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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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The Prince
In a world where loyalty flickers and power is fleeting, The Prince reads like a dark mirror held up to the ambitions of rulers and the hearts of men. With razor-edged clarity, it unveils a ruthless political theatre where morality bends beneath necessity, and virtue may be the enemy of survival. Can a leader be both feared and loved—or must he choose? Part manifesto, part cautionary tale, this chillingly pragmatic guide strips away idealism to reveal the brutal mechanics of control, legacy, and the human hunger to command fate. It whispers dangerous truths to anyone who would dare to rule.
- Originally Published: 1532
- Publisher: FingerPrint Classics, 2023
- Genre: Political Science
- Pages: 170
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-8175993075
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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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
- Access: Members
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
What happens when a company dares to trust its people more than its policies? No Rules Rules takes readers behind the curtain of Netflix’s radical reinvention of workplace culture—where freedom is currency, candor is king, and control is traded for creativity. With bold strokes and sharp insight, it challenges the conventional wisdom that structure breeds success, revealing instead how chaos, when managed with clarity, can unlock astonishing innovation. Can an organization thrive without rules—or does liberation come with its own invisible leash? This is a story of rebellion, reinvention, and the quiet revolution rewriting how the world works.
- Originally Published: 2020
- Publisher: Virgin Books, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780753553664
- Access: Members
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Why do some teams charge into fire while others fracture at the first spark? Leaders Eat Last is a rallying cry for a kind of leadership forged not in boardrooms but in the bonds of trust, sacrifice, and shared purpose. With stirring clarity, it unveils a world where the strongest leaders are those who protect others first—who create a circle of safety so powerful that people risk more, care more, and thrive together. In an age obsessed with individual gain, can selflessness be the most strategic path to collective success? This is not merely a manual on leadership—it is a vision of what human organizations could be if led with heart and courage.
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Portfolio, 2017
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 368
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591845324
- Access: Members
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The Alchemist
In a world where dreams often fade beneath the weight of duty, The Alchemist invites us into the journey of a young shepherd who dares to follow the whispers of his heart across deserts, omens, and ancient wisdom. With prose as luminous as starlight on sand, this tale explores the soul’s yearning to uncover its Personal Legend—the treasure buried not just in distant lands, but within. As the boy learns to listen to the language of the world, a timeless question arises: must we travel far to discover what was always ours? A fable of fate, faith, and self-discovery, it is a reminder that the real alchemy lies in the transformation of the seeker.
- Originally Published: 1988
- Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003
- Genre: Quest, Adventure Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Novel
- Pages: 172
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-8172234980
- Access: Members
