A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, 4th Edition
By: Rondo Cameron
3.79
Format: 463 pages, Paperback
This classic book offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present an…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. The Seven Ages
By: Louise Glück
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The Seven Ages was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1999. The fierce, austerely b… read more
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"I even loved a few times in my disgusting human way."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you it will not keep you alive."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"The curtains parted. Light coming in. Moonlight, then sunlight. Not changing because time was passing but because the one moment had many aspects."-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
"Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?"-Louise Glück, The Seven Ages
3. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
4. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
5. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Managers
By: Lawrence A. Cunningham
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
En esta obra, el lector encontrará las ideas de Warren Buffett, universalmente conocido como uno de… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- finance
6. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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- nonfiction
7. 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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- economics
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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
8. The Enneads
By: Plotinus , Stephen MacKenna
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
THE SIX ENNEADS by Plotinus But does not Likeness by way of Virtue imply Likeness to some being tha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
11. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
By: Hernando de Soto
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fift… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
- finance
12. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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- history
- finance
- science
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
13. Caim
By: José Saramago
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Neste novo romance, o vencedor do premio Nobel Jose Saramago reconta episodios biblicos do Velho Te… read more
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14. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
By: Brian Greene
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more
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- science
"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
15. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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16. Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers
By: Jim Rogers
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-count… read more
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17. Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the … read more
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18. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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19. Poems and Fragments
By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more
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20. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
By: Simon Schama
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated … read more
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21. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
22. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more
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- finance
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"The “persecution"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
23. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
24. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more
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- nonfiction
"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
25. 1795
By: Niklas Natt och Dag
3.41
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
Den tredje och avslutande delen i Bellman noir-trilogin. Likt ett skadskjutet djur stryker Tycho… read more
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26. Japan Story
By: Christopher Harding
3.99
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
By: Ibn Khaldun
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Written by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history.… read more
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- history
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"اعلم أن الدنيا كلها و أحوالها (عند الشارع) مطية للآخرة، و من فقد المطية فقد الوصول."-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"قال المولي مخاطباً بني إسرائيل علي لسان موسى {يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الأَرْضَ المُقَدَّسَةَ} فكان جوابهم {إِنَّ فِيهَا قَوْمًا جَبَّارِينَ وَإِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَا حَتَّىَ يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا فَإِن يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا} وقالوا له {فَاذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلا} = فعاقبهم …"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"من كان مرباه بالعسف والقهر من المتعلمين أو المماليك أو الخدم سطا به القهر، وضيّق على النفس فى انبساطها، وذهب بنشاطها، ودعاه إلى الكسل، وحُمِلَ على الكذب والخبث وهو التظاهر بغير ما فى ضميره خوفـًا من انبسا…"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"الفصل الثالث و العشرون : في أنالمغلوب مولع ابدا بالاقتداء بالغالب في شعاره, و زيه,و نحلته, و سائر أحواله و عوائده: و السبب في ذلك: أن النفس أبدا تعتقد الكمال في من غلبها و انقادت إليه. إما لنظره بالك…"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
28. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
29. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
By: Joseph Henrich
4.12
Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more
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- economics
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"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
30. Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
By: Angus Maddison
4.10
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown… read more
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- economics
- history
- world history
"It is important to distinguish between lead and follower countries to understand the dynamics of technological diffusion, and analyse processes of catch-up and falling behind. ‘Lead’ countries are th…"-Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
"Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) had a growth schema with only two factors of production—natural resources and labour—with no allowance for technical progress, capital formation, or gains from internationa…"-Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
"Over the past millennium, world population rose nearly 24-fold, per capita income 14-fold, GDP 338-fold. This contrasts sharply with the preceding millennium, when world population grew by only a six…"-Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
31. A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, 4th Edition
By: Rondo Cameron
3.79
Format: 463 pages, Paperback
This classic book offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present an… read more
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