Marcin's bookshelf: read en-US Sun, 11 May 2025 17:04:07 -0700 60 Marcin's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life]]> 55275270 Life's Missing Instruction Manual

Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was brought as a slave to Rome, where he became a great teacher, deeply influencing the future emperor Marcus Aurelius among many others. His philosophy, Stoicism, was practical, not theoretical--aimed at relieving human suffering here and now.

And Epictetus knew suffering. Besides being a former slave, he was lame in one leg and walked with a crutch. After a decade of teaching in Rome, he was banished by Emperor Domitian; undaunted, he established a school in Greece.

The Manual is a collection of Epictetus' essential teachings and pithy sayings, compiled by his closet student. It is the most accessible and actionable guide to Stoic philosophy, as relevant today as it was in the Roman Empire.

This new edition is rendered in contemporary English, with a foreword, by Sam Torode. A companion volume, The Meditations: An Emperor's Guide to Mastery by Marcus Aurelius, is also available from Ancient Renewal.

The Kindle e-book is FREE when you buy the paperback. ]]> 60 Epictetus 1545461112 Marcin 0 to-read 4.29 125 The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Patopaństwo. O tym, jak elity pustosz? nasz kraj]]> 223630757 Najnowsza ksi??ka twórcy hase? ?państwo z kartonu” i ?patodeweloperka”

Co jest nie tak z Polsk?? Jakie s? ?ród?a patologii ?ycia publicznego? Takie pytania zadaje sobie wielu z nas, obserwuj?c polsk? rzeczywisto??. Jan ?piewak zabiera nas w podró? po Patopaństwie. To opowie?ci o kraju, w którym feudalizm i dziki kapitalizm podaj? sobie r?ce nad g?owami obywateli. O januszexie, który przebra? si? za europejskie państwo. O szlacheckim folwarku, który nigdy nie umar?, a w III RP wr?cz si? odrodzi?.

Dlaczego polskie osiedla mieszkaniowe przypominaj? chów klatkowy, zamiast by? dobrymi miejscami do ?ycia? Dlaczego pijemy wi?cej alkoholu ni? w czasach PRL-u? Dlaczego pracujemy d?u?ej i w gorszych warunkach ni? wi?kszo?? Europy? Czemu media tradycyjne i spo?eczno?ciowe promuj? patologie? Dlaczego Polacy sp?acaj? najdro?sze kredyty hipoteczne w Unii? Dlaczego miliony Polaków nie maj? dost?pu do transportu publicznego? Czemu polskie instytucje przypominaj? folwarki? Dlaczego w polityce od 35 lat s? te same twarze? Dziesi?tki trudnych pytań, setki nieweso?ych odpowiedzi.

Autor przypomina, ?e państwo mo?e zrobi? dla obywateli wiele dobrego, je?li tylko realizuje interesy wspólnoty, a nie najsilniejszych. Razem mo?emy niemal wszystko, osobno niewiele. Tymczasem – witajcie w Patopaństwie.]]> 416 Jan ?piewak 8383872127 Marcin 0 to-read, 2025 4.31 2025 Patopaństwo. O tym, jak elity pustosz? nasz kraj
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)]]> 210087632 Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion—and why giving it up can free us from suffering

From self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that the self is an illusion—and that our belief in it is the cause of most, if not all, of our suffering. How to Lose Yourself presents lively, accessible, and expert new translations of ancient Buddhist writings about the central, unique, and powerful Buddhist teaching of “no-self.”

Drawn from three important Buddhist traditions, these essential Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese writings provide a rich sampling of the ways Buddhist philosophers have understood the idea that we are selfless persons—and why this insight is so therapeutic. When we let go of the self, we are awakened to the presence of all things as they truly are, and we let go of the anxiety, fear, greed, and hatred that are the source of all suffering.

Complete with an introduction and headnotes to each selection, and the original texts on facing pages, How to Lose Yourself is a concise guide to a transformative idea.]]> 216 Jay L. Garfield 0691252637 Marcin 0 4.00 How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture]]> 58537332 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Co-written with his son Daniel, The Myth of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.]]> 576 Gabor Maté 0593083881 Marcin 0 to-read, 2025, psychology 4.30 2022 The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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]]> Linia oporu 25130981 Pawe? Kostrzewa zajmuje si? produkowaniem sensów ?ycia w tym ?wiecie prawie-jutra, gdzie przygody w sieci s? bardziej realne od nudnej codzienno?ci powszechnego dobrobytu, pozbawionej wyzwań, konieczno?ci, wagi.
Nolensum zalewa nas wszystkich, coraz trudniej znale?? powód, by wsta? z ?ó?ka, coraz trudniej wmówi? w siebie jak?kolwiek ambicj?, gdy wszelkie luksusy i przyjemno?ci masz podane za darmo.
Jakie s? twoje linie oporu? Jakie ograniczenia i niespe?nione pragnienia sprawiaj?, ?e jeste?, kim jeste??
Opowiadanie pochodzi z tomu ?碍谤ó濒 Bólu”.]]> 224 Jacek Dukaj 8308056008 Marcin 0 currently-reading, 2025 3.79 2010 Linia oporu
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]]> Polska anarchia 4479015

Czy warcholstwo i sk?onno?? do anarchii to cz??? polskiego charakteru narodowego? W wydanym po?miertnie zbiorze esejów Pawe? Jasienica polemizuje z tym stereotypem, podtrzymywanym mi?dzy innymi przez powie?ci Sienkiewicza. Analizuj?c dzieje Rzeczpospolitej od XVI wieku i przyczyny jej upadku, dowodzi, ?e ?Nieprawd? jest, ?e Polacy nie umiej? korzysta? z wolno?ci, prawd? jest natomiast, ?e wielu Polaków lubi nadu?ywa? w?adzy”. Jego zdaniem warstw? anarchizuj?c? by?a manipuluj?ca szlacht? magnateria, ni?sze warstwy natomiast posiada?y silnie rozwini?ty instynkt państwowy. Wiele miejsca po?wi?ca kontrreformacji, uznaj?c j? za jedn? z g?ównych destrukcyjnych si?, obok egoizmu, prywaty, ??dzy w?adzy i przywilejów.

Jego znakomicie napisana, pe?na pasji ksi??ka to imponuj?cy erudycj? obraz ostatnich dwóch wieków Rzeczpospolitej i przyczynek do wci?? aktualnej dyskusji o polskim charakterze narodowym.]]> 200 Pawe? Jasienica 8308019706 Marcin 0 to-read, 2025 4.14 1988 Polska anarchia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself]]> 1963638 The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions.

Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. 驰辞耻’濒濒 discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization.

Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.]]> 183 Michael A. Singer Marcin 0 4.19 2007 The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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]]> <![CDATA[$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff]]> 156940126 You can get 2x, 10x, or 100x more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what you sell…This book contains the playbooks that took me from sleeping on my gym floor to owning a portfolio of companies that generate $200,000,000 per year in under a decade. Wanna know the biggest difference between those two time periods? How many leads I was getting.

The problem is - most business owners don’t know how to get leads.

I wrote this book to solve your LEADS problem.Today, our companies generate 20,000+ new leads per day across sixteen different industries. And, they do it using the eight “never-go-hungry” playbooks inside. Once you see them, you can’t unsee them. They’re so powerful, they work without your permission.

Inside you will find…

…The easiest way to get another five customers tomorrow

…The hook-retain-reward system to transforms content into leads

…The 6-part ad framework that gets more people - especially strangers - to want what you sell

…The one question that immediately turns any stranger (no matter how cold) into a hot lead

…The 7 direct referral methods responsible for 30% of my sales

…The affiliate playbook that gets hundreds of other businesses to advertise your stuff for free

…The agency agreement that gets them to teach you their lead-getting secrets at no cost

…The how-to-get-people-off-the-streets-and-getting-you-leads in under 2 weeks framework

…and everything else that got our companies boatloads of leads…fast.



And the best part is…you can use these playbooks to get more leads within an hour of reading this book. You just have to know where to look…and the first place is inside.

If you want to get more leads for your business...then ADD TO CART, use its contents, and see for yourself.]]> 369 Alex Hormozi Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.65 $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff
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]]> <![CDATA[The Creative Act: A Way of Being]]> 60965426 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott

"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.]]> 406 Rick Rubin 0593652886 Marcin 0 4.00 2023 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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]]> <![CDATA[$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No]]> 58612786 How To Charge a Lot More Than You Currently Are…
a- The Tiny Market Big Money Process we use to laser focus on niche markets overflowing with cash
b- The “Unfair” Pricing formula….how we 100x’d our pricing (and got more people to say yes….for real)
c- The Value Flip...so you never get price compared again (that’s a promise)
d- The Virtuous Cycle of Price...use it to outspend your competition (for good) while using your product to attract the best talent.
How To Make Your Product So Good, Prospects Find A Way To Pay For It
a- The Unbeatable Value Equation….to make what you sell worth more than your prospects have ever received
b- The Delivery Cube….to make delivering your products and services cost less but provide more
c- The Trim & Stack Hack….to maximize profit using the absolute best delivery methods. (This has never been shared publicly and was how we made $17M in profit on $28M in revenue in a year when I was 28 years old).
How To Enhance Your Offer So Much, Prospects Buy Without Hesitating
a- The Scarcity Stack….how to use the three different types of scarcity in every offer you make (without lying) to get people to buy the moment you ask
b- The “Everyday” Urgency Blueprint... to get prospects to buy RIGHT NOW, using everyday life to create real, ethical time pressure
c- Unbeatable Bonuses...and watch your prospects' hesitations melt away as they begin reading their credit cards to you before you even finish!
d- God-mode Guarantees...so good they make anyone say yes (even people who would never normally consider buying). I’ll show you how to stack and layer all 4 types of guarantees together. I even give you my 13 favorite guarantees word-for-word to swipe for yourself.
e- Magic Naming Formula to get the absolute highest response rates and conversion rates from everything you do to get new clients and so much more…

The methods contained within this book are so simple, so instantaneous, and so effective, it’s as if they work by magic. If you implement even one tactic in this book, you’ll see the change in your prospects' demeanor. And you’ll know the $100M Offer method worked when you start hearing “What do I need to do to move forward?” ...before you even ask for the sale.

If you want to get more prospects to reply to your ads for less advertising dollars and get them to say YES to breathtaking prices... then ADD TO CART, use its contents, and see for yourself.]]> 258 Alex Hormozi 1737475707 Marcin 0 4.57 $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
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]]> <![CDATA[Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]]> 204927599 From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.]]> 528 Yuval Noah Harari 059373422X Marcin 0 2024, currently-reading, 2025 4.14 2024 Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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]]> <![CDATA[Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)]]> 28335699
In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.

As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.

But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat.]]> 528 James S.A. Corey 0356510395 Marcin 5 4.48 2021 Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)]]> 28335698
In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess.

And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough...]]> 534 James S.A. Corey 0316332879 Marcin 5 2025 4.54 2019 Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)]]> 28335696 In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance, still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity – and the power to enforce it.
New technologies clash with old, as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient pattern of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity – and of the Rocinante – unexpectedly and for ever …

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series.
The Expanse Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, Babylon's Ashes, Persepolis Rising,
The Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher of Anderson Station, Gods of Risk, The Churn, The Vital Abyss, Strange Dogs.]]> 608 James S.A. Corey 0316332828 Marcin 5 2024, 2025 4.34 2017 Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Chiński obwarzanek. Od Tajwanu po Tybet, czyli jak Chiny tworz? imperium]]> 197589139 Fenomenalny skok cywilizacyjny, pozycja drugiego supermocarstwa ?wiata oraz jednego z najwa?niejszych graczy politycznych i gospodarczych ? dla Chin to wci?? za ma?o. Na drodze do "wielkiego odrodzenia narodu chińskiego" stoi niezale?ny Tajwan.

Odbudowuj?c imperium, Chińska Republika Ludowa ju? wcze?niej podporz?dkowa?a sobie Mand?uri?, Mongoli? Wewn?trzn?, Ujguri?, Tybet, Hongkong i Makau. Czy opieraj?ce si? jeszcze Tajwan i Mongolia podziel? ich losy? Sk?d bierze si? chiński p?d imperialny i co oznacza dla reszty ?wiata?

Micha? Lubina odwiedzi? wszystkie opisywane miejsca, a w tej ksi??ce ukazuje Państwo ?rodka widziane nie z centrum, lecz z pograniczy. Ta rzadka perspektywa oraz wielo?? opisanych tu procesów tworz? nieznany obraz wspó?czesnych Chin.]]> 430 Micha? Lubina 8381353491 Marcin 0 to-read, 2025 4.21 2023 Chiński obwarzanek. Od Tajwanu po Tybet, czyli jak Chiny tworz? imperium
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]]> <![CDATA[Inclusive Components: The Book]]> 41557315
Each chapter tackles a single component, addressing how different and vulnerable people might read and interact with it, and how they can be better accommodated. The in-depth explorations are meticulously illustrated and code examples culminate as working demos.

Inclusive design is not about wrong and right, but bad to better. You'll learn plenty of tips from Inclusive Components, but you'll also adopt the mindset to go on and make even better components.]]> Heydon Pickering Marcin 0 to-read, 2022, accessibility 5.00 Inclusive Components: The Book
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Marcin 0 4.37 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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]]> The Count of Monte Cristo 522110
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic??era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story??is one of the most widely read romantic novels of??all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond??Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown??into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed??to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story??of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his??miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought??revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue??and paints a vision of France -- a dazzling,??dueling, exuberant France -- that has become immortal.??]]> 531 Alexandre Dumas 0553213504 Marcin 0 2021, 2022, to-read 4.36 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)]]> 5043 Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.

Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.

Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.

The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.

For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition
]]> 976 Ken Follett 045122213X Marcin 0 4.34 1989 The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)]]> 25877663 The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series.

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.

James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.

But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante's problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.

]]> 532 James S.A. Corey 0356504263 Marcin 5 2024 4.22 2016 Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)]]> 22886612
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.

Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.

And as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.]]> 536 James S.A. Corey 031621759X Marcin 5 2024 4.44 2015 Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
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name: Marcin
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest]]> 58438620 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months.

For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed.

To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé).

What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.]]> 384 Carolyn Dewar 1982179678 Marcin 0 to-read 4.08 2022 CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest
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]]> <![CDATA[Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre]]> 306940 Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the actors' studio, when he was Associate Director of the Royal Court and then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers called The Theatre Machine.

Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills' and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific approaches which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.]]> 208 Keith Johnstone 0878301178 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.23 1979 Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
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]]> <![CDATA[Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights]]> 17984551
Interviewing Users will explain how to succeed with interviewing, including:

* Embracing how other people see the world
* Building rapport to create engaging and exciting interactions
* Listening in order to build rapport.

With this book, Steve Portigal uses stories and examples from his 15 years of experience to show how interviewing can be incorporated into the design process, helping you learn the best and right information to inform and inspire your design.]]> 176 Steve Portigal 193382011X Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.20 2013 Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
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]]> <![CDATA[A Path through the Jungle: Psychological Health and Wellbeing Programme to Develop Robustness and Resilience]]> 58952341 0 Steve Peters 1998991105 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.28 A Path through the Jungle: Psychological Health and Wellbeing Programme to Develop Robustness and Resilience
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]]> <![CDATA[Mitteleuropa: Nowy porz?dek w sercu Europy]]> 210879002
Jego wydana w 1915 roku ksi??ka okaza?a si? bestsellerem. Przedstawiony przez Naumanna projekt Mitteleuropy, rozumiany jako ustanowienie dominacji Niemiec mi?dzy Ba?tykiem, Morzem Czarnym i Adriatykiem stanowi dla wspó?czesnego czytelnika fascynuj?cy przyk?ad sposobu my?lenia niemieckich elit o naszym regionie. Autor odwo?uj?c si? do idei, które w niemieckiej my?li politycznej pojawia?y si? znacznie wcze?niej, wypracowa? w?asne, oryginalne stanowisko. Przez lata stanowi?o ono wa?ny punkt odniesienia w dyskusjach toczonych w najwa?niejszych kr?gach politycznych i gospodarczych Niemiec.??]]> 328 Friedrich Naumann 8366340988 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 3.00 Mitteleuropa: Nowy porz?dek w sercu Europy
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence]]> 36849193 A brilliant and brave investigation?into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research.

A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.]]> 480 Michael Pollan 0525558942 Marcin 5 4.40 2018 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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]]> <![CDATA[1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too]]> 43595024
There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises.

Chess masters and trainers Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Masetti and Messa have created a great first tactics book. It teaches you how to:

? identify weak spots in the position of your opponent
? recognize patterns of combinations
? visualize tricks.

1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used.]]> 2089 Roberto Messa 9056915584 Marcin 0 to-read, 2022, chess 4.38 2012 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too
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]]> Science Fictions 52199285 A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporary science.

So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on?

Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look to science for advice. Science Fictions reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our understanding of all of these fields and more.

While the scientific method will always be our best and only way of knowing about the world, in reality the current system of funding and publishing science not only fails to safeguard against scientists’ inescapable biases and foibles, it actively encourages them. From widely accepted theories about ‘priming’ and ‘growth mindset’ to claims about genetics, sleep, microbiotics, as well as a host of drugs, allergies and therapies, we can trace the effects of unreliable, overhyped and even fraudulent papers in austerity economics, the anti-vaccination movement and dozens of bestselling books – and occasionally count the cost in human lives.

Stuart Ritchie was among the first people to help expose these problems. In this vital investigation, he gathers together the evidence of their full and shocking extent – and how a new reform movement within science is fighting back. Often witty yet deadly serious, Science Fictions is at the vanguard of the insurgency, proposing a host of remedies to save and protect this most valuable of human endeavours from itself.]]> 368 Stuart Ritchie 1847925669 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.36 2020 Science Fictions
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]]> Zamień leczenie na jedzenie 51833190 SKUTECZNE TERAPIE NAJCZESTSZYCH CHOR?B PRZEWLEKLYCH
Nadwaga, cukrzyca, depresja, nadcisnienie, choroby skóry, reumatyzm... Choroby przewlekle w siedemdziesieciu procentach spowodowane sa niewlasciwym odzywianiem. Jedzac to, co dla nas dobre, i madrze poszczac, mozemy uwolnic sie od wielu dolegliwosci, wzmocnic w organizmie procesy samonaprawcze i wydluzyc zycie.
Prof. dr Andreas Michalsen w swojej najnowszej ksiazce mówi o dobroczynnych skutkach zdrowego zywienia oraz postu leczniczego. Opiera sie na faktach, najnowszej wiedzy medycznej, wlasnej praktyce lekarskiej oraz historiach pacjentów. Proponuje skuteczne programy terapeutyczne do leczenia najczestszych chorób przewleklych.]]> 367 Andreas Michalsen 8328713446 Marcin 0 to-read, 2020, health 3.91 2019 Zamień leczenie na jedzenie
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]]> <![CDATA[I See Satan Fall Like Lightning]]> 242319 215 René Girard 1570753199 Marcin 0 4.29 I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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]]> <![CDATA[Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky]]> 46298 168 René Girard 0824516087 Marcin 0 4.20 1963 Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
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]]> <![CDATA[Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs]]> 201319612 The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs upending weight loss as we knew it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to what these drugs mean for our society’s deeply dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodiesIn January 2023, bestselling author Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, the diabetes drug that produces significant weight loss. He?wasn’t alone—credible predictions suggest that in two years, a quarter of the U.S. population will be taking this class of drug. Proponents say that this is a biological solution to a biological problem. While 95 percent of diets fail, the average person taking one of the new drugs will lose a quarter of their body weight in six months, and keep it off for as long as they take it. Here is a moment of liberation from an illness that massively increases your chances of diabetes, dementia, and cancer, and causes 10 percent of all deaths.?Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. The massive rise in obesity rates around the world in the last half century didn’t happen because something went wrong with human biology. It happened because something went disastrously wrong with our We began to eat food designed to be maximally addictive. We built cities that are impossible to walk or bike around. We became much more stressed, making us seek out more comfort snacks. From this perspective, the new weight loss drugs arrive at a moment of madness. We built a food system that poisons us, then decided en masse to inject ourselves with a different potential poison that puts us off all food.A personal journey through weight loss combined with scientific evidence from experts, Magic Pill explores, as only Hari can, questions How did we get to this point? What does it reveal about our society that we couldn’t solve this problem socially, and instead turned to potentially risky pharmaceutical solutions? And will this free us from social pressure to conform to an ideal body type—or make that pressure even more dangerously intense?]]> 320 Johann Hari 0593728637 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.26 2024 Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It]]> 26156469 A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most – when people’s lives were at stake.

Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence professional at the top of his game, Never Split the Difference will give you the competitive edge in any discussion.]]> 274 Chris Voss 0062407805 Marcin 4 4.35 2016 Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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]]> Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,” recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist – an informational topologist with half his mind gone – as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Marcin 0 4.01 2006 Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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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 Marcin 4 2021 4.14 2021 Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
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If you have watched Peterson's Maps of Meaning and Personality lectures on YouTube, you won't get a lot of new stuff from this book. Don't get me wrong, this book is really good (even if quite chaotic at times), but as a diehard fan, I expected something more.
]]> The Doors of Perception 3188964 The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline.

The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.

Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.]]> 208 Aldous Huxley Marcin 0 3.91 1956 The Doors of Perception
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]]> <![CDATA[How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir]]> 112974863
“One of the best books on politics our era will see . . . A book of astonishing literary quality.” — Matthew Parris, The TLS

“[Rory Stewart] walked across Asia, served in British Parliament, and ran against Boris Johnson. Now he gives us his view of what’s wrong with politics, and how we can make it right.”?—Adam Grant, “The 12 New Fall Books to Enrich Your Thinking”

From a great writer—legendary for his expeditions into some of the world’s most forbidding places—a wise, honest, and sometimes absurdist memoir of a?most?remarkable journey through British politics at the breaking point

Rory Stewart was an unlikely politician. He was best known for his two-year walk across Asia—in which he crossed Afghanistan, essentially solo, in the months after 9/11—and for his service, as a diplomat in Iraq, and Afghanistan. But in 2009, he abandoned his chair at Harvard University to stand for a seat in Parliament, representing the communities and farms of the Lake District and the Scottish border—one of the most isolated and beautiful districts in England. He ran as a Conservative, though he had no prior connection to the politics and there was much about the party that he disagreed with.

How Not to Be a Politician is a candid and penetrating examination of life on the ground as a politician in an age of shallow populism, when every hard problem has a solution that’s simple, appealing, and wrong. While undauntedly optimistic about what a public servant can accomplish in the lives of his constituents, the book is also a pitiless insider’s exposé of the game of politics at the highest level, often shocking in its displays of rampant cynicism, ignorance, glibness, and sheer incompetence. Stewart witnesses Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and its descent into political civil war, compounded by the bad faith of his party’s leaders—David Cameron, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss.

Finally, after nine years of service and six ministerial roles, and shocked by his party’s lurch to the populist right, Stewart ran for prime minister. Stewart’s campaign took him into the lead in the opinion polls, head-to-head against Boris Johnson. How Not to Be a Politician is his effort to make sense of it all, including what has happened to politics in Britain and the world and how we can fix it. The view into democracy’s dark heart is troubling, but at every turn Stewart also finds allies and ways to make a difference. A bracing, invigorating mix of irony and love infuses How Not to Be a Politician . This is one of the most revealing memoirs written by a politician in living memory.]]> 464 Rory Stewart 0593300327 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.19 2023 How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond]]> 1458370 This engaging book highlights the history of industrial development and its impact on investors. Today's investors will learn about past approaches to technological advances such as-electricity, the railroad, the telephone, the computer, and much more-while gaining insights on how to appraise the "new technology" companies of the future. This complete and well researched history of industries and investing wouldn't be complete without a look how Thomas Edison lost control of his company, the impact of the Standard Oil breakup, the early days of the wireless industry, and the changing face of the computer industry today. Investors looking for industry-shaping investments will undoubtedly use Engines That Move Markets as their guide.]]> 494 Alasdair Nairn 0471205958 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.33 2001 Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond
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]]> <![CDATA[Intimacy With God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer]]> 724452 176 Thomas Keating 0824515889 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024, religion 4.16 1994 Intimacy With God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer
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]]> The Art of Explanation 64631477
Whether you need to articulate your thoughts clearly for business, educational or social purposes, The Art of Explanation is a must-read for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills.]]> 256 Ros Atkins 1472298446 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024, psychology 3.96 The Art of Explanation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Leprechauns of Software Engineering]]> 15874425
Unfortunately, the objects of this telephone game are generally considered cornerstone truths of the discipline, to the point that their acceptance now seems to hinder further progress.

