Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box
10 best books like Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box (Eric Bronson): But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage, The Non-Designer's Design Book, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, Good Eats: The Later Years, Ghostwritten
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0399184120 |
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close...
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
| Author | Steven Levitsky |
| ISBN | 1524762938 |
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the...
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
| Author | Ben Rhodes |
| ISBN | 1847925170 |
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes.
The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader; of how idealism can confront reality and survive; of how the White House really...
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us...
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
Show Up and Let Yourself be Seen
Is vulnerability the same as weakness? “In our culture,” teaches Dr. Brené Brown, “we associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace...
The Non-Designer's Design Book
| Author | Robin P. Williams |
| ISBN | 0321193857 |
So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require—what's stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a cohesive design that effectively communicates your message. Not to worry: This book is the one...
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
| Author | Mark Owen |
| ISBN | 0525953728 |
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the...
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
| Author | W.P. Kinsella |
| ISBN | 0618340807 |
Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world" (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer...
Good Eats: The Later Years
As Good Eats enjoys its 14th season on the Food Network, its popularity continues unabated. Fans can’t get enough of Alton Brown’s wildly inventive, science-geeky, food-loving spirit. It’s no wonder, then, that the first two volumes in STC’s Good Eats series were New York Times bestsellers.
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| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375724508 |
A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia....
