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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
David Brooks | How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Rethink the telephone.
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
John Piedmont’s Det One: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003–2006
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
The third was the ultimate political weapon: Alfred Emanuel Smith.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
The bomb had been assembled, delivered, and detonated by a Kuwaiti named Ramzi Yousef, under the supervision of his uncle Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who would later be identified as “the principal architect” of the attack against the same buildings on September 11, 2001.
Jon Krakauer • Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
terrorism describes the use of violence by nonstate actors directed primarily against noncombatants (mostly civilians but also including government officials, policemen, and off-duty soldiers) in order to intimidate or coerce them and change their government’s policies or composition. Typically