Trending Non-Fiction Books
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones (Released: January 2016)
Author(s): James Clear
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Rating: 4.21 (1116 Ratings, 125 Reviews)
Pages: 168
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: - Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); - Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; - Design your environment to make success easier; - Get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Business, Design, Psychology
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Released: January 2016)
Author(s): Mark Manson
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Rating: 3.59 (967 Ratings, 103 Reviews)
Pages: 134
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Self help, Philosophy, Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Released: January 2005)
Author(s): Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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Rating: 3.81 (655 Ratings, 36 Reviews)
Pages: 320
A slipcased hardback edition of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's bestselling phenomenon, with the original first Penguin edition artwork.What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common?Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?How can your name affect how well you do in life?The answer: Freakonomics. It's at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily, from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And it's all about using information about the world around us to get to the heart of what's really happening under the surface of everyday life.Now updated with the authors' New York Times columns and blog entries, this cult bestseller will show you how, by unravelling your life's secret codes, you can discover a totally new way of seeing the world.
Genre(s): Business, Nonfiction, Economics
Outliers: The Story of Success (Released: January 2008)
Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell
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Rating: 3.99 (543 Ratings, 46 Reviews)
Pages: 321
Identifies the qualities of successful people, maintaining that culture, family, and idiosyncratic factors can have a decisive impact on shaping high achievers,
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Psychology, Business & Careers, Social Psychology & Interactions, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Psychology & Mental Health, General, Sociology, Business
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Released: January 2011)
Author(s): Daniel Kahneman
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Rating: 4.10 (452 Ratings, 49 Reviews)
Pages: 499
Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, slow and reasoned - and explores how these modes effect behavior, particularly judgement and decision making.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Psychology, Business, Business & Careers
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Released: December 2010)
Author(s): Marie Kondo
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Rating: 3.64 (435 Ratings, 67 Reviews)
Pages: 226
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your house once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month wait list). With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house "spark joy" (and which don't), this international best-seller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home - and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Philosophy, Comics, House cleaning, how to
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Released: January 2012)
Author(s): Susan Cain
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Rating: 4.02 (457 Ratings, 60 Reviews)
Pages: 370
“Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand the gifts of the introverted half of the population.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • O: The Oprah Magazine • Christian Science Monitor • Inc. • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews What are the advantages of being an introvert? They make up at least one-third of the people we know. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, impeccably researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how you see yourself.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Psychology, Introversion
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Released: January 2016)
Author(s): Cal Newport
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Rating: 4.04 (411 Ratings, 57 Reviews)
Pages: 304
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. DEEP WORK is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
Genre(s): Productivity, Nonfiction, Self-Help, Psychology
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Released: January 2018)
Author(s): John Carreyrou
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Rating: 4.42 (460 Ratings, 68 Reviews)
Pages: 339
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post * The McKinsey Business Book of the Year The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes--now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor--by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. "The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion." --Bill Gates In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, General, Fraud, True crime, Crime
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Released: January 2000)
Author(s): Malcolm Gladwell
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Rating: 3.82 (432 Ratings, 17 Reviews)
Pages: 279
Hvorfor er 150 et magisk tal? Hvordan opstår et modefænomen? Er kriminalitet smitsomt? Er selvmord? Hvilke mennesker viderebringer og vedligeholder rygter? Og hvad er den mest effektive indsats mod rygning? Et magisk vendepunkt er det øjeblik, hvor en idé, en trend, et produkt eller et adfærdsmønster spreder sig som en steppebrand. Malcolm Gladwells internationale bestseller undersøger den sociale epidemi som fænomen og forklarer, hvorfor store forandringer sker pludseligt og uventet. Bogen analyserer kriminalitet, anti-rygekampagner, modetrends, børneudsendelser, rygter og et væld af andre eksempler på smitsom adfærd. Men først og fremmest viser den, hvordan én kreativ person – med et lille, velanbragt skub – kan forandre hele verden. Det magiske vendepunkt er et uvurderligt redskab for alle, som beskæftiger sig med sociale medier, politik, reklame, markedsføring, journalistik eller græsrodsarbejde i ordenes bredeste forstand. Sammenlagt har bogen ligget på New York Times’ bestsellerliste i mere end syv år.
Genre(s): Nonfiction, social science, Philosophy, Business, Psychology, Business & Economics