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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
10 Best Quotes From "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris ...
BOOK OVERVIEW Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...