von David Goggins 2018 326 Seiten

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🧠 Mental Toughness 🏃 Extreme Endurance 🪖 Military Discipline 🎯 Self-Accountability ⚡ Self-Discipline

Die Autobiographie von Malcolm X

von Malcolm X • 1965

He enters prison a street hustler and leaves with a dictionary, a new name, and a mission.

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🏛️ Political Autobiography ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🇺🇸 Black American History 📖 Prison Education 🔄 Conversion Narrative

Die Autobiographie von Malcolm X

He enters prison a street hustler and leaves with a dictionary, a new name, and a mission.

von Malcolm X 1965 460 Seiten

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🏛️ Political Autobiography ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🇺🇸 Black American History 📖 Prison Education 🔄 Conversion Narrative

Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!

von Richard P. Feynman • 1985

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

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🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 🗣️ Science Communication 🔧 Tinkering

Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

von Richard P. Feynman 1985 352 Seiten

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🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity 🗣️ Science Communication 🔧 Tinkering

Team of Rivals

von Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Team of Rivals

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

von Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 Seiten

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Benjamin Franklin

von Walter Isaacson • 2003

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Benjamin Franklin

A runaway apprentice who tamed lightning, charmed Paris, and lost a son to the crown.

von Walter Isaacson 2003 586 Seiten

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🏛️ Founding Fathers ⚔️ American Revolution 🧠 Polymath Biography 💡 Enlightenment Era 🔨 Self-Made Lives

Born Standing Up

von Steve Martin • 2007

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Born Standing Up

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

von Steve Martin 2007 271 Seiten

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Die Kreativitäts-AG

von Ed Catmull • 2014

Success makes you blind to what kills creativity. A Pixar co-founder explains how to see it clearly.

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🎨 Creative Leadership 🏢 Organizational Culture 👥 Team Dynamics 💬 Candor And Feedback 🔄 Embracing Failure

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Die Kreativitäts-AG

Success makes you blind to what kills creativity. A Pixar co-founder explains how to see it clearly.

von Ed Catmull 2014 368 Seiten

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🎨 Creative Leadership 🏢 Organizational Culture 👥 Team Dynamics 💬 Candor And Feedback 🔄 Embracing Failure

Too Much and Never Enough

von Mary L. Trump • 2020

The family blueprint: a psychologist explains how cruelty, money, and neglect made a president.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🔬 Family Systems Psychology 🏚️ Toxic Family Dynamics 👤 Emotional Neglect 🧬 Generational Trauma

Too Much and Never Enough

The family blueprint: a psychologist explains how cruelty, money, and neglect made a president.

von Mary L. Trump 2020 225 Seiten

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🧠 Political Psychology 🔬 Family Systems Psychology 🏚️ Toxic Family Dynamics 👤 Emotional Neglect 🧬 Generational Trauma

Meine ruhelose Seele

von Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

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🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert 🎨 Creativity And Madness 💊 Medication Ambivalence

Meine ruhelose Seele

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

von Kay Redfield Jamison 1995 219 Seiten

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🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert 🎨 Creativity And Madness 💊 Medication Ambivalence

The River of Doubt

von Candice Millard • 2005

An unmapped Amazon tributary, a former president, and the expedition that nearly killed him.

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🌿 Amazon Exploration 💀 Expedition Histories 🆘 Survival Narratives 🏛️ Presidential Biographies ✊ Indigenous Rights

The River of Doubt

An unmapped Amazon tributary, a former president, and the expedition that nearly killed him.

von Candice Millard 2005 416 Seiten

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🌿 Amazon Exploration 💀 Expedition Histories 🆘 Survival Narratives 🏛️ Presidential Biographies ✊ Indigenous Rights

The Everything Store

von Brad Stone • 2013

How one man's ferocious drive turned an online bookstore into the world's most feared company.

