NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) Confronting the presidents: no spin assessments from Washington to Biden

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. It has been on the list for 1 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'Reillyand 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...

2) Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

Author

Harari, Yuval N

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the...

3) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 25 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 [this book], 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 need...

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

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 211 week(s).

5) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir

Author

Vance, J. D

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 98 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...

6) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

Author

Larson, Erik

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 20 week(s).

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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...

7) Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

Author

Harmon, Mark

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.

8) The art of power: my story as America's first woman Speaker of the House

Author

Pelosi, Nancy

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

9) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-29. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 74 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert

“One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt,...