Dimei's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:03:38 -0700 60 Dimei's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Burning Chrome 34730177
These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson’s characters and intensely-realised worlds at their absolute best. Contains ‘Johnny Mnemonicâ€� (filmed starring Keanu Reeves) and the title story ‘Burning Chromeâ€�, in which Gibson first coined the term ‘cyberspaceâ€� â€� both nominated for the Nebula award â€� as well as the Hugo-and-Nebula-nominated stories ‘Dogfightâ€� and ‘The Winter Marketâ€�.]]> 204 William Gibson 147321744X Dimei 0 to-read 3.83 1986 Burning Chrome
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]]> Indiana 104260 320 George Sand 0192837974 Dimei 0 to-read 3.51 1832 Indiana
author: George Sand
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]]> <![CDATA[Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge]]> 55981
Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.]]> 368 Edward O. Wilson 067976867X Dimei 0 to-read 3.99 1998 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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]]> <![CDATA[Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen]]> 15953243 Top Chef, plus more than 130 exceptional recipes for food with Korean roots and Southern soul.]]> 304 Edward Lee 1579654924 Dimei 0 to-read 4.15 2013 Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1]]> 7123161 'The bride then came surrounded by her slave girls like the moon among stars or a matchless pearl set among others on a string.'

When the beautiful Shahrazad gives herself to the bloody-handed King Shahriyar, she is not expected to survive beyond dawn. But using her wit and guile, she begins a sequence of stories that will last 1001 nights: stories of 'ifrits and money-changers, prices and slave girls, fishermen and queens, and magical gardens of paradise. This volume also includes the well-known tale of 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'.

Along with this landmark new translation, Robert Irwin's introduction discusses the many cultures The Arabian Nights has drawn on and the elaborate structure of the story-within-a-story that defines the collection, as well as the importance to the Nights of locked doors, sex, and the recurring themes of money, merchants and debts. This edition also contains suggestions for further reading, a glossary, maps and a chronology.]]> 982 Anonymous 0140449388 Dimei 0 to-read 4.02 800 The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
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]]> The Lessons of History 174713 119 Will Durant 1567310249 Dimei 0 to-read 4.05 The Lessons of History
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Dimei 5 Most importantly this book makes you think what is truth, how do people become who they are and is this excusable to public opinion or to god, and does god exist (this book (Ivan) proves the existence of god) and do we accept god.
A book to reread and through it understand more about life.]]> 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The characters are tantalizing and so much is going on but you can keep it all straight. So much salacious drama but it seems realistic at the same time. If you are blessed like me, you can identify an Alyosha in your life, a boy that is so good and happy that he could be happy being homeless and immediately be given help because he is just shining with love, not because he is pure but because he is so accepting and forgiving. Many of the characters you can identify parts of them in people in your own life.
Most importantly this book makes you think what is truth, how do people become who they are and is this excusable to public opinion or to god, and does god exist (this book (Ivan) proves the existence of god) and do we accept god.
A book to reread and through it understand more about life.
]]> <![CDATA[The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)]]> 40275288
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction � but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.]]> 845 Samantha Shannon 1408883457 Dimei 0 to-read 4.18 2019 The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
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]]> The Undiscovered Self 67891 One of the world's greatest psychiatrists reveals how to embrace our own humanity and resist the pressures of an ever-changing world.

In this challenging and provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung—one of history's greatest minds—argues that civilization's future depends on our ability as individuals to resist the collective forces of society. Only by gaining an awareness and understanding of one's unconscious mind and true, inner natureâ€�"the undiscovered self"—can we as individuals acquire the self-knowledge that is antithetical to ideological fanaticism. But this requires that we face our fear of the duality of the human psyche—the existence of good and the capacity for evil in every individual.

In this seminal book, Jung compellingly argues that only then can we begin to cope with the dangers posed by mass societyâ€�"the sum total of individuals"—and resist the potential threats posed by those in power.]]> 112 C.G. Jung 0451217322 Dimei 0 to-read 4.18 1961 The Undiscovered Self
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]]> <![CDATA[Hung by the Tongue: What You Say Is What You Get]]> 1055419 what you say is what you get]]> Francis P. Martin 0965243303 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.28 1976 Hung by the Tongue: What You Say Is What You Get
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]]> <![CDATA[The Game of Work: How to Enjoy Work as Much as Play]]> 20418265 The guide to making human nature work with you and not against you by increasing job enjoyment and producing extraordinary results. On a hot day when the air conditioning goes off, employees can start complaining that it’s too hot to work. But after work in the parking lot, where it is twenty degrees hotter, they will look at each other say, “Well, what do you think, golf or tennis?â€� Why will people, in recreation, pay for the privilege of working harder than they will work when they are paid? In The Game of Work, Charles A. Coonradt explains what makes people so dedicated to recreational pursuits, and shows—with fresh, proven management techniques—how to use that same motivation to win at business. Using the principles outlined in this book, a major consumer beverage manufacturer reduced costs by 25 cents per case resulting in an annual $30 million savings, a large grocery distribution company reduced their losses from warehouse and truck damage by over $10 million, a communications firm increased profits from $1.7 million to $3.4 million in one year, a multi-store retail chain improved corporate valuation by over 500% prior to being acquired, a manufacturing firm reduced waste metal costs $30,000 a year, an advertising executive increased his sales volume 55 percent in 90 days, and a warehouse/distribution operation reduced accidents by 38% saving over $500,000 in one year. Everyone can achieve better results with these proven principles. Company presidents, managers, supervisors, sales personnel, and human resource directors will find ideas for achieving not only personal success but also success for the entire business team.]]> 195 Charles Coonradt 1423609735 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 3.73 1999 The Game of Work: How to Enjoy Work as Much as Play
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]]> The Magic of Believing 968009 For more than four decades success-oriented Americans have turned to the no-nonsense, time-tested motivational techniques described in The Magic of Believing to achieve all their long- and short-term goals: a better job, an increased income, a happier marriage, or simply a good night's sleep. Now it's your turn to put Claude M. Bristol's special "magic" into your life and into action!
His tough-minded, hard-hitting message speaks directly to You. It has yielded proven results for forty years and remains as fresh and focused as ever. Learn how to:
* Harness the unlimited power of the subconscious mind and make your dreams come true
* Protect your thoughts and turn them into achievements
* Use "the law of suggestion" to step up your effectiveness in everything you do
* Apply the power of your imagination to overcome obstacles
* And much more!
If you seek to become more assertive in business, more fulfilled at home, more influential in your dealings with others -- you can believe in MAGIC!]]> 192 Claude M. Bristol 0671745212 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.22 1948 The Magic of Believing
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]]> Think and Grow Rich 30186948 233 Napoleon Hill Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.19 1937 Think and Grow Rich
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]]> <![CDATA[The Law of Success: In Sixteen Lessons: Complete and Unabridged]]> 10586208 548 Napoleon Hill 1617201766 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.32 1925 The Law of Success: In Sixteen Lessons: Complete and Unabridged
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]]> The Secret (The Secret, #1) 52529 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781582701707.

The worldwide bestselling phenomenon that has helped millions tap the power of the law that governs all our lives to create—intentionally and effortlessly—a joyful life.

In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universeâ€�The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller.

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions, and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.

In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.

The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.]]> 199 Rhonda Byrne Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 3.74 2006 The Secret (The Secret, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life]]> 155981 Positive wisdom and helpful insights on how to be a successful person

Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. But negative habits can be changed--and Psycho-Cybernetics shows you how!

This is your personal audio guide to the amazing power of Psycho-Cybernetics--a program based on one of the world s classic self-help books, a multimillion-copy bestseller proven effective by readers worldwide. Presenting positive attitude as a means for change, Maltz s teaching has the ring of common sense.
Psycho-Cybernetics-is the original text that defined the mind/body connection the concept that paved the way for most of today s personal empowerment programs. Turn crises into creative opportunities, dehypnotize yourself from false beliefs, and celebrate new freedom from fear and guilt.

Testimonials and stories are interspersed with advice from Maltz, as well as techniques for relaxation and visualization. Dr. Maxwell Maltz teaches you his techniques of emotional surgery --the path to a dynamic new self-image and self-esteem and to achieving the success and happiness you deserve!
]]> 288 Maxwell Maltz 0671700758 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.22 1960 Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires]]> 244383 314 Esther Hicks 1401904599 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.19 2004 Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
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]]> See You at the Top 161415 legacy that has touched audiences all over the world began in Dallas, Texas, in 1972 when Zig Ziglar recorded perhaps the definitive work of his career. Biscuits Fleas and Pump Handles is the compilation of observations, thoughts and research Zig had spent years preparing to present as the foundation of a philosophy born of hope and nurtured with integrity. In this 60 minute recording, Zig lays out a plan for living a balanced and fulfilling life, teaching us that we can have everything in life we want if we will just help enough other people get what they want. The applications outlined in this message have changed lives, built careers, and propelled individuals and institutions to unexpected heights. Used as the cornerstone for all training provided by Ziglar, this program is packed with answers to tough questions in turbulent times.]]> 384 Zig Ziglar 1565547063 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.23 1977 See You at the Top
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]]> The Magic of Thinking Big 759945 The Magic of Thinking Big gives you useful methods, not empty promises. Dr. Schwartz presents a carefully designed program for getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life, and your community. He proves that you don't need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction, but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.]]> 238 David J. Schwartz 0671646788 Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.26 1959 The Magic of Thinking Big
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Win Friends & Influence People]]> 4865
Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie's first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie's principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age.

Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.]]> 288 Dale Carnegie Dimei 0 to-read, personal-improvement 4.22 1936 How to Win Friends & Influence People
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]]> Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Dimei 0 to-read 3.90 1808 Faust
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]]> <![CDATA[Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War]]> 12520340 Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
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The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.
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This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.]]> 512 Stephen R. Platt 0307271730 Dimei 0 to-read 4.21 2012 Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
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]]> Hexwood 47528
On Hexwood Estate, Ann watches the mysterious comings and goings with interest. She knows something deadly is going on � or is Hexwood simply altering her too?]]> 464 Diana Wynne Jones 0064473554 Dimei 0 to-read 4.01 1993 Hexwood
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings]]> 17717
Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, some forty pieces drawn from various books of his published over the years. The translations are by Harriet de Onis, Anthony Kerrigan, and others, including the editors, who have provided a biographical and critical introduction, as well as an extensive bibliography.]]> 260 Jorge Luis Borges 0811200124 Dimei 0 to-read 4.48 1962 Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
author: Jorge Luis Borges
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]]> <![CDATA[A Gentle Creature and Other Stories]]> 617078
No other edition brings together these specific stories--which are most interesting when read alongside one another--and the new translations capture all the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing at its best.]]> 158 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0192822802 Dimei 0 to-read 4.14 1876 A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Pi Gu Chi Kung: Inner Alchemy Energy Fasting]]> 25987066
� Explains how you do not stop eating with this fasting practice and details the simple pi gu diet

