The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II

New York Times Bestseller

A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.

Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?

Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.

رواية أبابيل (الحب هو التوأم اللطيف للموت) لـ أحمد آل حمدان بدأت القصة في قرية صغيرة تدعى “الجساسة”، حين ولد طفلًا لم يكن عاديًا أبدًا، فهو لم يخرج من رحم والدته باكيًا، مثل بقية المواليد بل خرج صامتًا، يُقلب بصره في الأشياء مندهشاً، كما لو أنه تفاجأ بوجود كوكب آخر، …

يكشف هذا الكتاب الطريقة الكامنة وراء شجاعة بافيت الأسطورية في عقد الصفقات
ويضمن لك أن تكون على الجانب الصحيح في كل صفقة، لقد قام توم سيرسي وهنري ديفريز بعمل رائع في استخلاص حكمة بافيت وضعها في كتاب سهل القراءة جدا تحب العودة اليه مرارا وتكرارا انه كتاب يجب على صانعي الصفقات أن يقرأوه سيجد كل المهتمين بعقد
الصفقات من رجال المبيعات وحتى الرؤساء التنفيذيين شيئا يهمهم في هذا الكتاب انه ببساطة أهم كتاب جديد عن صناعة الصفقات واستراتيجيات المبيعات الكبرى اقرأ هذا الكتاب الملهم المليء بالنصائح لكي تكتشف كيف يمكنك أن تتبنى استراتيجيات وارن بافيت في عقد الصفقات لكي تتفاوض وتفوز بعقود عالية القيمة.

“هذا الكتاب ليس من كتب التنمية البشرية، وليس كتابًا للمختصين، هو كتاب للجميع به جرعة ثقافية للوصول للمناعة النفسية، مبني على حقائق وبحوث علمية، قدمتها بطريقة مبسطة لرفع مستوى الوعي في الحفاظ على صحتك النفسية، لا يوجد فيه تفاؤل مطلق، ولا تشاؤم مضر، هو يساهم في كيفية فهم الحياة من منظور نفسي مبسط بحلوها ومرها، هو كتاب يدعو للتفكير الواقعي سواء كان إيجابي أم سلبي.
وإن أصعب ما على الإنسان أن يفهم نفسه، لماذا يستيقظ أحدنا من النوم وهو متضايق ولا يعلم لماذا هو متضايق؟ لماذا لا ينام رغم تمتعه بصحة جسدية جيدة وهو لا يعاني من أية ضغوط؟ لماذا المزاج متقلب فتارة يشعر بالرضا وتارة بالغضب؟ هل ستستمر مشكلتي للأبد؟ لماذا أنا وحدي أصابني ذلك؟
سأحاول في هذا الكتاب وفي كتب أخرى قادمة أن أجيب على مثل هذه التساؤلات، قد أملك إجابات لكنني لا أملك جميع الإجابات”

You Are a Badass at Making Money will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation—over just a few years—from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style, Jen Sincero channels the inimitable sass and practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller. She combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock earning potential and get real results.

Learn to:

• Uncover what’s holding you back from making money
• Give your doubts, fears, and excuses the heave-ho
• Relate to money in a new (and lucrative) way
• Shake up the cocktail of creation
• Tap into your natural ability to grow rich
• Shape your reality—stop playing victim to circumstance
• Get as wealthy as you wanna be

“This book truly crystallizes the concept that financial abundance is an inside job—in that it all begins with your mindset—and Sincero gets serious (in the funniest ways possible) about helping you identify your particular limiting beliefs surrounding money.” —PopSugar

Research shows that self-awareness is the meta-skill of the 21st century – the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. Unfortunately, we are remarkably poor judges of ourselves and how we come across, and it’s rare to get candid, objective feedback from colleagues, employees, and even friends and family. We can ALL learn to be more self-aware.

Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and work in the Fortune 500 world, organizational psychologist Dr Tasha Eurich shatters conventional assumptions about what it takes to truly know ourselves – like why introspection isn’t a bullet train to insight, how experience is the enemy of self-knowledge, and just how far others will go to avoid telling us the truth about ourselves. Through stories of people who’ve made dramatic self-awareness gains, she offers surprising secrets, techniques and strategies to help readers do the same – and therefore improve their work performance, career satisfaction, leadership potential, relationships, and more.

At a time when self-awareness matters more than ever, Insight is the essential playbook for surviving and thriving in an unaware world.

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