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(0)By : Ronen Bergman
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
In the shadows of global diplomacy and beneath the silence of plausible deniability lies Rise and Kill First—a harrowing chronicle of Israel’s most closely guarded weapon: its secret assassination program. With unnerving clarity and cinematic intensity, the book unveils a world where morality bends beneath the weight of survival, and decisions made in dimly lit rooms shape the fate of nations. How far should a state go to protect its people—and what does it sacrifice in the process? Each page pulses with the tension of life-or-death choices, offering a sobering meditation on justice, vengeance, and the hidden costs of preemptive power. This is the realm where silence kills, and history is written in whispers and blood.
- Originally Published: 2018
- Publisher: Random House, 2018
- Genre: History
- Pages: 784
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781400069712
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(0)By : Michael Cardo
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty
In the glittering corridors of wealth and the shadowed chambers of apartheid South Africa, Harry Oppenheimer emerges as both titan and paradox—an industrial magnate who wielded diamond dust and political subtlety with equal precision. This sweeping biography lays bare the intricate dance between conscience and capitalism, legacy and complicity. Can a man build empires while resisting the moral decay that often feeds them? With piercing insight, the book explores how power can be used not only to dominate, but to influence, reform, and sometimes quietly defy. It is a portrait of a life lived at the fault lines of history, where ambition meets ethical ambiguity.
- Originally Published: 2023
- Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023
- Genre: Biography
- Pages: 593
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1868428014
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(0)By : Luke Heaton
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from
From the ancient geometries etched in sand to the abstract symmetries of modern logic, A Brief History of Mathematical Thought is a luminous journey through the minds that dared to measure the universe. This is not merely a chronicle of numbers, but a meditation on how we shape the world—and ourselves—through patterns, proofs, and paradoxes. As it weaves through the philosophical, the aesthetic, and the profoundly human aspects of mathematics, the book asks: what does it mean to understand reality through symbols we cannot touch? At once intellectual and intimate, it invites the reader to see mathematics not as a cold discipline, but as a creative force pulsing through the story of civilization.
- Originally Published: 2015
- Publisher: Constable & Robinson, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 321
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1472117113
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The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence
The Small Big reveals a quiet truth with seismic implications: the most powerful changes often come from the subtlest shifts. In a world obsessed with grand gestures and sweeping overhauls, this book uncovers the hidden science behind small tweaks that lead to massive influence—how a single word, a tiny cue, or a modest gesture can tilt decisions, shape behavior, and move hearts. With clarity and curiosity, it explores the paradox of persuasion: that less can truly be more. Can the key to transforming the world lie not in revolution, but in the smallest pivot of perception? This is a playbook for those who understand that the finest levers move the heaviest loads.
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd., 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 302
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1781252758
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(0)By : Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Beneath the veneer of intellect lies a hidden force that shapes our lives: the art of understanding and mastering our own emotions. Emotional Intelligence unravels the delicate threads that connect self-awareness, empathy, and resilience, revealing how these unseen powers govern success, relationships, and well-being. It challenges the myth that intelligence alone determines destiny, inviting readers into a profound journey of inner discovery and transformation. What if the key to unlocking human potential is not in logic, but in feeling? This book beckons you to explore the subtle alchemy of the heart and mind entwined.
- Originally Published: 1995
- Publisher: Bantam, 2005
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0553383713
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One is a provocative exploration of creation itself—a manifesto for those who refuse to settle for incremental change and instead seek to build the future from nothing. It challenges the comfort of competition, urging innovators to forge unique paths that transform industries and rewrite the rules of progress. At its heart lies a profound paradox: true breakthrough demands both bold originality and relentless discipline. What does it take to leap from zero to one, to create something utterly new in a world obsessed with copying? This is not just a guide to startups—it is a call to reimagine possibility itself.
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Virgin Books, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 210
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0753555200
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(0)By : Dambisa Moyo
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
Dead Aid delivers a fierce and fearless indictment of the foreign aid system, arguing that what was meant to heal Africa may, in fact, be helping to hold it down. With unflinching logic and moral urgency, it dismantles the comfortable myth that money alone can fix poverty, revealing instead a cycle of dependency, corruption, and arrested growth. This is not a rejection of compassion—it is a challenge to rethink what true empowerment looks like. What if generosity, poorly aimed, becomes a weapon disguised as a gift? In the ruins of well-meant intentions, Dead Aid dares to ask what Africa truly needs to rise.
- Originally Published: 2009
- Publisher: Penguin, 2010
- Genre: Politics, Economics
- Pages: 188
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0141031187
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(0)By : Mark Stevens
Your Marketing Sucks
Blunt as a slap and sharp as a scalpel, Your Marketing Sucks tears through the comfortable illusions that drain budgets and deliver nothing. With ruthless clarity, it exposes how most marketing is little more than noise—expensive, aimless, and self-indulgent. This is a wake-up call masquerading as a manifesto, urging you to abandon vanity metrics and demand results that matter: sales, impact, growth. What if the problem isn’t your product—but the story you’re failing to tell? In a world drowning in messages, only those who cut through with purpose will survive.
- Originally Published: 2003
- Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2005
- Genre: Marketing
- Pages: 240
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1400081691
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
In a world where businesses battle for scraps in bloody waters, Blue Ocean Strategy charts a bold course toward untamed markets where competition fades and innovation reigns. It is a call to creators, visionaries, and restless thinkers to abandon the fight for dominance and instead redraw the map entirely. Through strategic clarity and imaginative leaps, it reveals how the most successful ventures are not those who outfight their rivals—but those who make them irrelevant. Can you build value without a battlefield? This is not just a book on business—it is a manifesto for those who dare to swim beyond the horizon.
- Originally Published: 2004
- Publisher: Harvard Business School Press, 2005
- Genre: Business Management
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591396192
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The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
What if power has less to do with ideology and more to do with cold, ruthless math? The Dictator’s Handbook dismantles the illusions of noble governance, revealing a chillingly pragmatic logic that guides both tyrants and democrats alike. In a world where survival hinges not on serving the people but on satisfying a select few, loyalty is currency and betrayal a tool of the trade. Witty, unflinching, and unsettlingly honest, this book invites readers to peer behind the curtain of leadership—and ask whether virtue ever truly rules. Do leaders shape systems, or do systems shape the leaders we get?
- Originally Published: September 2011
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- Published: July 31, 2012
- Genre: Politics
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1610391849
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(0)By : Dambisa Moyo
How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
In a world where corporations shape the fate of economies, How Boards Work opens the door to the secret chambers of power—where strategy is sculpted, risk is reckoned with, and the future is quietly decided. Through lucid analysis and insider clarity, this book unravels the anatomy of the boardroom, revealing the delicate balance between governance and ambition, ethics and profit. What happens when the stewards of capitalism must choose between short-term gains and long-term survival? With poise and urgency, it challenges us to rethink who holds the reins of our financial destiny—and how they ought to wield them. A vital guide for those who dare to sit at the table where decisions ripple across the world.
- Originally Published: May 2021
- Publisher: Basic Books, 2021
- Genre: Business
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1541619425
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(0)By : James Rickards
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
Currency Wars is a chilling dispatch from the hidden battlefield where nations clash not with bombs, but with bonds, reserves, and manipulated exchange rates. In this high-stakes realm of shadow finance and strategic deception, currencies are weapons, and economic collapse is a silent coup. As the world’s financial system teeters on the edge of engineered chaos, one question rises: can a nation defend its sovereignty when its money becomes its most vulnerable flank? Rickards draws the reader into a world where monetary policy is modern warfare, and the victors may not fire a single shot—but leave entire economies in ruins. Gripping and sobering, this is a call to understand the quiet violence of global finance before its consequences become deafening.
- Originally Published: Nov 2011
- Publisher: Portfolio, 2012
- Genre: Global Finance
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591845560
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(0)By : Tom Burgis
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
The Looting Machine exposes a brutal paradox at the heart of Africa’s richest resource states: how nations teeming with oil, diamonds, and minerals can remain shackled by poverty, violence, and decay. With the urgency of investigative reportage and the gravity of a political thriller, the book maps a continent-wide system where global corporations, corrupt elites, and shadowy networks turn natural wealth into a curse. Can a land so rich be so poor by accident—or is the suffering by design? As veins of gold and crude are drained from beneath the soil, this powerful account compels readers to question who truly profits and who is left to bleed. It is a story of power without accountability and prosperity built on the silence of the exploited.
- Originally Published: May 2015
- Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2016
- Genre: Economics, History
- Pages: 368
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1610397117
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(0)By : Frank Dikotter
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
How to Be a Dictator is a chilling descent into the architecture of absolute power—where fear is sculpted into law, truth is strangled by spectacle, and the cult of personality drowns all dissent. Through eight harrowing portraits, it reveals how tyrants rise not solely by force, but by mastering the dark alchemy of propaganda, surveillance, and manufactured devotion. What kind of world emerges when one man becomes the nation, the voice of the people silenced beneath a single echo? At once gripping and unsettling, this book asks readers to confront the fragile boundary between order and oppression, and to see in history’s monsters the reflection of our collective vulnerability. It is not merely a study of despots—it is a warning whispered through time.
- Originally Published: 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- Genre: Politics, History
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1408891612
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(0)By : Kwame Nkrumah
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
In Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, the flags may have changed, but the power still flows from the same hands. With surgical precision and revolutionary fire, this book unveils how economic control, foreign aid, and multinational influence have replaced the old chains of empire with new, invisible shackles. If independence is declared but decisions are made abroad, can freedom truly be said to exist? It is a searing exposé of betrayal cloaked in diplomacy, where the promise of sovereignty is bartered for dependency. Through every page, the reader is challenged to ask: who profits when the colonizer never leaves—but merely changes form?
- Originally Published: 1965
- Publisher: Panaf, 2009
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 316
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0901787231
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(0)By : Quinn Slobodian
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
The Globalists pulls back the curtain on a powerful, often invisible movement—one that sought not to dismantle the nation-state, but to encase it in a legal and economic armor that would protect markets from the turbulence of democracy. Through the rise of neoliberal thought in the 20th century, it tells the provocative story of economists and visionaries who believed freedom was best safeguarded not by parliaments, but by institutions beyond the reach of the people. Can true democracy survive when sovereignty is traded for stability, and when markets are placed beyond the will of the majority? With piercing clarity and unsettling relevance, this book traces the quiet construction of a global order designed not for chaos—but for control. It is the intellectual history of a world remade behind closed doors.
- Originally Published: March 2018
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Published: March 16, 2018
- Genre: Neoliberalism
- Pages: 400
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0674979529
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(0)By : Jeffrey D. Sachs
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Can we end poverty—not in theory, but in our lifetime? The End of Poverty charts a daring and data-driven journey through the heart of global suffering, revealing how economic despair is not an inevitable fate but a solvable problem. With clarity and urgency, it exposes the hidden mechanics that trap nations in extreme deprivation and unveils a roadmap of practical solutions that challenge apathy and resignation. This is not just an economic treatise—it is a call to moral action, a testament to the possibility that with enough resolve, compassion, and precision, humanity can lift its most vulnerable beyond survival into dignity. What does it say about us if we can rescue the poor—and choose not to?
- Originally Published: December 2005
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2006
- Genre: Economics, Politics
- Pages: 464
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0143036586
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(0)By : Fyodor Dostoyesky
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is a tempest of faith, passion, and blood—where three brothers, torn by guilt, desire, and spiritual hunger, are drawn into a patricide that becomes a mirror for their own souls. Beneath the mystery of their father’s violent death lies a deeper trial: of God, of free will, and of the human heart’s capacity for both light and depravity. Can love redeem the chaos we inherit, or is every soul bound to wrestle alone with the divine and the absurd? Lyrical and relentless, this epic unearths the moral labyrinth at the core of every family—and every man. A novel as intimate as a confession and as vast as a cathedral.
- Originally Published: November 1880
- Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2003
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 1056
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0679410034
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(0)By : Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Little Women is a tender, richly woven portrait of four spirited sisters growing up amid the quiet trials and radiant joys of family life during a time of war and want. Through laughter, loss, and the slow unfolding of dreams, the March girls wrestle with the meaning of womanhood, ambition, sacrifice, and love. What does it mean to grow into oneself while remaining bound by the invisible threads of home? With warmth and wisdom, the story invites readers into a world where the everyday becomes epic—and where the greatest adventures begin at the hearth. It is a novel that speaks softly yet lingers like a beloved memory.
- Originally Published: 1868
- Publisher: Aladdin, 2019
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 530
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1534462205
- Access: Members
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(0)By : J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Wandering the gray streets of New York in a haze of grief and rebellion, Holden Caulfield speaks with a voice both raw and strangely tender—part confession, part cry for meaning in a world grown false. The Catcher in the Rye captures the ache of adolescence with uncanny precision: the longing to protect innocence, the fury at adult hypocrisy, the weight of a mind unraveling under truth too heavy to bear. Is Holden escaping the world, or is he the only one awake enough to see it clearly? With sardonic humor and aching vulnerability, this coming-of-age tale unfolds like a whispered secret between strangers who never quite belong. It is not just a story—it is a mirror for those who have ever walked alone, wondering where the honest people went.
- Originally Published: July 1951
- Publisher: Penguin, 1994
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 192
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0140237504
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(0)By : Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
With a blade sharpened by irony and insight, Beyond Good and Evil tears through the comfortable illusions of morality, truth, and human greatness. In this audacious philosophical voyage, the reader is invited to abandon inherited certainties and peer into the abyss of power, instinct, and will. Is our conscience a noble guide—or a cage built by forgotten tyrants of thought? With lightning-bolt aphorisms and searing clarity, this work dares us to rethink the foundations of justice, virtue, and even the self. It is not a map, but a mirror—reflecting who we are, and who we might become when we step beyond the veil of good and evil.
- Originally Published: 1886
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
- Genre: Philosophy
- Pages: 230
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0521779135
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(0)By : Fyodor Dostoyesky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
In a world dulled by apathy and despair, one man—deemed ridiculous by all, including himself—stands on the brink of ending his life. But a strange dream carries him far beyond death, into a vision of radiant truth and heartbreaking corruption, where innocence once bloomed and was then destroyed by the very minds meant to cherish it. The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man is a luminous fable of redemption, madness, and metaphysical wonder, pulsing with the fire of a soul awakening to love and meaning. Can a single dream transform a life deemed worthless—and if so, why do we so often sleep through our own salvation? This brief tale grips like a parable and lingers like a wound, asking what it truly means to be human in a fractured world.
- Originally Published: 1877
- Published: Createspace Independent Pub, 2016
- Genre: Short Story, Philosophy
- Pages: 26
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1535469142
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(0)By : Emily Jane
On Earth as It Is on Television
When mysterious alien ships appear over Earth and vanish without explanation, humanity is left not with answers, but with questions—and a gnawing sense of cosmic irrelevance. In On Earth as It Is on Television, Emily Jane crafts a tender, absurdist tapestry of modern life, where suburban dads unravel, teenagers drift through existential ennui, and even cats seem to know more than they let on. Through shifting perspectives and sly humor, the novel explores how ordinary people navigate the extraordinary—and how the real invasion might be the one inside us all. Is the universe trying to tell us something, or are we simply too distracted to listen?
- Originally Published: June 2023
- Publisher: Hyperion Avenue, 2023
- Genre: Novel, Sci-Fi
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1368092999
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(0)By : seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic is a quiet thunderclap—a collection of soul-deep meditations penned from the heart of an empire and the edge of mortality. In these letters, wisdom flows like a river through hardship, power, loss, and longing, offering not certainty but serenity. How does one remain unshaken in a world that trembles with fortune and fate? With luminous clarity and unflinching calm, this work invites you to step beyond the noise of ambition and into the silence where virtue becomes strength. It is not merely a guide to living, but a companion for enduring.
- Originally Published: 65 AD
- Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1969
- Genre: Philosophy
- Pages: 254
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0140442106
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(0)By : Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power
In the ruthless theater of ambition, The 48 Laws of Power is both a mirror and a map—a compendium of strategies drawn from the shadows of court intrigue, battlefield cunning, and boardroom calculation. With each law, a mask is lifted, revealing the mechanics of manipulation, the seduction of influence, and the quiet violence of control. Can one master power without becoming its prisoner? Stark, provocative, and unapologetically amoral, this book does not ask you to play fair—it demands you decide whether to play at all. It is a handbook for those who wish not merely to survive, but to dominate.
- Originally Published: 1998
- Publisher: Profile Books, 2000
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 452
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1861972781
- Access: Members
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(0)By : Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
In Lolita, desire dresses itself in the language of poetry, seduction veils cruelty, and obsession charts a cross-country odyssey through the haunted corridors of memory and guilt. With a voice as dazzling as it is disturbing, the unreliable narrator invites readers into a dark reverie where beauty becomes a battleground and innocence is never what it seems. Is it possible to separate the elegance of expression from the moral abyss it describes? Nabokov’s masterpiece dares us to confront the disquieting allure of language and the treacherous edges of love, power, and delusion. A lyrical descent into one man’s self-deception, Lolita leaves the reader spellbound—and unsettled.
