Gods of the Upper Air
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Author:
Charles King
In Gods of the Upper Air, biographer Charles King reveals how German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas and his students helped transform the way human differences and similarities are perceived. The book focuses on the groundb...
Look Within
How to Lead With Self Awareness and Vulnerability
A Promised Land
Author:
Barack Obama
Former President Barack Obama’s biography, A Promised Land, details his upbringing, how he got into politics, and what it was like to serve as President from 2009 to 2017, including his part in the assassination of Osama bin L...
Born a Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
Author:
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah was born of a crime, of a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, when interracial sex was punishable during apartheid in South Africa. He was the living evidence of his parents’ crime and for the first few years of...
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Author:
Michael Lewis
First published in 2003, Michael Lewis’s focus is on Billy Beane, the general manager of Oakland Athletics. Michael talks about how Billy tried to build a team using statistics and not traditional scouting methods. He managed ...
What it Takes
Twitter: A Thread
Author:
Wizdom Original
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