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Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story
Sam Walton and John Huey
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.  The undisputed merchant king of the l...
Saving Capitalism From the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity
Raghuram G Rajan, Luigi Zingales
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. In India, its critics have viewed it as intrinsically unstable, seeing signs of its collapse in every fall of the Mumbai stock market. Its supporters see it as ...
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company
Charles G. Koch
Praise for THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS "Evaluating the success of an individual or company is a lot like judging a trapper by his pelts. Charles Koch has a lot of pelts. He has built Koch Industries into the world's largest privately held company, and th...
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital—and How to Get It
Scott Kupor
'Worth far more than its cover price ... I wish I’d had it available to me when I was first looking for startup funding' -- Eric RiesEvery startup needs capital, and ambitious startups seek it on Sand Hill Road – Silicon Valley’s dream street for en...
Side Hustle: Build a Side Business and Make Extra Money – Without Quitting Your Day Job
Chris Guillebeau
From the New York Times bestselling author of $100 Startup comes this accessible guide to building a side business from scratch – without having to give up your day job.Side Hustle is about much more than just making some extra cash; it’s about free...
Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction
Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth
A former FBI agent shares his simple but powerful toolkit for assessing who you can trust--and who you can't.After two decades as a behavior analyst in the FBI, Robin Dreeke knows a thing or two about sizing people up. He's navigated complex situati...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility** In his most provocative and practical boo...
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has pu...
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , Braden Kowitz
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “ Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, sav...
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman , Ben Casnocha
A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs. LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s c...
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Tim Hwang
From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital adver...
Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems
Robert Carver
This is not just another book with yet another trading system. This is a complete guide to developing your own systems to help you make and execute trading and investing decisions. It is intended for everyone who wishes to systematise their financia...