The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
By: Eric J. Johnson
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A leader in decision-making research reveals how choices are designed--and why it's so important to…
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1. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
By: David Brooks
3.87
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author … read more
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"Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure"-David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
"We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness."-David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
"Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments."-David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
"Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half."-David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
2. Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations
By: William Ury
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
We all want to get to yes, but what happens when the other person keeps saying no? How can you nego… read more
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"The Power of a Positive No describes how to say No when it is vital to stand up and protect your core interests and values. It is not just about how to say No, however, but about how to do so in a re…"-William Ury, Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations
3. Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
By: James Kwak
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as go… read more
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4. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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5. Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
By: Gary Klein
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Insights--like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's b… read more
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6. Competing Against Luck
By: Clayton M. Christensen , David Duncan , Taddy Hall , Karen Dillon
3.70
Format: 186 pages, ebook
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs t… read more
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7. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath
3.97
Format: 12 pages,
Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources an… read more
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8. Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
By: Edgar H. Schein
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Key to Effective Communication Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all to… read more
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9. Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
By: Oren Klaff
3.96
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
About the Book: When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over … read more
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10. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
11. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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12. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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13. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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14. 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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"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
"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
"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
15. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
By: Annie Duke
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more
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16. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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17. Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot
By: Matt Abrahams
3.74
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public spea… read more
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"Be obvious’ is the most powerful, creative mantra that there is,"-Matt Abrahams, Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot
18. Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met.” — Steven Levitt, co-aut… read more
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19. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
By: Amy C. Edmondson
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more
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20. The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions
By: Hasard Lee
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisi… read more
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21. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee
4.23
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more
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"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
22. 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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23. The Psychology of Stupidity
By: Jean-François Marmion
3.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Stupidity is all around us. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psycho… read more
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"Fighting stupidity tends to reinforce it."-Jean-François Marmion, The Psychology of Stupidity
24. The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
By: Jonah Berger
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence comes a revolution… read more
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"Letting potential hires choose which dimension is more important makes them feel like they have more of an active role in the process—and hopefully satisfies their need to negotiate. By letting candi…"-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
"Try to convince people to do something, and they spend a lot of time counterarguing. Thinking about all the various reasons why it’s a bad idea or why something else would be better. Why they don’t w…"-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
25. The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
By: Joe Keohane
3.93
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A “meticulously researched and buoyantly written” ( Esquire ) look at what happens when we talk to … read more
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26. Science Fictions
By: Stuart Ritchie
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more
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"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions
27. Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
By: Ayelet Fishbach
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover a "compelling" framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mind… read more
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28. Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
By: Seyward Darby
4.19
Format: 11 pages, Audio CD
A revealing, unsettling portrait of white nationalism, told through the lives of three women whose … read more
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"Hate can be understood as a social bond, a complex phenomenon that occurs among people as a means of mattering and belonging."-Seyward Darby, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
29. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
By: Gabriel Weinberg
4.04
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller! "You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated … read more
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30. 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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31. The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
By: Eric J. Johnson
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A leader in decision-making research reveals how choices are designed--and why it's so important to… read more
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