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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

#1 of 2 in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III

ByEdward Gibbon

1776 • 100 Readers • 1,312 pages • 3.7

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

ByJocko Willink

2017 • 231 Readers • 351 pages • 4

Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement: Victims, Grievance and Blame

Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement: Victims, Grievance and Blame

ByMike Morrissey

2002 • 1 Reader • 264 pages

Making Peace: The Inside Story of the Making of the Good Friday Agreement

Making Peace: The Inside Story of the Making of the Good Friday Agreement

ByGeorge Mitchell

1999 • 1 Reader • 191 pages

Man's Search for Meaning

El Hombre en Busca de Sentido

ByViktor E. Frankl

1946 • 1,314 Readers • 240 pages • 4.3

The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins

ByNick Broten

2017 • 1 Reader

Big Capital

ByAnna Minton

2017 • 1 Reader • 161 pages

From Third World to First

From Third World to First

ByLee Kuan Yew

2000 • 36 Readers • 752 pages • 4.4

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

ByRichard Rumelt

2011 • 110 Readers • 336 pages • 4

My Years with General Motors

My Years with General Motors

ByAlfred P. Sloan Jr.

1964 • 6 Readers • 496 pages • 2

Mythbreaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and the Story of Indian Biotech

Mythbreaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and the Story of Indian Biotech

BySeema Singh

2016 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

The Halo Effect: How Managers let Themselves be Deceived

The Halo Effect: How Managers let Themselves be Deceived

ByPhilip M. Rosenzweig

2007 • 1 Reader • 380 pages

The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

ByHannah Arendt

1948 • 130 Readers • 580 pages • 4.3

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

ByDaniel Goleman

1995 • 170 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

The Republic

#3 of 3 in Диалози

ByPlato

-400 • 489 Readers • 306 pages • 3.8

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

ByShomari Wills

2018 • 10 Readers • 320 pages

Strategy: A History

#10 of 2 in Riigikaitse raamatukogu

Strategy: A History

ByLawrence Freedman

2013 • 18 Readers • 768 pages • 3.5

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

ByCharles Duhigg

2012 • 791 Readers • 402 pages • 4

Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks

ByFrantz Fanon

1952 • 96 Readers • 4.1

Manufacturing Consent

Manufacturing Consent

ByEdward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky

2002 • 220 Readers • 482 pages • 4

The Inevitable

ByKevin Kelly

2016 • 86 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8

How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams

How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams

ByCharles J. Pellerin

2009 • 1 Reader • 261 pages • 3

Social intelligence

Social intelligence

ByDaniel Goleman

2006 • 28 Readers • 403 pages • 3.3

Mr. China

ByTim Clissold

2004 • 288 pages

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

ByLionel Robbins,Steven G. Medema,+2 more

1998 • 1 Reader • 393 pages

Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

ByThomas M. Shapiro

2017 • 3 Readers • 268 pages

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What To Do When Machines Do Everything

What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data

ByMalcolm Frank,Paul Roehrig,+1 more

2017 • 2 Readers

Political Order and Political Decay

#2 of 2 in Political Order

Political Order and Political Decay

ByFrancis Fukuyama

2014 • 30 Readers • 672 pages • 4

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

ByNiall Ferguson

2007 • 85 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

ByJared Diamond

2012 • 56 Readers • 512 pages • 3.4

Supernormal

ByMeg Jay

2019 • 7 Readers • 400 pages

Positioning

ByAl Ries,Jack Trout

2001 • 47 Readers • 224 pages • 3.6

This Brave New World: India, China and the United States

This Brave New World: India, China and the United States

ByAnja Manuel

1 Reader

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

ByDaron Acemoğlu,James A. Robinson

2012 • 211 Readers • 529 pages • 3.7

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

ByBill Bryson

2003 • 18 Readers • 176 pages • 3

Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation

Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation

ByAndrew S. Grove

1988 • 51 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

Prisoners of Geography

#1 of 5 in Politics of Place

Prisoners of Geography

ByTim Marshall

2015 • 264 Readers • 256 pages • 3.9

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

ByDaniel Yergin,Joseph Stanislaw

1998 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

Factfulness

ByHans Rosling

29 • 604 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

Disrupting Class

Disrupting Class

ByClayton M. Christensen

2008 • 3 Readers • 238 pages • 2

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

BySendhil Mullainathan,Eldar Shafir

2013 • 57 Readers • 303 pages • 3.6

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

ByGraham Greene

1984 • 2 Readers • 223 pages

Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You

Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You

ByDaniel Priestley

2015 • 16 Readers • 5

The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence

The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

ByMartin Meredith

2005 • 8 Readers • 784 pages • 4

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

ByEmanuel Derman

2011 • 1 Reader

Letters from a Stoic

Letters from a Stoic

BySeneca

64 • 285 Readers • 254 pages • 4.3

Guns, Germs and Steel

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

ByJared M. Diamond

1998 • 735 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla

#0 in Lives

ByPlutarch,Bernadotte Perrin(Translator)

