The Heart of the Fight: A Couple's Guide to Fifteen Common Fights, What They Really Mean, and How They Can Bring You Closer
10 best books like The Heart of the Fight: A Couple's Guide to Fifteen Common Fights, What They Really Mean, and How They Can Bring You Closer (Judith Wright): The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Dancing in a Distant Place, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope, Override: my quest to go beyond brain training and take control of my mind, Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, 浪潮之巅 (On Top of Tides), Golda Slept Here
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Author | Atul Gawande |
ISBN | 0805091742 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies‚neither...
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve...
Dancing in a Distant Place
Author | Isla Dewar |
ISBN | 0312349467 |
A warm and intelligent novel about a young teacher who throws herself into the lives of her students in the hopes of forgetting the past, only to find it returning more vividly than ever.
When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Scottish Highland community of Green Cairns, she's still in a state of shock--not...
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
Author | Mark Manson |
ISBN | 0062955934 |
From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope.
We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human...
Override: my quest to go beyond brain training and take control of my mind
Author | Caroline Williams |
ISBN | 1925228983 |
Can you really rewire an adult brain?
In theory the answer is ‘yes’, but there's a problem: no one seems to know exactly how to do it. In Override, Caroline Williams goes on a mission to find out.
Neuroplasticity dictates that the brain adapts physically as we...
Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities
Author | George L. Kelling |
ISBN | 0684837382 |
Based on a groundbreaking theory of crime prevention, this practical and empowering book shows how citizens, business owners, and police can work together to ensure the safety of their communities. George Kelling, one of America’s leading criminologists, has proven the success of his method...
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Author | Frank Langfitt |
ISBN | 1610398149 |
As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change.
China--America's...
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Author | Sven Beckert |
ISBN | 0375414142 |
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven...
Author | Suad Amiry |
ISBN | 9927101465 |
Politics enters the lives of every family in Palestine. In this literary historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle...