Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
By: Pete Dyson
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures succe…
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1. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
By: Michael Bungay Stanier
4.02
Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition
In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your d… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- business
2. Fear (Gone, #5)
By: Michael Grant
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even de… read more
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3. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
By: Brad Feld , Jason Mendelson
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Praise for Venture Deals "My biggest nightmare is taking advantage of an entrepreneur without even … read more
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- nonfiction
- business
4. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Red House
By: Mark Haddon
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the D… read more
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6. Plague (Gone, #4)
By: Michael Grant
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE. They've survived hunger. They've sur… read more
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7. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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8. Light (Gone, #6)
By: Michael Grant
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. In the time since every person over t… read more
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9. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
By: Camille Fournier
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… 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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- nonfiction
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"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
11. Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
By: John Cleese
3.88
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time."-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
" But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly importan…"-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
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. Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
By: Rory Sutherland
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nich… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- business
- science
"Many pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"Not everything that makes sense works, and not everything that works makes sense."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"All too often, what matters is not whether an idea is true or effective, but whether it fits with the preconceptions of a dominant cabal."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
"No living creature can evolve and survive in the real world by processing information in an objective, measured and proportionate manner."-Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
14. 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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- nonfiction
- business
"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
15. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
16. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
17. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
18. 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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- business
19. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Taxtopia: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game
By: The Rebel Accountant
4.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax … read more
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- business
21. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
22. Lies (Gone, #3)
By: Michael Grant
4.07
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. It happens in one night. A girl w… read more
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"Drake’s dead,"-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)
"What happened?"-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)
"Where’s Dekka?"-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)
"Let them go, Caine,"-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)
23. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
24. How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
By: Gerd Gigerenzer
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- science
25. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
By: Nigel Biggar
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire … read more
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26. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
27. Hunger (Gone, #2)
By: Michael Grant
4.02
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known a… read more
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"First off,"-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)
"Four days,"-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)
"Hey, brah,"-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)
"Go, Breeze,"-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)
28. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
By: W. David Marx
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
29. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
30. Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
By: Pete Dyson
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures succe… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- business
- science
31. How to Win the Premier League: The Sunday Times Bestselling Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution
By: Ian Graham
4.36
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
'The best book on football I have ever read' Daniel Finkelstein'Deserves a place among the great mo… read more
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