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Wilson
Bill Wilson, an American stockbroker and one of the two founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, Holly Whitaker
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- Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, Holly Whitaker
- It's How You Play the Game: The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest, Brian Kilmeade
Ralph Wilson, the owner of the Buffalo team.
- Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), president of the United States in 1913–1921, the main supporter of the League of Nations.
- The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams
Edward Wilson (1929–2021), an American biologist, ant researcher, and the originator of the idea of biophilia.
- The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, David Brooks
Edward Osborne Wilson (1929 to 2021), an American biologist, the world's leading expert on ants and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
- The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything, Neil Pasricha
Pasricha's school guidance counsellor, whose story opens the author's chapter on retirement.
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal
Timothy Wilson, an American social psychologist at the University of Virginia. He is known for the experiment in which people chose an electric shock over being bored alone with their thoughts.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Robert Wilson, an American radio astronomer and Arno Penzias's partner. Together they discovered the cosmic microwave background and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Robert Wilson, an American radio astronomer and Arno Penzias's partner. The noise in their antenna turned out to be leftover radiation from the Big Bang, and both shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for it.