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Crash Course

The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster

by Paul Ingrassia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

With an updated Afterword by the author. This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three...
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Antifragile

Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

***Antifragile *is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan,...
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A Gift to My Children

A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

by Jim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities, and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and...
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The Number

How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America

by Alex Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003

In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong in corporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, examines the common thread connecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco, and other recent corporate scandals: the cult...
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Hot Commodities

How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market

by Jim Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade. Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his bestselling books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist,...
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The Logic of Life

The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

by Tim Harford
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent?...
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The Bed of Procrustes

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

***Bed of Procrustes *is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black...
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The Inner Game of Stress

Outsmart Life's Challenges and Fulfill Your Potential

by W. Timothy Gallwey, Edd Hanzelik, John Horton
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009

Renowned sports psychology expert W. Timothy Gallwey teams up with two esteemed physicians to offer a unique and empowering guide to mental health in today’s volatile world. The Inner Game of Stress applies the trusted principles of Gallwey’s wildly popular Inner Game series, which have helped...
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Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

by Carol S. Dweck
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006

The updated edition of the book that has changed millions of lives with its insights into the growth mindset. After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant...
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Smarter Faster Better

The Transformative Power of Real Productivity

by Charles Duhigg
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Power of Habit comes a fascinating book that explores the science of productivity, and why managing how you think is more important than what you think—with an appendix of real-world lessons to apply to your life. At the core of Smarter...
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The End of Country

Dispatches from the Frack Zone

by Seamus McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

“A rare, honest, beautiful, and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking examination of the echoes of water-powered natural gas drilling—or fracking—in the human community . . . vivid, personal and emotional.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune ** ** Susquehanna County, in the remote northeastern corner of...
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The Real Thing

Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company

by Constance L. Hays
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004

A definitive history of Coca-Cola, the world’s best-known brand, by a New York Times reporter who has followed the company and who brings fresh insights to the world of Coke, telling a larger story about American business and culture The Real Thing is a portrait of America’s most famous...
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The Kingdom and the Power

Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World

by Gay Talese
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013

“Beautifully documented . . . no less than a landmark in the field of writing and journalism.”—The Nation “Fascinating . . . Seldom has anyone been so successful in making a newspaper come alive as a human institution.”—The New York Times In this century and the last, most...
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The Hacker Ethic

A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009

You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing...
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