In this short ebook, we will take a look at some of those "ground truths": the claimed 10x variation in productivity between developers; the "software crisis"; the cost-of-change curve; the "cone of uncertainty"; and more. We'll hone our scholarship skills by looking up the original source for these ideas and taking a deep dive in the history of their development. We'll assess the real weight of the evidence behind these ideas.

And we'll confront the scary prospect of moving the state of the art forward in a discipline that has had the ground kicked from under it.]]> 183 Laurent Bossavit Marcin 0 to-read 3.84 2012 The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
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]]> Thicker Than Water 54815214
Tyler Shultz had been in the workforce for less than a year when he emailed Elizabeth Holmes, his employer and the CEO and founder of Theranos, with concerns that the company’s lab practices were faulty, ignored quality control, and were potentially dangerous to patients. The COO fired back with a dismissive and insulting email, to which Tyler “Consider this my two weeks’ notice.”

From there, his life spun out of control at the hand of Elizabeth, her team of high-powered lawyers, and the patriarch of Tyler’s own family George Shultz - one of America’s most prominent statesmen - who sat among the top of the Theranos board of directors. And yet, Tyler forged on. To protect his own conscience, the honor and reputation of his grandfather, and the health of patients worldwide.

Thicker than Water is Tyler’s as-told-to story - a harrowing and heartbreaking roller coaster of biomedical drama, family intrigue, and redemption - that will ultimately make you feel as though you are at a dinner party, seated next to a brilliant friend with one hell of a story.]]> 4 Tyler Shultz Marcin 0 to-read, 2021 4.16 2020 Thicker Than Water
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]]> Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4) 18656030 The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse series

The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule.

But Holden and his crew must also contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company which owns the official claim to the planet. Both sides will stop at nothing to defend what's theirs, but soon a terrible disease strikes and only Holden - with help from the ghostly Detective Miller - can find the cure.]]> 581 James S.A. Corey Marcin 5 4.18 2014 Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building]]> 48691943 200 Matt Mochary 0578599295 Marcin 0 4.30 The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
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]]> <![CDATA[Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success]]> 13383957
Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from other technology companies. It’s what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on Earth in 2011.

Thanks to Steve Jobs’s uncompromising ways, you can see Simplicity in everything Apple the way it’s structured, the way it innovates, and the way it speaks to its customers.

It’s by crushing the forces of Complexity that the company remains on its stellar trajectory.

As ad agency creative director, Ken Segall played a key role in Apple’s resurrection, helping to create such critical marketing campaigns as Think different. By naming the iMac, he also laid the foundation for naming waves of i-products to come.

Segall has a unique perspective, given his years of experience creating campaigns for other iconic tech companies, including IBM, Intel, and Dell. It was the stark contrast of Apple’s ways that made Segall appreciate the power of Simplicity—and inspired him to help others benefit from it.

In Insanely Simple , you’ll be a fly on the wall inside a conference room with Steve Jobs, and on the receiving end of his midnight phone calls. 驰辞耻’濒濒 understand how his obsession with Simplicity helped Apple perform better and faster, sometimes saving millions in the process. 驰辞耻’濒濒 also learn, for example, how

? Think Distilling choices to a minimum brings clarity to a company and its customers—as Jobs proved when he replaced over twenty product models with a lineup of four.
? Think Swearing allegiance to the concept of “small groups of smart people” raises both morale and productivity.
? Think Keeping project teams in constant motion focuses creative thinking on well-defined goals and minimizes distractions.
? Think Using a simple, powerful image to symbolize the benefit of a product or idea creates a deeper impression in the minds of customers.
? Think Giving yourself an unfair advantage—using every weapon at your disposal—is the best way to ensure that your ideas survive unscathed.

Segall brings Apple’s quest for Simplicity to life using fascinating (and previously untold) stories from behind the scenes. Through his insight and wit, you’ll discover how companies that leverage this power can stand out from competitors—and individuals who master it can become critical assets to their organizations.]]> 240 Ken Segall 1591844835 Marcin 0 to-read 3.89 2012 Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
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]]> <![CDATA[Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI]]> 198678736 **A New York Times Bestseller**

'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth

Consumer AI has arrived. And with it, inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs, lives and the future of humanity.

Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking and optimistic, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.]]> 243 Ethan Mollick 075356078X Marcin 0 3.97 2024 Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Marcin 0 to-read, novels 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up]]> 198332459 350 Abigail Shrier Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 3.98 2024 Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
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]]> <![CDATA[Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect]]> 60018618
Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner of legendary restaurant Eleven Madison Park.

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world.
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How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Guidara’s team surprised a family who had never seen snow with a magical sledding trip to Central Park after their dinner; they filled a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs, to console a couple with a cancelled vacation. And his hospitality extended beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, who learned to deliver praise and criticism with intention; why the answer to some of the most pernicious business dilemmas is to give more—not less; and the magic that can happen when a busser starts thinking like an owner.
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Today, every business can choose to be a hospitality business—and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences. Featuring sparkling stories of his journey through restaurants, with the industry’s most famous players like Daniel Boulud and Danny Meyer, Guidara urges us all to find the magic in what we do—for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve.]]> 288 Will Guidara 0593418573 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.42 Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
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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.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.35 2024 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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]]> Hypermedia Systems 192405005 hypermedia, the revolutionary idea that created The Web, can be used today to build modern, sophisticated web applications today, often at a fraction of the complexity of popular JavaScript frameworks.

In this book we will explore a simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview, two technologies that embrace hypermedia as a system architecture. We will look at what a hypermedia system is comprised of and what makes it special when compared with other system architectures. We will then look at how htmx, a modern hypermedia-oriented front end library, makes it possible to build sophisticated user experiences using hypermedia. Finally, we will look at Hyperview, a modern hypermedia system for building mobile applications.

While the book does touch on the theory of hypermedia and provides an overview of the language and concepts around it, it is also packed with practical and simple examples that you can immediately apply and modify for your own applications.

Hypermedia was a great idea. It still is!

After reading this book, you will have the tools necessary to apply this revolutionary approach to software to your own projects and application.]]> 548 Carson Gross Marcin 0 4.41 Hypermedia Systems
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]]> <![CDATA[Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)]]> 16131032
For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.

Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.]]> 539 James S.A. Corey Marcin 5 2024 4.26 2013 Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Tak dzia?a mózg. Jak m?drze dba? o jego funkcjonowanie]]> 198027942
To, co oddzia?uje na nasz mózg, z czym codziennie si? on styka – kszta?tuje to, jacy jeste?my. To od nas, od tego, czym – dos?ownie i w przeno?ni – karmimy go codziennie, w ogromnej mierze zale?y to, jak funkcjonuje.

Modyfikacja naszej diety, zachowania oraz rutyny – i w zwi?zku z tym pracy mózgu – ma podstawowe znaczenie dla profilaktyki wielu chorób oraz dla lepszego codziennego funkcjonowania. Mo?emy zrobi? o wiele wi?cej dla poprawienia sprawno?ci mózgu ni? jakiegokolwiek innego narz?du naszego cia?a.

Dzisiaj mamy ju? pewno??, ?e m.in. to:

co i jak jemy
w jakiej kondycji s? nasze jelita
ile czasu dziennie jeste?my w ruchu
jak du?? wag? przywi?zujemy do jako?ciowego odpoczynku i snu
w znacznym stopniu definiuje zdrowie i pe?ni? funkcjonowania naszego mózgu!