� Illustrates the chewing and chi kung practices to accompany pi gu, for natural chi energy production

â€� Reveals how Pi Gu Chi Kung activates the body’s natural healing abilities, accelerates the elimination of toxins, reduces appetite and cravings, and enables you to draw energies from the Earth and Universe

Pi gu is an ancient Taoist method of fasting for spiritual and healing purposes. Unlike traditional fasting, you do not need to stop eating when practicing pi gu. Used by ancient Taoist masters during their months or years of solitary retreat in pursuit of enlightenment, the practice centers on a simple diet of fruits, teas, nuts, and eggs paired with special chewing techniques and chi kung exercises.

During the pi gu state, the need for food decreases yet the body’s energy levels actually increase. The body gathers chi not from food but from chi kung and the “golden elixirâ€� produced by the pi gu chewing practices. The chi produced through pi gu charges your internal organs, activating the body’s natural healing abilities and enabling you to draw energies from the Earth and Universe. In the pi gu state the body automatically balances itself, the mind is more relaxed, and sleep improves. The pause in normal eating makes the body’s cells more sensitive, accelerating the elimination of toxins. The stomach reduces in size, flattening the belly, eliminating cravings, decreasing appetite, and naturally producing weight loss. The body’s meridians stay open, making it easier to attune to meditation, chi kung, and energies from the cosmos.

Providing a step-by-step guide to Pi Gu Chi Kung, Master Mantak Chia and coauthor Christine Harkness-Giles explain the pi gu diet, provide immortality tea recipes, detail the pi gu chewing exercises, and illustrate the corresponding chi kung energy exercises. They also explain the use of pi gu during darkness retreats to enhance spiritual awareness and increase mental powers and wisdom.]]> 160 Mantak Chia 1620554259 Dimei 0 currently-reading 4.00 2016 Pi Gu Chi Kung: Inner Alchemy Energy Fasting
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Dimei 0 to-read 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
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]]> All the Myriad Ways 218479 181 Larry Niven 0345271335 Dimei 0 to-read 4.07 All the Myriad Ways
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York]]> 1111 The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today.

In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.]]> 1246 Robert A. Caro 0394720245 Dimei 0 to-read 4.51 1974 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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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 Dimei 0 to-read 4.31 2001 Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)]]> 25499718
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?]]> 608 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1447273281 Dimei 0 to-read 4.29 2015 Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine]]> 18643243 304 Daniel Keown 1848191960 Dimei 0 to-read 4.36 2014 The Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
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]]> <![CDATA[Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine]]> 76345 Between Heaven and Earth opens the door to a vast storehouse of knowledge that bridges the gap between mind and body, theory and practice, professional and self-care, East and West.]]> 448 Harriet Beinfield 0345379748 Dimei 0 to-read 4.19 1991 Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
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]]> In Praise of Shadows 34473 56 Jun'ichirƍ Tanizaki Dimei 0 to-read 4.06 1933 In Praise of Shadows
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]]> Outline 21400742
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.

Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.]]> 249 Rachel Cusk 0571233627 Dimei 0 to-read 3.68 2014 Outline
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]]> <![CDATA[Scentual Touch: A Personal Guide to Aromatherapy]]> 4704370 210 Judith Jackson 0030067634 Dimei 0 currently-reading 5.00 1986 Scentual Touch: A Personal Guide to Aromatherapy
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Night of the Seventh Moon]]> 311034
Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest -- especially its legends. But then, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, she started to live one of them, and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare . . .]]> 384 Victoria Holt 0345470389 Dimei 5
"Now that I have reached the mature age of twenty-seven I look back on the fantastic adventure of my youth and can almost convince myself that it did not happen as I believed it did then."

WHEWF PERIOD NO COMMAS. The writing is cute scholarly British girl, the story is both atmospherically enchanting and medium-fast paced, and the narrator and many other characters are endearing. This was probably the YA of the 1970's, where the dreamy love interests ride horses through the mystical forest. Reading this was as fun and quick as YA, but less cringey than reading contemporary YA as a contemporary adult. There are some repetitive thoughts but that's fine for a quick read.]]> 3.99 1972 On the Night of the Seventh Moon
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I grabbed this book in a hotel lobby, read the first line and knew this would be a banger.
"Now that I have reached the mature age of twenty-seven I look back on the fantastic adventure of my youth and can almost convince myself that it did not happen as I believed it did then."

WHEWF PERIOD NO COMMAS. The writing is cute scholarly British girl, the story is both atmospherically enchanting and medium-fast paced, and the narrator and many other characters are endearing. This was probably the YA of the 1970's, where the dreamy love interests ride horses through the mystical forest. Reading this was as fun and quick as YA, but less cringey than reading contemporary YA as a contemporary adult. There are some repetitive thoughts but that's fine for a quick read.
]]> <![CDATA[Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class]]> 176444107 The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.

Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. Divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school.

An unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation, and determination, Troubled recounts Henderson’s expectation-defying young life and juxtaposes his story with those of his friends who wound up incarcerated or killed. He retreads the steps and missteps he took to escape the drama and disorder of his youth. As he navigates the peaks and valleys of social class, Henderson finds that he remains on the outside looking in. His greatest achievements—a military career, an undergraduate education from Yale, a PhD from Cambridge—feel like hollow measures of success. He argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments, and he illustrates the ways the most privileged among us benefit from a set of social standards that actively harm the most vulnerable.]]> 336 Rob Henderson 1982168536 Dimei 4 4.10 2024 Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
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A quick enlightening read. I am a fan of Rob's substack, so the luxury beliefs and importance of stable married parents and other ideas he explains in the later part of the book aren’t new to me, but to get his life story is valuable. The sad and trashy stories are real and compelling. Understanding all the trauma he pushed through and the lack of news/politics he was exposed to as a kid gives his ideas more credence. He comes from suffering and an ideological blank slate, but then went to Yale and Cambridge, so he can expertly critique the upper class as an outsider-insider. He has a valuable perspective and this man deserves success.
]]> Animal Liberation 29380 The Book That Started A Revolution

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

]]> 324 Peter Singer 0060011572 Dimei 0 currently-reading 4.29 1975 Animal Liberation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business]]> 9512985
Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

The Personal MBA explains concepts such
* The Iron Law of the Why every business is limited by the size and quality of the market it attempts to serve-and how to find large, hungry markets.
* The 12 Forms of Products and services are only two of the twelve ways you can create value for your customers.
* The Pricing Uncertainty All prices are malleable. Raising your prices is the best way to dramatically increase profitability-if you know how to support the price you're asking.
* 4 Methods to Increase There are only four ways a business can bring in more money. Do you know what they are?

True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed. Read this book and you will learn the principles it takes most business professionals a lifetime of trial and error to master.]]> 416 Josh Kaufman 1591843529 Dimei 0 to-read 4.10 2010 The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
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]]> War's Unwomanly Face 4025275 247 Svetlana Alexievich 5010004941 Dimei 0 to-read 4.50 1983 War's Unwomanly Face
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]]> Women of Good Fortune 150352946 Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day

Lulu has always been taught that money is the ticket to a good life. So, when Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor surprises her with a proposal, the only acceptable answer is yes, even if the voice inside her head is saying no. His family’s fortune would solve all her parentsâ€� financial woes, but Lulu isn’t in love or ready for marriage.

The only people she can confide in are her two best friends: career-minded Rina, who is tired of being passed over for promotion as her biological clock ticks away; and Jane, a sharp-tongued, luxury-chasing housewife desperate to divorce her husband and trade up. Each of them desires something different: freedom, time, beauty. None of them can get it without money.

Lulu’s wedding is their golden opportunity. The social event of the season, it means more than enough cash gifts to transform the women’s lives. To steal the money on the big day, all they’ll need is a trustworthy crew and a brilliant plan. But as the plot grows increasingly complicated and relationships are caught in the cross fire, the women are forced to face that having it all might come at a steep price
]]> 352 Sophie Wan 1525804308 Dimei 0 to-read 3.56 2024 Women of Good Fortune
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]]> <![CDATA[One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life]]> 40122003 A pragmatic and succinct introduction to the purposes and benefits of yoga--philosophical, physiological, mental, and spiritual--and how practice affects the body/mind to realize those purposes and benefits

Yoga is reputed to improve our physical and mental health, and to help us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, and a more responsible contributor to society and inhabitant on this planet. If yoga does accomplish all that--and most practitioners will swear it's true--how exactly does it do it? Believe it or not, there are answers. And they are based in how the human body/mind functions, how we are built and wired, and how what we do can direct and change that.

Drawing on modern neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and decades of practice and teaching, Eddie Stern's One Simple Thing, with a foreword from Deepak Chopra, explains how what we do affects who we become, and reveals how a steady routine of physical movements, activities, and attitudes are able to transform not just our bodies but our brain functions and emotions, and how we experience life.]]> 320 Eddie Stern 0865478392 Dimei 0 to-read 4.24 2019 One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life
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]]> The Idiot 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Dimei 0 to-read 4.22 1869 The Idiot
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]]> <![CDATA[Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture]]> 13690417
McHugh describes the arts of perfumery developed in royal courts, temples, and monasteries, which were connected to a trade in exotic aromatics. Through their transformative nature, perfumes played an important part in every aspect of Indian life from seduction to diplomacy and religion. The aesthetics of smell dictated many of the materials, practices, and ceremonies associated with India's religious culture. McHugh shows how religious discourses on the purpose of life emphasized the pleasures of the senses, including olfactory experience, as valid ends in themselves. Fragrances and stenches were analogous to certain values, aesthetic or ethical, and in a system where karmic results often had a sensory impact-where evil literally stank-the ethical and aesthetic became difficult to distinguish. Through the study of smell, McHugh strengthens our understanding of the vital connection between the theological and the physical world.

Sandalwood and Carrion explores smell in pre-modern India from many perspectives, covering such topics as philosophical accounts of smell perception, odors in literature, the history of perfumery in India, the significance of sandalwood in Buddhism, and the divine offering of perfume to the gods.]]> 352 James M. McHugh 0199916322 Dimei 0 to-read 3.67 2012 Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell]]> 14515 224 Luca Turin 0061133833 Dimei 0 3.73 2006 The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
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]]> The Years of Rice and Salt 2723 763 Kim Stanley Robinson 0553580078 Dimei 0 to-read 3.76 2002 The Years of Rice and Salt
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]]> Bliss Montage 60243188 A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages

What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?

