"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review)

War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but it’s much more than that: it’s her singular calling.

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Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making—not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.

Addario finds a way to travel with a purpose. She photographs the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war.

Addario takes bravery for granted but she is not fearless. She uses her fear and it creates empathy; it is that feeling, that empathy, that is essential to her work. We see this clearly on display as she interviews rape victims in the Congo, or photographs a fallen soldier with whom she had been embedded in Iraq, or documents the tragic lives of starving Somali children. Lynsey takes us there and we begin to understand how getting to the hard truth trumps fear.

As a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as seriously as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a boys’ club of a profession. Rather than choose between her personal life and her career, Addario learns to strike a necessary balance. In the man who will become her husband, she finds at last a real love to complement her work, not take away from it, and as a new mother, she gains an all the more intensely personal understanding of the fragility of life.

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Watching uprisings unfold and people fight to the death for their freedom, Addario understands she is documenting not only news but also the fate of society. It’s What I Do is more than just a snapshot of life on the front lines; it is witness to the human cost of war.

This book was an incredible journey and an emotional roller coaster. Once I started I could not put it down and finished it two days. Lynsey Addario is someone I definitely look up to and I am glad she wrote her story for all to read.

It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Lynsey Addario


• Publisher: Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition (February 5, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 159420537X


• ISBN-13: 978-1594205378


• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches

Well written and quite engaging life of a female war journalist. Very intriguing as you feel you are behind the lens with her.

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In 1983, the world was introduced to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. What followed was a cultural sensation that changed the landscape of children's entertainment forever! Join Mattel and Dark Horse in this comprehensive retrospective chronicling He-Man's decades-long epic journey from toy, to television, to film, to a true pop culture phenomenon!

The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2015) was published by Dark Horse Comics in collaboration with The Power and Honor Foundation. It features copy by Tim Seeley, Steve Seeley, and James Eatock. With over 300 color pages, this is quite a book: it covers nearly 35 years, from the seminal 1980 toy concepts all the way up through DC’s current run of comics and beyond.

As a kid, I watched and followed He-Man with enthusiam. That was many years ago and the only characters I could remember today are He-Man and Skeletor. Going through this book is therefore a nostalgic experience. Not just that, it also introduces me to a world of MOTU that I never knew.

The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an artbook that looks at the art and design for the animation, comics and toys. Instead of photos of toys and their packaging boxes, you'll be looking at the character designs and packaging art.

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There are interviews with many of the creators, such as with Emiliano Santalucia, Joshua Van Pelt and James Eatock, founders of the Power and the Honor Foundation, writer of many MOTU minicomics Steven Grant, illustrator and animator Larry Houston, writer Paul Dini, illustrator Earl Norem, concept artist William Stout, designer David Wolfram and many more. It's interesting to find out how the toys, comics and animation are made, the conceptualisation that went behind, and the creative process used to maintain the series.

Art of He Man and the Masters of the Universe Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Various


• Publisher: Dark Horse Books (April 28, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1616555920


• ISBN-13: 978-1616555924


• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1.3 x 12.3 inches

About the Author

Tim Seeley is one of those "slash" people...a writer-slash-artist. He has drawn a number of different comic book series including G.I Joe, Halloween, WildC.A.T.s and Ex Sanguine. His writing work includes the New York Times best-selling Hack/Slash, Witchblade, Batman Eternal and the critically acclaimed Revival. He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, Gina. He works at our Star Studios where he is never far from his 80s action figure collection. The author lives in Chicago, IL..

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You are under surveillance right now.

Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.

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The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.

Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us exactly what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.

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Bruce Schneier (disclosure: a friend and occasional colleague) has written an essential book for our spy-happy times. He's a serious technologist who explains, in human terms, the meaning and threat of mass surveillance.

The most important part of this book, however (disclosure: I received an advance copy from his publisher), is his prescription for what we need to do. Surveillance-enabling technology isn't going away. It's getting more prevalent, and more hidden from view. And we can't sit back and expect the surveillance state to curb itself. So we need to change our norms on how we use it, but even more, we need to change our laws and rules.

Should be required reading in the internet age-- I am planning on giving copies to friends.

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Bruce Schneier


• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (March 2, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0393244814


• ISBN-13: 978-0393244816


• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.4 x 9.6 inches

About the Author

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books -- including "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World" -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient Systems, Inc.

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What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.

