mimi10v3Lives narrated with long hindsight by people who built, explored, wrote, organized, or computed. Memory becomes both evidence and self-designed monument.
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Unbowed
About the bookWangari Maathai’s memoir traces her path from a rural Kenyan childhood to her role as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The narrative centers on the founding of the Green Belt Movement in 1…
7/10About a Person : AutobiographyMy Dream of Stars
About the bookAnousheh Ansari recounts her journey from a childhood in Iran to becoming the first female commercial space tourist. The narrative traces her family's emigration to the United States fo…
6/10About a Person : AutobiographyJust for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
About the bookIn this candid and often humorous memoir, Linus Torvalds recounts the accidental origins of the Linux kernel and his subsequent rise to global prominence in the tech world. Co-written w…
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| Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary | Linus Torvalds, David Diamond | 2001 | 6 | Read | → |
| My Dream of Stars | Anousheh Ansari with Homer Hickam | 2010 | 7 | Read | → |
| Unbowed | Wangari Maathai | 2006 | 9 | Read | → |