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👤 Founder Biographies 🏢 Corporate History 🚀 Tech Startups 🛒 E-Commerce 🧭 Corporate Culture

The Everything Store

How one man's ferocious drive turned an online bookstore into the world's most feared company.

von Brad Stone 2013 384 Seiten

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👤 Founder Biographies 🏢 Corporate History 🚀 Tech Startups 🛒 E-Commerce 🧭 Corporate Culture

Eine Autobiographie oder Die Geschichte meiner Experimente mit der Wahrheit

von Mahatma Gandhi • 1927

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence ⚖️ Social Justice 🏡 Simple Living

Eine Autobiographie oder Die Geschichte meiner Experimente mit der Wahrheit

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

von Mahatma Gandhi 1927 454 Seiten

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence ⚖️ Social Justice 🏡 Simple Living

Ein Haus in der Hölle

von Amanda Lindhout • 2013

460 days in a dark room: how one woman built an escape inside her own mind.

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🏚️ Captivity Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🕊️ Trauma And Forgiveness 📰 Conflict Journalism 🌍 Women Adventurers

Ein Haus in der Hölle

460 days in a dark room: how one woman built an escape inside her own mind.

von Amanda Lindhout 2013 384 Seiten

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🏚️ Captivity Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🕊️ Trauma And Forgiveness 📰 Conflict Journalism 🌍 Women Adventurers

Lab Girl. Die Geschichte einer Wissenschaftlerin, von Bäumen und der Liebe

von Hope Jahren • 2016

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

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👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs 🧠 Mental Health Memoirs 📚 Academic Life

Lab Girl. Die Geschichte einer Wissenschaftlerin, von Bäumen und der Liebe

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

von Hope Jahren 2016 290 Seiten

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👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs 🧠 Mental Health Memoirs 📚 Academic Life

Warum ich euch nicht in die Augen schauen kann

von Naoki Higashida • 2005

A nonverbal 13-year-old with autism answers the questions others are afraid to ask.

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🧩 Autism Spectrum 🌈 Neurodiversity 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Living With Autism ⌨️ Alternative Communication

Warum ich euch nicht in die Augen schauen kann

A nonverbal 13-year-old with autism answers the questions others are afraid to ask.

von Naoki Higashida 2005 135 Seiten

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🧩 Autism Spectrum 🌈 Neurodiversity 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Living With Autism ⌨️ Alternative Communication

Das Leben ist wie ein Schneeball

von Alice Schroeder • 2008

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

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🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

Das Leben ist wie ein Schneeball

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

von Alice Schroeder 2008 832 Seiten

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🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

Meine Geschichte

von Elizabeth Smart • 2013

A white veil, a man's voice, nine months. The 14-year-old who survived by becoming invisible.

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🏠 Abduction Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🙏 Faith And Resilience 🧠 Predator Psychology 📢 Victim Advocacy

Meine Geschichte

A white veil, a man's voice, nine months. The 14-year-old who survived by becoming invisible.

von Elizabeth Smart 2013 308 Seiten

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🏠 Abduction Memoirs 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🙏 Faith And Resilience 🧠 Predator Psychology 📢 Victim Advocacy

Die Mädchen von Atomic City

von Denise Kiernan • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

Die Mädchen von Atomic City

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

von Denise Kiernan 2013 373 Seiten

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

Finding Ultra

von Rich Roll • 2012

At 39, he couldn't climb stairs; at 41 he finished a 320-mile triathlon on plants.

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🏃 Ultra-Endurance 🌱 Plant-Based Athletes 🧠 Mental Toughness 🥦 Plant-Based Nutrition 🔄 Midlife Transformation

Finding Ultra

At 39, he couldn't climb stairs; at 41 he finished a 320-mile triathlon on plants.

von Rich Roll 2012 288 Seiten

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🏃 Ultra-Endurance 🌱 Plant-Based Athletes 🧠 Mental Toughness 🥦 Plant-Based Nutrition 🔄 Midlife Transformation

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

von Martin Luther King Jr. • 1986

Nonviolence as strategy: King's own story of breaking segregation and demanding a rebuilt America.