At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynamics dictates that over time, order--or information--will disappear. Whispers vanish in the wind just like the beauty of swirling cigarette smoke collapses into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets. Our cities are pockets where information grows, but they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Paris, there are dozens of places with economies that accomplish little more than pulling rocks off the ground. So, why does the US economy outstrip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they form make use of information.

Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies become distributed computers, made of networks of people, and the problem of economic development becomes the problem of making these computers more powerful. By uncovering the mechanisms that enable the growth of information in nature and society, Why Information Grows lays bear the origins of physical order and economic growth. Situated at the nexus of information theory, physics, sociology, and economics, this book propounds a new theory of how economies can do, not just more, but more interesting things.

The diverse set of perspectives that César Hidalgo brings to the eternal question of growth—from economic development theories to big data mining engines to elegantly crafted visualizations—underlies the central thesis of Why Information Grows: diversity. Including many diverse perspectives will ultimately create maximum complexity and chaos, which ultimately creates growth. Hidalgo makes a powerful case for the importance of creativity and imagination in our society's ability to make information—and economies—grow.

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This beautifully written and carefully researched book may set in motion a paradigm shift in economic thinking. Blending deep theory with detailed data, Hidalgo demonstrates that countries grow, firms prosper, and individuals thrive when they enmesh themselves in diverse, talented networks that produce complex physical order, i.e. information. Why do economies grow? Because information does.

This is a wonderful book. The way it introduces information and entropy is refreshing and clear. I don't think I ever read such an intuitive explanation of entropy, (at least a one that goes beyond entropy as disorder).

Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Cesar Hidalgo


• Publisher: Basic Books (June 2, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0465048994


• ISBN-13: 978-0465048991


• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 1.1 inches

About the Author

Cesar Hidalgo leads the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab and is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Hidalgo is a trained physicist experienced in the study of Complexity in Social and Economic systems, and also, a pioneer in the development of tools to visualize Big Data.

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You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school—shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you:

• Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions
• Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders
• Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve

Ibarra turns the usual “think first and then act” philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is important; how you should invest your time; why and which relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership; and, ultimately, who you want to become.

Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your career to the next level. It’s time to learn by doing.

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Herminia Ibarra is an exceptional leadership scholar and intellectual. She authored this book based on her 25 years of teaching experience that includes executive education. She also covered this book from psychology perspective. This book reveals her keen interest in psychology as she referred lots of research works by renowned psychologists in the world. She shares several inspiring stories including Margaret Thatcher and Sheryl Sandberg. This book reflects honest account of her perspective on leadership. It outlines summary at the end of each chapter and offers self-assessment exercises, case studies, quotes and diagrams.

This is one of the finest books I have read in my lifetime. I took lots of notes and created new triggers for my research on leadership and organizational behavior. It is an inspiring and thought provoking book to grow as a great leader. It is a well researched with both scholarly and practitioner application. It is an insightful and inspiring book worth investing your time. It is useful for educators, scholars, learners, leaders and CEOs. A must read for professionals to grow as great leaders. You can gift this book to others. Enjoy reading this book!

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Herminia Ibarra


• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (February 10, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1422184129


• ISBN-13: 978-1422184127


• Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches

About the Author

Herminia Ibarra is an expert on professional and leadership development. She is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD, the founding director of The Leadership Transition executive education program at INSEAD, and the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Harvard Business Review Press, 2003).

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There have been many books—on a large and small scale—about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others.

Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotypes about Steve Jobs. The conventional, one-dimensional view of Jobs is that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of our time, ultimately transforming the daily life of billions of people?

Drawing on incredible and sometimes exclusive access, Schlender and Tetzeli tell a different story of a real human being who wrestled with his failings and learned to maximize his strengths over time. Their rich, compelling narrative is filled with stories never told before from the people who knew Jobs best, and who decided to open up to the authors, including his family, former inner circle executives, and top people at Apple, Pixar and Disney, most notably Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Eddy Cue, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter, Robert Iger and many others. In addition, Brent knew Jobs personally for 25 years and draws upon his many interviews with him, on and off the record, in writing the book. He and Rick humanize the man and explain, rather than simply describe, his behavior. Along the way, the book provides rich context about the technology revolution we all have lived through, and the ways in which Jobs changed our world.

Schlender and Tetzeli make clear that Jobs's astounding success at Apple was far more complicated than simply picking the right products: he became more patient, he learned to trust his inner circle, and discovered the importance of growing the company incrementally rather than only shooting for dazzling game-changing products.

A rich and revealing account that will change the way we view Jobs, Becoming Steve Jobs shows us how one of the most colorful and compelling figures of our times was able to combine his unchanging, relentless passion with a more mature management style to create one of the most valuable and beloved companies on the planet.

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I've read quite a few bio's of Steve Jobs & Bill Gates. This one, focused on Jobs of course, is the best and by far the least prejudicial of any I've come across. It sheds new light to the uninitiated on the relationships between Jobs and Gates and their respective companies. In my personal opinion this book should be recommended reading for all Apple new-hires. I rate it a 4.99 on a 5 point scale.

While the book was not bad, it also reads like Apple's PR department had a heavy hand in it (which, I am sure they didn't - but it still reads that way). There's far too much apology for Steve's behaviour as a human being, which let's face it, was not exemplary. He might have been in charge of a company that makes products people want to buy - but he was also complex and, in many ways, unkind person, who put himself first in nearly all occasions. This book goes out of it's way to make excuses for that or gloss over it.

It's still a solid, well written book that's a compelling read - but it feels less honest or maybe perhaps more one-sided than other, recent books on the same topic.

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli


• Publisher: Crown Business; First Edition (US) First Printing edition (March 24, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0385347405


• ISBN-13: 978-0385347402


• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.6 x 9.4 inches

About the Author

BRENT SCHLENDER is one of the premiere chroniclers of the personal computer revolution, writing about every major figure and company in the tech industry. He covered Steve Jobs for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune for nearly 25 years.

RICK TETZELI, executive editor of Fast Company, has covered technology for two decades. He is the former deputy editor of Fortune, and editor of Entertainment Weekly.

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It took me sixteen years to write this book. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn’t the writing that took so long. . . . It was the working.

I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to get hired and fired several times. I had to find my dream job, then walk away from it. But after all that, I can now say the following with absolute certainty:

You already have everything you need for an amazing career. In fact, you’ve had it since day one.

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Starting on the first day you got paid to scoop ice cream or restock shelves, you’ve had the chance to develop the four elements all great careers have in common: relationships, skills, character, and hustle. You already have each of those, to one degree or another.

Now it’s time to amplify them and apply them in a new way, creating a Career Savings Account™. This unique approach will give you the power to call a Do Over—whether you’re twenty-two, forty-two, or sixty-two. You’ll have the resources to reinvent your work and get unstuck. You’ll even rescue your Mondays as you discover how to work toward the job you’ve always wanted!

Just as a bank account protects you during a financial crunch, a Career Savings Account™ protects you during a career crunch. You need a CSA because you’ll eventually face at least one of these major transitions:

• You will hit a Career Ceiling and get stuck, requiring sharp skills to free yourself.
• You will experience a Career Bump and unexpectedly lose your job, requiring strong relationships to survive.
• You will make a Career Jump to a new role, requiring solid character to push through uncertainty and chaos.
• You will get a surprise Career Opportunity, requiring dedicated hustle to take advantage of it.
It took me sixteen years to figure out how to call a Do Over on my career. Please don’t wait sixteen more seconds before starting yours.

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The book to read before you ever need to find a job, Do Over is chock full of practical ways to prepare for finding oneself jobless. I got about 25 percent through this book before realizing that this is a book to read with pen and notebook in hand to take notes, write a to do list, and do some of the practical exercises author Jon Acuff recommends. Don't make the same mistake: Start this book with a notebook in hand and prepare to change your attitude and think through the resources and people you can cultivate and build upon as you build or rebuild a career. I need to reread the first quarter and make notes to go with my response to the last 3/4's of the book.

One thing that distinguishes this book is that it is not just a book of good advice (e.g. build relationships), but a practical book with a workable plan that you can put into practice to carry out the suggestions in the book. I also felt challenged to invest more in my current job and use it to grow and develop. I would recommend this book to someone looking for a job, but even more to someone who has a job, and wants to grow in ways that will impact and give flexibility and growth to their careers.

An excellent book on careers and personal development. It is funny, witty, and very useful. An enjoyable read, indeed.

Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Jon Acuff


• Publisher: Portfolio (April 7, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1591847613


• ISBN-13: 978-1591847618


• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.5 inches

About the Author

JON ACUFF is the author of five books, including Quitter and the New York Times bestseller Start. For sixteen years he’s helped companies like the Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and AutoTrader.com tell their stories. He’s a well-known public speaker, and his blogs have been read by millions of fans. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Jenny, and their two young daughters.

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