Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish
10 best books like Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish (Abigail Pogrebin): Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
| Author | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| ISBN | 0805073698 |
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with nearly 90,000 copies in print
Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects...
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 1566894956 |
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as...
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
| Author | Saul D. Alinsky |
| ISBN | 0679721134 |
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose...
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
| Author | Donald Miller |
| ISBN | 0785263705 |
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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened." ―Donald MillerIn Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely...
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
| Author | Olivia Fox Cabane |
| ISBN | 1591844568 |
What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll...
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire
| Author | Martin Lindstrom |
| ISBN | 0385523882 |
How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within our subconscious minds, we’re barely aware...
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
| Author | Michael S. Gazzaniga |
| ISBN | 0060892889 |
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives.
What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique?...
Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury
| Author | Matt Richards |
| ISBN | 1681881888 |
For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man.
Here...
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
| Author | Robert B. Cialdini |
| ISBN | 1501109790 |
The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.
What separates effective communicators...
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
| Author | Charles Krauthammer |
| ISBN | 0385349173 |
From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges...
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
| Author | Cea Sunrise Person |
| ISBN | 0062289861 |
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.
In the late...
| Author | Tova Mirvis |
| ISBN | 0544520521 |
The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world.
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this...
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
This book does not have to be construed as a means to cruel and heartless power any more than Sun Tzu's The Art of War should be viewed as such. Are some power tactics manipulative? Yes. Does getting to the top sometimes involve taking an opportunity away from someone else? Yes. Is power necessarily a bad...
| Author | Joy Fielding |
| ISBN | 0399181520 |
What first appears to be a random home invasion reveals a family's dark secrets in this domestic ticking-clock suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of See Jane Run.
A hostile relationship with her sister and a complicated past with her father's second wife have kept Robin estranged...
The Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America (Civilization Jihad Reader Series Book 4)
In this extraordinary study, investigative reporter Jim Simpson builds upon – and adds considerable detail to – the research conducted by Ann Corcoran. Her blog, Refugee Resettlement Watch, has become an indispensable resource for those concerned with the UN-directed and U.S. government-enabled...
Winners: And How They Succeed
| Author | Alastair Campbell |
| ISBN | 1605988804 |
How do sportsmen excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve the ambitions? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning mindset something we can all develop?
In the tradition of The Talent Code and The Power of Habit, Campbell draws on the wisdom of an astonishing array of talented...
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
| Author | Michael Harris |
| ISBN | 1847947654 |
"I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris' take on existence is calm, unique, and makes one's soul feel good." DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Solitude is a rapidly vanishing experience. Our society now embraces sharing like never before: time alone is being forced out of our lives...
The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan's Principles Can Restore America's Greatness
| Author | Michael Reagan |
| ISBN | 1441778934 |
The challenges and threats we as a nation face today are eerily similar to the conditions in the world before the beginning of the Reagan era. In his famous 1976 speech at the Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan helped define a way forward and strengthened the Republican Party. As we stand...
