Brad's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:22:08 -0700 60 Brad's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism]]> 1858013 Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.

The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?

Although a vocal minority continues to attack the Christian faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86 percent of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75 percent of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced “doubts” skeptics bring to his Manhattan church. And in The Reason for God, he single-handedly dismantles each of them. Written with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded by the backlash. The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity.

Why is there suffering in the world? How could a loving God send people to Hell? Why isn’t Christianity more inclusive? Shouldn’t the Christian God be a god of love? How can one religion be “right” and the rest “wrong”? Why have so many wars been fought in the name of God? These are just a few of the questions even ardent believers wrestle with today. In this book, Tim Keller uses literature, philosophy, real-life conversations and reasoning, and even pop culture to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.]]>
293 Timothy J. Keller 0525950494 Brad 5 christian 4.22 2008 The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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<![CDATA[Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers]]> 52891090 224 Dane C. Ortlund 1433566133 Brad 0 to-read, christian 4.49 2020 Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
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<![CDATA[The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief]]> 35506 294 Francis S. Collins 0743286391 Brad 0 to-read, christian 3.83 2006 The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
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Culture Code 39944682 304 Daniel Coyle 1847941273 Brad 5 4.25 2017 Culture Code
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Philosophy: Who Needs It 843433 Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.]]> 228 Ayn Rand 0451138937 Brad 0 to-read, rand-books 3.89 1982 Philosophy: Who Needs It
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<![CDATA[For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand]]> 663 224 Ayn Rand 0451163087 Brad 0 to-read, rand-books 3.69 1961 For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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<![CDATA[Conquering Crisis: Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them]]> 217182453 240 William H. McRaven 1538771748 Brad 0 4.31 Conquering Crisis: Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them
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<![CDATA[On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization]]> 221057810 The New York Times bestselling author of The War on the West explains how no less than the future of the Western World is at stake in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Douglas Murray, #1 international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator, confronts arguably the most pressing question of our Why are Western supporters of Palestine unwittingly aligning with an evil empire?

The campus left frames the violent hostilities as white colonialists committing genocide. Yet only a third of Israelis are Ashkenazi Jews of European ancestry. Murray argues that the conflict is not a simple tale of oppressor versus oppressed, but a clash between a thriving multi-racial democracy and a death cult bent on its destruction.

Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel and Gaza, Murray presents a compelling case that places the latest violence in its proper historical context. He takes readers on a harrowing journey through the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, piecing together the exclusive accounts from victims, survivors, and even the terrorists responsible for the atrocities.

On Democracies and Death Cults illustrates how Israel's commitment to fundamental Western values—capitalism, individual rights, democracy, and reason—has made it a beacon of progress in a region dominated by authoritarianism and extremism. Murray contrasts Israel’s principles with the ideology of Hamas, which openly proclaims its love of death over life. If left unchecked, Murray argues, this misplaced Western sympathy could embolden forces that seek to undermine democratic values and perpetuate a culture of violence.

Deeply reasoned, clear-eyed, and grounded in fact, On Democracy and Death Cults is a gripping and essential read for all who seek to understand the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its implications for the future of democracy both here and abroad—and for the world itself.]]>
240 Douglas Murray 0063437139 Brad 0 to-read, family 4.31 2025 On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
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<![CDATA[Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis]]> 27161156 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062300546.

Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.


Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.

A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.]]>
264 J.D. Vance Brad 5 value-creation 3.80 2016 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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<![CDATA[The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images]]> 611328 179 John Dominic Crossan 0785809015 Brad 2 3.74 1994 The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images
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<![CDATA[The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.” —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]>
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<![CDATA[The Action Bible: God's Redemptive Story (Action Bible Series)]]> 53186278  
Plus, these spectacular updates take the action to a whole new
   
Every page sparks excitement to explore God’s Word and know Him personally. Readers will witness God’s active presence in the world through stories from the life of Jesus and great heroes of the faith.
 
Let this blend of powerful imagery and clear storytelling capture your imagination and instill the truth that invites you to discover your own adventure of life with God.
 
Sergio Cariello’s illustrations for The Action Bible leap off the page with the same thrilling energy that earned him international recognition for his work with Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
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<![CDATA[The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name]]> 165068 352 Sally Lloyd-Jones 0310708257 Brad 5 4.68 2007 The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
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<![CDATA[The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality]]> 59389258
Today in the west, many consider the church to be dead or dying. Christianity is seen as outdated, bigoted and responsible for many of society's problems. This leaves many believers embarrassed about their faith and many outsiders wary of religion. But what if the Christian message is not the enemy of our modern Western values, but the very thing that makes sense of them?

In this fascinating book, Glen Scrivener takes readers on a journey to discover how the teachings of Jesus not only turned the ancient world upside down, but continue to underpin the way we think of life, worth, and meaning. Far from being a relic from the past, the distinctive ideas of Christianity, such as freedom, kindness, progress and equality, are a crucial part of the air that we breathe. As author Glen Scrivener says in his introduction: "The extraordinary impact of Christianity is seen in the fact that we don't notice it.

This is a book for both believers and sceptics--giving Christians confidence to be open about their faith and showing non-Christians the ways in which the message of Jesus makes sense of their most cherished beliefs. Whoever you are, you'll gain a deeper appreciation for the values you hold dear as you discover the power and profundity of Jesus and his revolution.

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232 Glen Scrivener 1784987492 Brad 0 to-read, family, history 4.45 The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
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<![CDATA[The Art of Doing 카지노싸이트 and Engineering: Learning to Learn]]> 530415 Provides the reader with a style of thinking that will enhance a person's ability to function as a problem-solver of complex technical issues. Consists of a collection of stories about the author's participation in significant discoveries, relating how those discoveries came about and, most importantly, provides analysis about the thought processes and reasoning that took place as the author and his associates progressed through engineering problems.]]> 376 Richard Hamming 9056995014 Brad 0 to-read, project_management 4.15 1996 The Art of Doing 카지노싸이트 and Engineering: Learning to Learn
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How to Father 839427 512 Fitzhugh Dodson 0451154363 Brad 0 currently-reading, good_dad 4.25 1984 How to Father
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<![CDATA[Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose]]> 310014
With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how

*Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes”

* Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs

* Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing)

Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.]]>
289 Constance Hale 0767903099 Brad 0 to-read, writing 3.93 1999 Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
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<![CDATA[Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English]]> 108835 240 Patricia T. O'Conner 1594480060 Brad 0 to-read, writing 3.93 1996 Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
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<![CDATA[Politics and the English Language]]> 6324725 20 George Orwell Brad 0 writing, to-read 4.30 1946 Politics and the English Language
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The Elements of Style 33514 105 William Strunk Jr. Brad 0 to-read, writing 4.15 1918 The Elements of Style
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<![CDATA[On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction]]> 53343 On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.]]> 321 William Zinsser 0060891548 Brad 0 writing 4.23 1976 On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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<![CDATA[Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did]]> 83817455  
“One of the most important books I have read in a decade . . . If we would all follow in this way, our lives would change and the world would change.”—Jennie Allen, author of Get Out of Your Head and Find Your People
 
We are constantly being formed by the world around us. To be formed by Jesus will require us to become his apprentice. 