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊ Racial Justice 💰 Economic Justice 🕉️ Gandhian Philosophy

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence as strategy: King's own story of breaking segregation and demanding a rebuilt America.

von Martin Luther King Jr. 1986

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🏛️ Civil Rights Movement ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊ Racial Justice 💰 Economic Justice 🕉️ Gandhian Philosophy

Gifted Hands

von Ben Carson • 1992

From failing inner-city student to the surgeon who separated twins joined at the head.

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🏥 Medical Memoirs 🧠 Surgical Pioneers 🌆 Overcoming Poverty 📚 Self-Education ✝️ Christian Testimony

Gifted Hands

From failing inner-city student to the surgeon who separated twins joined at the head.

von Ben Carson 1992

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🏥 Medical Memoirs 🧠 Surgical Pioneers 🌆 Overcoming Poverty 📚 Self-Education ✝️ Christian Testimony

Die Kunst des erfolgreichen Scheiterns

von Scott Adams • 2013

The Dilbert cartoonist failed at nearly everything. Then he quit goals and built systems instead.

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🔄 Systems Thinking 🧱 Habit Design ⚡ Energy Management 🧗 Embracing Failure 🗣️ Persuasion Techniques

Die Kunst des erfolgreichen Scheiterns

The Dilbert cartoonist failed at nearly everything. Then he quit goals and built systems instead.

von Scott Adams 2013 248 Seiten

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🔄 Systems Thinking 🧱 Habit Design ⚡ Energy Management 🧗 Embracing Failure 🗣️ Persuasion Techniques

Beyond Band of Brothers

von Dick Winters • 2006

The commander of Easy Company on Brecourt Manor, Bastogne, and what it actually costs to lead men.

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 World War Ii Memoir 🤝 Brotherhood In War 👐 Servant Leadership 🪂 D-Day

Beyond Band of Brothers

The commander of Easy Company on Brecourt Manor, Bastogne, and what it actually costs to lead men.

von Dick Winters 2006 320 Seiten

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 World War Ii Memoir 🤝 Brotherhood In War 👐 Servant Leadership 🪂 D-Day

Masters of Doom

von David Kushner • 2003

Two coders, one lake house, and the game that turned office workers into after-hours warriors.

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🎮 Video Game History 🕹️ Game Development 🚀 Tech Startups 🤝 Creative Partnerships 💻 Hacker Ethos

Masters of Doom

Two coders, one lake house, and the game that turned office workers into after-hours warriors.

von David Kushner 2003 368 Seiten

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20.000+ Bewertungen

🎮 Video Game History 🕹️ Game Development 🚀 Tech Startups 🤝 Creative Partnerships 💻 Hacker Ethos

Hatching Twitter

von Nick Bilton • 2013

Four friends created Twitter. Then they systematically destroyed each other.

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Hatching Twitter

Four friends created Twitter. Then they systematically destroyed each other.

von Nick Bilton 2013 321 Seiten

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Alex Ferguson

von Alex Ferguson • 2013

26 years, 38 trophies: the standards, youth pipeline, and brutal honesty that built a dynasty.

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🏟️ Football Management 🏆 Sports Leadership 🧱 Team Building 🌱 Talent Development 💪 Mental Toughness

Alex Ferguson

26 years, 38 trophies: the standards, youth pipeline, and brutal honesty that built a dynasty.

von Alex Ferguson 2013 416 Seiten

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🏟️ Football Management 🏆 Sports Leadership 🧱 Team Building 🌱 Talent Development 💪 Mental Toughness

Poor Charlie's Almanack

von Charles T. Munger • 2005

Outsmarting your own irrationality is the only lasting edge. Charlie Munger's manual.

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💰 Value Investing 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Mental Models 🌐 Multidisciplinary

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Outsmarting your own irrationality is the only lasting edge. Charlie Munger's manual.

von Charles T. Munger 2005 548 Seiten

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iWoz - Wie ich den Personal Computer erfand und Apple mitgründete

von Steve Wozniak • 2006

Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.

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iWoz - Wie ich den Personal Computer erfand und Apple mitgründete

Phone-hacking pranks, the Apple I, and the engineer who left his own revolution to teach.

von Steve Wozniak 2006 330 Seiten

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Das wird satisfiednie funktionieren

von Marc Randolph • 2019

A single mailed CD, and the decade of near-failure it took to build Netflix.

4.22

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📖 Startup Memoirs 💻 Tech Startups 📦 Subscription Models 🗣️ Feedback Culture 🔍 Customer Discovery

Das wird satisfiednie funktionieren

A single mailed CD, and the decade of near-failure it took to build Netflix.

von Marc Randolph 2019 337 Seiten

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Disrupted

von Dan Lyons • 2016

Hired as the token elder, a journalist records the absurdities of a startup cult losing millions.

3.91

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💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 👴 Workplace Ageism 🌀 Corporate Cults 📣 Marketing Hype

Disrupted

Hired as the token elder, a journalist records the absurdities of a startup cult losing millions.

von Dan Lyons 2016 272 Seiten

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Becoming Steve Jobs

von Brent Schlender • 2015

Steve Jobs was not born a visionary. His twelve years outside Apple made him one.

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Becoming Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was not born a visionary. His twelve years outside Apple made him one.

von Brent Schlender 2015 482 Seiten

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Thinking in Pictures

von Temple Grandin • 1995

A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.

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👁️ Visual Thinking 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir 🐄 Animal Cognition ⚖️ Animal Welfare Ethics

Thinking in Pictures

A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.

von Temple Grandin 1995 308 Seiten

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The World As It Is

von Ben Rhodes • 2018

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

The World As It Is

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

von Ben Rhodes 2018 433 Seiten

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

Boys in the Trees

von Carly Simon • 2015

The girl who stuttered could not speak. The woman who sang could not stop.

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🎤 Singer-Songwriter Memoir 🎸 Women In Rock 🧠 Mental Health And Creativity 💔 Complicated Marriages 👩‍👧 Art And Motherhood

Boys in the Trees

The girl who stuttered could not speak. The woman who sang could not stop.

von Carly Simon 2015 384 Seiten

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Start Something That Matters

von Blake Mycoskie • 2011

The TOMS playbook for starting a business people join: begin with a story, not a spreadsheet.

4.02

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Start Something That Matters

The TOMS playbook for starting a business people join: begin with a story, not a spreadsheet.

von Blake Mycoskie 2011 208 Seiten

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Magier der Märkte

von Jack D. Schwager • 1989

Different strategies, identical rules: why some traders survive and compound while most blow up.

4.28

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🧠 Trading Psychology 🛡️ Risk Management 📊 Behavioral Finance 🎯 Trader Discipline 📚 Trading Wisdom

Immersiv

Magier der Märkte

Different strategies, identical rules: why some traders survive and compound while most blow up.

von Jack D. Schwager 1989 480 Seiten

4.28

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🧠 Trading Psychology 🛡️ Risk Management 📊 Behavioral Finance 🎯 Trader Discipline 📚 Trading Wisdom

The New New Thing

von Michael Lewis • 1999

The dot-com boom had a human fuse: a man addicted not to money, but to the next disruption.

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The New New Thing

The dot-com boom had a human fuse: a man addicted not to money, but to the next disruption.

von Michael Lewis 1999 349 Seiten

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Filme machen

von Sidney Lumet • 1995

How a director keeps a movie from dying the death of a thousand compromises.

