Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
By: Tom Wainwright
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in t…
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1. Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
By: Derek Thompson
3.90
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a wo… read more
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"Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better"-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success."-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet."-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"First, understand how people behave; second, build products that match their habits."-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
2. Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
By: John Rolfe , Peter Troob
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
They Hit "The Street." Forget what you've read, forget what you've heard, forget what you've been t… read more
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3. 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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"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
4. Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman
By: Louis Ferrante
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The Mob is notorious for its cruel and immoral practices, but its most successful members have alwa… read more
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5. Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
By: Sheelah Kolhatkar
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and … read more
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6. Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things
By: Richard Wiseman
4.88
Format: 242 pages,
An award-winning psychologist exposes the truth behind life's little oddities and absurdities in th… read more
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7. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
By: Alastair Smith , Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutioni… read more
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8. Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
By: John Dickie
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostrais a fasc… read more
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9. The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
By: Simon Singh
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons(and its sister show Futurama) without eve… read more
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10. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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11. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
By: Mark Bowden
3.66
Format: None pages,
Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cart… read more
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12. The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
By: Tim White , Randall Richard , Wayne Worcester
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank us… read more
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13. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
By: Tom Wainwright
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in t… read more
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14. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
By: Misha Glenny
3.41
Format: 32 pages,
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15. The Panama Papers
By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more
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16. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison*: Inside Oracle Corporation; *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
By: Mike Wilson
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
Mike Wilson has interviewed more than a hundred of Ellison's friends and enemies - as well as Ellis… read more
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17. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
By: Philip M. Rosenzweig
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions -- errors of logic and flawed judgments that d… read more
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18. Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
By: Ioan Grillo
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal … read more
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19. Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
By: Moisés Naím
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming econom… read more
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20. Los Señores del Narco
By: Anabel Hernández
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Los senores del narco es una descarnada cronica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos cir… read more
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21. El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
By: Ioan Grillo
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; poli… read more
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22. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
23. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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24. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
By: Bradley Hope
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more
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25. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
26. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more
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27. The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
By: Benjamin T. Smith
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white a… read more
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28. Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets
By: Toby Muse
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of… read more
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"I roll into the Land of Lightning with a honey bear under my arm and a storm at my heels."-Toby Muse, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets
29. Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
By: Ioan Grillo
4.22
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands o… read more
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30. Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
By: Peter Taylor
4.40
Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gri… read more
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31. Lunch with the FT 2
By: Lionel Barber
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Lunch with the Financial Times has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 25 ye… read more
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