To live by what the first Christian disciples called a Rule of Life—a set of practices and relational rhythms that slow us down and open up space in our daily lives for God to do what only God can do—transforms the deepest parts of us to become like him. 
 
This introduction to spiritual formation is full of John Mark Comer’s trademark mix of theological substance and cultural insight as well as practical wisdom on developing your own Rule of Life.
 
These ancient practices have much to offer us. By learning to rearrange our days, we can follow the Way of Jesus. We can be with him. Become like him. And do as he did.]]>
288 John Mark Comer 0593193822 Brad 0 4.54 2024 Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
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<![CDATA[Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis & 카지노싸이트]]> 11156400 192 John C. Lennox 0310494605 Brad 0 to-read, family 4.10 2011 Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis & 카지노싸이트
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<![CDATA[Look to Windward (Culture, #7)]]> 12016
Also journeying to Masaq' is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq' to bring home Chel's most brilliant star & self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller. Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. But the Major's true assignment will have far greater consequences than the death of a mere political dissident, as part of a conspiracy more ambitious than even he can know--a mission his superiors have buried so deeply in his mind that even he can't remember it.

Hailed by SFX magazine as "an excellent hopping-on point if you've never read a Banks SF novel before," Look to Windward is an awe-inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly realized civilization Banks calls the Culture.]]>
496 Iain M. Banks 0743421922 Brad 4 space-operas 4.20 2000 Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
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<![CDATA[Rescuing 카지노싸이트: Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt]]> 157677177 248 Paul M. Sutter 1538181614 Brad 0 3.77 Rescuing 카지노싸이트: Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt
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<![CDATA[Ultra-Processed People: The 카지노싸이트 Behind Food That Isn't Food]]> 62586003 A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There’s a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it’s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn’t find in your kitchen, it’s UPF.

These products are specifically engineered to behave as addictive substances, driving excess consumption. They are now linked to the leading cause of early death globally and the number one cause of environmental destruction. Yet almost all our staple foods are ultra-processed. UPF is our food culture and for many people it is the only available and affordable food.

In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet-related disease. The solutions don’t lie in willpower, personal responsibility, or exercise. You’ll find no diet plan in this book―but join Chris as he undertakes a powerful self-experiment that made headlines around the world: under the supervision of colleagues at University College London he spent a month eating a diet of 80 percent UPF, typical for many children and adults in the United States. While his body became the subject of scientific scrutiny, he spoke to the world’s leading experts from academia, agriculture, and―most important―the food industry itself. But more than teaching him about the experience of the food, the diet switched off Chris’s own addiction to UPF.

In a fast-paced and eye-opening narrative he explores the origins, science, and economics of UPF to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet. And he proposes real solutions for doctors, for policy makers, and for all of us who have to eat. A book that won’t only upend the way you shop and eat, Ultra-Processed People will open your eyes to the need for action on a global scale.]]>
384 Chris van Tulleken 1324036729 Brad 5 exercise 4.40 2023 Ultra-Processed People: The 카지노싸이트 Behind Food That Isn't Food
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<![CDATA[A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada]]> 211753
One of the foremost authorities on the history of Christianity in North America, Mark Noll has intentionally made this history a comprehensive, balanced one-volume the book covers the great variety of Christian experience throughout all of North American history, sensitively encompassing the story of many contrasting groups and regions--elite and common people, whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women, North and South. Adding a personal dimension to the narrative, numerous biographical profiles further enrich Noll's multifaceted exploration of major movements and events.]]>
592 Mark A. Noll 0802806511 Brad 0 to-read, family 3.90 1992 A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada
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<![CDATA[American Philosophy: A Love Story]]> 28116747
The books Kaag discovers in the Hocking library are crawling with insects and full of mold. But he resolves to restore them, as he immediately recognizes their importance. Not only does the library at West Wind contain handwritten notes from Whitman and inscriptions from Frost, but there are startlingly rare first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As Kaag begins to catalog and read through these priceless volumes, he embarks on a thrilling journey that leads him to the life-affirming tenets of American philosophy—self-reliance, pragmatism, and transcendence—and to a brilliant young Kantian who joins him in the restoration of the Hocking books.

Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is ultimately about love, freedom, and the role that wisdom can play in turning one’s life around.]]>
272 John Kaag 0374154481 Brad 0 to-read, thinking 3.80 2016 American Philosophy: A Love Story
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<![CDATA[Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness]]> 199448065
What if the body and mind were not in opposition but rather negotiation? Both aid each other in the pursuit of human excellence. Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness explores the benefits of physical fitness in a Christian's walk with God. It takes a holistic approach to physical, mental, and spiritual health.

This transformative book seamlessly merges the timeless principles of faith, self-help, and physical wellness to empower you to lead a life of purpose, strength, and fulfillment. This book will go over how the virtues and philosophy that flow from sports and athletics are important to a Christian. Those virtues connect with masculinity, and why they are sorely needed in the church and the broader Christian movement.

Reignite your sense of purpose, discover your inner strength, and embark on a journey of self-improvement that combines the best of faith and self-help principles. "Muscular A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness" is your invitation to lead a life of unwavering determination, profound spirituality, and unshakeable vitality. It's time to sculpt a better you, physically, mentally, and spiritually.]]>
226 Paul Uponi 1739055500 Brad 0 4.15 Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness
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<![CDATA[The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe]]> 41088454 New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.


Beginning in the late 19th century, many intellectuals began to insist that scientific knowledge conflicts with traditional theistic belief—that science and belief in God are “at war.” Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer challenges this view by examining three scientific discoveries with decidedly theistic implications. Building on the case for the intelligent design of life that he developed in Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt, Meyer demonstrates how discoveries in cosmology and physics coupled with those in biology help to establish the identity of the designing intelligence behind life and the universe. 

