Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution
10 best books like Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution (Lisa Bodell): Who Goes There?, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1, 3001: The Final Odyssey, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2., Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed, Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice
Author | John W. Campbell Jr. |
ISBN | 0982332203 |
"Who Goes There?" The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
Author | Junji Ito |
ISBN | 1569317143 |
Can a comic--a horror manga, in this case--creep you out or even scare you? You know movies can do it, such as Psycho or Halloween. Stephen King can do it. I like some of Joe Hill's work such as Locke and Key, and that works to unsettle me, but this is different, atmospheric, black and white. . . and creepy,...
Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
ISBN | 0345438205 |
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening...
Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back
Author | Gary John Bishop |
ISBN | 0062872389 |
From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want out of life.
In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop told us it was time to stop making excuses—to...
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Author | Olivia Laing |
ISBN | 1250039576 |
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2.
Author | Junji Ito |
ISBN | 1591160332 |
A sleepy town on the coast of Japan is under quiet, deadly siege, not by a person or group but by a primeval spiral shape whose victims include both parents of Shuichi Saito. In this second volume of the saga, Shuichi's girlfriend Kirie becomes further involved in the town's terrible secret when schoolmates...
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3
Author | Junji Ito |
ISBN | 1591160480 |
Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral manifesting itself in increasingly terrifying ways. In this third and final volume, the town is cut off from the outside by devastating hurricanes. Kirie, her boyfriend Shuichi, and the other desperate survivors...
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long...
The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed
Author | Carl Honoré |
ISBN | 0307401308 |
In the tradition of his internationally bestselling In Praise of Slow, and drawing on examples from the most progressive and successful leaders in business, politics, science and society, Carl Honoré brilliantly illuminates why the best way to face our problems might just be to take our time.
If...
Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice
Author | Brené Brown |
ISBN | 1622037812 |
With her previous bestsellers, Dr. Brene Brown helped us realize that vulnerability is the birthplace for trust, belonging, joy, creativity, and love. Yet a willingness to be vulnerable means accepting that life will sometimes knock us down. Where do we find the strength to get back up? In her research...
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
Author | Guy Leschziner |
ISBN | 1250202701 |
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations...
Best Self: Be You, Only Better
Author | Mike Bayer |
ISBN | 1982584653 |
The first book from Coach Mike, well-known life coach, personal development coach, addiction specialist, and soon-to-be Dr. Phil Show regular: an inspiring, invigorating program to help you examine where your life is now. Determine once and for all who you want to be and where you want to go, and live...