American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Walter A. Friedman
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civil…
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1. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
2. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
By: Joshua Foer
3.88
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our con… read more
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"learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?"-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
3. Mother Night
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
4. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
5. Understanding Japan: A Cultural History
By: Mark J. Ravina
3.52
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Japan's extraordinary culture is like no other in the world, and it remains mysterious to many of u… read more
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6. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
By: Charles Bukowski
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of Am… read more
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7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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8. Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation
By: Abraham H. Maslow
3.30
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When Abraham H. Maslow introduced the world to Humanistic Theory, a 'third force' in psychology was… read more
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9. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
10. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.10
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning … read more
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"The piggies were not to be disturbed-"-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"Darkness bound them closer than light."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
11. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat… read more
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12. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
By: Bryan Caplan
3.91
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. Parents invest more time and money in t… read more
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13. Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.78
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series o… read more
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"I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?"-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
14. Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.81
Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriousl… read more
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"Madness, and then illumination."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"Human beings remain grubs all the lives."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"It's intelligence that makes you unhappy."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"Inside us there is a place that is our true self."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
15. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- history
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"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
16. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
17. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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18. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
By: Julia Galef
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Ju… read more
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"At the end of the day, we're a bunch of apes whose brains were optimized for defending ourselves and our tribes, not for doing unbiased evaluations of scientific evidence. So why get angry at humanit…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
"The scout isn’t indifferent. A scout might hope to learn that the path is safe, that the other side is weak, or that there’s a bridge conveniently located where his forces need to cross the river. Bu…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
19. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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20. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
21. Measure What Matters
By: John Doerr
3.99
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more
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"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
22. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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23. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and 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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25. Central Banking 101
By: Joseph J. Wang
4.41
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation an… read more
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26. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
By: Zachary D. Carter
4.43
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that out… read more
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27. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
By: Peter Turchin
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more
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28. The Middle East in the 20th Century
By: Eamonn Gearon
4.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
It is impossible to understand our world today without understanding the last 100 years of Middle E… read more
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29. American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Walter A. Friedman
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civil… read more
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