Dr Asia Podgórska przybli?a czytelnikowi zale?no?? mi?dzy stylem ?ycia a kondycj? komórek nerwowych. Je?li chcesz pozna? bli?ej swój mózg, zrozumie?, jak neurony komunikuj? si? ze sob?, czym jest neuroplastyczno?? i sk?d bierze si? serotonina, ta ksi??ka jest w?a?nie dla Ciebie!]]> 416 Asia Podgórska 8383190182 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.22 2023 Tak dzia?a mózg. Jak m?drze dba? o jego funkcjonowanie
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]]> How to Take Smart Notes 34576082 170 S?nke Ahrens 1542866502 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.05 2017 How to Take Smart Notes
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]]> <![CDATA[Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet]]> 178628338
The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks. He separates this movement, which aims to provide a solid foundation for everything from social networks to artificial intelligence to virtual worlds, from cryptocurrency speculation —a distinction he calls “the computer vs. the casino.”
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With lucid and compelling prose— drawing from a 25-year career in the software industry—Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the “read” era, in which early networks democratized information. In the “read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.
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Read Write Own is a must-read for anyone—internet users, business leaders, creators, entrepreneurs—who wants to understand where we’ve been and where we’re going. It provides a vision for a better internet and a playbook to navigate and build the future.]]> 320 Chris Dixon 0593731387 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 3.89 Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
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]]> <![CDATA[Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties]]> 43015073
In 1999, when Tom O'Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Weren't the facts indisputable? Charles Manson had ordered his teenage followers to commit seven brutal murders, and in his thrall, they'd gladly complied. But when O'Neill began reporting the story, he kept finding holes in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's narrative, long enshrined in the best-selling Helter Skelter. Before long, O'Neill had questions about everything from the motive to the manhunt. Though he'd never considered himself a conspiracy theorist, the Manson murders swallowed the next two decades of his career. He was obsessed.

Searching but never speculative, CHAOS follows O'Neill's twenty-year effort to rebut the "official" story behind Manson. Who were his real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement act on their many chances to stop him? And how did he turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's hunt for answers leads him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from the Summer of Love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with cover-ups and coincidences.

Featuring hundreds of new interviews and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, CHAOS mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. In those two dark nights in Los Angeles, O'Neill finds the story of California in the sixties: when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away.



]]> 504 Tom O'Neill 0316477575 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.04 2019 Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
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]]> <![CDATA[Web Scalability for Startup Engineers]]> 23615147 416 Artur Ejsmont 0071843655 Marcin 0 4.49 2015 Web Scalability for Startup Engineers
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]]> A Minor Apocalypse 607340 The Polish Complex, Konwicki's A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of protest. He accepts the commission, but without any clear idea of whether he will actually go through with the self-immolation. He spends the rest of the day wandering the streets of Warsaw, being tortured by the secret police and falling in love. Both himself and Everyman, the character-author experiences the effects of ideologies and bureaucracies gone insane with, as always in history, the individual struggling for survival rather than offering himself up on the pyre of the greater good. Brilliantly translated by Richard Lourie, A Minor Apocalypse is one of the most important novels to emerge from Poland in the last twenty five years.]]> 238 Tadeusz Konwicki 1564782174 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024, history 3.93 1979 A Minor Apocalypse
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]]> Building Micro-Frontends 55759934 100 Luca Mezzalira 1492082996 Marcin 0 4.16 Building Micro-Frontends
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]]> <![CDATA[The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation]]> 15808481
“Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . .? The Idea Factory ?explores one of the most critical issues of our What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson,? The New York Times Book Review

“Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers fascinating evidence for those seeking to understand how a society should best invest its research resources.”?— The Wall Street Journal

From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory , Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Today, when the drive to invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges and solutions to technological innovation. Here, after all, was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born.]]> 422 Jon Gertner 0143122797 Marcin 0 to-read, biography, 2024 4.38 2012 The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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]]> <![CDATA[Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)]]> 12591698
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .]]> 624 James S.A. Corey 1841499900 Marcin 5 2023, sci-fi 4.36 2012 Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
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average rating: 4.36
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]]> <![CDATA[Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World]]> 150778875 From the internationally best-selling writer, a masterful account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonization of the modern world.

On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after World War II.

In this vivid history, renowned scholar and celebrated author of Congo David Van Reybrouck captures a period of extraordinary tumult and chaos to tell the story of Indonesia’s momentous revolution, known as the “Revolusi.” Encompassing several hundred years of history, he details the formation of the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese invasion that followed, and the young rebels who engaged in armed resistance once the occupation ended. British and Dutch troops were sent to restore order and keep peace, but instead ignited the first modern war of decolonization. America, too, became embroiled with the Indonesians’ fierce struggle for freedom. That struggle inspired independence movements in Asia, Africa, and the Arab world, especially in the wake of Indonesia’s monumental 1955 Bandung Conference, the first global conference without the West. The whole world had become involved in Revolusi, and the whole world was changed by it.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eyewitness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative, written with remarkable historical clarity and filled with tragedy and passion. A landmark history, Revolusi cements Indonesia’s struggle for independence as one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century and entirely reframes our understanding of post-colonialism.]]> 656 David Van Reybrouck 1324073691 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.45 2020 Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
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]]> <![CDATA[A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy]]> 77920745 WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.

Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian. He is on the wrong side of the separation wall, holds the wrong ID to pass the military checkpoints, and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem. Abed’s quest to find Milad is interwoven with the stories of a cast of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and histories unexpectedly converge.

In A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall—hailed for his “severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time)—offers an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine and a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.]]> 272 Nathan Thrall 1250854970 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.34 2023 A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World]]> 58950736 From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world

We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks, in their pursuit of unfettered profits, preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.

Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear.

His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.]]> 400 Max Fisher 031670332X Marcin 0 2024, to-read 4.27 2022 The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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]]> <![CDATA[Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology]]> 60321447
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything— from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market — runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is?slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea,?Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil,?is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand.?America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.]]> 464 Chris Miller 1982172002 Marcin 0 4.38 2022 Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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]]> <![CDATA[God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning]]> 56097578 Meghan O'Gieblyn Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 4.24 2021 God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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]]> <![CDATA[Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar]]> 282108 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781400076789

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life. We see Stalin playing his deadly game of power and paranoia at debauched dinners at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We witness first-hand how the dictator and his magnates carried out the Great Terror and the war against the Nazis, and how their families lived in this secret world of fear, betrayal, murder, and sexual degeneracy. Montefiore gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalin’s dictatorship, and a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal.]]> 848 Simon Sebag Montefiore Marcin 0 to-read 4.11 2003 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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]]> <![CDATA[Kraj niespokojnego poranka. Pami?? i bunt w Korei Po?udniowej]]> 58200113
Roman Husarski porzuca stereotypy i uproszczenia i podró?uj?c po Korei, szuka informacji u ?róde?. Opowie?ci, które s?yszy, okazuj? si? du?o ciekawsze ni? misternie kreowany wizerunek. To państwo, w którym ludzie ?yj? najd?u?ej na ?wiecie, wielkie bogactwo spotyka si? ze skrajnym ubóstwem, religie konkuruj? ze sob? niczym firmy, a wojny tocz? nie tylko partie, lecz tak?e regiony, pokolenia oraz p?cie. Husarski barwnie opowiada o meandrach koreańskiej polityki, skomplikowanych relacjach z Japoni? i Kore? Pó?nocn?, ale przede wszystkim rozmawia z lud?mi, którzy zmagaj? si? z odpowiedzi? na pytanie, czym jest dla nich koreańsko?? i jak po??czy? wieloletni? tradycj? ze wspó?czesn? moralno?ci?. Z tych opowie?ci wy?ania si? wielowymiarowa, niejednoznaczna i niezwykle fascynuj?ca Korea.]]> 312 Roman Husarski 8381912717 Marcin 0 to-read, 2024 3.52 2021 Kraj niespokojnego poranka. Pami?? i bunt w Korei Po?udniowej
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]]> <![CDATA[Przegryw. M??czy?ni w pu?apce gniewu i samotno?ci]]> 188859744 360 Patrycja Wieczorkiewicz Marcin 0 to-read, 2024, psychology 4.13 2023 Przegryw. M??czy?ni w pu?apce gniewu i samotno?ci
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]]> <![CDATA[What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies]]> 102146148
Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articlesabout everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: the society around him. Why was everything such a mess? Why was everyone acting like such a baby? When did things get so tribal? Why do humans do this stuff?

