6 must-read economics books like Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity by Heinrich Eduard Jacob

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Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

By: Heinrich Eduard Jacob

3.25

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

“A cup of coffee is a miracle, a wonderful assemblage of relationships”. This classic follows coffe…

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1. Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

By: Daniel Goleman

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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2. Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger

By: Warren Buffett , Janet Lowe

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

Praise for Damn Right! From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . . "Charlie Munge… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
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3. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more

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5. Drug of Choice

By: Michael Crichton , John Lange

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, pro… read more

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6. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

By: Mark Pendergrast

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history

7. Call of the Wild

By: Guy Grieve

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and … read more

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8. Six Days of the Condor

By: James Grady

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan When CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues … read more

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9. An Edible History of Humanity

By: Tom Standage

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolit… read more

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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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11. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By: Jack Weatherford

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The first key to leadership is self-control."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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12. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"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

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13. The Wise Ass (The Claire Trilogy, #1)

By: Tom McCaffrey

4.30

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

"I don't believe I've ever read a book quite like The Wise Ass, and I've read quite a few. It's a m… read more

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14. The Bookshop

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.28

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more

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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

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15. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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16. The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thrill… read more

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17. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

By: Kai-Fu Lee

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

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18. The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

By: Mark Lawrence

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Ab… read more

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"Sometimes even the blind must wait and see."

-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

"There seemed nothing else to say. Sometimes all your words are the wrong shape and none of them will fit into the silence left when the conversation pauses."

-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

"She didn't know if the priests' poison was starting to infect her, or if this was just what growing up was - a series of compromises that twisted a child's idealism into something shameful."

-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

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19. Grave Descend

By: John Lange

3.76

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

An Edgar Award finalist from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Jurassic Park: A diver ent… read more

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20. True Crime Case Histories - Volume 10: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder, Deception, and Mayhem (Volume 10)

By: Jason Neal

4.30

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

True crime is not for everyone. But chances are, if you’ve picked up this book, you already know th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

By: Heinrich Eduard Jacob

3.25

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

“A cup of coffee is a miracle, a wonderful assemblage of relationships”. This classic follows coffe… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • economics
  • business

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4.29

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3.64

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Siddharth Kara

4.37

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4.06

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