100 • 55 Readers • 467 pages • 3.7

The Lessons of History

#3 of 9 in قصة الحضارة

The Lessons of History

ByWill Durant,Ariel Durant

1968 • 127 Readers • 119 pages • 3.6

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

ByRobert Lanza,Bob Berman

2009 • 4 Readers • 223 pages

Superforecasting

Superforecasting

ByPhilip E. Tetlock,Dan Gardner

2015 • 108 Readers • 354 pages • 3.8

THE ARTMASMASTRA

THE ARTMASMASTRA

ByChanakya

-300 • 5 Readers • 878 pages • 5

Spent

ByGeoffrey Miller

11 Readers • 3.7

Thank You for Being Late

Thank You for Being Late

ByThomas L. Friedman

2016 • 16 Readers • 486 pages • 3.4

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison

ByShaka Senghor

2013 • 1 Reader • 268 pages

The Scapegoat

ByRené Girard,Yvonne Freccero(Translator)

1982 • 4 Readers • 216 pages

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The Globalization of Inequality

The Globalization of Inequality

ByFrançois Bourguignon

2012 • 1 Reader

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

ByBill Bryson

2003 • 1,003 Readers • 4.2

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

ByClayton M. Christensen

1997 • 149 Readers • 324 pages • 3.9

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds

ByJames Surowiecki

2004 • 69 Readers • 295 pages • 3.7

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

ByAndrew W. Lo

2017 • 4 Readers • 496 pages • 4

The Cambridge economic history of modern Europe

The Cambridge economic history of modern Europe

ByS. N. Broadberry

Energy and Civilization: A History

Energy and Civilization: A History

ByVaclav Smil

2017 • 65 Readers • 568 pages • 3.6

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, 1700–1870

ByStephen Broadberry,Kevin H. O'Rourke

2010 • 1 Reader • 329 pages

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

ByChip Heath,Dan Heath

2010 • 126 Readers • 322 pages • 4

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

ByPeter Frankopan

2001 • 207 Readers • 656 pages • 4.2

Orientalism

ByEdward W. Said

1978 • 175 Readers • 396 pages • 4.3

The machinery of life

The machinery of life

ByDavid S. Goodsell

1992 • 9 Readers • 167 pages • 5

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 855 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

BySteven Pinker

2018 • 218 Readers • 576 pages • 4

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

ByRay Kurzweil

2005 • 75 Readers • 652 pages • 3.2

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

ByHernando de Soto

2000 • 22 Readers • 288 pages • 3.5

Fault Lines

ByRaghuram G. Rajan

2011 • 7 Readers • 280 pages • 4.3

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies

BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2010 • 329 Readers • 571 pages • 4.2

Focus

ByAl Ries

1996 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 3

Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

ByItzhak Bentov

1977 • 7 Readers • 193 pages • 5

Old Christmas

ByWashington Irving

1820 • 165 pages

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

#1 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

ByMark Twain

1876 • 907 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7

The Ripple Trilogy

#1-3 of 2 in Ripple

The Ripple Trilogy

ByCidney Swanson

2012 • 7 Readers • 4

The Ghost Files Series: Books 1-3.5

The Ghost Files Series: Books 1-3.5

ByApryl Baker

11 Readers

Always Know What To Say - Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone

Always Know What To Say - Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone

ByPeter W. Murphy

2011 • 3 Readers • 94 pages • 2

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

ByOscar Wilde,Moira Muldoon

2005 • 6 Readers • 448 pages • 5

The Way to God and How to Find It

The Way to God and How to Find It

ByDwight L. Moody

1983 • 1 Reader

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

ByThomas Hardy

1891 • 379 Readers • 360 pages • 3.7

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

ByMark Twain

19 • 175 Readers • 534 pages • 3.9

Kidnapped

#1 of 2 in David Balfour

ByRobert Louis Stevenson

1886 • 31 Readers • 294 pages • 3.8

My Man Jeeves

#1 of 14 in Jeeves

ByP.G. Wodehouse

1919 • 116 Readers • 150 pages • 3.8

Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

BySolomon Northup

1853 • 27 Readers • 290 pages • 4.5

The Little Lame Prince

The Little Lame Prince

ByDinah Maria Mulock Craik

3 Readers

Psychology

ByRose M. Spielman

2020 • 1 Reader • 784 pages

Quo Vadis

ByHenryk Sienkiewicz,Jeremiah Curtin(Translator)

50 Readers • 3.9

The Storyteller's Secret

The Storyteller's Secret

BySejal Badani

2018 • 41 Readers • 3

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

#1 of 3 in Capitaine Nemo

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

ByJules Verne,Anthony Bonner(Translator),+1 more

1866 • 587 Readers • 394 pages • 3.6

The Iliad of Homer

The Iliad of Homer

ByHomer

-800 • 7 Readers • 608 pages • 4.5

Gargantua and Pantagruel

#1-5 of 2 in Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel

ByFrançois Rabelais,M.A. Screech(Translator)

1564 • 46 Readers • 1,041 pages • 3.5

Vanity Fair

ByWilliam Makepeace Thackeray

1847 • 40 Readers • 752 pages • 3.4

Oliver Twist

ByCharles Dickens

1838 • 130 Readers • 511 pages • 3.8

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Writing a Kindle Book a Week

Writing a Kindle Book a Week

ByAlex Foster

2013 • 2 Readers • 4

Pygmalion

ByGeorge Bernard Shaw

1912 • 164 Readers • 133 pages • 3.6

As a Man Thinketh

As a Man Thinketh

ByJames Allen