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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
What if the future isn’t ruled by fate—but by the choices we dare to make? Peter Bernstein’s Against the Gods chronicles humanity’s millennia-long duel with uncertainty—from ancient gamblers casting dice to Renaissance geniuses like Pascal and Fermat cracking the code of chance. As empires rise and fall on calculated risks, the book reveals how mastering probability reshaped empires, economies, and the very notion of human agency. But in a world addicted to control, one question remains: Are we the architects of our destiny… or just gamblers in a game where the house always wins?
- Originally Published: 1998
- Publisher : Wiley, 1998
- Pages: 400
- Genre: Investing
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0471295631
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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
What if chaos didn’t break you—but forged you? In Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shatters our obsession with stability, arguing that true resilience isn’t about surviving chaos—it’s about thriving in it. From crumbling economies to the human spirit, he reveals how volatility and uncertainty are the hidden engines of growth. But as we engineer our lives to avoid shocks, a deadly irony surfaces: Our desperate grip on control might be the very thing making us brittle. Will you cling to fragile safety… or let chaos sculpt you into something unbreakable?
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2013
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 544
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141038223
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Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
What if the champions of global prosperity are its most cunning adversaries? In Bad Samaritans, Ha-Joon Chang unmasks how wealthy nations wield free trade and aid as weapons, entrapping developing economies in a gilded cage of dependency. But when the illusion of benevolence shatters, will humanity confront the harrowing truth—or remain complicit in a system where salvation and destruction wear the same face?
- Originally Published: 2007
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781905211371
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Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
What if the hidden rules of the marketplace secretly dictate everything from your daily coffee price to the fate of entire nations? In Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell transforms complex market dynamics into an accessible narrative that empowers everyday people to see how every decision, policy, and price tag shapes our lives—and our future. When the stakes are nothing less than our collective survival and prosperity, will you dare to uncover the truths that could change everything?
- Originally Published: 2000
- Publisher : Basic Books, 2014
- Genre: Economics
- Pages: 704
- Book Type: Hardcover
- ISBN-13: 978-0465060733
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BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company
What if the secret to building a company that outlives you lies not in chasing success—but in defying it?
In BE 2.0, every entrepreneur faces a merciless crossroads: sacrifice short-term wins to forge an enduring legacy or risk becoming another footnote in the graveyard of burned-out ventures. Guided by the lost wisdom of Jim Collins’ legendary mentor, Bill Lazier, you’ll confront the paradox of greatness—where relentless discipline clashes with wild innovation, and trust becomes a gamble that could unravel your empire or immortalize it.
But when your boldest decisions threaten the very culture you’ve built… will you have the courage to turn the page—or watch your life’s work crumble with the tides of time?- Originally Published: 1992
- Publisher: Portfolio, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0399564239
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
What if the key to unstoppable success lies not in fighting for scraps—but in abandoning the battlefield altogether? Blue Ocean Strategy unveils how trailblazing leaders defy cutthroat competition to carve vast, untapped markets where demand surges and rivals vanish. Yet as they rewrite the rules, a chilling truth surfaces: What if their revolution isn’t a triumph—but a trap? Will you bleed in the red ocean’s frenzy… or risk everything to discover if the deepest waters hold salvation—or drown you in the end?
- Originally Published: 2004
- Publisher: Harvard Business School Press, 2005
- Genre: Business Management
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591396192
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On
What if the key to viral success isn’t luck, genius, or money—but six secret ingredients you’ve been overlooking every day? Jonah Berger decodes why certain ideas dominate dinner table conversations while others fade into oblivion, revealing how ordinary people become unwitting architects of cultural earthquakes. As algorithms tighten their grip and attention spans vanish, the stakes are primal: your child’s birthday wishlist, your deepest political conviction, even midnight fridge raids hang on humanity’s oldest question—what makes us hit ‘share’? But beware—once you learn why your brain secretly craves contagious content, will you craft messages that spread… or become the puppet of forces you can no longer unsee?
- Originally Published: 2013
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2013
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1451686579
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Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
What if the trillion-dollar ‘cure’ for poverty is its greatest poison? Dead Aid exposes how well-intentioned billions shackled a continent to dependency, breeding corruption and despair—but when economist Dambisa Moyo demands Africa sever the lifeline, survival hinges on a perilous wager: Can nations weaned from aid rediscover sovereignty, or will withdrawal unleash chaos darker than dependency itself? The answer will haunt every philanthropist, policymaker, and dreamer who dares believe in mercy.
- Originally Published: 2009
- Publisher: Penguin, 2010
- Genre: Politics, Economics
- Pages: 188
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0141031187
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
What if your greatest triumphs and deepest regrets are orchestrated by a hidden puppeteer—one you’ve ignored your entire life? Daniel Goleman shatters the myth of pure intellect, revealing how unseen emotional currents steer love, power, and self-destruction in every heartbeat of existence. But when you discover these forces hold the keys to your relationships, sanity, and legacy… will you master them—or let them rewrite your fate in the dark?
- Originally Published: 1995
- Publisher: Bantam, 2005
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0553383713
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
What if the greatest threat to your company isn’t a competitor’s innovation—but your own team’s inability to deliver? In Execution, seasoned leaders confront the brutal chasm between grand visions and chaotic reality, where every hesitation risks fortunes, careers, and the survival of empires. But when the true enemy is a culture of empty promises and deferred action, will you master the discipline to transform ambition into results… or become another ghost in the graveyard of unrealized potential?
- Originally Published: 2002
- Publisher: Crown Business, 2002
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0609610572
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Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
What if your greatest triumph was just a coin flip—and your worst failure pure bad luck? Nassim Nicholas Taleb drags you into the shadowy casino of life, where high-stakes traders and self-made millionaires worship skill but owe their fortunes to chaos. As he dissects the invisible threads of chance weaving through success and ruin, a brutal truth surfaces: Your brain is wired to see patterns in noise—and call it genius. But when the market crashes or luck runs dry, how many of your certainties are just stories… and who’s the real fool?
- Originally Published: 2001
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007
- Pages: 368
- Genre: Self-help
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141031484
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Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction
What if every choice you make—from negotiating a salary to swerving in traffic—is part of an invisible mathematical war where the rules were written without your consent? Ken Binmore’s Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction pulls back the curtain on the secret strategies governing love, betrayal, and survival in everything from honeybee colonies to high-stakes auctions. But when you discover how easily cooperation twists into cutthroat competition… will you sleep soundly knowing you’re always a pawn in someone else’s game?
- Originally Published: 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 208
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0199218462
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
What if every argument you’ve ever lost was because you were playing the wrong game? In Getting to Yes, you’re handed a forbidden blueprint to dismantle conflict, turning adversaries into allies with words sharper than any weapon. But when the stakes climb higher—a crumbling partnership, a career on the brink, a family feud—trust crumbles and hidden agendas emerge… Will you cling to old tactics and lose it all, or dare to negotiate a future where no one has to surrender?
- Originally Published: 1981
- Publisher: Penguin Books, 2011
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 240
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0143118756
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Globalization and its Discontents
What if the economic forces meant to unite humanity are instead fueling its unraveling? In Globalization and Its Discontents, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz pulls back the curtain on a world where free-market dogma and unchecked corporate power devour nations, leaving inequality and disillusionment in their wake. As democracy trembles and billions hover on the edge of survival, one question remains: can we reclaim our future before the architects of progress become the undertakers of chaos?
- Originally Published: 2002
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
- Pages: 304
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0393324396
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
What if the most dangerous threat to your success isn’t failure—but the hollow strategies you swear by? In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt exposes how leaders cling to glittering goals and empty jargon while unseen crises devour their ambitions. But when the line between visionary and delusional shatters, will you recognize the lethal flaws in your own plans—or become the architect of your downfall?
