NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"-- As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after...

2) Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Cooper, Anderson

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.

The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.

From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke

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3) Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Grann, David

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 95 week(s).

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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. --Publisher

4) Counting the cost

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Duggar, Jill

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show that remained hidden from their fans. Jill and Derick knew a normal life wasn't possible for them. As a star on the popular TLC reality show...

5) 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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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 161 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-- Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...

6) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder

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Grann, David

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 23 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

7) American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Bird, Kai

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).

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The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation--an icon of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. He created a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen...

8) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2023-10-08. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 94 week(s).

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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth...