 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $9.19 Taleb's argues that major events are unpredictable while the way our brains are wired, we try to extract stories to explain them. Most of us use Bell curve model for predictability while the events in the world follow the wild powerlaw swings.
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 | The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $0.01 Life of Greenspan and assessments of various Presidents he worked with. This book is a memoir and view of the world from Greenspan's mind. Towards the end Greenspan gives an interesting view of how world will be in 2030.
Greenspan laid down the case of Market Capitalism as an ultimate mode to create wealth.
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $9.47 A good book on improving one's communication skills. Authors revisited the points which appear commonsense but still not used in our day to day communication. Combining, simple core messages with unexpected delivery full of credible and concrete stories is the main theme.
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 | The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.39 Friedman's version of the trends taking place from 1990 to 2005. Author has provided a good globalization picture at a higher level. Book mentions not only the good that came out of the "flatness" but also the bad. All aspects of globalization are discussed and how people and countries can use them to their advantage.
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 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $3.70 |
 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $7.34 Great observation by Collins' team. One can take an underlying principle to create value in any system. How boundaries can be an excellent source for letting people free and innovate.
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 | The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits) by John C. Bogle
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $8.09 |
 | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Buy used from: $11.60 |
 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.95 |
 | Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives by Alvin Toffler
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.80 |
 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.39 |
 | The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $6.15 |
 | What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $8.05 |
 | The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros
Buy new: $15.51 / Used from: $0.87 |
 | A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.46 |
 | Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.23 |
 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $11.75 / Used from: $8.95 |
 | The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.90 |
 | The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $0.19 |
 | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $9.78 / Used from: $1.85 |
 | Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Milton Friedman
Buy new: $10.32 / Used from: $7.60 |
 | The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 by Bob Woodward
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Buy new: $12.28 / Used from: $4.14 |
 | Games Mother Never Taught You by Betty Lehan Harragan
Buy used from: $1.39 |
 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.95 |
 | The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $6.90 |
 | The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History by Howard Bloom
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.77 |
 | How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $12.71 |
 | Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard Bloom
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.73 |
 | The First Man in Rome by Colleen Mccullough
Buy new: $6.78 / Used from: $4.43 |
 | The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $15.57 |
 | How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by John C. Maxwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.82 |
 | Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
Buy new: $18.47 / Used from: $14.95 |
 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $10.37 / Used from: $5.11 |
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