Relationship & Family
Pitch Anything
Oren Klaff
Discover an innovative method for presenting, persuading, and winning deals. Learn how to control the frame, understand the crocodile brain, and use status to your advantage. This book provides a blueprint for success in any presentation where you need to be truly convincing.
Presentation Advantage
Kory Kogon
Presentation Advantage provides the tools and techniques to become a masterful and confident presenter. Learn how to captivate your audience, deliver a passionate message, and persuade others to take action. This book offers a clear path to effective communication, helping you connect with your audience and achieve your presentation goals.
Raising Good Humans
Hunter Clarke-Fields
A guide to mindful parenting, offering practical strategies drawn from mindfulness, compassionate communication, and conflict resolution to help parents break the cycle of reactivity and raise kind, confident children. It emphasizes self-awareness, emotional regulation, and skillful communication to foster stronger, more cooperative family relationships.
Rationality
Steven Pinker
An exploration of rationality, its importance, and why it often seems scarce in the modern world. The book delves into logic, critical thinking, probability, and other tools of sound reasoning, offering insights into how we can make better decisions and understand the world around us.
Reader, Come Home
Maryanne Wolf
An exploration of the reading brain in a digital world. It delves into the impact of digital media on our reading habits, attention spans, and cognitive development, and discusses the importance of preserving deep reading skills in an age of constant distraction.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
A provocative and darkly humorous memoir about one mother's quest to raise her daughters the Chinese way, revealing the challenges, triumphs, and unexpected lessons learned along the way. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it’s about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old.
Rebel Ideas
Matthew Syed
An exploration of the power of cognitive diversity and how it can be harnessed to solve complex problems, using the 9/11 attacks as a case study. It challenges traditional notions of excellence and argues that diverse perspectives are crucial for innovation, growth, and understanding.
Remember
Lisa Genova
Explore the fascinating science of memory and forgetting with a neuroscientist and bestselling author. Discover how memories are made, why we forget, and how to improve your memory while understanding its natural vulnerabilities. Learn to navigate the complexities of your brain and create a better relationship with your memory, free from fear and full of empowerment.