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🎬 Filmmaking Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Editing Room 🔊 Sound Design

Filme machen

How a director keeps a movie from dying the death of a thousand compromises.

von Sidney Lumet 1995 240 Seiten

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Michael Jordan

von Roland Lazenby • 2014

Before the global brand and the six rings: one locked door and a sophomore's broken pride.

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Michael Jordan

Before the global brand and the six rings: one locked door and a sophomore's broken pride.

von Roland Lazenby 2014 678 Seiten

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Cicero

von Anthony Everitt • 2001

A provincial outsider became Rome's most powerful voice. He still could not save the Republic.

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🏛️ Late Roman Republic 📜 Political Biography 🗣️ Oratory And Rhetoric 🏚️ Fall Of The Republic ⚖️ Classical Republicanism

Cicero

A provincial outsider became Rome's most powerful voice. He still could not save the Republic.

von Anthony Everitt 2001 400 Seiten

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A Man for All Markets

von Edward O. Thorp • 2016

From Vegas card counting to quant hedge funds: one mathematician's edge over every system he faced.

4.24

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A Man for All Markets

From Vegas card counting to quant hedge funds: one mathematician's edge over every system he faced.

von Edward O. Thorp 2016 416 Seiten

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The Cult of We

von Eliot Brown • 2021

An office landlord convinced Wall Street he was worth $47 billion. Then the IPO filing landed.

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The Cult of We

An office landlord convinced Wall Street he was worth $47 billion. Then the IPO filing landed.

von Eliot Brown 2021 430 Seiten

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Meet the Frugalwoods

von Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

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Meet the Frugalwoods

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

von Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018 256 Seiten

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Invent and Wander

von Jeff Bezos • 2020

Bezos's shareholder letters: two decades of long-term bets while Wall Street demanded quarter wins.

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🤖 Tech Entrepreneurship ⏳ Long-Term Thinking 💡 Innovation Culture 🎯 Customer-Centric Business 🏗️ Founder Philosophy

Invent and Wander

Bezos's shareholder letters: two decades of long-term bets while Wall Street demanded quarter wins.

von Jeff Bezos 2020 288 Seiten

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Wizard

von Marc J. Seifer • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

3.73

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📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

Wizard

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

von Marc J. Seifer 1996 678 Seiten

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📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Eccentric Inventor

Geständnisse eines Werbemannes

von David Ogilvy • 2004

Entertaining ads rarely sell. Great ones make a concrete promise, then repeat it for decades.

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Geständnisse eines Werbemannes

Entertaining ads rarely sell. Great ones make a concrete promise, then repeat it for decades.

von David Ogilvy 2004 208 Seiten

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Tried by War

von James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

4.09

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

von James M. McPherson 2008 329 Seiten

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Die lange Einsamkeit

von Dorothy Day • 1952

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

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Die lange Einsamkeit

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

von Dorothy Day 1952 288 Seiten

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Stalling for Time

von Gary Noesner • 2010

The FBI's lead negotiator reveals why listening beats raiding, and how Waco became the proof.

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🔍 True Crime Memoirs 🕵️ Fbi Memoirs 🤝 Hostage Negotiation 🧠 Negotiation Psychology 🚨 Crisis Management

Stalling for Time

The FBI's lead negotiator reveals why listening beats raiding, and how Waco became the proof.

von Gary Noesner 2010 226 Seiten

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Ich pflanze dir einen Flieder

von Laura Hillman • 2003

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

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🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors 💪 Wartime Resilience 📜 German Jewish History

Ich pflanze dir einen Flieder

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

von Laura Hillman 2003 288 Seiten

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American Icon

von Bryce G. Hoffman • 2012

GM and Chrysler took government bailouts; Ford bet $23.6 billion on a Boeing executive instead.

4.42

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🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 🚗 Auto Industry 🚨 Crisis Leadership 📊 Data-Driven Management 🔄 Culture Change

American Icon

GM and Chrysler took government bailouts; Ford bet $23.6 billion on a Boeing executive instead.

von Bryce G. Hoffman 2012 432 Seiten

4.42

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J.K. Rowling

von Marc Shapiro • 2000

A single mother, a café table, a sleeping baby: where the world's biggest book series began.

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J.K. Rowling

A single mother, a café table, a sleeping baby: where the world's biggest book series began.

von Marc Shapiro 2000 287 Seiten

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Inferno

von Catherine Cho • 2020

A bioweapon is encoded in Dante's Inferno, and the symbologist decoding it just lost his memory.

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🕵️ Conspiracy Thriller 🎨 Art History Thriller 🗺️ Treasure Hunt Fiction 🧬 Bioengineered Threats 🖼️ Renaissance Art

Inferno

A bioweapon is encoded in Dante's Inferno, and the symbologist decoding it just lost his memory.

von Catherine Cho 2020 240 Seiten

4.24

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The Bridge

von David Remnick • 2010

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

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The Bridge

Community organizer. Harvard Law. A blowout loss. The political apprenticeship of Barack Obama.

von David Remnick 2010 672 Seiten

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Denke groß

von Ben Carson • 1992

From bottom of the class to top of pediatric neurosurgery: the habits his mother taught first.

4.20

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✝️ Christian Self-Help 🏥 Medical Memoir 📚 Self-Education 🤝 Mentorship 🎯 Personal Responsibility

Immersiv

Denke groß

From bottom of the class to top of pediatric neurosurgery: the habits his mother taught first.

von Ben Carson 1992 291 Seiten

4.20

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✝️ Christian Self-Help 🏥 Medical Memoir 📚 Self-Education 🤝 Mentorship 🎯 Personal Responsibility

Danach

von Rachel Cusk • 2012

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

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💔 Divorce Memoirs 👩‍👧 Motherhood Memoirs 📝 Personal Essays ✊ Feminist Memoir 🛋️ Therapy Memoirs

Danach

A friend answers a late-night call, refuses to let her cry alone. A divorce memoir begins.

von Rachel Cusk 2012 160 Seiten

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A Freewheelin' Time

von Suze Rotolo • 2008

The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.

3.85

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🎵 Folk Music Revival 🎸 Music Memoirs ✌️ 1960s Counterculture ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🪞 Self-Discovery Memoirs

A Freewheelin' Time

The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.

von Suze Rotolo 2008 369 Seiten

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50/50

von Dean Karnazes • 2008

Fifty marathons, fifty states, fifty days. The miles were not the hardest thing.

3.78

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👟 Ultrarunning 📖 Running Memoirs 🏃 Endurance Sports 🧠 Mental Toughness ✈️ Adventure Travel

50/50

Fifty marathons, fifty states, fifty days. The miles were not the hardest thing.

von Dean Karnazes 2008 333 Seiten

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Timothy Keller

von Collin Hansen • 2023

The mentors, authors, and skeptics that shaped the pastor who brought the Bible back to Manhattan.

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🏙️ Urban Ministry 📜 Reformed Theology 🧠 Intellectual Biography 🌱 Spiritual Formation 🎭 Cultural Engagement

Timothy Keller

The mentors, authors, and skeptics that shaped the pastor who brought the Bible back to Manhattan.

von Collin Hansen 2023 309 Seiten

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Keynes vs. Hayek

von Nicholas Wapshott • 2011

Keynes said spend during crashes. Hayek said get out of the way. That fight never ended.

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🧠 History Of Economic Thought ⚔️ Intellectual Rivalry 🏛️ Austrian Economics 💰 Fiscal Policy 📊 Macroeconomics

Keynes vs. Hayek

Keynes said spend during crashes. Hayek said get out of the way. That fight never ended.

von Nicholas Wapshott 2011 300 Seiten

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🧠 History Of Economic Thought ⚔️ Intellectual Rivalry 🏛️ Austrian Economics 💰 Fiscal Policy 📊 Macroeconomics

Ein Geschenk der Hoffnung

von Danielle Steel • 2012

She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.