This massive topic sent Tim tumbling down his deepest rabbit hole yet, through mountains of history, evolutionary psychology, political theory, neuroscience, and modern-day political movements, as he tried to figure out the answer to a simple question: What’s our problem?

Six years later, he emerged from the hole holding this book. What’s Our Problem? is a deep and expansive analysis of our modern times, in the classic style of Wait But Why, packed with original concepts, sticky metaphors, and 300 drawings. The book provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about today’s complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis, which is all about what we think, the book introduces a verticalaxis that explores how we think, as individuals and as groups. Readers will find themselves on a delightful and fascinating journey that will ultimately change the way they see the world around them.

Anyway he wanted to say a lot more about all of this but there was a word limit on this book description so just go read the book.]]> 746 Tim Urban Marcin 0 4.26 2023 What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
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]]> <![CDATA[The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups]]> 201545491 413 Gergely Orosz 908338182X Marcin 0 to-read, 2023 4.07 2023 The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
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]]> Pokora 54140687 Po??danie. W?adza. Uleg?o??.
Co stracisz, walcz?c o godno???
Epicka powie?? o rewolucji, wojnie i mi?o?ci.

11 listopada 1918. Leutnant Alois Pokora wychodzi ze szpitala na ulice zrewoltowanego Berlina. Stary ?wiat si? skończy?.

La Belle ?poque umar?a w okopach I wojny ?wiatowej. Nowy ?wiat rodzi si? w bólach: na froncie zachodnim i podczas rewolucji, przetaczaj?cej si? przez pokonane Niemcy.

Alois nie nale?a? do starego ?wiata, nie nale?y te? do nowego. Syn górnika z Górnego ?l?ska, zrz?dzeniem losu wyrwany z proletariackiej rodziny, wsz?dzie spotyka si? z pogard? i odrzuceniem. Samotny i prze?ladowany, wierzy tylko w erotyczn? relacj? z perwersyjn?, dominuj?c? Agnes. Jednak w ?wiecie, który si? skończy?, nic nie jest prawdziwe.

Pokora to porywaj?ca powie?? o mi?o?ci, wojnie i rewolucji. Epicka historia o Berlinie i ?l?sku, o Niemcach i Polakach, o podzia?ach spo?ecznych i etnicznych. O po??daniu, w?adzy, uleg?o?ci i cenie, jak? p?aci si? w walce o godno??.]]> 518 Szczepan Twardoch 8308070663 Marcin 0 to-read, 2022, 2023 4.17 2020 Pokora
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]]> 碍谤ó濒 31817750
Nowa powie?? Szczepana Twardocha

Pi?kne samochody, kobiety, zimna wódka i gor?ca krew. Boks, dzielnice n?dzy i luksusowe burdele, b?oto Woli i eleganckie ulice ?ródmie?cia. ?ydzi i Polacy. Getto ?awkowe i walki uliczne. Etniczny, spo?eczny, religijny i polityczny tygiel Warszawy 1937 roku. A ponad wszystkimi podzia?ami zasady gangsterskiego ?wiata, w którym si?a jest najcenniejsz? walut?.

Wszystko zaczyna si? w zat?oczonej sali Kina Miejskiego, gdzie rozentuzjazmowana publiczno?? przygl?da si? walce bokserskiej. Trwa ostatnie starcie w meczu o dru?ynowe mistrzostwo stolicy. Polscy kibice dopinguj? reprezentanta Legii - znanego falangist? Andrzeja Ziembińskiego. Z ?ydowskich trybun dobiegaj? okrzyki na cze?? zawodnika klubu Makabi Warszawa, Jakuba Szapiry. Ten wieczór nale?y do niego. W?ród wiwatów jednych i gwizdów drugich, triumfowi Szapiry przygl?daj? si? siedemnastoletni Moj?esz Bernsztajn oraz Kum Kaplica - stary bojownik PPS, socjalista i król warszawskiego pó??wiatka.
Czterdzie?ci lat pó?niej, w Tel Awiwie, emerytowany ?o?nierz Mosze Inbar pochyla si? nad maszyn? do pisania, by powróci? do wieczoru, w którym po raz pierwszy ujrza? na ringu pi?knego, zuchwa?ego i niezmiernie pewnego siebie boksera. Wówczas nie wiedzia? jeszcze, ?e w 1937 roku to w?a?nie Szapiro, prawa r?ka Kaplicy, zabi? jego ojca z powodu niesp?aconego d?ugu. Nie przypuszcza? te?, jak wiele w jego ?yciu zmieni jeden wieczór i spotkanie z Kumem Kaplic?...
Targani nami?tno?ciami bohaterowie, ?ywe konflikty i emocje, wci?gaj?ca akcja i jej nieprzewidywalne zwroty. Do tego pierwszy w polskiej powojennej literaturze tak ciekawy i wolny od mitologizowania portret ?ydowskiego bohatera oraz pasjonuj?ce realia Warszawy lat 30. XX wieku. Literacki knock-out.]]> 432 Szczepan Twardoch 8308062245 Marcin 0 4.27 2016 碍谤ó濒
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]]> <![CDATA[End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration]]> 62926960
From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames

Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States.?

Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a breakdown in the political order circa 2020. The years since have proved his prediction more and more accurate, and End Times reveals why.

The lessons of world history are clear, Turchin When the equilibrium between ruling elites and the majority tips too far in favor of elites, political instability is all but inevitable. As income inequality surges and prosperity flows disproportionately into the hands of the elites, the common people suffer, and society-wide efforts to become an elite grow ever more frenzied. He calls this process the wealth pump; it’s a world of the damned and the saved. And since the number of such positions remains relatively fixed, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. Turchin’s models show that when this state has been reached, societies become locked in a death spiral it's very hard to exit.

In America, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. As cliodynamics shows us, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.? That is only one possible end time, and the choice is up to us, but the hour grows late.]]> 368 Peter Turchin 0593490509 Marcin 0 to-read, 2023, history 4.02 End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
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]]> <![CDATA[Totem inteligencki. Arystokracja, szlachta i ziemiaństwo w polskiej przestrzeni spo?ecznej]]> 57387837
Zaproponowana w ksi??ce interpretacja relacji ??cz?cych arystokracj?, ziemiaństwo i elity szlacheckie z inteligencj?, s?u??c zrozumieniu genezy nowoczesnego polskiego modelu obywatelstwa, stanowi propozycj? nowego uj?cia historycznej ewolucji polskich hierarchii spo?ecznych w kategoriach socjologicznych. Podej?cie to jest te? prób? rozwoju krytycznej, zorientowanej historycznie i porównawczo analizy obywatelstwa polskiego.]]> Rafa? Smoczyński Marcin 0 to-read, 2023 3.75 Totem inteligencki. Arystokracja, szlachta i ziemiaństwo w polskiej przestrzeni spo?ecznej
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]]> <![CDATA[Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy]]> 16489970 280 Phil P. Barden 1118345576 Marcin 0 4.21 2013 Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy
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]]> <![CDATA[Naming Things: The Hardest Problem in Software Engineering]]> 123009242
These skills can be used throughout your career, and they’re useful for every programming language, technical domain, and experience level. The book incorporates real-world examples to illustrate how to choose good names and avoid bad names.

This book includes:
- Rules for how to choose good names and avoid bad names
- Principles to help you remember the general qualities of good names
- Real-world examples
- Guidelines on the application of these rules and principles, including balancing tradeoffs, renaming best practices, and choosing domain-specific names
- Tips on how to develop your naming skills throughout your career]]> 114 Tom Benner Marcin 0 3.96 Naming Things: The Hardest Problem in Software Engineering
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]]> <![CDATA[The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future]]> 200179688
When you can’t see past the world we have now, look to visionaries like Balaji Srinivasan. His ideas show us how to build a healthier, brighter, and more technologically-advanced humanity.

In The Anthology of A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future, Eric Jorgenson curates a collection of Balaji’s wisdom from his entire career. In “Technology” you will see how technology shapes our world today and the ways it could shape our future. In “Truth” you learn how to think for yourself through the constant clamor of information and media. Finally, in “Building the Future,” you will learn how to wield Technology and Truth to change your life, change your community, and—maybe—change the future of our species.

This guide will help you pick the next great investment, start a billion-dollar company, or even a new country. The Anthology of Balaji helps you visualize and build your brightest future.]]> 273 Eric Jorgenson 1544542909 Marcin 0 4.19 The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
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]]> <![CDATA[Historia polityczna Polski 1989-2015]]> 35066992

III Rzeczypospolita trwa ju? ponad ?wier? wieku! Wydarzenia od rozmów Okr?g?ego Sto?u, przez katastrof? smoleńsk?, a? po ?dobr? zmian?”, na co dzień migaj?ce prasowymi nag?ówkami i telewizyjnymi spotami, tworz? nieprzerwan? histori? najnowsz? Polski. Dobrze zna? j? w ca?o?ci.

Prof. Antoni Dudek podejmuje ?mia?? prób? wskazania ?róde? wspó?czesnej sytuacji politycznej. ?ledzi losy liderów partyjnych i kierowanych przez nich ugrupowań. Rzuca ?wiat?o na dzia?ania poszczególnych rz?dów i kolejne prezydentury budz?ce kontrowersje. Przypomina najwi?ksze sukcesy i pora?ki ostatniego ?wier?wiecza, analizuje afery wstrz?saj?ce ?yciem politycznym i mierzy si? z najbardziej aktualnymi problemami Polski. Pisze przyst?pnie i rzetelnie. Przede wszystkim za? stara si? uczciwie szuka? prawdy.]]> Antoni Dudek Marcin 0 to-read, 2023, history 4.35 2016 Historia polityczna Polski 1989-2015
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]]> <![CDATA[The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time]]> 75495020
For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice.

But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology aiming to place each person’s matrix of identities at the center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential. It stifles discourse, vilifies mutual influence as cultural appropriation, denies that members of different groups can truly understand one another, and insists that the way governments treat their citizens should depend on the color of their skin.

This, Yascha Mounk argues, is the identity trap. Though those who battle for these ideas are full of good intentions, they will ultimately make it harder to achieve progress toward the genuine equality we desperately need. Mounk has built his acclaimed scholarly career on being one of the first to warn of the risks right-wing populists pose to American democracy. But, he shows, those on the left and center who are stuck in the identity trap are now inadvertent allies to the MAGA movement.

In The Identity Trap, Mounk provides the most ambitious and comprehensive account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called “wokeness.” He is the first to show how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the “identity synthesis” that conquered many college campuses by 2010. He lays out how a relatively marginal set of ideas came to gain tremendous influence in business, media, and government by 2020. He makes a nuanced philosophical case for why the application of these ideas to areas from education to public policy is proving to be so deeply counterproductive—and why universal, humanist values can best serve the vital goal of true equality. In explaining the huge political and cultural transformations of the past decade, The Identity Trap provides truth and clarity where they are needed most.]]> 414 Yascha Mounk 0593493192 Marcin 0 to-read, 2023, philosophy 4.07 2023 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
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]]> <![CDATA[Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results]]> 75665850 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Few things will change your trajectory in life or business as much as learning to think clearly. Yet few of us recognize opportunities to think in the first place.

You might believe you’re thinking clearly in the moments that matter most. But in all likelihood, when the pressure is on, you won’t be thinking at all. And your subsequent actions will inevitably move you further from the results you ultimately seek—love, belonging, success, wealth, victory. According to Farnam Street founder Shane Parrish, we must get better at recognizing these opportunities for what they are, and deploying our cognitive ability in order to achieve the life we want.

Clear Thinking gives you the tools to recognize the moments that have the potential to transform your trajectory, and reshape how you navigate the critical space between stimulus and response. As Parrish shows, we may imagine we are the protagonists in the story of our lives. But the sad truth is, most of us run on autopilot. Our behavioral defaults, groomed by biology, evolution, and culture, are primed to run the show for us if we don’t intervene. At our worst, we react to events without reasoning, not even realizing that we’ve missed an opportunity to think at all. At our best, we recognize these moments for what they are, and apply the full capacity of our reasoning and rationality to them.

Through stories, mental models, and more, Parrish offers the missing link between behavioral science and real-life outcomes. The result is a must-have manual for optimizing decision-making, gaining competitive advantage, and living a more intentional life.]]> 284 Shane Parrish 0593086112 Marcin 0 4.16 2023 Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
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]]> <![CDATA[Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes]]> 125116554
— Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author


From the author of the international blockbuster, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY, a powerful new tool to unlock one of life’s most challenging puzzles.

Every investment plan under the sun is, at best,?an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past.

Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change.

With his usual elan, Morgan Housel presents a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. Through a sequence of engaging stories and pithy examples, he shows how we can use our newfound grasp of the unchanging to see around corners, not by squinting harder through the uncertain landscape of the future, but by looking backwards, being more broad-sighted, and focusing instead on what is permanently true. ??

By doing so, we may better?anticipate the big stuff, and?achieve the greatest success, not merely financial comforts, but most importantly, a life well lived.]]> 240 Morgan Housel Marcin 0 4.12 2023 Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
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]]> <![CDATA[Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design]]> 171691901 122 Kent Beck 1098151240 Marcin 0 3.88 Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
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]]> <![CDATA[Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)]]> 8855321
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.]]> 592 James S.A. Corey 1841499889 Marcin 5 sci-fi, novels, 2021, 2022 4.30 2011 Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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average rating: 4.30
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage]]> 139069 The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.

In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

First edition: here.]]> 282 Alfred Lansing Marcin 0 4.42 1959 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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]]> Poverty, by America 61358638 Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.]]> 304 Matthew Desmond 0593239911 Marcin 0 to-read, 2023 4.27 2023 Poverty, by America
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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 Marcin 5 2023, biography 4.28 2023 Elon Musk
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion]]> 54998264 The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unraveling exposes about Silicon Valley's delusions and the financial system's desperate hunger to cash in--from the Wall Street Journal reporters whose scoops hastened the company's downfall.

In 2001, Adam Neumann arrived in New York after five years as a conscript in the Israeli navy. Just over fifteen years later, he had transformed himself into the charismatic CEO of a company worth $47 billion--at least on paper. With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the 6-foot-five Neumann, who grew up in part on a kibbutz, looked the part of a messianic Silicon Valley entrepreneur. The vision he offered was mesmerizing: a radical reimagining of work space for a new generation, with its fluid jobs and lax office culture. He called it WeWork. Though the company was merely subleasing amenity-filled office space to freelancers and small startups, Neumann marketed it like a revolutionary product--and investors swooned.

As billions of funding dollars poured in, Neumann's ambitions grew limitless. WeWork wasn't just an office space provider, he boasted. It would build schools, create WeWork cities, even colonize Mars. Could he, Neumann wondered from the ice bath he'd installed in his office, become the first trillionaire or a world leader? In pursuit of its founder's grandiose vision, the company spent money faster than it could bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana smoke, the CEO scoured the globe for more capital. In late 2019, just weeks before WeWork's highly publicized IPO, a Hail Mary effort to raise cash, everything fell apart. Neumann was ousted from his company--but still was poised to walk away a billionaire.

