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A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951 To understand why the Federal Reserve acted as it did at key points in its history, Meltzer draws on meeting minutes, correspondence, and other internal documents (many made public only during the 1970s) to trace the reasoning behind its policy decisions.
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity?
Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible Quantum field theory is by far the most spectacularly successful theory in physics, but also one of the most mystifying. Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible provides an essential primer on the subject
How to Get Ideas Jack Foster's simple five-step technique for solving problems and getting ideas takes the mystery and anxiety out of the idea-generating process.
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields The universe is made of atoms and Sean Carroll explains exactly what that means and how we know it.
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before – literally.
Coming of Age in the Milky Way From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconceptions.
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.
'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich' Thomas Sowell rejects the term 'trickle-down theory' as a mischaracterization of supply-side economics, which he supports. He argues that tax cuts, even for the wealthy, stimulate investment and job creation, ultimately benefiting the entire economy through increased production and demand, not by a deliberate 'trickling down' of wealth.
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement.
CRISPR: A Powerful Way to Change DNA We can change the world with gene editing—but should we?
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.
Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions Statistics are in news reports, at the doctor’s office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. There are right and wrong ways to look at numbers, and Downey will help you see which are which.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness Throughout history, humans have shown an incredible talent for destruction as well as creation. Aggression has driven us to great heights and brutal lows.
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from cells to human beings, ecosystems, the known universe and beyond—that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness.
Music Theory 101: From keys and scales to rhythm and melody, an essential primer on the basics of music theory From classical to hard rock, and jazz to hip hop, music is constantly evolving, but many of the basics have stayed the same. Understanding these basics is key to becoming a successful musician and well-rounded music lover.
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species
American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics All you need to know about elections, politics, and government!
The Richest Man in Babylon The Richest Man in Babylon is an early twentieth century classic about financial investment and monetary success. Through a series of enlightening parables set in the heart of ancient Babylon, Clason provided his readers with economic tips and tools for financial success.
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today’s exponential entrepreneur’s go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools.
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin
Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19 Have you ever stopped to wonder why hand sanitizer was missing from your pharmacy for months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit?
Personal Finance 101: From Saving and Investing to Taxes and Loans, an Essential Primer on Personal Finance Get your financial life in order—from saving and investing to taxes and loans—with this comprehensive, accessible guide to everything you need to know about finance.
Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid Understanding Social Security can be overwhelming at times and dense government websites don’t help.
The Everything Economics Book: From theory to practice, your complete guide to understanding economics today The Dismal Science. The Worldly Philosophy. The Science of Scarcity. Most people think economics is one of the most challenging and complex fields of study. But with this book, it doesn't have to be!
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models.
Build a Large Language Model Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up
The Worm Farmer’s Handbook: Mid- to Large-Scale Vermicomposting for Farms, Businesses, Municipalities, Schools, and Institutions he Worm Farmer’s Handbook is the first and only authoritative how-to guide that goes beyond small-scale operations and demystifies the science and logistics of the fascinating process that is vermicomposting.
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives.
Connections James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today.
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers, and answering the questions you were always too embarrassed to ask
Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact be intimately connected and inseparable facets of nature.
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market?
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable Not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance.
The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells.
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood & Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events.
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
A History of Economic Thought As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.
Quantum Entanglement An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar
Macroeconomics An accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies.
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World Demystifies the world of quantum science for the layperson, exploring scientific concepts—from particles of light, to probability, to states of matter, to what makes greenhouse gases bad—in considerable depth, but using examples from the everyday world.
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature From tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies.
The Laws of Human Nature Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.
The Visual Mba: Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness a quick skimming towards MBA class
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most – when people’s lives were at stake.
Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain Most people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only barely aware of the diseases caused by them, except, perhaps, for mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science? a science that might lead to cures for some of humankind's most devastating diseases
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.
The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they’re essential to our survival.
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here
It's a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere Why aren't left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum? These may not look like math questions, but they are-because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns.
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World Oliver Morton's 'The Planet Remade' dives into the complex world of geoengineering, exploring its potential as a tool to combat climate change but also highlighting its inherent risks and uncertainties.
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science Rather than trying to bend your mind around all the vast and confounding details of things such as gravitational waves, electricity and black holes, wouldn’t it be easier to understand just one central concept from which everything else follows?
Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell?
Hyperion On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.
Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World Two mathematicians explore how math fits into everything from art, music, and literature to space probes and game shows.
Foundation For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it's nothing short of miraculous.
