 | Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger
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 | Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
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 | Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert B. Cialdini
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $9.99 Cialdini has taken the concept of INFLUENCE to another level. In this book, he explained the influence as an interaction we have with the world. He broke the concept into 6 categories, one chapter per category. How the cultural evolution bound us to certain principles of interaction and how we can come out of this mold is the main theme.
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 | Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
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 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy used from: $8.90 Two things that amazed me. One, as Charlie Munger has mentioned, is the ability of Darwin to think on both sides of his theory which led him to a deep explanation of complex events happening around us.
The second is that he wrote this book in 1850. At that time, there was no knowledge of DNA, geological events but Darwin was able to see the phenomena occurring without the details.
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 | Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection by Frank Ryan
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| The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: $17.99 This book will change the perspective of viewing the world. We are nothing but droplets in a waterfall. At any given instant and at a given height, a drop is formed by various other drops. This drop before reaching the bottom will disintegrate into various other drops.
The view of world from a gene's eye view is amazing.
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 | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.) by Matt Ridley
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 | Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos by Garrett Hardin
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 | Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
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 | The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.95 Diamond has done an excellent job in laying the foundation of 13000 years of human history. According to Diamond, four factors are responsible for all historical developments: 1) food production, 2) the geographical orientation, 3) transfer of knowledge, and 4) population size.
Diamond has been successful in creating a model for people to understand how we(human beings) reached here.
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 | Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.00 Frankl shows that people who have been living in the past or present should move their aim towards the future. The passion to reach the model of future, they have in mind will provide the meaning to their lives. Any sufferings in present should not deter one from achieving the future. Things done in past defines a person but things done for future defines the life.
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 | Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.28 Once again, Dawkins prove that natural selection is the only means to explain cumulative adaptive evolution. In depth explanation of the fact that complex organs could not have been come about by chance. "Darwinian world-view that slow, gradual, cumulative natural selection is the ultimate explanation for our existence".
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 | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared M. Diamond
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| Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information by Robert Wright
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 | Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (5th Edition) by Max H. Bazerman
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 | Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge by Roger Fisher
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| Ice Age by John and Mary Gribbin
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 | A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe by Gino Segre
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 | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker
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 | How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman
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 | Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall
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 | Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner by Connie Bruck
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 | Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity by John Gribbin
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 | Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy
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 | The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy by Robert G. Hagstrom
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 | Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
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 | Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.48 50 more examples of social influences, as explained in Psychology of Persuasion. This book should be read by those looking to abstract out more information on social influence. The theory has already been laid out in the other book.
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 | Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
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 | The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro
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 | Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
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| Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going by Les Schwab
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 | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
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