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Books like Bodies that matter

Loved Bodies that matter by Judith Butler? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from self-improvement, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

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    Atomic Habits

    James Clear · 2018 · Self-Improvement

    A practical, evidence-based system for tiny changes that compound; the modern standard on habits.

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    The Diversity of Life

    Edward Osborne Wilson · 1992 · Self-Improvement

    "In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. Edward O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diver

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    The lost boy

    David J. Pelzer · 1994 · Self-Improvement

    Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had

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    Your college experience

    John N. Gardner · 1992 · Self-Improvement

    This book includes a free CD on YCE, Your College Experience.

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    Battlefield of the Mind

    Joyce Meyer · 1995 · Self-Improvement

    A WAR IS RAGING. YOUR MIND IS THE BATTLEFIELD. Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger, and feelings of condemnation...all these are attacks on the mind. If you suffer from negative thoughts, take

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    Emotional Intelligence

    Daniel Goleman · 1995 · Self-Improvement

    ¿Por qué algunas personas parecen dotadas de un don especial que les permite vivir bien, aunque no sean las que más se destacan por su inteligencia? ¿Por qué no siempre el alumno más inteligente termi

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    A second chicken soup for the woman's soul

    Jack Canfield · 1996 · Self-Improvement

    There are many ways to define a woman: daughter, mother, wife, professional, friend, student... We are each special and unique, yet we share a common connection. What bonds all women are our mutual ex

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    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

    Robin S. Sharma · 1996 · Self-Improvement

    Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari l

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    The creative mind

    Margaret A. Boden · 1990 · Self-Improvement

    The Second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author.

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    The 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene · 1998 · Self-Improvement

    Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it

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