The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
By: Neil Irwin
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful …
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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
3. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
By: Sheelah Kolhatkar
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and … read more
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4. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
By: Neil Irwin
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful … read more
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5. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
By: Steve Coll
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the … read more
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6. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
By: Liaquat Ahamed
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late … read more
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7. Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more
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8. Ogilvy on Advertising
By: David Ogilvy
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the m… read more
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9. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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10. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
By: John C. Maxwell , Zig Ziglar
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing… read more
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11. Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
By: George Lakoff , Howard Dean , None
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Don't Think of An Elephant!is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and… read more
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12. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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13. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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14. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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15. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
16. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
17. How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
By: David M. Rubenstein
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest nam… read more
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18. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
By: Saifedean Ammous
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digi… read more
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"According to Cantillon, the beneficiaries from the expansion of the money supply are the first recipients of the new money, who are able to spend it before it has caused prices to rise. Whoever recei…"-Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
19. Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System
By: Charles Wheelan
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet… read more
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