In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.]]> 228 Ling Ma 0374293511 Dimei 0 to-read 3.91 2022 Bliss Montage
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]]> <![CDATA[What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches]]> 162780 184 Erwin Schrödinger 0521427088 Dimei 0 to-read 4.16 1944 What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma]]> 18693771 A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain's natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk's own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.]]> 464 Bessel van der Kolk 0670785938 Dimei 0 to-read 4.36 2014 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves]]> 72659 246 Farley Mowat 0316881791 Dimei 0 to-read 4.20 1963 Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
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]]> Flowers for Algernon 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Ìę
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Dimei 2 4.19 1966 Flowers for Algernon
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> Love in the Time of Cholera 9712 348 Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez 140003468X Dimei 0 to-read 3.92 1985 Love in the Time of Cholera
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]]> Orlando 18839 Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.]]> 336 Virginia Woolf 0141184272 Dimei 0 to-read 3.88 1928 Orlando
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]]> <![CDATA[The Alchemists: Founders of Modern Chemistry]]> 11993412
The book includes chapters on the ideas of the alchemists and the origin of their practice, the earliest alchemical signs and symbols, Chinese and Islamic alchemy, medieval and English alchemists, alchemical symbolism, and the story of a true transformation, not one from lead to gold, but of the replacement of superstition by science. This book should be of interest to anyone concerned with the history of ideas and Man's attitude toward matter.]]> 246 F. Sherwood Taylor Dimei 0 to-read 4.12 1949 The Alchemists: Founders of Modern Chemistry
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]]> Big Sur 50140
"Big Sur's humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished—others crack up. Here we meet San Francisco's poets & recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer,' as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with 'Sea,' a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur."—Allen Ginsberg 10/10/91 N.Y.C.]]> 256 Jack Kerouac 0140168125 Dimei 0 to-read 3.85 1962 Big Sur
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]]> Les Jardins de lumiĂšre 852778
Lorsqu'on emploie les mots "manichéen" ou "manichéisme", on songe rarement à Mani, peintre, médecin et philosophe oriental du IIIe siÚcle, que les Chinois nommaient "le Bouddha de lumiÚre" et les Egyptiens "l'apÎtre de Jésus". Bien loin des jugements tranchés et sans appel auxquels on l'associe, sa philosophie tolérante et humaniste visa à concilier les religions de son temps. Elle lui valut les persécutions, le supplice, la haine. Mille ans aprÚs, l'accusation de manichéisme conduisait encore les Albigeois au bûcher...

Toujours avec un souci authentique de lier l'histoire au roman, Amin Maalouf rĂ©ussit Ă  nous transporter avec brio au temps de Mani, ce prophĂšte qui prĂŽnait la tolĂ©rance envers toutes les religions et les cultures. Il redĂ©finit le manichĂ©isme dont le sens premier a Ă©tĂ© totalement dĂ©formĂ© et transformĂ©. Il dĂ©crit comment l'homme, s'est fait persĂ©cuter en tentant de diffuser l'amour de tous les hommes, quels qu'ils soient, aux diffĂ©rents peuples de l'Ă©poque. Approche parfois difficile, peut-ĂȘtre un des livres les moins faciles Ă  aborder, mais trĂšs instructif.

Nul mieux que l'auteur de Léon l'Africain, de Samarcande (prix des Maisons de la Presse 1988), et du Rocher de Tanios (prix Goncourt 1993), né dans un Liban déchiré par les fanatismes, ne pouvait raconter l'aventure de cette existence.]]> 345 Amin Maalouf 270960857X Dimei 0 to-read 4.05 1991 Les Jardins de lumiÚre
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]]> 343 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.]]> 263 Patrick SĂŒskind Dimei 0 to-read 4.05 1985 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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]]> Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent 6396631 168 Jean-Claude Ellena 1559709111 Dimei 3 3.62 1980 Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
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Most informative is learning what 151 compounds (some like lilial are now banned) are in JCE's palette. A quick read.
]]> <![CDATA[Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow]]> 58784475 In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.]]> 401 Gabrielle Zevin 0735243344 Dimei 0 to-read 4.12 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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]]> <![CDATA[Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System]]> 903093 296 Paul Goodman 0394700325 Dimei 0 to-read 3.79 1960 Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System
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]]> Introduction to Perfumery 4478390 778 Tony Curtis 096087528X Dimei 0 to-read 4.07 1994 Introduction to Perfumery
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]]> <![CDATA[Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World]]> 51801464 A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political

All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese thought and culture as well as other philosophies and traditions, Bell and Wang ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. They look at ways of promoting just forms of hierarchy while minimizing the influence of unjust ones, such as those based on race, sex, or caste.

Which hierarchical relations are morally justified and why? Bell and Wang argue that it depends on the nature of the social relation and context. Different hierarchical principles ought to govern different kinds of social relations: what justifies hierarchy among intimates is different from what justifies hierarchy among citizens, countries, humans and animals, and humans and intelligent machines. Morally justified hierarchies can and should govern different spheres of our social lives, though these will be very different from the unjust hierarchies that have governed us in the past.

A vigorous, systematic defense of hierarchy in the modern world, Just Hierarchy examines how hierarchical social relations can have a useful purpose, not only in personal domains but also in larger political realms.]]> 285 Daniel A. Bell 0691200890 Dimei 0 to-read 3.14 Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World
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]]> Rich Dad, Poor Dad 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Dimei 0 4.11 1997 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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]]> <![CDATA[The 16% Solution: How to Get High Interest Rates in a Low-Interest World with Tax Lien Certificates]]> 215972 208 Joel S. Moskowitz 0836280849 Dimei 0 to-read 3.53 2009 The 16% Solution: How to Get High Interest Rates in a Low-Interest World with Tax Lien Certificates
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World]]> 337517 Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the reader compelled to respond, one way or another.

This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall. In a dialogue with two psychiatrists (Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort), Girard probes an encyclopedic array of topics, ranging across the entire spectrum of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and cultural production.

Girard's point o departure is what he calls 'mimesis,' the conflict that arises when human rivals compete to differentiate themselves from each other, yet succeed only in becoming more and more alike. At certain points in the life of a society, according to Girard, this mimetic conflict erupts into a crisis in which all difference dissolves in indiscriminate violence. In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the 'scapegoating mechanism,' in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order.

How does Christianity, at once the most 'sacrificial' of religions and a faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud—if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not because God willed it, but because human beings wanted it.

The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history—the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.]]> 470 RenĂ© Girard 0804722153 Dimei 0 to-read 4.26 1978 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success]]> 16158498 Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common.

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.

Using his own pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor, Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, this landmark book shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity, how a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner, and how we could have anticipated Enron's demise four years before the company collapsed - without ever looking at a single number.

Praised by bestselling authors such as Dan Pink, Tony Hsieh, Dan Ariely, Susan Cain, Dan Gilbert, Gretchen Rubin, Bob Sutton, David Allen, Robert Cialdini, and Seth Godin-as well as senior leaders from Google, McKinsey, Merck, Estee Lauder, Nike, and NASA - Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. This landmark book opens up an approach to success that has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities.]]> 320 Adam M. Grant 0670026557 Dimei 0 to-read 4.05 2013 Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
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]]> The Road to Serfdom 299215 The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist programâ€�The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of nazi Germany and fascist Italy.

First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate attention from the public, politicians, and scholars alike. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 were sold. In April of 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this condensation to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best-seller, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States, not including the British edition or the nearly twenty translations into such languages as German, French, Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese, and not to mention the many underground editions produced in Eastern Europe before the fall of the iron curtain.

After thirty-two printings in the United States, The Road to Serfdom has established itself alongside the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and George Orwell for its timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Milton Friedman, commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s.

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.

On the first American edition of The Road to Serfdom:
"One of the most important books of our generation. . . . It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of reasoning with which John Stuart Mill stated the issue for his own generation in his great essay On Liberty. . . . It is an arresting call to all well-intentioned planners and socialists, to all those who are sincere democrats and liberals at heart to stop, look and listen."—Henry Hazlitt, New York Times Book Review, September 1944

"In the negative part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often—at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough—that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of."—George Orwell, Collected Essays]]> 274 Friedrich A. Hayek 0226320618 Dimei 0 to-read 4.14 1944 The Road to Serfdom
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]]> <![CDATA[A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life]]> 56883406
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these two truths? What's more, what can we do to close it?

For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today most people don't even know their neighbors� names. Traditional gender roles once served a necessary evolutionary purpose, but today we dismiss them as regressive. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we're not built for is killing us.

In this book, Heying and Weinstein cut through the politically fraught discourse surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a provocative, science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than 20 years of research and first-hand accounts from the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth into straight forward principles and guidance for confronting our culture of hyper-novelty.]]> 320 Heather E. Heying 0593086899 Dimei 0 to-read 3.76 2021 A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works]]> 13078769 What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean .

In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a "product/market fit" for your fledgling venture, based on his own experience in building a wide array of products from high-tech to no-tech. Throughout, he builds on the ideas and concepts of several innovative methodologies, including the Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping.

Running Lean is an ideal tool for business managers, CEOs, small business owners, developers and programmers, and anyone who's interested in starting a business project.
"If you are starting a company, or want to adopt the Lean Startup approach, Running Lean is a must read." - Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundary Group]]> 235 Ash Maurya 1449305172 Dimei 0 to-read 4.08 2012 Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works
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]]> Les Vrilles De La Vigne 3150027
Un conte merveilleux ouvre le recueil, l?histoire du rossignol qui rĂ©solut de chanter toutes les nuits pour se tenir Ă©veillĂ© et ne pas se laisser ligoter par les vrilles de la vigne. Suivent trois poĂšmes en prose. Puis une sĂ©rie de textes oĂč Colette voile Ă  peine l?autobiographie : c?est en effet entre 1905 et 1908 que le couple qu?elle forme avec Willy se dĂ©fait, qu?elle monte sur scĂšne, qu?elle vit en partie avec Mathilde de Morny, dite Missy. De fait, Colette revendique sa libertĂ© reconquise : « Je veux faire ce que je veux. Je veux jouer la pantomime, mĂȘme la comĂ©die. Je veux danser nue, si le maillot me gĂȘne et humilie ma plastique. [?] Je veux chĂ©rir qui m?aime et lui donner tout ce qui est Ă  moi dans le monde : mon corps rebelle au partage, mon coeur si doux et ma libertĂ© ! » Ces lignes datent de? 1907.]]> 180 Colette Gauthier-Villars 2213617716 Dimei 0 to-read 3.41 1908 Les Vrilles De La Vigne
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]]> Words for a Deaf Daughter 256190 208 Paul West 0385231164 Dimei 0 to-read 3.80 1969 Words for a Deaf Daughter
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]]> <![CDATA[Watching the Clouds Go By and Other Essays (Reading in Chinese Culture Series Volume 5) (Reading in Chinese Culture: Advanced MID) (Chinese and English Edition)]]> 24739003 *AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.]]> 304 Weijia Huang 1622910559 Dimei 0 to-read 3.00 2014 Watching the Clouds Go By and Other Essays (Reading in Chinese Culture Series Volume 5) (Reading in Chinese Culture: Advanced MID) (Chinese and English Edition)
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]]> The Color Purple 52892857 Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

â€Áè±đČč»ćŸ±ČÔČ” The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.â€� —Tayari Jones

â€�The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.â€� —Kiese Laymon]]> 287 Alice Walker 0143135694 Dimei 0 to-read 4.40 1982 The Color Purple
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]]> Breakfast of Champions 4980 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.]]> 303 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334206 Dimei 3 4.08 1973 Breakfast of Champions
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Funny but no purpose but a fast read so no harm no foul. Read cat’s cradle as your priority
]]> A Tale for the Time Being 18079728 Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.

On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth--a writer who finds the lunchbox--suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she beings to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...]]> 422 Ruth Ozeki 0143124870 Dimei 0 4.16 2013 A Tale for the Time Being
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]]> <![CDATA[Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking]]> 30753841
In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. Master the use of just four elements—Salt, which enhances flavor; Fat, which delivers flavor and generates texture; Acid, which balances flavor; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food—and anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time.

Echoing Samin’s own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipes—and dozens of variations—to put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, perfectly caramelized roast vegetables, tender braised meats, and light, flaky pastry doughs.

Featuring 150 illustrations and infographics that reveal an atlas to the world of flavor by renowned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook you’ll ever need.

With a foreword by Michael Pollan.]]> 480 Samin Nosrat 1476753830 Dimei 4 4.39 2017 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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]]> <![CDATA[The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption]]> 350003 200 Georges Bataille 0942299116 Dimei 0 to-read 4.11 1949 The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
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]]> <![CDATA[Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art / Just Breathe / The Oxygen Advantage / What Doesn't Kill Us]]> 55952247 0 James Nestor 9124078964 Dimei 0 4.17 Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art / Just Breathe / The Oxygen Advantage / What Doesn't Kill Us
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]]> Childhood’s End 414999
But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?]]> 224 Arthur C. Clarke Dimei 3 4.12 1953 Childhood’s End
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good plot, where you can kind of guess what might happen but want to know so you read quickly and maybe don't actively predict things and become surprised by events that in hindsight make sense but are not obvious. so good plot (4 stars)! also some good philosophical and psychological ideas. but characters and writing don't have any emotional pull for me (3 stars...gotta have the emotional pull), but that is what scifi back then was like, a vessel for plot and ideas, like a fable. nice quick book, makes you think a little, definitely worth reading.
]]> <![CDATA[The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)]]> 34497 228 Terry Pratchett 0060855924 Dimei 4 not in a rush to read the whole series though. not a 5 stars book since it doesn’t have a philosophical side that makes me contemplate life, just a fun well written book.]]> 4.04 1983 The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
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fast fun read. unexpected wild things happen so it’s very funny that way, and scenes and are also described beautifully so best of both worlds heh. great fantasy in that you get to read sentences that don’t make real sense in our world but are true in fantasy world and very poetic :â€�) good vocab builder (widdershins) too.
not in a rush to read the whole series though. not a 5 stars book since it doesn’t have a philosophical side that makes me contemplate life, just a fun well written book.
]]> <![CDATA[Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home & Other Unexplained Powers of Animals]]> 369070
With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals—and ourselves. After five years of extensive research involving thousands of people who have pets and work with animals, Dr. Sheldrake proves conclusively what many pet owners already know: there is a strong connection between humans and animals that defies present-day scientific understanding. This remarkable book deserves a place next to the most beloved and valuable books on animals, including When Elephants Weep, Dogs Never Lie About Love, and The Hidden Life of Dogs.]]> 368 Rupert Sheldrake 0609805339 Dimei 0 to-read 3.69 1999 Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home & Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch]]> 12067
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons â€� well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel â€� would quite like the Rapture not to happen.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist
]]> 491 Terry Pratchett Dimei 0 to-read 4.27 1990 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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]]> Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) 61179 288 Larry Niven 0575077026 Dimei 0 to-read 3.96 1970 Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
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]]> Homegoing 27071490 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.]]> 305 Yaa Gyasi Dimei 0 to-read 4.48 2016 Homegoing
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]]> I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) 41804
I, ROBOT

They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either.

As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete?

In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors.
--front flap]]> 224 Isaac Asimov 0553803700 Dimei 0 to-read 4.22 1950 I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century]]> 59771695
For more than half a century, Olivier Creed, heir to a French fashion empire but out to conquer an adjacent field by himself, created the most compelling and costly perfumes in the world � scents so successful � artistically and commercially � that the world's largest asset manager bought his small olfactory enterprise for nearly $1 billion in 2020.

