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Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
Behind every billion-dollar startup lies a labyrinth few ever see—Secrets of Sand Hill Road invites you inside. With the precision of a dealmaker and the candor of a mentor, it demystifies the high-stakes dance between founders and venture capitalists, where ambition is currency and missteps are costly. How do great ideas survive the gauntlet of funding, power dynamics, and boardroom battles? This book is both map and mirror: revealing how venture capital shapes the future—and how entrepreneurs must shape themselves to survive it. For anyone who has ever dared to turn vision into venture, this is a guide to the game behind the curtain.
- Originally Published: 2019
- Publisher: Virgin Books, 2019
- Genre: Fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780753553961
- Access: Prime Members
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Atlas Shrugged
What happens when the world’s thinkers, builders, and dreamers vanish, one by one, into silence? Atlas Shrugged is a thunderous epic set in a collapsing civilization, where the engines of progress are halted by a society that punishes excellence and rewards mediocrity. Amid the smoke of industry and the ruins of broken ideals, a defiant few must decide: is it moral to serve a world that drains your soul—or to walk away and let it crumble? With sweeping prose and unflinching vision, this novel challenges the very foundations of duty, ambition, and what it means to live with purpose. It is a story of resistance, of love forged in fire, and of the relentless power of the human mind.
- Originally Published: 1957
- Publisher: Signet, 2004
- Genre: Fiction
- Pages: 1088
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780451191144
- Access: Members
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Globalization and its Discontents
In a world knitted ever tighter by the threads of commerce and capital, Globalization and Its Discontents pulls back the curtain on the uneven bargains and broken promises of the global economy. With piercing clarity and moral urgency, it chronicles how international institutions meant to uplift the poor instead deepen their despair, as policies crafted in distant boardrooms unravel the lives of millions. Can a system that claims universality serve justice when its power is so unequally distributed—and whose voice counts when nations rise or fall on decisions they did not choose? This is not merely a critique, but a plea—for accountability, for empathy, and for a new vision of global prosperity rooted in dignity rather than dominance. It is a story of ambition betrayed, and of the silent rebellions that ripple through the streets of the global South.
- Originally Published: 2002
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
- Pages: 304
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0393324396
- Access: Members
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The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor
Why do some markets hum with prosperity while others falter and fracture under pressure? The Truth About Markets is a sharp, thought-provoking journey through the beating heart of economic systems—from the corridors of Wall Street to the bazaars of emerging economies—exposing the myths, contradictions, and unexpected virtues of market behavior. With wit and precision, it dismantles the illusion of perfect rationality, revealing instead a world where culture, institutions, and human folly shape the destinies of nations. Is efficiency always the endgame—or might the most successful markets be those that are messier, more human, and less driven by cold equations? This book is both an intellectual provocation and a call to reimagine the values we assign to wealth, success, and collective good.
- Originally Published: 2003
- Publisher : Penguin, 2004
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 496
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 9780140296723
- Access: Members
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Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
A biography not of a person, but of a relentless adversary, The Emperor of All Maladies charts the epic, often harrowing saga of cancer—from its shadowy origins in ancient texts to the modern laboratories where science battles fate. It is a tale of human defiance, where hope flickers in the corridors of hospitals and the minds of those daring to outwit a shape-shifting foe. How do we confront an enemy that is, in many ways, a distorted mirror of ourselves—our cells, our evolution, our very survival instinct gone rogue? Lyrical, haunting, and deeply humane, this is a chronicle of resilience, of the fragile victories and sobering costs that define the war against one of humanity’s oldest diseases.
- Originally Published: 2011
- Publisher : Fourth Estate, 2011
- Genre: science
- Pages: 586
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0007250929
- Access: Members
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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
What if the key to enduring chaos is not merely to withstand it—but to thrive because of it? In Antifragile, ideas crackle like lightning as it dismantles the illusion of stability and celebrates systems, individuals, and ideas that grow stronger under pressure, volatility, and disorder. Through paradox and provocation, it asks: Why worship resilience when you can embrace something better—something that feeds on uncertainty and emerges sharper, fiercer, and wiser? With a voice that is both incendiary and exacting, this book maps a radical philosophy for living wisely in a world that will never be safe, still, or predictable. It is not a manual for survival—but a manifesto for transcendence.
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2013
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 544
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141038223
- Access: Members
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The Deals that Made the World
Behind every headline, hidden in the fine print, are the deals that quietly shape the way we eat, work, love, and live. The Deals That Made the World peels back the polished surface of capitalism to expose the secret negotiations, corporate handshakes, and silent revolutions that have redrawn the global order. It asks a haunting question: if the rules of our lives are written in back rooms and boardrooms, whose interests do they truly serve? With the pace of a thriller and the insight of an exposé, this book turns the everyday into the extraordinary—and demands that we look again at the forces steering our fate.
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher : Hodder, 2018
- Pages: 461
- Genre: Business, Autobiography
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-1473646421
- Access: Members
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Why we Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
Sleep—an elusive realm where the mind renews, memories crystallize, and the body silently wages its nightly war for survival. Why We Sleep unravels the profound mystery of this universal necessity, exposing how our modern neglect threatens the very fabric of health, creativity, and longevity. What if the most transformative act of self-care is something we do every night, yet understand so little? With scientific rigor and poetic insight, this book invites you to journey into the hidden world of sleep, challenging you to rethink the rhythms that sustain life itself.
