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1) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 36 week(s).

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The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before. "Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used...

2) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 112 week(s).

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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...

3) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 228 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.

4) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 82 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...

5) Braiding sweetgrass

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16. It has been on the list for 101 week(s).

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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans...