Alex.Shtarbev

Alex Shtarbev

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27 books

Biography

Mozart
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
In God's Underground
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Principles: Life and Work
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

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30 books

Business

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Peak

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95 books

Fantasy

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Exhalation
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Stand
Oathbringer

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75 books

Fiction

The Nightingale
Little Fires Everywhere
The Alice Network
Dark Matter
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

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13 books

Health

Genius Foods
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

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11 books

History

Agent Sonya
The Immortality Key
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Defending My Enemy
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Columbine
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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49 books

Non Fiction

The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Animal Societies: How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
Leadership: In Turbulent Times

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0 books

Owned

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38 books

Philosophy

The Book of Disquiet
Resistance, Rebellion and Death
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Apocalypse Never
White Guilt
Lives of the Stoics
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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46 books

Psychology

Yes to Life
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
The Tell-Tale Brain
Phantoms in the Brain
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

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18 books

Science

Reality is Not What it Seems
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
The Cancer Code
Breath from Salt
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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23 books

Scifi

Leviathan Wakes
Project Hail Mary
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Slaughterhouse-Five

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15 books

Strategy

The Book of Five Rings
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
33 Strategies of War
As a Man Thinketh

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3 books

Technology

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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23 books

Thinking

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
Conversations of Goethe
Nature's Open Secret: Introductions to Goethe's Scientific Writings
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
How to Change Your Mind The New Science of Psychedelics
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong