Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Author:
Jim Collins
Publishing Year:
2004
Genre:
Non fiction
This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more importan...
ReWork
Change the Way You Work Forever
Author:
David Heinemeier Hansson
Publishing Year:
2010
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever" by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of Basecamp, challenges work and entrepreneurship norms. Advocating for simplicity, it emphasizes doing fewer things exceptionally well to combat ineffi...
In Cold Blood
A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Author:
Truman Capote
Publishing Year:
1965
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no...
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author:
J. D. Vance
Publishing Year:
2016
Genre:
Biography
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with gr...
The Haunting of Hill House
Author:
Shirley Jackson
Publishing Year:
1959
Genre:
Novel
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young w...
The Once and Future King
Author:
T. H. White
Publishing Year:
1958
Genre:
Novel, Historical Fiction
T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published in one volume, as White himself always wished. Exquisite comedy offsets the tragedy of Arthur′s personal doom...
The Wisdom of Crowds
Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
Author:
James Surowiecki
Publishing Year:
2004
Genre:
Leading Teams
Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Publishing Year:
2009
Genre:
Behavioral Economics
Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these...