13 Best business books like How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand

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How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By: David Omand

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies t…

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Cover of Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt

1. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Unknown Binding

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

2. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more

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  • politics
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

3. Against the Odds: An Autobiography

By: James Dyson

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver

4. 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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  • politics
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

5. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

By: James Dale Davidson , William Rees-Mogg

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoningbring to light bo… read more

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Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

6. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • self help
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

7. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Cover of Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy by Herman Pontzer

8. Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy

By: Herman Pontzer

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost researchers in human metabolism reveals surprising new science behind food and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"..incompetent people are so annoying: their very incompetence blinds them to how incompetent they are." (or as Darwin said, "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge") - both o…"

-Herman Pontzer, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy

Cover of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas

9. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

By: Brian Klaas

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt

10. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins by Annie Jacobsen

11. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Life Time

By: Russell Foster

3.96

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **GIVE THEM THE GIFT OF A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP WITH THIS GUIDE TO THE … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"What makes a good scientist is the speed at which preconceptions are abandoned in the face of new knowledge"

-Russell Foster, Life Time

"In the 4th century BC, Plato argued that we are able to see because light emitted from the eye and that this light seizes objects with it's rays. This was the "extramission" theory of vision, and as …"

-Russell Foster, Life Time

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13. Limitless: The Autobiography

By: Tim Peake

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Unknown Binding

The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a generation The #1 bestselling author… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Family Politics

By: John O'Farrell

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more

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Cover of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C. Edmondson

15. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
Cover of We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins

16. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Vaclav Smil

17. Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

By: Vaclav Smil

3.87

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times -bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK by Simon Kuper

18. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK

By: Simon Kuper

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong by Tim Spector

19. Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong

By: Tim Spector

4.04

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In the course of research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little scientific evidence … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Get Paid for What You Know: Turning Your Knowledge, Passion, and Experience into an Online Income Stream in Your Spare Time by Graham Cochrane

20. How to Get Paid for What You Know: Turning Your Knowledge, Passion, and Experience into an Online Income Stream in Your Spare Time

By: Graham Cochrane

4.26

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

You may not know it, but you are sitting on a goldmine. Your knowledge, passions, and skills can… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror by John  Sweeney

21. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson

22. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

By: Niall Ferguson

3.65

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Most history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson by Nadine Dorries

23. The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

By: Nadine Dorries

3.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson YOU THINK YOU LIVE … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand

24. How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By: David Omand

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies t… read more

Similar categories in David Omand's How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence book and David Omand's How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

  • espionage
  • self help
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • business
  • audiobook

25. The Dealmaker: Lessons from a Life in Private Equity

By: Guy Hands

3.91

Format: None pages, ebook

An inside account of the multi-billion pound world of private equity and a masterclass on the art o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Laurent  Richard

26. Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

By: Laurent Richard

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Featuring an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of P… read more

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  • espionage
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

27. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

By: Thomas Rid

4.15

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deceptio… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets by Michael Blastland

28. The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets

By: Michael Blastland

3.69

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - t… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs by Seth Alexander Thevoz

29. Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

By: Seth Alexander Thevoz

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power by Sasha Swire

30. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. In the Thick of It

By: Alan Duncan

3.61

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘poop… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

29 best-selling nonfiction books like How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand

Transform Your Habits

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Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner

3.95

Against the Odds: An Autobiography

James Dyson

3.32

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver

3.75

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19 Top nonfiction books like The Dealmaker: Lessons from a Life in Private Equity by Guy Hands

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Michael Lewis

4.15

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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

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4.04

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4.40

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4.19

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