Calling to mind the recent demise of Theranos and the hubris of the dotcom era bust, WeWork's extraordinary rise and staggering implosion were fueled by disparate characters in a financial system blind to its risks, from a Japanese billionaire with designs on becoming the Warren Buffet of tech, to leaders at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs who seemed intoxicated by a Silicon Valley culture where sensible business models lost out to youthful CEOs who promised disruption. Why did some of the biggest names in banking and venture capital buy the hype? And what does the future hold for Silicon Valley unicorns? Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell explore these questions in this definitive account of WeWork's unraveling.]]> 464 Eliot Brown 0593237110 Marcin 5 4.24 2021 The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
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]]> <![CDATA[Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim: A Personal Manual for Prayer and Ritual]]> 3588453 320 Edward Hays 0939516802 Marcin 0 to-read, religion 4.52 1988 Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim: A Personal Manual for Prayer and Ritual
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]]> <![CDATA[Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World]]> 138505710
Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?

Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us―and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.

Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now―and an intellectual adventure story for our times.]]> 416 Naomi Klein 0374610320 Marcin 0 4.21 2023 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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]]> King: A Life 62039291
The first full biography in decades, Eig mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father―as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.

In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.

Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs]]> 688 Jonathan Eig 0374279292 Marcin 0 to-read, 2023, biography 4.65 2023 King: A Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past]]> 42036377 609 J. Storrs Hall Marcin 0 to-read, 2023 4.06 Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
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]]> <![CDATA[Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture]]> 56622694 The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological Software Neuropsychology tells us that the human mind is infinitely malleable and adaptable. We know it is possible to rewire emotions and build deep tranquility into our minds. We know we can overcome the biased beliefs and self-limiting habits that hold us back from our potential. Yet when we actually seek to modify and master our minds, we are usually met with shallow life hacks and fleeting fixes. Fortunately, many great ancient philosophers left behind the open-source cognitive code for altering your own mental patterns and becoming your ideal self. Legendary thinkers like the Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham Maslow have revealed the insights for building a brilliant mind, and award-winning systems designer, Ryan A Bush, weaves them into a vital theory for helping individuals scale the heights of self-mastery and lead great lives. "A fascinating framework" - Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, author of The New Science of Self-Actualization If you struggle with persistent negative thoughts, stress and anxiety, or difficulty setting or achieving your goals, this modern self-mastery manual is essential reading. After reading this book, you will - How your mental algorithms determine your personal trajectory - How the Stoics overcame negativity and cultivated unshakeable peace - How to master the mechanisms behind your habits and behaviors - The right way to introspect and balance rationality and emotion - How the Buddha mastered his thoughts and desires - The difference between decoy goals and defined goals - The four threats to craving, compliance, comfort, and corruption - How to use your desires to fuel you instead of make you suffer - How to put an end to negative thoughts and rumination - How to achieve big goals effortlessly - And much more... "It has already changed my life, and I know it will change others as well" - Aaron T. Perkins, Executive Leadership Coach Though most never learn to change their default programming, it is possible to rewire your cognitive biases, change your ingrained habits, and transform your emotional reactions. The process of psychitecture will enable you to unplug from your own mind, alter its underlying patterns, and become the architect of your own enlightenment.]]> 270 Ryan A. Bush Marcin 0 to-read, 2021 4.22 Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture
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]]> Startupowcy 201737330
Dwana?cie spó?ek, dwana?cie ró?nych historii. Nie tylko o biznesie, ale tak?e o relacjach, prze?yciach i emocjach. Nafaszerowana poradami, wspomnieniami i anegdotami opowie?? o najzdolniejszych i najodwa?niejszych polskich przedsi?biorcach.]]> 418 Krzysztof Domaradzki 8396701318 Marcin 0 to-read 3.66 Startupowcy
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]]> <![CDATA[101 Questions to Ask Before You Get Engaged]]> 238807 144 H. Norman Wright 0736913947 Marcin 0 to-read, 2023 4.06 2004 101 Questions to Ask Before You Get Engaged
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]]> <![CDATA[Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity]]> 48635421 A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our unique friendliness is the secret to our success as a species.

For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?

Since Charles Darwin wrote about "evolutionary fitness," the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the "self-domestication theory," Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive.

But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an "outsider." The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare's groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest.

Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.]]> 304 Brian Hare 0399590668 Marcin 0 to-read 4.06 2020 Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
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]]> <![CDATA[Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life]]> 125063314
The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
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Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold’s father hammered into him above be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father’s adage close to his heart.
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Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold’s tool kit for a meaningful life. He shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous; some told here for the first time ever.
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Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he shares that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you—you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.]]> 288 Arnold Schwarzenegger 0593655958 Marcin 0 4.09 2023 Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
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]]> 命定：没有自由意志的科学 58902324
《行為》作者羅伯．薩波斯基（Robert M. Sapolsky）
从神经认知科学出发，以詼谐轻鬆的方式，反驳了自由意志的神话。提出人类每一个行為，背后都是由一系列复杂的生物学、神经科学和环境因素的结果，其中不存在自由意志运作的空间。

萨波斯基也对歷史上人们如何对於思觉失调症患者、癲癇患者、自闭症、异己者、犯罪者施予惩罚进行了耙梳，证明人们对於精神疾病和行恶者者越来越瞭解，我们就会变得更具同理心和人道，加上不存在自由意志的最后一击，我们会发现「所谓报应式的惩罚，是徒劳而错误的做法」，从而改变我们的社会和法律框架，比起惩罚更重视矫正。

行為科學家、暢銷書《行為》（Behave）作者羅伯．薩波斯基（Robert M. Sapolsky），暨《行為》之後，深入探討了關於人類做選擇和決定背後的生物科學，以及哲學，提出駁斥自由意志存在的毀滅性案例，呈現出一個具有深遠影響的論點，那就是「人類沒有自由意志」。

在《行為》一书中，他探讨人类行為的生物学、神经科学和环境因素，甚至文化因素，表明人类任何一个行為背后，都是由一秒之前、一分鐘之前、一天之前、一年之前、一千年之前……一系列复杂的基因、神经学、环境、文化因素所构成。我们也许无法精準掌握所有结合先天、后天的物理反应和化学反应；但这些生理机制确实深刻影响了我们每个当下的行為表达。而这隐含了「我们的行為是被生理机制和环境共同决定，没有自由意志运作的空间」的神经科学强烈主张。

在《命定》中，萨波斯基用了一整本书（在《行為》中只用一章篇幅）针对决定论和自由意志展开论证。针对我们幻想――也就是有个独立存在的自我告诉我们该做什麼（即自由意志）――展开一场精彩的正面攻击。告诉我们，其实所谓的自由意志，只是一种幻觉罢了。他也不假辞色地驳斥了现代物理学提出的、似乎能佐证非决定论的混沌理论、突现复杂性科学和量子物理学，其实都是决定论的，再次向我们展示了自由意志并不存在。

他的探讨不仅停留在学术上的讨论，更着重在实际道德责任、归咎、惩罚、法律判刑等实际运作上，提出当我们「超越自由意志的存在」而对生命拥有新理解后，将会面对「人类就不需為自己的行為负责」的结论，却不至於使整个社会运作失控。反而提出从歷史上来看，当我们能够瞭解许多人行恶是眾多因素交织而成的结果，就会更拥有同理心，也能以更人道的看法看待惩罚的概念，从而改善我们的法律体系和惩罚制度，比起惩罚，更重视事前预防犯罪和矫正，便能以更人性化的方式来打造更有同理心的世界。

无论你是否赞成他的观点，这本书都将成為以有凭有据的论证来挑战你的可敬对手，引发你深入思考人性、人类行為，以及我们究竟是谁的观点。闭闭> 520 Robert M. Sapolsky 6267255581 Marcin 0 4.53 2023 命定：没有自由意志的科学
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]]> Understanding ECMAScript 6 23253178
驰辞耻’濒濒
–How ECMAScript 6 class syntax relates to more familiar JavaScript concepts
–What makes iterators and generators useful
–How arrow functions differ from regular functions
–Ways to store data with sets, maps, and more
–The power of inheritance
–How to improve asynchronous programming with promises
–How modules change the way you organize code


Whether you’re a web developer or a Node.js developer, you’ll find Understanding ECMAScript 6 indispensable on your journey from ECMAScript 5 to ECMAScript 6.]]> 321 Nicholas C. Zakas Marcin 0 3.98 2016 Understanding ECMAScript 6
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