Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
By: Stephen S. Cohen
3.88
Format: 223 pages, ebook
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1. The Rent Is Too Damn High
By: Matthew Yglesias
4.03
Format: 80 pages, ebook
From prominent political thinker and widely followed Slate columnist, a polemic on high rents and h… read more
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2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
3. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
By: Joe Studwell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more
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4. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
5. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
By: Angus Deaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, ebook
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Y… read more
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6. Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
By: Lee Child
3.95
Format: None pages,
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reac… read more
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7. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
By: Tyler Cowen
3.43
Format: None pages, ebook
America is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial cr… read more
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8. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … read more
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9. Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
By: Ian Morris
3.84
Format: 95 pages, ebook
A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the ast… read more
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10. China: A History
By: John Keay
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
This narrative history of China takes in everything from the earliest times to the present day. The… read more
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11. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
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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"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
13. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
14. 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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15. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
16. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
By: Mariana Mazzucato
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to in… read more
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"Governments and central banks were quietly admitting something they were still reluctant to announce publicly: the extraordinary power of private-sector banks lending to determine the pace of money c…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
"In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounti…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
17. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… read more
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18. Economics for the Common Good
By: Jean Tirole
3.91
Format: 576 pages, ebook
From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in soci… read more
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19. The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
By: Nick Lloyd
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military his… read more
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20. Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
By: Stephen S. Cohen
3.88
Format: 223 pages, ebook
"an excellent new book" -- Paul Krugman, The New York Times History, not ideology, holds the key t… read more
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21. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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