Meyer argues that theism — with its affirmation of a transcendent, intelligent and active creator — best explains the evidence we have concerning biological and cosmological origins. Previously Meyer refrained from attempting to answer questions about “who” might have designed life. Now he provides an evidence-based answer to perhaps the ultimate mystery of the universe. In so doing, he reveals a stunning conclusion: the data support not just the existence of an intelligent designer of some kind—but the existence of a personal God. ]]>
576 Stephen C. Meyer 0062071521 Brad 0 4.33 The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe
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<![CDATA[Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective]]> 24612219 Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture.

Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe.

Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.
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328 Thomas Sowell 0465082939 Brad 0 to-read, value-creation 4.33 2015 Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
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American Dirt 45046527
Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?]]>
459 Jeanine Cummins Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 4.32 2020 American Dirt
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<![CDATA[Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography]]> 259737 224 John Dominic Crossan 0060616628 Brad 0 to-read, family 3.97 1994 Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
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<![CDATA[The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant]]> 610018
–– from "The Gospel of Jesus," overture to The Historical Jesus

The Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus––who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with "The Gospel of Jesus," Crossan's studied determination of Jesus' actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism and a social program for creating it.

The conventional wisdom of critical historical scholarship has long held that too little is known about the historical Jesus to say definitively much more than that he lived and had a tremendous impact on his followers. "There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems," writes Crossan. "There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.'

With this ground–breaking work, John Dominic Crossan emphatically sweeps these notions aside. He demonstrates that Jesus is actually one of the best documented figures in ancient history; the challenge is the complexity of the sources. The vivid portrayal of Jesus that emerges from Crossan's unique methodology combines the complementary disciplines of social anthropology, Greco–Roman history, and the literary analysis of specific pronouncements, anecdotes, confessions and interpretations involving Jesus. All three levels cooperate equally and fully in an effective synthesis that provides the most definitive presentation of the historical Jesus yet attained.]]>
544 John Dominic Crossan 0060616296 Brad 0 4.06 1991 The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
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The Excellency of Christ 10427515 0 Jonathan Edwards Brad 0 4.50 1800 The Excellency of Christ
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Mere Christianity 11138 191 C.S. Lewis 0684823780 Brad 5 4.32 1952 Mere Christianity
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<![CDATA[The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta]]> 867462
Using this work to push his realist approach to physics in defiance of much of quantum mechanics, Einstein's The Evolution of Physics was published to great popularity and was featured in a Time magazine cover story. A classic work for any student of physics or lover of Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics can be enjoyed by any and should be celebrated by all.]]>
330 Albert Einstein 0671201565 Brad 0 to-read, adlerbooks 4.29 The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
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<![CDATA[Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life]]> 56019043
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.]]>
382 Jordan B. Peterson 0593084640 Brad 4 thinking 4.14 2021 Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
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Educated 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]>
352 Tara Westover 0399590501 Brad 0 4.46 2018 Educated
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<![CDATA[Your Success Starts Here: Purpose and Personal Initiative (An Official Nightingale Conant Publication)]]> 43071403 156 Earl Nightingale 1640950850 Brad 0 4.23 Your Success Starts Here: Purpose and Personal Initiative (An Official Nightingale Conant Publication)
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Anthem 667 Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great "We"—a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence—that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one—the great WE.

In all that was left of humanity, there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. He had rediscovered the lost and holy word—I.

"I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities."
 —Ayn Rand
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105 Ayn Rand 0452281253 Brad 0 3.59 1938 Anthem
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<![CDATA[The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight: Longevity Book]]> 37534452
Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry for meals and doze off in bed around the same time every day. If you’ve ever experienced jet lag or pulled an all-nighter, you know that this schedule can easily be thrown off kilter. But for some people, that imbalance—difficulty sleeping at night, hunger at odd times, or sudden fatigue at noon—is a constant. If you're one of those people, Dr. Satchin Panda, one of the leading researchers on circadian rhythms, has a plan to reset your body clock.

Beginning with an in-depth explanation of the circadian clock—why it’s important, how it works, and how to know it isn’t working— The Circadian Code outlines lifestyle changes to make to get back on track. It's a concrete plan to enhance weight loss, improve sleep, optimize exercise, and manage technology so that it doesn’t interfere with your body’s natural rhythm. Dr. Panda’s life changing methods show you how to prevent and reverse ailments like diabetes, cancer, and dementia, as well as microbiome conditions like acid reflux, heartburn, and irritable bowel disease.]]>
288 Satchin Panda 163565243X Brad 0 to-read, addiction 4.13 2018 The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight: Longevity Book
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<![CDATA[The Circadian Diabetes Code: Discover the Right Time to Eat, Sleep, and Exercise to Prevent and Reverse Prediabetes and Diabetes]]> 58696979 303 Satchin Panda 0593231880 Brad 0 to-read, addiction 4.06 The Circadian Diabetes Code: Discover the Right Time to Eat, Sleep, and Exercise to Prevent and Reverse Prediabetes and Diabetes
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 Brad 0 to-read, relax 3.84 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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<![CDATA[Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough]]> 75494984  
“Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive

Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and influence, why can’t we ever get enough?

Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world’s leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn’t you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern ability to easily fulfill our ancient desire for more, our hardwired “scarcity brain” is now backfiring. And new technology and institutions—from dating and entertainment apps to our food and economic systems—are exploiting our scarcitybrain. They’re bombarding us with subversive “scarcitycues,” subtle triggers that lead us into low-reward cravings that hurt us in the long run. Scarcity cues can be direct and all-encompassing, like a sagging economy. Or they can be subtle and slight, like our neighbor buying a shiny new car.

Easter traveled the world to consult with remarkable innovators and leading scientists who are finding surprising solutions for our scarcity brain. He discovered simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, cement healthy habits, and allow us to live our lives to the fullest and appreciate what we have, including how

• Detect hidden scarcity cues to stop cravings before they start, from a brilliant slot machine designer in a Las Vegas casino laboratory
• Turn alone time into the ultimate happiness hack, from artisanal coffee-making Benedictine monks
• Reignite your exploration gene for a more exciting and fulfilling life, from an astronaut onboard the International Space Station
• Reframe how we think about and fix addiction and bad habits, from Iraq’s chief psychiatrist
• Recognize when you have enough, from a woman who left a million-dollar career path to adventure the world

Our world is overloaded with everything we’re built to crave. The fix for scarcity brain isn’t to blindly aim for less. It’s to understand why we crave more in the first place, shake our worst habits, and use what we already have better. Then we can experience life in a new way—a more satisfying way.]]>
304 Michael Easter 0593236629 Brad 4 exercise, addiction 3.86 Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
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<![CDATA[Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health]]> 196848596 A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future.

What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?

Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create "good energy," the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.

If you are battling minor signals of "bad energy" inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here's the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves.

Weaving together cutting-edge research and personal stories, as well as groundbreaking data from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, Good Energy offers an essential four-week plan and explains:

• The five biomarkers that determine your risk for a deadly disease.
• How to use inexpensive tools and technology to "see inside your body" and take action.
• Why dietary philosophies are designed to confuse us, and six lifelong food principles you can implement whether you're carnivore or vegan.
• The crucial links between sleep, circadian rhythm, and metabolism.
• A new framework for exercise focused on building simple movement into everyday activities.
• How cold and heat exposure helps build our body's resilience.
• Steps to navigate the medical system to get what you need for optimal health.

Good Energy offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. It will help you optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.]]>
400 Casey Means 0593712641 Brad 0 to-read, addiction, exercise 4.10 2024 Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
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<![CDATA[In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology]]> 206777862 479 Tim Harris 1621824985 Brad 5
Tim Harris goes through a highly detailed history of biotechnology, describing the technologies that gave birth to these companies, and how these lead to new therapies for patients. He details personalised experience in this industry, naming the people involved, the deals made (or those that fell through), before finishing off with a chapter on the 'Essence of Biotechnology', describing key traits of successful companies.

This book gives such a detailed account he paints a clear picture of the birth (and in some cases death) of many biotechnology companies, and with such a clear picture and with so many details (the scientific discoveries that enabled the new company, how funding was raised, getting leadership in-place, etc.) I cannot help but now see an alternative career route in science that was hazy and abstrast to me before, but is now clear, lucid, and possible.

Really, really recommend reading this book, particularly if you are a grad-student or postdoc. It really helped me envision what other possibilities there could be for my science beyond academic pursuit of truth and understanding, but taking this newly acquired knowledge so that it can have a broader impact to a wider suite of people.

Thankyou for writing this Tim! And nice meeting you at Cold Spring Harbour Biology of Genomes conference 2024 at the book signing. ]]>
4.25 In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology
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Extremely inspiring.

Tim Harris goes through a highly detailed history of biotechnology, describing the technologies that gave birth to these companies, and how these lead to new therapies for patients. He details personalised experience in this industry, naming the people involved, the deals made (or those that fell through), before finishing off with a chapter on the 'Essence of Biotechnology', describing key traits of successful companies.

This book gives such a detailed account he paints a clear picture of the birth (and in some cases death) of many biotechnology companies, and with such a clear picture and with so many details (the scientific discoveries that enabled the new company, how funding was raised, getting leadership in-place, etc.) I cannot help but now see an alternative career route in science that was hazy and abstrast to me before, but is now clear, lucid, and possible.

Really, really recommend reading this book, particularly if you are a grad-student or postdoc. It really helped me envision what other possibilities there could be for my science beyond academic pursuit of truth and understanding, but taking this newly acquired knowledge so that it can have a broader impact to a wider suite of people.

Thankyou for writing this Tim! And nice meeting you at Cold Spring Harbour Biology of Genomes conference 2024 at the book signing.
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<![CDATA[The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10)]]> 13497991
An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.

It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.]]>
517 Iain M. Banks 0356501507 Brad 5 space-operas 4.17 2012 The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10)
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<![CDATA[How Highly Effective People Speak: How High Performers Use Psychology to Influence With Ease (Speak for Success Book 1)]]> 53809900 Why do we think what we think? Think we know what we think we know? Believe what we believe? Like what we like? Do what we do?

Why do others trust or distrust us? Respect or disrespect us? Listen to or ignore us? Reach out to or neglect us? Like or dislike us? Praise or slander us? Believe or doubt us? That's not all...

Why do others follow our lead or stand in our way? Give us opportunities or send them elsewhere? Support our striving for success and appreciate our message or toss it – and us – aside? Decades of cutting-edge (but unheard-of) scientific research presents an answer...

Because hidden, little-known secrets of psychology influence everything about us...

Neglecting them is swimming upstream. You can't change minds, win friends, or influence people. You can't earn undivided attention or get the respect you deserve. You undermine your professional image, stagnate your career, and destroy your confidence until communication makes you anxious.

You don't deserve this. Neither did I. I remember wondering, "Why do people never support my ideas? Why am I drowning in a sea of 'sorry, maybe later' (AKA never)? Why have I stopped succeeding?" Luckily, everything changed when I answered one question...

What are the communication habits of highly effective people?

It comes down to one Highly effective people speak how the human mind evolved to interpret information. The result? They easily persuade and instantly influence, turning communication from an obstacle into an opportunity. They enrich their careers, get more done, and advance with stunning speed.

They impact and inspire others, rising to positions of leadership. They quickly succeed, excel with ease, and shape the world. They attract support, feel confident, and smash goal after goal. Who are they? Presidents and CEOs; top-performers and respected professionals; leaders and visionaries.

And here's my question to

Will you be one of them?

In How Highly Effective People Speak, you'll discover 194 communication habits of highly effective people (proven by 57 scientific studies)

How to get more done with less effort by influencing others to support youHow to attract others (instead of turning them away and seeming unfriendly) with the correct type of body languageHow to make people systematically, predictably, and reliably overweigh your opinion by activating the availability biasHow to charge more or pay less (for the same product) and win every negotiation with the anchoring effectHow to effortlessly make others want something by activating one little-known cognitive bias (called "essential" by billionaire investor Charlie Munger, partner to Warren Buffet)How to lead with ease and reliably influence teams by using the contrast effectHow to effortlessly speak with memorable eloquence by applying 2,000-year-old secrets of powerful languageHow to ace every interview, meeting, and presentation with ease by activating agent detection biasHow to quickly diffuse all objections by activating the little-known (but extremely powerful) zero-risk biasHow to make people believe something even if they think the exact opposite with the illuso]]>
250 Peter Andrei Brad 0 to-read, vision 3.42 How Highly Effective People Speak: How High Performers Use Psychology to Influence With Ease (Speak for Success Book 1)
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<![CDATA[Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant]]> 4898 240 W. Chan Kim 1591396190 Brad 0 to-read, project_management 4.01 2004 Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
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Matter (Culture, #8) 886066
Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.

Concealing her new identity – and her particular set of abilities – might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.

Cover illustration by Debra Lill]]>
593 Iain M. Banks 1841494186 Brad 0 to-read, space-operas 4.09 2008 Matter (Culture, #8)
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Surface Detail (Culture, #9) 7937744
With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on.

A brutal, far-reaching war is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead and it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real & that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.]]>
627 Iain M. Banks 0316123404 Brad 0 to-read, space-operas 4.24 2010 Surface Detail (Culture, #9)
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Excession (Culture #5) 12013 Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain. By accepting the mission, Byr irrevocably plunges himself into a conspiracy: one that could either lead the universe into an age of peace or to the brink of annihilation.]]> 500 Iain M. Banks 0553575376 Brad 0 to-read, space-operas 4.20 1996 Excession (Culture #5)
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Use of Weapons (Culture, #3) 12007
The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.

The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.

In this brilliant, multilayered book, Iain Banks explores once again the universe of the Culture, which he has previously visited in Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons leaves no doubt that Banks is now the outstanding writer of science fiction in Britain.]]>
411 Iain M. Banks 185723135X Brad 0 to-read 4.18 1990 Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
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<![CDATA[How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton 카지노싸이트 Library)]]> 192221 288 G. Pólya 069111966X Brad 0 thinking 4.14 1944 How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton 카지노싸이트 Library)
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<![CDATA[Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals]]> 54785515 The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless battle against distraction; we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.]]>
245 Oliver Burkeman 0374159122 Brad 0 to-read 4.19 2021 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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East of Eden 4406
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.

First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.]]>
601 John Steinbeck 0142000655 Brad 3 4.41 1952 East of Eden
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<![CDATA[Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation]]> 8034188 326 Steven Johnson 1594487715 Brad 0 3.99 2010 Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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<![CDATA[Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction]]> 35721089
Now a Major Motion Picture

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.]]>
352 David Sheff 1328974715 Brad 0 to-read, addiction 4.27 2007 Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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<![CDATA[Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines]]> 657371
This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait—but not one without hope.]]>
336 Nic Sheff 1416913629 Brad 0 to-read, addiction 3.98 2008 Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
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<![CDATA[The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)]]> 16181775
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.

Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.

The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.]]>
292 Graeme Simsion 1476729085 Brad 4 4.00 2013 The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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Kon-Tiki 790171 Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure - a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage.

On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land - the Polynesian island of Puka Puka.

Translated into over sixty languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage - a magnificent saga of men against the sea.]]>
240 Thor Heyerdahl 0671726528 Brad 0 to-read 4.15 1948 Kon-Tiki
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As I Lay Dying 77013 As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members -- including Addie herself -- as well as others; the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.

This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.]]>
288 William Faulkner Brad 0 to-read 3.71 1930 As I Lay Dying
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<![CDATA[The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)]]> 38296 410 James Fenimore Cooper 0553213296 Brad 0 to-read 3.71 1826 The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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<![CDATA[Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide]]> 60753061
Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide teaches every runner, new or experienced, how to master humankind's first true superpower and tap into hidden reserves of strength and stamina. With chapters dedicated to the Free Seven - Food, Fitness, Form, Focus, Footwear, Fun and Family - we learn exactly how to change our biomechanics, clean up our diets, heal our injuries, adapt to healthier footwear, and prepare for our dream challenge.

Packed with advice and inspiring stories from runners who have made the transition, it includes:
- A rock-solid food primer on optimum diet and power-packed On the Run recipes
- Techniques for running with dogs and baby buggies to help you run with the whole family
- 'Perfect Form' exercises that will overhaul your stride in less than ten minutes
- A 90-Day Run Free Programme, designed to give everything you need to run faster and farther, forever.]]>
272 Christopher McDougall 1524712345 Brad 0 to-read, exercise 3.78 2022 Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide
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<![CDATA[Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness]]> 13202092
In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as a champion athlete with a plant-based diet and inspires runners at every level. From his Midwestern childhood hunting, fishing, and cooking for his meat-and-potatoes family to his slow transition to ultrarunning and veganism, Scott’s story shows the power of an iron will and blows apart the stereotypes of what athletes should eat to fuel optimal performance. Full of stories of competition as well as science and practical advice—including his own recipes—Eat and Run will motivate readers and expand their food horizons.]]>
272 Scott Jurek 0547569653 Brad 0 to-read, exercise 3.99 2012 Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
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The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]>
496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Brad 5 american_classics 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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<![CDATA[Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn: Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python]]> 60098440 770 Sebastian Raschka 1801819319 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.39 Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn: Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python
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<![CDATA[Effective Pandas: Patterns for Data Manipulation (Treading on Python)]]> 59950540
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Deep Learning with PyTorch 39980414 450 Eli Stevens 1617295264 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.19 2020 Deep Learning with PyTorch
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<![CDATA[Hands-On Gradient Boosting with XGBoost and scikit-learn: Perform accessible machine learning and extreme gradient boosting with Python]]> 56291781 Get to grips with building robust XGBoost models using Python and scikit-learn for deployment

Key FeaturesGet up and running with machine learning and understand how to boost models with XGBoost in no timeBuild real-world machine learning pipelines and fine-tune hyperparameters to achieve optimal resultsDiscover tips and tricks and gain innovative insights from XGBoost Kaggle winnersBook DescriptionXGBoost is an industry-proven, open-source software library that provides a gradient boosting framework for scaling billions of data points quickly and efficiently.

The book introduces machine learning and XGBoost in scikit-learn before building up to the theory behind gradient boosting. You’ll cover decision trees and analyze bagging in the machine learning context, learning hyperparameters that extend to XGBoost along the way. You’ll build gradient boosting models from scratch and extend gradient boosting to big data while recognizing speed limitations using timers. Details in XGBoost are explored with a focus on speed enhancements and deriving parameters mathematically. With the help of detailed case studies, you’ll practice building and fine-tuning XGBoost classifiers and regressors using scikit-learn and the original Python API. You'll leverage XGBoost hyperparameters to improve scores, correct missing values, scale imbalanced datasets, and fine-tune alternative base learners. Finally, you'll apply advanced XGBoost techniques like building non-correlated ensembles, stacking models, and preparing models for industry deployment using sparse matrices, customized transformers, and pipelines.

By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build high-performing machine learning models using XGBoost with minimal errors and maximum speed.

What you will learnBuild gradient boosting models from scratchDevelop XGBoost regressors and classifiers with accuracy and speedAnalyze variance and bias in terms of fine-tuning XGBoost hyperparametersAutomatically correct missing values and scale imbalanced dataApply alternative base learners like dart, linear models, and XGBoost random forestsCustomize transformers and pipelines to deploy XGBoost modelsBuild non-correlated ensembles and stack XGBoost models to increase accuracyWho this book is forThis book is for data science professionals and enthusiasts, data analysts, and developers who want to build fast and accurate machine learning models that scale with big data. Proficiency in Python, along with a basic understanding of linear algebra, will help you to get the most out of this book.

