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Spot a Liar: Unmask Deceit with Paul Ekman’s Proven Clues in Telling Lies

Telling Lies review

Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman is the book you reach for when you realise how terrifying it is that you probably … Read more

Definitive Book Of Body Language: Expose Lies & Forge Authentic Connections

The Definitive Book of Body Language

Most of us listen to peopleโ€™s words and completely miss the stories their bodies are shouting, and The Definitive Book of Body Language exists to fix exactly that blind spot. … Read more

The 4-Hour Workweek life-changing guide or overhyped productivity myth

The 4-Hour Workweek life-changing guide or overhyped productivity myth

The 4-Hour Workweek argues that instead of working more now to maybe enjoy life at 65, you can redesign your work so that money, time, and location serve your values … Read more

The Million-Dollar One-Person Business empowering blueprint exposed

The Million-Dollar One-Person Business empowering blueprint exposed

The Million-Dollar One-Person Business summary may be the closest thing we have to a practical manual for escaping the fragile, underpaid gig economy into a resilient, million-dollar solo business you … Read more

How to Get Paid for What You Know โ€“ Debunking Myths, Unlocking Freedom

How to Get Paid for What You Know

In How to Get Paid for What You Know, Graham Cochrane tackles the ache so many of us feel when we realise our day job pays the bills but completely … Read more

So Good They Canโ€™t Ignore You by Cal Newport Is the Smartest Career Book

So Good They Canโ€™t Ignore You by Cal Newport Is the Smartest Career Book

So Good They Canโ€™t Ignore You by Cal Newport is the book you reach for when โ€œfollow your passionโ€ has quietly stopped working. Everywhere online weโ€™re told that passion is … Read more

Side Hustle From Idea to Income: A Realistic Roadmap to Side Jobs & Extra Cash

Side Hustle: Build a side business and make extra money - without quitting your day job

If youโ€™ve ever Googled โ€œhow to start a Side Hustle fastโ€ or โ€œhow to make extra income without quitting my job,โ€ Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days … Read more

The $100 Startup: Can You Really Start a Business with Just $100?

The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

Stuck in a 9โ€“5 youโ€™ve outgrown and convinced you canโ€™t start a business because you donโ€™t have money, time or an MBA? Well, the book The $100 Startup helps you … Read more

A Revolution of Common Sense review โ€“ powerful, honest Trump book

A Revolution of Common Sense review โ€“ powerful, honest Trump book

Politics, Scott Jennings argues in A Revolution of Common Sense, stopped listening to ordinary people long ago and disappeared into a maze of elites, bureaucracy and โ€œwokeโ€ ideology that ignores … Read more

10 Life-Changing Books On Human Behavior That Explain Why Humans Think, Feel and Act the Way They Do

Books On Human Behavior

Iโ€™ve spent the last few years deliberately reading books that promise one thing: a clearer understanding of human behaviorโ€”why people think, feel and act the way they do. Along the … Read more

5 Books To Improve Creative Skills, Backed by Real Readers & Research

Books To Improve Creative Skills, Backed by Real Readers & Research

If youโ€™re asking yourself, โ€œWhat are the best books books to improve creative skills right now?โ€ this guide is meant to be a clear, no-fluff answer. Based on my personal … Read more

Man and His Symbols Explained โ€“ Confusing Myths or Life-Changing Map?

Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung review

Most of us sense that our dreams and irrational reactions are trying to tell us something, but Man and His Symbols by C. G. Jung and Joseph L. Henderson shows … Read more

Everything Is Tuberculosis book review: devastating truths and dark realities

โ€œEverything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green is the book that finally explains why, even in 2023, about 1.25 million people still died … Read more

The Miracles Among Us: Why Science Fails to Explain Shocking Recoveries

The Miracles Among Us: How God's Grace Plays a Role in Healing by Dr. Marc Siegel

The Miracles Among Us: How Godโ€™s Grace Plays a Role in Healing asks what you cling to when medicine gives you probabilities but your heart is begging for a miracle. … Read more

