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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Gary Chapman

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

Tim S. Grover, Shari Wenk, et al.

4.9 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less

Cal Newport

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

Russell A. Barkley PhD, Paul Costanzo, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

Gabor Maté

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good

Kimberly Ann Johnson

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

Annie Grace

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

What I Love About You

Frankie Jones

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators (FARRAR, STRAUS)

Richard Williams

4.8 on Amazon

5 HN comments

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Power

Rhonda Byrne and Simon & Schuster Audio

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Man and His Symbols

Carl G. Jung

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)

Gretchen Rubin

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

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CalChrisonJune 4, 2021

Jack London's Call of the Wild begins with the dognapping of Buck. It was set in the 1890s.

dhosekonAug 28, 2020

I have a vague notion that there was something along these lines in the '00s. I think I even tried reading a book with it, maybe Call of the Wild. I imagine it works great for some folks, but I didn't find it an improvement over my existing reading practices in the least and didn't continue with it.

ozoveheonJune 3, 2017

Animal farm by George Orwell: a revelation of the beginning and end of revolution and 'change'.
Jewish wisdom for business success.
Call of the wild by Jack London: it shows how possible it is to adapt in order to benefit maximally from change -- using a dog's (Buck) life.

dragontameronAug 1, 2018

What's wrong with having UBI for 2 years and then suddenly having it cut off?

Jack London, the famous homeless / hobo writer of "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang", was only able to write his first book because of the support of community libraries and random strangers who gave him a bed occasionally. Eventually, he was able to pull himself out of poverty and become one of the most famous writers ever.

If you can help those homeless people for a few years, that's all that's needed to permanently change some of their lives for the better. It will suck when the program ends, but some-help is better than none at all.

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These programs aren't supposed to be sustainable living forever-and-ever. They are parachutes to help people who are in tough times. They provide a pathway out of poverty.

EthanHeilmanonMay 18, 2015

More details on the Stalin, Orwell, Whitechapel connection. Jack London visited it as well.

Stalin "fetched up in London in 1907, living in a Jubilee Street tenement flat – the future home of Golda Berk."[0].

"Tower House was immortalised in 1933, when George Orwell, in Down and Out in Paris and London, praised it as the 'best of all common lodging houses with excellent bathrooms'."[1]

"Jack London, the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang was first in the line of anarchists, authors and lost souls to shelter here. He christened it The Great Monster Doss House in his seminal work of living among the East End poor, People of the Abyss, in 1902."[1]

[0]: http://eastlondonhistory.com/2011/06/16/stalin-in-londons-ea...

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/oct/24/housingpolicy...

dhosekonAug 28, 2020

It was. For some reason, searching call of the wild in my gmail archive didn't turn up the emails, but dailylit found it and it was, in fact Call of the Wild (yay spectacular memory for useless details). Dailylit does have a click here to get the next installment immediately feature and I read the 37 installments over three days (it's a short book).
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