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2018
- Pages: 360
- Genre: Science
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141983769
- Access: Members
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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
In a world desperate for patterns, Fooled by Randomness delivers a sobering truth: much of what we call success is luck masquerading as skill. With sharp wit and intellectual daring, the book peels back the layers of financial markets, human behavior, and belief systems to reveal how easily we are deceived by noise dressed as signal. How many of our convictions rest not on reason, but on stories we tell ourselves after the fact? This is a mind-bending journey through uncertainty, where arrogance meets probability, and where humility may be the only reliable compass. It is a mirror held up to our illusions—inviting us not just to see the world differently, but to think more wisely within it.
- Originally Published: 2001
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007
- Pages: 368
- Genre: Self-help
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141031484
- Access: Members
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The Master and Margarita
A mysterious foreigner arrives in Soviet Moscow—charming, diabolical, and accompanied by a talking cat with a taste for vodka—and soon reality begins to unravel. The Master and Margarita is a fever dream of love and damnation, where satire waltzes with the supernatural and truth is as dangerous as it is elusive. As a condemned writer and a fearless woman navigate a world haunted by betrayal, bureaucracy, and a whisper of the divine, the line between good and evil blurs like ink in water. Can love survive the tyranny of both politics and the soul? This is a novel where the devil gets the last laugh—and perhaps, the last mercy.
- Originally Published: 1967
- Publisher : Vintage Classics, 2024
- Pages: 448
- Genre: Romance novel, Satire, Fantasy
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0099540946
- Access: Members
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
In the mythical town of Macondo, time coils in circles and generations of the Buendía family are caught in a spell of love, loss, and prophecy. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a lyrical epic where magic bleeds into the everyday, and history repeats itself with tragic elegance. Through political revolutions, spectral visitations, and forbidden passions, the novel asks: can a family escape the fate woven into its name—or is solitude the inheritance of memory itself? Lush, surreal, and aching with beauty, this is a story where the past never dies and the future is already written in the stars.
- Originally Published: 1967
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2024
- Pages: 422
- Genre: Novel, Magical Realism, Family saga, Epic Fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0241968581
- Access: Members
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Why did history unfold so differently across continents, and what silent forces shaped the fate of entire civilizations? Guns, Germs and Steel is a sweeping, sobering detective story of humanity’s uneven march through time—where geography, biology, and chance played far greater roles than genius or will. In tracing the roots of global inequality not to culture or intellect but to crops, microbes, and metal, it overturns long-held myths with unflinching clarity. This is not just a chronicle of conquests, but a meditation on the fragile accidents that shaped the modern world. What if the seeds of dominance were sown in the soil itself?
- Originally Published: 1997
- Publisher : Vintage, 2017
- Pages: 580
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0099302780
- Access: Members
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Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
What if the true architects of global inequality wear no robes of office, but whisper behind closed doors, stitching loopholes into the fabric of the law? Capital Without Borders pulls back the velvet curtain on the elusive world of wealth managers—elite professionals who quietly move trillions through shadowy jurisdictions to preserve dynasties and defy the very notion of the nation-state. This is a journey into the parallel universe of the ultra-rich, where borders are illusions and accountability dissolves into strategy. In mapping this discreet empire, the book confronts an unsettling question: can democracy endure when capital plays by its own rules?
- Originally Published: 2016
- Publisher : Harvard University Press, 2020
- Pages: 400
- Genre: Finance
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0674244771
- Access: Members
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The Social Contract
What does it mean to be free in a world bound by law? The Social Contract dares to reimagine society as a pact not of submission, but of collective will—where individuals, by surrendering to the “general will,” reclaim a deeper liberty. With the cadence of a manifesto and the gravity of prophecy, Rousseau’s vision pulses with the paradox of freedom through unity, obedience through autonomy. Can a people truly govern themselves without becoming each other’s tyrants? This is a call to awaken the sovereign within us all.
- Originally Published: 1762
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2005
- Pages: 168
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141018881
- Access: Members
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why do some nations flourish while others are trapped in cycles of poverty and decay? Why Nations Fail cuts through geography, culture, and chance to expose the raw machinery of power—where inclusive institutions build prosperity and extractive ones hollow it out. With the force of a grand detective story, it reveals how empires collapse not from outside threats, but from within, when the few prey upon the many. Can a society rewrite its destiny, or are its failures hardwired into the very rules it lives by? This is a journey into the heart of inequality—and a blueprint for those bold enough to change it.
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher : Crown Currency, 2013
- Pages: 544
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0307719225
- Access: Members
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The Odyssey
Across storm-tossed seas and shadowed isles, The Odyssey charts the perilous return of Odysseus, a cunning warrior who longs for the warmth of his hearth more than the glory of conquest. As gods conspire and monsters stir, every step homeward becomes a trial of spirit, loyalty, and the fragile line between heroism and hubris. Beneath its epic sweep lies a haunting question: how much must a man lose to truly know himself—and what awaits when he does? Laced with enchantment and anchored in longing, this ancient tale pulses with the timeless ache of exile and the stubborn hope of return.
- Originally Published: 800 B.C.E
- Publisher : Everyman’s Library, 1992
- Pages: 509
- Genre: Narrative Poetry, Epic
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-1857150940
- Access: Prime Membership
