NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times - Hardcover Nonfiction

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Book cover for "Be ready when the luck happens"
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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--
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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking-expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist--and named for Nubian pharaoh--Coates...
Book cover for "Revenge of the tipping point"
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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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"Why is Miami--Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this ... work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through...
Book cover for "Confronting the presidents"
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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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"Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United...
Book cover for "The anxious generation"
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5 stars
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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).
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"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...
Book cover for "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI"
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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist
“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think
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Book cover for "Truths"
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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Today's conservatives know what they're against. They're anti-woke, anti-globalist, anti-big government. But what exactly do they stand for? [The author believes that] the fact that this is a hard question to answer is a damning indictment of the modern Republican Party which has abjectly failed to articulate an affirmative alternative to the left's vision. Ramaswamy calls on the conservative movement to articulate exactly what it stands for, or...
Book cover for "Something lost, something gained"
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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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A former senator and presidential candidate offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face and the future within our reach.
Book cover for "America's deadliest election"
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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1872 was the most contentious in American history. After both parties complained of corruption, neither candidate would concede, two governors claimed office and chaos erupted. Rival newspapers engaged in a bitter war of words, politicians plotted to overthrow the government, and their supporters fought in the streets and attempted assassinations. The entire country watched in grim fascination as the wounds...
Book cover for "The third Gilmore girl"
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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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A candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more.--
Book cover for "Blind spots"
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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern...
Book cover for "The barn"
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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--