Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits
By: Richard Davies
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in har…
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1. 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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2. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
By: Misha Glenny
3.41
Format: 32 pages,
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3. The Panama Papers
By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more
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4. The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4)
By: Philip Kerr
3.49
Format: 182 pages,
Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy--featuring the tough, fast-talking, noirish detective Bernie Gunt… read more
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5. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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6. Their Darkest Hour
By: Laurence Rees
3.94
Format: None pages,
How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers ra… read more
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7. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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8. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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11. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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12. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
By: Gregory Zuckerman
4.03
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the … read more
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- audiobook
13. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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- economics
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14. The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works
By: Dharshini David
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wondered why we can afford to buy far more clothes than our grandparents ever could .… read more
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"Money may not buy happiness but it does buy choice."-Dharshini David, The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works
15. Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
By: Tim Marshall
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography We feel more divided… read more
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16. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
17. The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
By: Jonathan Tepper
4.13
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplac… read more
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18. Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
By: Kishore Mahbubani
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is i… read more
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"... any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"Most Americans are unaware that the average income of the bottom 50 percent of their population has declined over a thirty-year period."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"the weaponizing of the US dollar has created a powerful global incentive to create an alternative currency for global trading purposes."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"... despite its openness, America has its own sacred cows. One such sacred cow is that America is number one and will be number one forever"-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
19. Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits
By: Richard Davies
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change we need to study people who live in har… read more
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20. The Art of Execution: How the world's best investors get it wrong and still make millions
By: Lee Freeman-Shor
4.06
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
Over seven years, 45 of the world's top investors were given between $25 and $150m to invest by fun… read more
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21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
