Darwin's Blind Spot: The Role of Living Interactions in Evolution
By: Frank Ryan
4.13
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Darwin based his revolutionary theory of evolution on competition between individuals, lending to t…
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1. Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage
By: Mary Buffett , David Clark
4.50
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
With an insider's view of the mind of the master, Mary Buffett and David Clark have written a simpl… read more
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2. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.10
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more
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"Only the autodidacts are free."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
3. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
By: Edward O. Thorp
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to be… read more
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4. 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
5. Poor Richard's Almanack
By: Benjamin Franklin
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
A collection of Ben Franklin's timeless maxims, rules, and aphorisms. read more
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6. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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7. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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8. Ice Age
By: John Gribbin , Mary Gribbin
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
On 24 June, 1837 Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences… read more
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9. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that disti… read more
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"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabu…"-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
10. No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
By: Judith Rich Harris
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The author of the controversial book The Nurture Assumptiontackles the biggest mystery in all of ps… read more
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11. Sam Walton: Made In America
By: Sam Walton , John Huey
3.82
Format: 295 pages,
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, w… read more
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12. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
By: Charles T. Munger , None
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more
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"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
13. The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
By: Howard Marks
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren Buffett Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of O… read more
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14. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
By: William N. Thorndike Jr.
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different." -- John Templ… read more
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15. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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16. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose … read more
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17. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By: Robert B. Cialdini
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how … read more
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"Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so ou…"-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
18. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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19. 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
20. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
21. Darwin's Blind Spot: The Role of Living Interactions in Evolution
By: Frank Ryan
4.13
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Darwin based his revolutionary theory of evolution on competition between individuals, lending to t… read more
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