Table of ContentsMachine Learning LandscapeDecision Trees in DepthBagging with Random ForestsFrom Gradient Boosting to XGBoostXGBoost UnveiledXGBoost HyperparametersDiscovering Exoplanets with XGBoostXGBoost Alternative Base LearnersXGBoost Kaggle MastersXGBoost Model Deployment]]>
310 Corey Wade 1839213809 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.00 Hands-On Gradient Boosting with XGBoost and scikit-learn: Perform accessible machine learning and extreme gradient boosting with Python
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<![CDATA[Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face]]> 60114857 406 Lewis Tunstall 9355420323 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.39 Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face
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<![CDATA[Introducing Python: Modern Computing in Simple Packages]]> 17912929 Introducing Python, Bill Lubanovic brings years of knowledge as a programmer, system administrator, and author to a book of impressive depth that remains fun to read and simple enough for non-programmers to learn from. In addition to giving a strong foundation in the language itself, Lubanovic shows how to use it for a range of applications in business, science, and the arts, drawing on the rich collection of open source packages developed by Python fans.

It's impressive how many commercial and production-critical programs are written now in Python. Developed to be easy to read and maintain, it has proven a boon to anyone who wants applications that are quick to write but robust and able to remain in production for the long haul.

This book focuses on the current version of Python, 3.x, while including sidebars about important differences with 2.x for readers who may have to deal with programs in that version.]]>
454 Bill Lubanovic 1449359361 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.13 2013 Introducing Python: Modern Computing in Simple Packages
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Deep Learning with Python 33986067
In particular, Deep learning excels at solving machine perception problems: understanding the content of image data, video data, or sound data. Here's a simple example: say you have a large collection of images, and that you want tags associated with each image, for example, "dog," "cat," etc. Deep learning can allow you to create a system that understands how to map such tags to images, learning only from examples. This system can then be applied to new images, automating the task of photo tagging. A deep learning model only has to be fed examples of a task to start generating useful results on new data.]]>
350 François Chollet 1617294438 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.56 2017 Deep Learning with Python
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<![CDATA[Hands-On Unsupervised Learning Using Python: How to Build Applied Machine Learning Solutions from Unlabeled Data]]> 42832581
Author Ankur Patel provides practical knowledge on how to apply unsupervised learning using two simple, production ready Python frameworks scikit learn and TensorFlow using Keras. With the hands on examples and code provided, you will identify difficult to find patterns in data and gain deeper business insight, detect anomalies, perform automatic feature engineering and selection, and generate synthetic datasets. All you need is programming and some machine learning experience to get started.]]>
359 Ankur A Patel 1492035645 Brad 0 to-read, computation 3.65 Hands-On Unsupervised Learning Using Python: How to Build Applied Machine Learning Solutions from Unlabeled Data
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<![CDATA[Feature Engineering for Machine Learning]]> 31393737
Rather than simply teach these principles, authors Alice Zheng and Amanda Casari focus on practical application with exercises throughout the book. The closing chapter brings everything together by tackling a real-world, structured dataset with several feature-engineering techniques. Python packages including numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and Matplotlib are used in code examples.]]>
218 Alice Zheng 1491953241 Brad 0 to-read, computation 3.84 Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
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<![CDATA[Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem]]> 53928375 the book is 3+ years old now and there is currently no plan to update it. Its better to just get free PDF from github This is not a traditional book.The book has a lot of code. If you don't like the code first approach do not buy this book. Making code available on Github is not an option.This book is for people who have some theoretical knowledge of machine learning and deep learning and want to dive into applied machine learning. The book doesn't explain the algorithms but is more oriented towards how and what should you use to solve machine learning and deep learning problems. The book is not for you if you are looking for pure basics. The book is for you if you are looking for guidance on approaching machine learning problems. The book is best enjoyed with a cup of coffee and a laptop/workstation where you can code along.Table of Setting up your working environment- Supervised vs unsupervised learning- Cross-validation- Evaluation metrics- Arranging machine learning projects- Approaching categorical variables- Feature engineering- Feature selection- Hyperparameter optimization- Approaching image classification & segmentation- Approaching text classification/regression- Approaching ensembling and stacking- Approaching reproducible code & model servingThere are no sub-headings. Important terms are written in bold.I will be answering all your queries related to the book and will be making YouTube tutorials to cover what has not been discussed in the book. To ask questions/doubts, please create an issue on github Subscribe to my youtube ]]> 300 Abhishek Thakur 8269211524 Brad 0 to-read, computation 4.10 Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem
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<![CDATA[Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal]]> 10321016
When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a- kind method to raise more than $400 million--and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation.

Whether you're selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, "Pitch Anything "will transform the way you position your ideas.

According to Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn't an art--it's a simple science. Applying the latest findings in the field of neuroeconomics, while sharing eye-opening stories of his method in action, Klaff describes how the brain makes decisions and responds to pitches. With this information, you'll remain in complete control of every stage of the pitch process.

"Pitch Anything" introduces the exclusive STRONG method of pitching, which can be put to use immediately:


Setting the Frame

Telling the Story

Revealing the Intrigue

Offering the Prize

Nailing the Hookpoint

Getting a Decision

One truly great pitch can improve your career, make you a lot of money--and even change your life. Success is dependent on the method you use, not how hard you try. "Better method, more money," Klaff says. "Much better method, much more money." Klaff is the best in the business because his method is much better than anyone else's. And now it's yours.

Apply the tactics and strategies outlined in "Pitch Anything" to engage and persuade your audience--and you'll have more funding and support than you ever thought possible.]]>
240 Oren Klaff 0071752854 Brad 0 to-read, project_management 4.03 2011 Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
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<![CDATA[The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute―Before the Last Minute]]> 55711604
Perfectionists and procrastinators alike agree—it’s natural to dread a deadline. Whether you are completing a masterpiece or just checking off an overwhelming to-do list, the ticking clock signals despair. Christopher Cox knows the panic of the looming deadline all too well—as a magazine editor, he has spent years overseeing writers and journalists who couldn’t meet a deadline to save their lives. After putting in a few too many late nights in the newsroom, he became determined to learn the secret of managing deadlines. He set off to observe nine different organizations as they approached a high-pressure deadline. Along the way, Cox made an even greater these experts didn’t just meet their big deadlines—they became more focused, productive, and creative in the process.

