Behavioral Economics: The Basics
By: Philip Corr
3.87
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Behavioral economics is everywhere – whether used by governments to shape our judgement and decisio…
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1. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
By: Roger Lowenstein , Edwin Lefèvre
4.18
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1923, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" is the most widely read, highly recomm… read more
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"If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing"-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
"No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play."-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
"Old Baron Rothschild’s recipe for wealth winning applies with greater force than ever to speculation. Somebody asked him if making money in the Bourse was not a very difficult matter and he replied t…"-Roger Lowenstein, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
2. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
By: Scott Brick , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Kevin T. Collins
3.87
Format: 144 pages, MP3 CD
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"There is only one rule that I know, goddamn it, you've got to be kind."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
3. Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
By: Gary Klein
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Insights--like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's b… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
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4. Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production
By: Taiichi Ohno , Norman Bodek
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno--inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
6. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
7. The Art of Seduction
By: Robert Greene , Робърт Грийн
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," s… read more
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9. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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10. Not Without Laughter
By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more
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11. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- economics
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12. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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13. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
14. Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide
By: Scott A. Huettel
3.91
Format: None pages, Audio CD
11 hrs and 58 mins Behavioral economics is the study of decision making, and of the related themes … read more
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15. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- economics
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
16. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- psychology
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
17. 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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"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
18. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
19. Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
By: Kent Hoffman
4.23
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we … read more
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- psychology
"She needs you to help her calm herself, and one important aspect of that is giving her space and time."-Kent Hoffman, Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
"Children need a little space to test out their autonomy when on the top of the Circle, but they still need to know we’re nearby and available as needed."-Kent Hoffman, Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
"Children who can rely on an adult from birth will be able to rely on themselves when they get older—particularly because they will know when to seek the counsel or comfort of a trusted other."-Kent Hoffman, Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
"If we want our children to be independent, to go out and take on the world, we have to give them full confidence that they can come back to us as needed. Autonomy and connection: That’s secure attach…"-Kent Hoffman, Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
20. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Jonathan Clements
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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21. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
22. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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23. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
By: Kevin Simler
3.98
Format: 408 pages, ebook
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more
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"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
24. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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- nonfiction
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25. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
By: Robert J. Shiller
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbr… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
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26. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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27. Saying It Loud: 1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
By: Mark Whitaker
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” ( The Boston Globe ) to tell … read more
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28. Macroeconomics
By: Felipe Larraín B.
3.77
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An accessible introduction to the basics of macroeconomics and how it affects the local and global … read more
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- economics
- business
29. Trading: Technical Analysis Masterclass: Master the financial markets
By: Rolf Schlotmann
4.20
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
Trading stocks, currencies, futures, and other financial contracts is not actually complicated and … read more
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- economics
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30. Behavioral Economics: The Basics
By: Philip Corr
3.87
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Behavioral economics is everywhere – whether used by governments to shape our judgement and decisio… read more
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31. CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS
By: Joseph Grenny
4.30
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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