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10 Best Quotes From "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson
BOOK DESCRIPTION Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face ... -
10 Best Quotes From "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop ...
BOOK DESCRIPTION At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike ... -
10 Best Quotes From "1776" by David McCullough
BOOK OVERVIEW America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, ... -
10 Best Quotes From "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" ...
BOOK OVERVIEW In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channelled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin ... -
10 Best Quotes From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" By Rebecca Skloot
BOOK OVERVIEW Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became a ... -
10 Best Quotes From "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright
BOOK OVERVIEW A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and ... -
10 Best Quotes From "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha ...
BOOK OVERVIEW Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of ... -
10 Best Quotes From "The Omnivore’s Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
BOOK OVERVIEW Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, ... -
10 Best Quotes From "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt
BOOK OVERVIEW Stephen Greenblatt’s book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern begins by recounting Greenblatt’s chance discovery, while he was still in college, of a translation of De rerum ... -
10 Best Quotes From "The 4-Hour Workweek" By Tim Ferriss
BOOK OVERVIEW Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. ...
