Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exh…
Lahir dari keluarga komunitas penyintas di pegunungan Idaho, Tara Westover berusia tujuh belas tahun saat pertama kali menginjakkan kakinya di ruang kelas. Keluarganya sangat terisolasi dari masyarakat kebanyakan sehingga tidak ada yang memastikan apakah anak-anak mereka mendapatkan pendidikan, dan tidak ada yang turun tangan ketika salah seorang kakak laki-laki Tara melakukan kekerasan. Ketika…
The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By age twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school--a job she'd taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start …
Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, helped lead America into Vietnam. McNamara believed that the fight against communism in Asia was worth the sacrifice of American lives, and yet he eventually came to believe that the war was, in fact, unwinnable. Outnumbered by those who wanted to continue fighting, he left the Johnson administration and his involvemen…