- Originally Published: 2011
- Publisher: Profile Books
- Published: June 9, 2017
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 336
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1781256176
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
What if everything you think you know about success is quietly sabotaging your company’s potential? In Good to Great, Jim Collins reveals why most organizations languish in mediocrity—trapped by complacency—while a select few shatter ceilings to dominate their industries for decades. Discover how leaders trade ego for grit, teams weaponize discipline over talent, and companies confront brutal truths to spark revolutions… but when greatness demands sacrificing comfort for relentless focus, will your organization cling to “good enough” or dare to leap into the unknown?
- Originally Published: 2001
- Publisher: Harper Business, 2001
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 300
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0066620992
- Access: Members
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Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
What if your company’s explosive growth hinges not on lavish budgets, but on a single relentless question: What truly makes customers obsess over your product? Hacking Growth pulls back the curtain on Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret—the data-driven playbook that propelled Airbnb to 10M bookings and Dropbox to 2.8B viral invites. But when algorithms expose your product’s fatal flaws and competitors circle like sharks, will you pivot… or perish?
- Originally Published: 2015
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2017
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781524760007
- Access: Members
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How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
What if the fate of the global economy—and the planet—rested in the hands of a few shadowed boardrooms? In How Boards Work, economist Dambisa Moyo pulls back the curtain on corporate power brokers wrestling with existential dilemmas: profit vs. purpose, survival vs. societal collapse. As scandals erupt and climate crises loom, these unseen architects must choose—reinvent capitalism or watch it crumble under its own contradictions. But when trillion-dollar stakes clash with human lives… whose side will they take?
- Originally Published: May 2021
- Publisher: Basic Books, 2021
- Genre: Business
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1541619425
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How the World Works
What if the systems controlling your life were designed to keep you powerless—and you didn’t even know it? In How the World Works, Noam Chomsky dismantles the invisible machinery of corporate fascism and geopolitical manipulation, exposing how profit-driven empires shape wars, economies, and even your thoughts. But when you realize your compliance fuels the chaos, one question remains: Will you keep feeding the beast—or dare to dismantle it?
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 336
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780241145388
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Irrational Exuberance 3rd Edition
What if the greatest threat to your wealth isn’t the market—but your own mind? In Irrational Exuberance, Nobel laureate Robert Shiller exposes how euphoric investor herds and media-fueled delusions fuel boom-and-bust cycles that vaporize lifetimes of savings. When algorithms amplify our deepest fears and desires, can anyone escape the financial reckoning hurtling toward us—or are we all just speculators in a global Ponzi scheme of our own making?
- Originally published: 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 392
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780691173122
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
What if the greatest threat to your success isn’t your competition, but your own leadership? In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek reveals how the survival of teams—and the humans within them—hangs on a simple, radical choice: protect your people first, or watch trust crumble as self-interest devours progress. But when loyalty clashes with bottom lines and generations collide, will you cling to outdated hierarchies… or risk everything to build a tribe where sacrifice sparks revolution?
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Portfolio, 2017
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 368
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591845324
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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future
What if everything you’ve been taught about work is a lie? Linchpin by Seth Godin challenges you to confront the suffocating grip of conformity, where the “factory worker” mindset—obedient, replaceable, and shackled by fear—clashes with the explosive potential of your inner artist. Imagine a world where your survival hinges not on following rules but on defying them, where emotional labor and unapologetic creativity become your weapons against obsolescence. But when your deepest fears rise to sabotage your genius, will you surrender to the lizard brain—or rewrite the rules of what it means to matter?
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2010
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0749953355
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Making Money Is Killing Your Business: How to Build a Business You’ll Love and Have a Life, Too
What if your relentless chase for profit is the very noose tightening around your business’s neck? In Making Money Is Killing Your Business, Chuck Blakeman reveals how entrepreneurs become trapped in a cycle of survival, trading their lives for revenue—until they confront the shocking truth: building wealth isn’t about hustling harder, but creating a self-sustaining empire that thrives while they sip margaritas on a beach. But when your business’s survival hinges on your daily grind, what happens if you disappear—and will it survive without you?
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Crankset Publishing, 2015
- Genre: Self-help, Business
- Pages: 303
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0984334308
- Access: Members
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Measure What Matters: OKRs – The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
What if the secret to success isn’t working harder—but measuring smarter? John Doerr unveils the explosive power of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), the silent engine behind giants like Google and Intel, where audacious goals meet ruthless focus. But as organizations chase moonshots and teams drown in data, a dangerous irony surfaces: Your metrics might be counting steps… while the mountain crumbles. Are you tracking progress—or just polishing the illusion of it?
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher : Penguin Business, 2018
- Pages: 306
- Genre: Business
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0241348482
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Money Magnet
What if your relentless hustle for cash is literally repelling wealth? In Money Magnet, serial entrepreneur Omar Johnson cracks the cosmic code that turns financial struggle into gravitational abundance—but when the universe mirrors back your hidden fears about worthiness, will you become a conduit for millions or a black hole of self-sabotage? The energy of money never lies… and your bank account is about to testify.
- Originally Published: 2013
- Publisher: Wiley, 2013
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 260
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1890679460
- Access: Members
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
What if the very person championing your growth is secretly capping your potential? In Multipliers, Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown expose how leaders ignite—or extinguish—the genius hidden in every team. When data reveals most organizations squander half their collective intelligence, a silent battle rages between those who drain brilliance and those who unleash it. Are you multiplying the minds around you… or are you the bottleneck no one dares name?
- Publisher: Harper Business
- Published: June 15, 2010
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0061964398
- Access: Members
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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
What if the chains of colonialism never truly shattered—they just vanished from sight? In Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah exposes a global chessboard where liberation is a carefully crafted illusion, and nations are pawns in a game of economic domination. As sovereignty teeters on the brink and the echoes of exploitation grow louder, dare you uncover the truth—or will you remain shackled by the lies that keep empires alive?
- Originally Published: 1965
- Publisher: Panaf, 2009
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 316
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0901787231
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
What if everything you thought about workplace rules was holding your company hostage? In No Rules Rules, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings gambles on a radical culture of “freedom and responsibility”—scrapping vacations, approvals, and hierarchies to fuel explosive innovation. But when trust collides with human fallibility, can a company thrive without guardrails… or will the pursuit of reinvention ignite its own demise?
- Originally Published: 2020
- Publisher: Virgin Books, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780753553664
- Access: Members
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
What if every choice you make is shaped by invisible forces you never noticed? In Nudge, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein expose how subtle tweaks—like rearranging cafeteria food or tweaking retirement plan defaults—steer billions of decisions, blending freedom with a provocative form of “libertarian paternalism”. But as governments and corporations weaponize these psychological levers, one question lingers: Are you truly in control, or just a puppet of someone else’s design?
- Originally Published: 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 384
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780141999937
- Access: Members
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich
What if the world’s wealthiest individuals no longer see themselves as citizens of any nation? Plutocrats pulls back the curtain on a global elite rewriting the rules of power—self-made billionaires and financiers who bend economies to their will while the middle class crumbles. When the line between merit and manipulation vanishes, whose future gets sold to the highest bidder… and who’s left holding the bill?
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher: The Penguin Press, 2013
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780141043425
- Access: Members
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Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
What if the key to future dominance wasn’t in your decisions—but in the predictions you ignore? Power and Prediction exposes how industries from finance to healthcare hang in the balance as AI’s “prediction machines” rewrite the rules of power, silently shifting control from intuition to algorithmic foresight. But when tomorrow’s winners are decided by who dares to dismantle entire systems rather than tweak them… will your organization dictate the new world order—or become its first casualty?
- Originally Published: 2022
- Publisher: Harvard Business Publishing, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781647824198
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Principles: Life and Work
What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn’t the world’s chaos—but the lies you tell yourself? In Principles, Ray Dalio unveils a ruthless blueprint for confronting reality’s sharp edges, where ego crumbles, pain becomes fuel, and radical truth rewires how you live, lead, and love. But when every decision demands staring into the mirror of your deepest flaws… will you cling to comfort—or let the truth set you free?
- Originally Published: September 2017
- Publisher: Avid Reader Press, 2019
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 592
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1501124020
- Access: Members