One could arguably have called him the world’s most capable perfumer.
Except Olivier Creed never authored the scents for which he has long received acclaim and lucre. Gabe Oppenheim reveals the heretofore untold story behind this supposed-cologne colossus of a man � and the eponymous company that became a social media

That scents were authored by someone else entirely � a brilliant ghostwriter � a hidden, scholarly figure with a great passion for Proust and an unfortunate tendency to doubt the quality of his own compositions.

How these two figures met and the arrangement was struck � how they circled each other warily for the next 40 years � how lies, told often enough, became truths � Gabe Oppenheim examines as he journeys into the heart of an industry mystifying and fanciful, enormous and intimate, sensuous and yet so-damn-insubstantial.

It’s an expedition that takes him to a Creed shop in Dubai and the castle in Normandy where the Ghost resides, having left behind a Parisian world that, in some sense, never acknowledged him. And yet, he’s a legend in a certain section of the scented demimonde for a few achievements so innovative he wouldn’t yield them even to a charismatic manipulator.
Oppenheim explores issues of attribution and artistry, credit and craftsmanship, ingenuity and disingenuousness.

“The Ghost Perfumerâ€� is the story of a genius and a fraud.

And perhaps the greatest con in the history of luxury retail.]]> 262 Gabe Oppenheim Dimei 2 3.93 The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century
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dnf like 50%, interesting story but ugly try-hard writing and you can tell what happens in the story after the first few chapters
]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Dimei 0 to-read 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
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]]> <![CDATA[A Natural History of the Senses]]> 76611 352 Diane Ackerman 0679735666 Dimei 0 to-read 4.16 1990 A Natural History of the Senses
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]]> <![CDATA[Chances (Lucky Santangelo, #1)]]> 152403 599 Jackie Collins 0330266632 Dimei 0 to-read 4.16 1981 Chances (Lucky Santangelo, #1)
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]]> Just Kids 341879 Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.]]> 304 Patti Smith Dimei 0 to-read 4.19 2010 Just Kids
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]]> The Margot Affair 40528601
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Margot Louve is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank.

It is a house of cards that Margot—fueled by a longing to be seen and heard—decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a family’s love with ruin, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined.

Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is a novel of deceit, desire, and transgression—and the exhilarating knife-edge upon which the danger of telling the truth outweighs the cost of keeping secrets.]]> 336 SanaĂ« Lemoine Dimei 0 to-read 3.56 2020 The Margot Affair
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average rating: 3.56
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]]> Joyland 13596166
A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old - and about those who don't get to do either because death comes for them before their time. It is at once a mystery, a horror story, and a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, one that will leave even the most hard-boiled reader profoundly moved.]]> 285 Stephen King 1781162646 Dimei 0 to-read 3.90 2013 Joyland
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]]> The Elementary Particles 58314 The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.

Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.]]> 272 Michel Houellebecq 0375727019 Dimei 0 to-read 3.91 1998 The Elementary Particles
author: Michel Houellebecq
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art]]> 48890486
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.]]> 280 James Nestor 0735213615 Dimei 4 4.13 2020 Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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name: Dimei
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> The New Ambidextrous Universe 415080 "Absorbing; enlightening; lucid; witty; inventive. An exemplar of science writing at its very best." � American Mathematical Monthly
A substantial revision of Martin Gardner's earlier well-known work on mirror symmetry and asymmetry, The New Ambidextrous Universe takes readers on an extraordinary journey. With Gardner’s guidance, they explore the two fundamental scientific discoveries of the past the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Along the way, students will find absorbing and thought-provoking treatments of some of the deepest mysteries in modern physics.
Author of more than 60 books, Martin Gardner has influenced and inspired generations of scientists, scholars, and other readers, especially those with an interest in mathematics. He originated Scientific American 's popular Mathematical Games column, which he wrote from 1956 until his retirement from the magazine three decades later. This republication of his revised edition of an earlier work features a new appendix of notes and corrections.]]> 416 Martin Gardner 0486442446 Dimei 0 to-read 4.34 1990 The New Ambidextrous Universe
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]]> <![CDATA[My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City]]> 463297 An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.

In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal.

The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is inspiration for men and women alike.

David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia, hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellers tales.]]> 376 Alexandra David-NĂ©el 0060596554 Dimei 0 to-read 4.02 1927 My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)]]> 19161852
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]> 468 N.K. Jemisin Dimei 3 4.29 2015 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Dimei
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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a book for those plot driven readers
good plot, world, setup. but I didn’t like the writing style. it’s academic and sarcastic and not beautiful. there weren’t any lines that struck me with beauty or emotion or depth. sorry
]]> <![CDATA[Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)]]> 57789637
“Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish.”—Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series

“An all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense."—BookPage, starred review

A captivating and romantic debut epic fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm.

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.

Alone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor’s son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince.

To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies. But when treachery looms and forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, she must challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor for her dream—striking a dangerous bargain in which she is torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos.

Daughter of the Moon Goddess begins an enchanting duology which weaves ancient Chinese mythology into a sweeping adventure of immortals and magic, of loss and sacrifice—where love vies with honor, dreams are fraught with betrayal, and hope emerges triumphant.]]> 503 Sue Lynn Tan 0063031302 Dimei 0 to-read 4.08 2022 Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom, #1)
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Dimei 0 to-read 4.33 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
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name: Dimei
average rating: 4.33
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