An entertaining blend of “behavioral science, psychological theory, and academic studies with compelling storytelling and descriptive case studies” ( Financial Times ), The Deadline Effect reveals the time-management strategies these teams used to guarantee success while staying on a restaurant opening for the first time, a ski resort covering an entire mountain in snow, a farm growing enough lilies in time for Easter, and more. Cox explains how to use deadlines to our advantage, the dynamics of teams and customers, and techniques for using deadlines to make better, more effective decisions.]]>
240 Christopher Cox 1982132272 Brad 0 to-read, project_management 2.86 2021 The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute―Before the Last Minute
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<![CDATA[Built from Broken: A 카지노싸이트-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body]]> 59121046 Heal painful joints, prevent injuries, and rebuild your body from the ground up.(If mainstream fitness advice has left you broken down and beat up, it’s time for a new strategy.)Most middle-aged fitness enthusiasts and athletes have been dragged down by joint pain, injuries, and other ailments commonly accepted as “part of getting older.”But it doesn’t have to be this way.In fact, anyone can conquer joint pain and rebuild their body.It simply requires understanding the hidden causes and a road map (this book) that leads to the solution.Built from Broken presents a paradigm shift in how to think about corrective exercise, sports nutrition, and joint health.Once you see how the system works, you’ll never look at exercise or joint health the same way again.Part 1 lays the foundation for understanding why your joints are breaking down.You’ll

The 5 primary causes of joint pain.

How to prevent the “Big 3” injuries that trap you in the Pain/Injury Cycle.

Why conventional pain management merely masks symptoms (and 3 natural pain relief techniques that actually work).

How to identify and fix muscle imbalances that lead to tension, pain, and injuries.

Natural injury recovery strategies that improve healing time and tissue repair quality.

Part 2 gives you a step-by-step corrective exercise guide and list of action steps to rebuild your body from the ground up.

The ideal training schedule to maximize muscle recovery and connective tissue repair (in as little as 2 days per week, at any age).

Illustrated corrective exercise instructions (with several home workout options).

How to strengthen joints with cutting-edge connective tissue training techniques.

A step-by-step training program complete with workout routines.

Whether you have been training for a few years, a few decades, or have never stepped foot in a weight room, it’s not too late to overhaul your body.If the conventional path of lifting and stretching has left you broken down, why not try a new strategy?This book is your way out of the pain/injury cycle.All you have to do is follow three simple steps.

Read the book.

Follow the action steps inside to resolve your pain.

Implement the 4-week corrective training program outlined in the book.

Just imagine, in 4-8 weeks from now, you could be in a pain-free, mobile, strong, and functional body.One that allows you to do the activities you love, push the limits of your capabilities, and achieve your true physical potential.This process can start for you right now.All you have to do is click the “buy” button and order your copy of Built from Broken.]]>
614 Scott H Hogan 1735728519 Brad 0 to-read, exercise 4.43 Built from Broken: A 카지노싸이트-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body
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<![CDATA[Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries]]> 40046099 Weaving together personal narratives from athletes, scientific research, and the specialized clinical expertise of mental skills coach Carrie Jackson Cheadle, Rebound contains more than 45 Mental Skills and Drills athletes can use at every phase of their recovery process. These same strategies can help athletes who aren't currently injured reduce their vulnerability to injury and enable any individual to reach new heights within their sport and beyond.
Injuries affect every athlete, from the elite Olympian to the weekend racer. In the moment, a traumatic crash, a torn muscle, or a stress fracture can feel like the most devastating event possible. While some athletes are destroyed by the experience, others emerge from their recovery better, stronger, and more confident than ever.
Not everyone can recover swiftly enough to notch a winning performance in two weeks, of course. However, anyone can work toward a swifter, stronger comeback using mental skills, psychological tools that enable them to take control of their recovery and ultimately use the experience to their advantage. Injury and other setbacks are inevitable--but with training, you can learn to overcome them skillfully and confidently, the same way point guards and forwards practice rebounds.]]>
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<![CDATA[Play Forever: How to Recover From Injury and Thrive]]> 59747281
All great athletes get injured. Only the best of them use those injuries to come back to their sport better—fitter, faster, and stronger than before. Through Dr. Stone's revolutionary approach to sports medicine, you'll discover how injuries can lead to a lifetime of high-performance fitness and athleticism.

Learn how the musculoskeletal system can be repaired through cutting-edge therapies, then honed and strengthened through semiannual fitness tests, preseason education and training programs, and regular in-season tune-ups. Backed by scientific outcome studies on orthopaedic treatments and implants, Play Forever will become your go-to health and fitness source, helping you play the sport you love to age 100 and beyond.]]>
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Concise Laws Of Human Nature 51479854 304 Robert Greene 1788161564 Brad 3 4.10 Concise Laws Of Human Nature
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Of Mice and Men 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]>
107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Brad 5 american_classics 3.88 1937 Of Mice and Men
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Do Epic Shit 59795331 312 Ankur Warikoo 9391165486 Brad 0 3.66 2021 Do Epic Shit
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Up from Slavery 827685
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans. Washington reveals his inner most thoughts as he transitions from ex-slave to teacher and founder of one of the most important schools for African Americans in the south, The Tuskegee Industrial Institute.]]>
224 Booker T. Washington 0451527542 Brad 5 4.08 1900 Up from Slavery
author: Booker T. Washington
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<![CDATA[History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893]]> 65150237 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

For many years, a single volume covering the "History of the West" did not exist. Paxson’s masterwork rectifies this problem – offering an essential, sweeping account of the American West and westward expansion from 1763-1893.

The American pioneer is followed to every frontier for nearly 150 years across fifty-nine chapters. Full of world-class insight, Paxson masterfully paints a picture of how the land mass of the United States was settled – starting with English settlers in New England to the wayward expansion across the continent and ending with the sunny shores of California.

Paxson’s literary genius does not shine in quotations from secondary and source material; he has made his material a part of himself. Indeed, rather than conforming to a social history, Paxson takes a historical, geographic, and pragmatic view of Westward expansion. He masterfully covers American history from the War for Independence to the Louisiana Purchase, conflicts with Native Americans and Civil War, Presidential edicts from Washington to Roosevelt, and even offers keen insight into the little-studied intricacies of frontier finance and the inside workings of canal and railroad corporations.

“Future historians will gratefully remember Mr. Paxson for essaying a task which others had either shirked or felt themselves incompetent to perform.”

This is a must-read for any student of American history.

About the Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian, President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and possessed undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University. As a historian, he was an authority on the American frontier and won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for this work.