Chaos Charles Manson CIA โ€“ Essential, Shocking Secret 60s History

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is the book you pick up when the official story of the Manson murders stops making sense. After … Read more

Empire of Orgasm Review: The Shocking Power Behind a Dangerous Wellness Cult

Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult by Ellen Huet

Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult by Ellen Huet is the book you reach for when you sense that something is very wrong at … Read more

Strong Ground: Brenรฉ Brown’s Best Guide to Daring Leadership

Strong Ground by Brenรฉ Brown review

If your team looks busy but isnโ€™t breaking through, Strong Ground shows whyโ€”and howโ€”to stop playing not to lose and start playing to win. Build Strong Groundโ€”a stance that blends … Read more

The Year of Magical Thinking: A Profound Analysis of Painful Memory

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Grief leaves you feeling like the world has been unplugged mid-sentence; Joan Didionโ€™s The Year of Magical Thinking shows how to plug language back in long enough to keep breathing. … Read more

We Should All Be Feminists book: essential, hard-hitting feminist truths- 10 lessons

We Should All Be Feminists book: essential, hard-hitting feminist truths- 10 lessons

In a world still shaped by invisible rules and inherited expectations, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie arrives like a clear voice cutting through staticโ€”honest, warm, and … Read more

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived and Eye-Opening History in Our Genes

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford

If youโ€™ve ever wondered what your DNA โ€œreally saysโ€ about who you are, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes explains what it actually … Read more

Of Beards and Men: a compelling, game-changing cultural history of beard

Of Beards and Men by Christopher Oldstone-Moore

If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men theyโ€™re really a voteโ€”about masculinity, authority, and who gets to set the rules. โ€œThe history … Read more

Communion: The Female Search for Love is the Essential Guide for Womenโ€™s Self-Love

Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks review

Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks is a field guide for women who sense that โ€œmoreโ€ is possible in loveโ€”more honesty, more agency, more community, more joy. … Read more

Salvation: Black People and Love Gives Honest, Healing, Power Lessons

Salvation: Black People and Love be bell Hooks review

Love is not a luxury for Black lifeโ€”itโ€™s infrastructure. This review of Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks unpacks the bookโ€™s thesis, key chapters, evidence base, and real-world … Read more

All About Love bell hooks is a powerful, unsettling guide to love

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks review

Weโ€™re living through an epidemic of disconnection, yet most of us were never taught how to loveโ€”and bell hooksโ€™ All About Love: New Visions is the practical, ethical playbook weโ€™ve … Read more

Replaceable You Mary Roach Review: Best And Worst of Body Repair Now

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach review

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach is the book I wish I had years ago, when every viral headline promised a lab-grown organ, a bionic limb, or … Read more

Book and Dagger review: shocking true story of heroic librarian spies

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

When we picture World War II spies, we imagine tuxedos and pistols, not catalog cards and microfilm cameras. Book and Dagger solves that problem by showing how badly weโ€™ve underestimated … Read more

Don’t Believe Everything You Think analysis: pain, calm freedom

Don't Believe Everything You Think summary: painful myths, bold peace

Most of us donโ€™t need more thoughtsโ€”we need relief from the ones already screaming in our heads. Donโ€™t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen is a short, deceptively simple … Read more

The Feminine Mystique Reveals Shocking Truth And Bold Hope

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan review

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is the book that finally looks suburban respectability in the eye and quietly asks, โ€œWhy are so many women still so unhappy?โ€ The Feminine … Read more

We Did OK, Kid memoir of Anthony Hopkins: Shattered Past, Inspiring Rebirth

We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins review

Trauma, addiction, and regret can feel like life sentences, and We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins is a rare celebrity book that shows how a flawed human … Read more

Motherland Julia Ioffe: Definitive, Unflinching History

Motherland- A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe review

Motherland by Julia Ioffe is the feminist history of modern Russia I wish Iโ€™d had years agoโ€”a book that solves a persistent problem: histories of Russia that treat women as … Read more

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