The Story of America: Essays on Origins In 'The Story of America', Harvard historian and 'New Yorker' staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type.
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book.
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Illustrated Edition A beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic, timed to celebrate the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original publication--with never-before-seen illustrations by award winner Chris Riddell.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome.
The Art of War Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and civilization have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life.
'Too Much for Human Endurance': The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg The stories of the doctors, nurses and patients at the Union Army’s hospital in Gettysburg come to life in this unique Civil War history.
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs Throughout, Chomsky reveals the United States's increasingly open dismissal of United Nations resolutions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and international legal precedent in justifying its motives and actions. As his analysis of US statecraft and warmongering amply reveals, the rule of law has been reduced to a mere nuisance in the United States's brazen bid for the title of rogue state.
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy Behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of Airbnb, the online lodging platform that has become, in under a decade, the largest provider of accommodations in the world.
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be... and then they were promoted
The politics of vaccination: A global history Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime.
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution Two scientists explore the potential of a revolutionary genetics technology capable of easily and affordably manipulating DNA in human embryos to prevent specific diseases, addressing key concerns about related ethical and societal repercussions.
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning math and science—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’s belief in renaissance is borne out in this epic novel - as cities are overthrown and transformed, as cynics become selfless heroes, and as a “recall to life” becomes not only possible but necessary, for the individual and for society.
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as 'brilliantly researched and written,' the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.
High Output Management A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.
The Great Money Reset: Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life Ten timely financial steps to build the life you really want.
The Great Reset: And the War for the World Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet.
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods.
Hard Times Published serially in 1854 and packed with page-turning cliff-hangers, Hard Times explores representatives of English society - the disappearing aristocracy, the growing middle class, indigent laborers, and nomadic circus people - as they navigate the ways of Victorian England during the Industrial Revolution.
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money Obermayer and fellow Suddeutsche journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of letterbox companies help the super-rich to hide their money. Faced with the contents of the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of journalists to follow every possible line of inquiry. Operating in the strictest secrecy for over a year, they uncover cases involving European prime ministers and international dictators, emirs and kings, celebrities and aristocrats.
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future n a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?
Capitalism and Freedom n this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.
Notes from the Underground n 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels — Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes.
Paradise Lost John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.
The Beautiful and Damned A bitter critique of the empty pleasures of post–World War I Café Society, The Beautiful and Damned endures not only as a cautionary tale but as a social artifact of the decadent Roaring Twenties
Beyond Good and Evil Through nearly three hundred transformative aphorisms, Nietzsche presents a worldview in which neither truth nor morality are absolutes, and where good and evil are not opposites but counterparts that stem from the same desires.
Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems and drive digital transformation.
The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made—all the qualities of a successful business leader. The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Naqvi was the Key Man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. In April 2019—Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering, and faces up to 291 years in jail.
The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to 'Zombie Banks,' the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Markety Constable and Wright's guide explores the not widely known economic indicators that the smartest investors watch closely in order to beat the stock market--from Big Macs to Zombie Bank. Not only valuable and informative, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators that Really Matter is also wonderfully irreverent and endlessly entertaining, making it the most fun to read investors' guide on the market.
Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking: Education in an Age of Exponential Technologies takes a fresh approach to what we need to do differently to prepare our children for a world of exponential technologies, disruptive innovations, and ubiquitous A.I.
How Will You Measure Your Life? The renowned Harvard Business School professor and author of “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” often spoke and wrote about how to measure a life beyond traditional metrics like wealth, power, or career success. He offered a deeply philosophical and values-driven framework centered around finding meaning and happiness through serving others
Innovation Capital: How to Compete--and Win--Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders We've all seen leaders who excel at winning resources and support for their ideas. It turns out that this quality is so valuable, and measurably more important for innovation than just being creative, that it has a name: 'innovation capital.'
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets This book is a foundational text in understanding how we often misinterpret random events as meaningful patterns, particularly in contexts like finance and life in general.
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers TBD
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone As told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s personal journey, one that is taking place today inside a storied technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.
The Gene: An Intimate History Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty Global poverty is one of the world’s most vexing problems. For decades, we’ve assumed smart, well-intentioned people will eventually be able to change the economic trajectory of poor countries. From education to healthcare, infrastructure to eradicating corruption, too many solutions rely on trial and error. Essentially, the plan is often to identify areas that need help, flood them with resources, and hope to see change over time. But hope is not an effective strategy.
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success?
Educated - A Memoir Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her 'head-for-the-hills bag'.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business. Is it though?
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups What do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common? The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it.
Competing Against Luck The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.

