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Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
Bobby Duffy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside world How often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These questions are important, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that... |
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
JOHN CARREYROU - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from their charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.In 2014,... |
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Steven Ujifusa - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into... |
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The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
Nick Romeo - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals
Brian Tracy - Simple Truths
Format: Print book
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What makes some people successful in life? In Just Shut Up and Do It, bestselling author and success expert Brian Tracy shares a simple, practical, proven seven-part method that will help you accomplish more in the next few months and years than most people accomplish in a lifetime.... |
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Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
Kevin Roose - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great look at how people can do this on a personal level to always put humanity first." - Andrew Yang"A clear, compelling strategy for surviving the next wave of technology with... |
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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Binyamin Appelbaum - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world. Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much... |
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
Jonathan Levy - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in United States is at a crossroads. Since the market crash and Great Recession of 2008, historian Jonathan Levy has been teaching a course to help his students understand everything that... |
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