3.98

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🏠 Homelessness 🚐 Street Outreach 🧸 Dignity Restoration 🎒 Direct Aid 🏚️ Housing Insecurity

Ein Geschenk der Hoffnung

She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.

von Danielle Steel 2012 144 Seiten

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Tao of Charlie Munger

von David Clark • 2017

Why Charlie Munger says no to almost everything, and how a very few yeses built Berkshire.

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Tao of Charlie Munger

Why Charlie Munger says no to almost everything, and how a very few yeses built Berkshire.

von David Clark 2017 256 Seiten

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The Obamas

von Jodi Kantor • 2011

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

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🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

The Obamas

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

von Jodi Kantor 2011

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Guitar Zero

von Gary F. Marcus • 2012

Can a middle-aged brain learn guitar? A neuroscientist tests the science of musical skill.

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Guitar Zero

Can a middle-aged brain learn guitar? A neuroscientist tests the science of musical skill.

von Gary F. Marcus 2012 286 Seiten

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Only in Naples

von Katherine Wilson • 2015

She arrives in Naples hungry for escape. A lavish Italian mother-in-law feeds her a new life.

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🧳 Expat Memoir 🍝 Food Memoir 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Italian Family Life ☀️ Southern Italy ✈️ Armchair Travel

Only in Naples

She arrives in Naples hungry for escape. A lavish Italian mother-in-law feeds her a new life.

von Katherine Wilson 2015 287 Seiten

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Kushner, Inc.

von Vicky Ward • 2019

A $1.8 billion building, a marriage of dynasties, and the White House roles that followed.

3.53

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🏰 Family Dynasties 💸 Financial Scandals ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 👨‍👦 Nepotism 🕵️ White Collar Crime

Kushner, Inc.

A $1.8 billion building, a marriage of dynasties, and the White House roles that followed.

von Vicky Ward 2019 304 Seiten

3.53

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🏰 Family Dynasties 💸 Financial Scandals ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 👨‍👦 Nepotism 🕵️ White Collar Crime

I, Steve

von George Beahm • 2011

The drive, the team, and the taste: Jobs' own rules for building things that matter.

3.45

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I, Steve

The drive, the team, and the taste: Jobs' own rules for building things that matter.

von George Beahm 2011 160 Seiten

3.45

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Great Thinkers

von The School of Life • 2016

From Plato's cave to Freud's couch: the ideas that built our world, made practical for yours.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy 🛠️ Practical Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ⚖️ Political Theory

Great Thinkers

From Plato's cave to Freud's couch: the ideas that built our world, made practical for yours.

von The School of Life 2016 480 Seiten

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🏛️ Western Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy 🛠️ Practical Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ⚖️ Political Theory

Bad Habits

von Jenny McCarthy • 2012

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

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Bad Habits

Catholic schoolgirl. Playboy model. Mom. One woman's escape from the faith that raised her.

von Jenny McCarthy 2012 222 Seiten

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Letters

von Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 2012

The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.

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📜 Literary Correspondence 🇺🇸 Postwar American Writers 🪖 World War Ii Memoir ☮️ Antiwar Literature ✍️ The Writing Craft

Letters

The letters of a man who survived Dresden and spent twenty years failing to write about it.

von Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 Seiten

4.09

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Feuer der Freiheit

von Wolfram Eilenberger • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

3.91

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

Feuer der Freiheit

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

von Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 400 Seiten

3.91

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

Appetite for America

von Stephen Fried • 2010

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

4.21

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🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

Appetite for America

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

von Stephen Fried 2010 751 Seiten

4.21

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🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

England's Mistress

von Kate Williams • 2006

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

3.91

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England's Mistress

A blacksmith's daughter invented a new kind of performance, won Nelson's heart, and lost everything.

von Kate Williams 2006 415 Seiten

3.91

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Keynes

von Robert Skidelsky • 2009

The 2008 crash was an indictment of an economics that abandoned Keynes. Markets don't self-correct.