Chapters of this work The American Frontier of 1763The Forks of the OhioThe Shenandoah Country and the TennesseeThe Rear of the RevolutionThe Land ProblemCreation of the Public DomainThe National Land SystemThe Old NorthwestThe Western BoundariesThe First New StatesPolitical Theories of the FrontierJeffersonian DemocracyThe Frontier of 1800 The Clash of PrinciplesThe Purchase of LouisianaProblems of the Southwest BorderThe Bonds of UnityThe Wabash Tecumseh, 1811The Western War of 1812Stabilizing the FrontierThe Great MigrationStatehood on the Indiana and IllinoisThe Cotton Mississippi and The New SectionalismPublic Land ReformFrontier FinanceThe American SystemJacksonian DemocracyThe East, and the Western MarketsThe Western Internal ImprovementsThe Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825-1841The Mississippi Valley BoomThe Border Michigan and ArkansasThe Independent State of The Prostrate WestThe Trail to Santa FeThe Settlement of OregonThe “State” of Deseret *The War with MexicoThe Conquest of California<]]>
530 Frederic L. Paxson Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 3.87 History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893
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<![CDATA[The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery]]> 8753495 From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's—and the nation's—transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Although “naturally anti-slavery” for as long as he can remember, Lincoln scrupulously holds to the position that the Constitution protects the institution in the original slave states. But the political landscape is transformed in 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska Act makes the expansion of slavery a national issue.

A man of considered words and deliberate actions, Lincoln navigates the dynamic politics deftly, taking measured steps, often along a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party. Lincoln rises to leadership in the new Republican Party by calibrating his politics to the broadest possible antislavery coalition. As president of a divided nation and commander in chief at war, displaying a similar compound of pragmatism and principle, Lincoln finally embraces what he calls the Civil War's “fundamental and astounding” result: the immediate, uncompensated abolition of slavery and recognition of blacks as American citizens.

Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike. This powerful work will transform our understanding of the nation's greatest president and the issue that mattered most.]]>
336 Eric Foner 0393066185 Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 4.17 2010 The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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<![CDATA[The Spanish War: An American Epic, 1898]]> 189756 Maine was ripped in half by an explosion in Havana harbor with the loss of 266 American lives. War with Spain followed nine weeks later. After a three-month fight on two fronts half a world apart, the era of isolation was gone forever, as the United States formed alliances and gained spheres of influence that would shape its desstiny for decades to come.


G. J. A. O'Toole colorfully depicts the sweep of events and also presents new findings on the mysterious mission of the Maine and on the part played by Washington in the expansion of the conflict.]]>
448 G.J.A. O'Toole 0393303047 Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 4.14 1984 The Spanish War: An American Epic, 1898
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The Rough Riders 286271
Roosevelt kept a detailed diary from the time he left Washington until his triumphant return from Cuba later that year. The Rough Riders was published to instant acclaim in 1899. Robust in its style and mesmerizing in its account of battle, it is exhilarating, illuminating, and utterly essential reading for every armchair historian and at-home general.

The books in the Modern Library War series have been chosen by series editor Caleb Carr according to the significance of their subject matter, their contribution to the field of military history, and their literary merit.]]>
262 Theodore Roosevelt 0375754768 Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 3.73 1899 The Rough Riders
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<![CDATA[Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)]]> 21618 351 Joe Haldeman 0441005667 Brad 5 space-operas 3.76 1997 Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)
author: Joe Haldeman
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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The Leadership Challenge 1758199 351 James M. Kouzes 0787984914 Brad 0 4.01 1987 The Leadership Challenge
author: James M. Kouzes
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1987
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<![CDATA[Absolutely Everything!: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention]]> 37692196 352 Christopher Lloyd 1999802837 Brad 0 to-read, florrybooks 4.20 2018 Absolutely Everything!: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention
author: Christopher Lloyd
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 2018
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<![CDATA[The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions]]> 61885108
Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tested techniques in everyday life.

The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with fewer than one in a thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision can have catastrophic consequences. This extreme environment has forged a group of warriors who for the last fifty years have been considered at the apex of decision-making theory and practice.

In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. With gripping firsthand accounts from his time as a fighter pilot and fascinating turning points throughout history, Hasard reveals powerful decision-making principles that can be used in business and in life,

• HOW TO LEARN BETTER AND FASTER
• CULTIVATING MENTAL TOUGHNESS
• DEVELOPING THE SKILLS TO QUICKLY ASSESS, CHOOSE, AND EXECUTE
• AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

Hasard has used and taught these techniques across the full spectrum of human endeavors and proven their effectiveness in both the cockpit and the boardroom. Those who have already benefited include CEO’s, astronauts, CIA agents, students, parents, and many others. The Art of Clear Thinking is a book that will change how you interact with the world around you.]]>
259 Hasard Lee 125028144X Brad 0 to-read 4.15 The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions
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<![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]> 65678550
Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill's residents—roused by Chona's kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to keep the boy safe.

As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.]]>
400 James McBride 0593422945 Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 3.83 2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]>
323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Brad 5 american_classics 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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<![CDATA[A Little History of the United States (Little Histories)]]> 25074731 A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources.
 
In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from her escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.]]>
344 James West Davidson 0300181418 Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 4.05 2015 A Little History of the United States (Little Histories)
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<![CDATA[The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels]]> 15824358 The First 90 Days has become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible of leadership and career transitions. In this updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition, internationally known leadership transition expert Michael D. Watkins gives you the keys to successfully negotiating your next move—whether you’re onboarding into a new company, being promoted internally, or embarking on an international assignment.

In The First 90 Days, Watkins outlines proven strategies that will dramatically shorten the time it takes to reach what he calls the "breakeven point" when your organization needs you as much as you need the job. This new edition includes a substantial new preface by the author on the new definition of a career as a series of transitions; and notes the growing need for effective and repeatable skills for moving through these changes. As well, updated statistics and new tools make this book more reader-friendly and useful than ever.

As hundreds of thousands of readers already know, The First 90 Days is a road map for taking charge quickly and effectively during critical career transition periods—whether you are a first-time manager, a mid-career professional on your way up, or a newly minted CEO.]]>
304 Michael D. Watkins 1422188612 Brad 0 3.84 2003 The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
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<![CDATA[A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present]]> 2767 Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”]]>
729 Howard Zinn 0060838655 Brad 0 to-read, american_classics 4.08 1980 A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Elon Musk 122765395 From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.

His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.

At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said.

It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.

For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?]]>
688 Walter Isaacson 1982181281 Brad 0 to-read, muskbooks 4.27 2023 Elon Musk
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