- Originally Published: 1955
- Publisher: Penguin, 2011
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 368
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0241953242
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(0)By : Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Beneath the glittering ballrooms and snowbound estates of imperial Russia, Anna Karenina unfolds as a sweeping tale of passion, betrayal, and the fragile architecture of human happiness. Caught between the demands of a rigid society and the call of her own heart, Anna dares to pursue love at any cost—only to find that desire can both liberate and destroy. Around her, lives intersect in a delicate ballet of hope and despair, raising a timeless question: can true fulfillment ever exist within the confines of duty, marriage, and convention? Lyrical and unflinching, Tolstoy’s masterpiece captures the full spectrum of the human soul, from ecstasy to ruin.
- Originally Published: 1873
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2002
- Genre: Novel
- Pages: 880
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0140449174
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(0)By : Fyodor Dostoyesky
Crime and Punishment
In the stifling alleys of St. Petersburg, a young man commits a murder—not out of greed, but out of a fevered belief in his own moral exception. Crime and Punishment plunges into the shattered psyche of Raskolnikov, whose act of violence births a torment more relentless than justice itself. As guilt and redemption collide, the novel becomes a harrowing descent into the abyss of conscience, a crucible where reason and madness blur. Can one transcend morality to reshape the world—or does the soul exact its own terrible price? This is not merely a crime story, but a haunting meditation on what it means to be human in a world of suffering and consequence.
- Originally Published: 1866
- Publisher: Dover Publications, 2001
- Genre: Fiction, Psychological
- Pages: 448
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0486415871
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(0)By : Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
From the clay tablets of Mesopotamia to the flashing screens of global stock markets, The Ascent of Money traces the restless, shape-shifting journey of humanity’s greatest invention: finance. In this sweeping narrative, money is not merely a medium of exchange—it is the silent architect of empires, revolutions, and ruin. Through wars, bubbles, and banking dynasties, the book unveils how financial innovation both liberated and enslaved, enriched and annihilated. Can understanding the story of money illuminate the forces that still govern our lives, or are we forever doomed to dance to its invisible rhythms? This is the tale of power dressed in numbers—a saga as volatile as it is vital.
- Originally Published: Nov 2008
- Publisher: The Penguin Press, 2009
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 496
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780143116172
- Access: Members
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(0)By : Seth Godin
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
In a world drowning in sameness, Purple Cow charges through the grey fog of mediocrity with a singular question: why be ordinary when remarkable is the only path to survival? This provocative manifesto calls creators, entrepreneurs, and marketers to abandon the safety of the herd and dare to be dangerously different. It’s a vivid exploration of what happens when you stop following the rules—and start rewriting them. What if the biggest risk in your work isn’t failure, but invisibility? Bold, fast-paced, and brimming with defiant energy, this book is a call to stand out or fade away.
- Originally Published: 2002
- Publisher: Penguin, 2005
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 160
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0141016405
- Access: Members
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(0)By : Lee Iacocca
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? is a searing wake-up call from the edge of disillusionment—an urgent plea to rediscover courage, character, and common sense in an era adrift in apathy and excuses. With a voice both battle-worn and unyielding, it confronts the vacuum at the top and demands we stop mistaking charisma for competence, noise for leadership. If power no longer serves the people, who will rise to lead with heart and spine, not just ambition? This is not merely a critique—it is a challenge to reclaim the soul of leadership before it’s too late.
- Originally Published: April 2007
- Publisher: Scribner, 2008
- Genre: Biography
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1416532491
- Access: Members
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(0)By : Seth Godin
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future
In a world designed to reward conformity, what happens when you choose to become indispensable? Linchpin is a call to arms for the creative misfit, the quiet revolutionary, the individual daring to bring art and humanity back into work. With fierce urgency and warm provocation, it dismantles the myth of job security and invites you to forge your own value by showing up, standing out, and shipping your brilliance. Are you a replaceable cog, or the irreplaceable force that holds everything together? This book dares you to decide—and to matter.
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2010
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0749953355
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