3.78

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💰 Keynesian Economics 📉 Financial Crises 📋 Financial Regulation 📊 Macroeconomic Policy 🏛️ Political Economy

Keynes

The 2008 crash was an indictment of an economics that abandoned Keynes. Markets don't self-correct.

von Robert Skidelsky 2009 256 Seiten

3.78

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💰 Keynesian Economics 📉 Financial Crises 📋 Financial Regulation 📊 Macroeconomic Policy 🏛️ Political Economy

Troublemakers

von Leslie Berlin • 2017

The seven years when a California peninsula birthed personal computing, biotech, and video games.

4.09

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🌉 Silicon Valley 🖥️ Personal Computing 💰 Venture Capital 👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🎮 Video Game History

Troublemakers

The seven years when a California peninsula birthed personal computing, biotech, and video games.

von Leslie Berlin 2017 512 Seiten

4.09

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🌉 Silicon Valley 🖥️ Personal Computing 💰 Venture Capital 👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🎮 Video Game History

Brave Genius

von Sean B. Carroll • 2013

Forged in the Resistance, a philosopher and a biologist fought the Cold War with different weapons.

4.28

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✊ French Resistance 🧠 Intellectual History 🧬 Molecular Biology 🎭 Existentialism ✍️ Dissident Intellectuals

Brave Genius

Forged in the Resistance, a philosopher and a biologist fought the Cold War with different weapons.

von Sean B. Carroll 2013 594 Seiten

4.28

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✊ French Resistance 🧠 Intellectual History 🧬 Molecular Biology 🎭 Existentialism ✍️ Dissident Intellectuals

Richard Dawkins

von Mark Ridley • 2006

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

3.77

485

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐾 Natural Selection 🤝 Altruism 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Science Advocacy

Richard Dawkins

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

von Mark Ridley 2006 304 Seiten

3.77

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐾 Natural Selection 🤝 Altruism 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Science Advocacy

Mother Tongue

von Christine Gilbert • 2016

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

3.72

449

🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

Mother Tongue

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

von Christine Gilbert 2016 333 Seiten

3.72

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🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

von Vic Armstrong • 2011

Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.

3.67

403

🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 💥 Action Filmmaking 🎥 Behind The Scenes ✨ Special Effects 🪂 Hollywood Stunts

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

Indiana Jones's stunt double reveals the truck chase secrets and the invention that changed stunts.

von Vic Armstrong 2011

3.67

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 💥 Action Filmmaking 🎥 Behind The Scenes ✨ Special Effects 🪂 Hollywood Stunts

The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs

von Alan Ken Thomas • 2011

Products over profits, simplicity as strategy, staying curious: 250 quotes from Steve Jobs.

3.28

360

🗣️ Quote Collections 🎨 Design Thinking 💡 Corporate Innovation ✨ Simplicity In Design 🖥️ Tech Leadership

The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs

Products over profits, simplicity as strategy, staying curious: 250 quotes from Steve Jobs.

von Alan Ken Thomas 2011 176 Seiten

3.28

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🗣️ Quote Collections 🎨 Design Thinking 💡 Corporate Innovation ✨ Simplicity In Design 🖥️ Tech Leadership

Rudolf Steiner

von Gary Lachman • 2007

He saw spirits as a child. As an adult, he built a thousand schools.

3.97

299

🔮 Esoteric Biography 🕊️ Spiritual Movements 🔬 Science And Spirit 🌿 Holistic Farming 🏫 Alternative Education

Rudolf Steiner

He saw spirits as a child. As an adult, he built a thousand schools.

von Gary Lachman 2007 311 Seiten

3.97

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🔮 Esoteric Biography 🕊️ Spiritual Movements 🔬 Science And Spirit 🌿 Holistic Farming 🏫 Alternative Education

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