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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity?

Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible Quantum field theory is by far the most spectacularly successful theory in physics, but also one of the most mystifying. Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible provides an essential primer on the subject

How to Get Ideas Jack Foster's simple five-step technique for solving problems and getting ideas takes the mystery and anxiety out of the idea-generating process.

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution.

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields The universe is made of atoms and Sean Carroll explains exactly what that means and how we know it.

The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before – literally.

Coming of Age in the Milky Way From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconceptions.

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant A rare view into Nvidia’s distinct culture and Jensen’s management principles, The Nvidia Way is a book for our moment as well as an instant classic of business history, with enduring lessons for entrepreneurs and managers alike.

CRISPR: A Powerful Way to Change DNA We can change the world with gene editing—but should we?

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness Throughout history, humans have shown an incredible talent for destruction as well as creation. Aggression has driven us to great heights and brutal lows.

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species

American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics All you need to know about elections, politics, and government!

The Richest Man in Babylon The Richest Man in Babylon is an early twentieth century classic about financial investment and monetary success. Through a series of enlightening parables set in the heart of ancient Babylon, Clason provided his readers with economic tips and tools for financial success.

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today’s exponential entrepreneur’s go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin

Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19 Have you ever stopped to wonder why hand sanitizer was missing from your pharmacy for months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit?

Personal Finance 101: From Saving and Investing to Taxes and Loans, an Essential Primer on Personal Finance Get your financial life in order—from saving and investing to taxes and loans—with this comprehensive, accessible guide to everything you need to know about finance.

Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid Understanding Social Security can be overwhelming at times and dense government websites don’t help.

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models.

Build a Large Language Model Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives.

Connections James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today.

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers, and answering the questions you were always too embarrassed to ask

Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact be intimately connected and inseparable facets of nature.

The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells.

Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.

A History of Economic Thought As the Great Recession taught us in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the history of economic thought can have wide-ranging practical applications.

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

Quantum Entanglement An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar

Macroeconomics An accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global economies.

The Laws of Human Nature Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.

The Visual Mba: Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness a quick skimming towards MBA class

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most – when people’s lives were at stake.

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?

The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they’re essential to our survival.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?

Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?

The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World Oliver Morton's 'The Planet Remade' dives into the complex world of geoengineering, exploring its potential as a tool to combat climate change but also highlighting its inherent risks and uncertainties.

Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell?

Hyperion On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.

Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World Two mathematicians explore how math fits into everything from art, music, and literature to space probes and game shows.

Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Illustrated Edition A beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic, timed to celebrate the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original publication--with never-before-seen illustrations by award winner Chris Riddell.

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome.

'Too Much for Human Endurance': The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg The stories of the doctors, nurses and patients at the Union Army’s hospital in Gettysburg come to life in this unique Civil War history.

The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy Behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of Airbnb, the online lodging platform that has become, in under a decade, the largest provider of accommodations in the world.

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be... and then they were promoted

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning math and science—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’s belief in renaissance is borne out in this epic novel - as cities are overthrown and transformed, as cynics become selfless heroes, and as a “recall to life” becomes not only possible but necessary, for the individual and for society.

High Output Management A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.

The Great Money Reset: Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life Ten timely financial steps to build the life you really want.

The Great Reset: And the War for the World Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet.

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future n a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?

Capitalism and Freedom n this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom.

Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.

The Beautiful and Damned A bitter critique of the empty pleasures of post–World War I Café Society, The Beautiful and Damned endures not only as a cautionary tale but as a social artifact of the decadent Roaring Twenties

Beyond Good and Evil Through nearly three hundred transformative aphorisms, Nietzsche presents a worldview in which neither truth nor morality are absolutes, and where good and evil are not opposites but counterparts that stem from the same desires.

Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking: Education in an Age of Exponential Technologies takes a fresh approach to what we need to do differently to prepare our children for a world of exponential technologies, disruptive innovations, and ubiquitous A.I.

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets This book is a foundational text in understanding how we often misinterpret random events as meaningful patterns, particularly in contexts like finance and life in general.

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers TBD

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.

The Gene: An Intimate History Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt--until they commit to beating the right Dip.

To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success?

Educated - A Memoir Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her 'head-for-the-hills bag'.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business. Is it though?

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups What do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common? The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills.