Instaread: 694 books

Summary, Analysis & Review of Brad Stone’s The Everything Store by Instaread   Preview:   The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon recounts the rise of Amazon since it was founded in 1994. Simultaneously, the book is a partial biography of the company’s...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Robbie Kellman Baxter’s The Membership Economy by Instaread   Preview:   The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue is a guide intended to show companies, nonprofits, and...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Ryan Holiday’s and Stephen Hanselman’s The Daily Stoic by Instaread   Preview:   The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is an introduction to the practical application of Stoic philosophy in the format of a daily devotional....

Summary, Analysis & Review of Ronald C. White’s American Ulysses by Instaread   Preview:   Ronald C. White's American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant is a biography of general, president, and statesman Ulysses S. Grant. During his lifetime, Grant was considered...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Megyn Kelly’s Settle for More by Instaread   Preview:   In her memoir Settle for More, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly looks back on her life and describes her winding road to fame and the many obstacles she encountered along the way. From...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Instaread   Preview:   The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by blogger Mark Manson is a candid self-help guide for anyone who needs a dose of inspired but realistic perspective on...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Peter J. D’Adamo’s Eat Right for Your Type by Instaread   Preview:   Eat Right for Your Type by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, with Catherine Whitney, is a detailed diet book based on D’Adamo’s groundbreaking research that links an individual’s...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonah Berger’s Contagious by Instaread   Preview: Contagious: Why Things Catch On is a playbook for marketing in the internet age, when products and ideas live or die based on whether or not they can go viral. Author Jonah Berger describes...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Lawrence Levy’s To Pixar and Beyond by Instaread   Preview: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History is Lawrence Levy’s personal account of how he and Steve Jobs turned a struggling animation...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Brian Tracy’s The Art of Closing the Sale by Instaread   Preview:   The Art of Closing the Sale delivers advice and guidelines that author Brian Tracy has accumulated throughout his sales career. Tracy became a more productive salesman...

Summary, Analysis & Review of The Arbinger Institute’s Leadership and Self-Deception by Instaread   Preview:   Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute is a business fable that illustrates the ways that self-deception can undermine interpersonal relationships...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Dan Ariely's Payoff by Instaread   Preview: Payoff by Dan Ariely is a companion to the author’s well-known TED talks, which focus on research that illuminates the role of reward and effort in motivation. Ariely examined his own motivations...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Susan David’s Emotional Agility by Instaread   Preview: *Emotional Agility *by psychologist Susan David is a nonfiction self-help book designed to help people embrace difficult emotions that hold them back in life and work so that they can...

**Summary, Analysis and Review of George Akerlof's and et al Phishing for Phools by Instaread ** ** ** Preview: In Phishing for Phools, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain the economics of fraud by incorporating fraudulent and unfair transactions into free-market economic...