Economics and Business

Colin Bryar started at Amazon in 1998; Bill Carr joined in 1999. Their time at Amazon covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo and Alexa, and Amazon Web Services to life. Through the story of these innovations they reveal and codify the principles and practices that have driven the success of one of the most extraordi

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian 'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs h

The World's Simplest Guide to the Stock Market provides a crash course on the essentials of stocks and the stock market.

From the author of the multi-million copy selling The Psychology of Money...

Same As Ever will arm you with a powerful new ability to think about risk and opportunity, and navigate the uncertainty of the future.

A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists.

'Bill's passion for innovation and teamwork was a gift to Apple and the world. Trillion Dollar Coach has captured his tireless spirit so future generations can learn from one of our industry's greatest leaders' -TIM COOK, CEO, Apple 'Bill shared his wisdom generously, expecting nothing back but the joy he got from teaching others. I was privileged to have him as my coach for several years. Many ti

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything No matter who you´re talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you communicate. Jefferson Fisher, trial lawyer and one of the leading voices on real-world

A groundbreaking blueprint for mastering cross-pressures in a rapidly changing world, teaching leaders to execute and innovate, think locally and globally, and project ambition and statesmanship alikefrom a Stanford Business School lecturer and consultant to some of the biggest and most innovative CEOs

A bold, empowering, and energizing guide to embracing your ambition and chasing after what you want from an executive who spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks at Google. What if the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you´ve been told? To be successful you need to be Weird, Selfish, Shameless, Obsessed, Nosy, Manipulative, Brutal, Reckless, and Bossy. And that take

From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech's boldest thinkers and The Economist's "best CEO of 2024," and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West's culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology's potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats.

The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world. On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepreneur spent three decades steadily building an obscure telecom company into one of the world's most powerful technological empires with hardly anyone noticing. This all changed in December 2018, when the detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies' female scion, spar

The anti-hustle guide to getting what you really want AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want. But this approach costs us our health and wellbeing, and ultimately upholds oppressive systems. In The Ambition Trap, leadership coach Amina AlTai shows you how to break the cycle of overwork once and for all&mdas

Empty Vessel is a jaw-dropping microhistory that speaks volumes about the global economy as a whole. In following the Vessel-and its Sister Vessel, built alongside it in Stockholm-from one thankless task to the next, Kumekawa connects the dots of a neoliberal world order in the making, where regulation is for suckers and "Made in USA" feels almost quaint.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrows leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.

A “highly entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin´s creator and a deep dive into crypto´s utopian origin story—from The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire´s Vinegar “Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.”—James Patterson “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto will leave you amazed, enlightened, and u

From their promising beginnings at Stanford to their founding of Google and beyond, this fascinating biography charts the extraordinary rise of tech duo Sergey Brin and Larry Page. As PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin devised a powerful search engine. Google, the company they founded in 1998 became a brand, the world's pre-eminent search engine, a centre of artific

The classic text The Book of Five Rings, now interpreted for tomorrow's business leaders. The Book of Five Rings is a classic Japanese text by the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In this book, he set out the 'true principles' required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. His philosophy of rigorous self-control and dealing with physical and mental conflict has been appr

Millions of highly effective people around the world have read Richard Koch's global bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE and enjoyed a serious advantage in the pursuit of success. Now, BEYOND THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE (previously published as The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature) takes you even further. Including the 80/20 Principle itself - the radical power law that helps you achieve

"Ellen Bennett is the platonic form of a go-getter who inspires go-getter after go-getter to become a better go-getter."—Zooey Deschanel, actor and musician You´ll never know where to start…until you start. This gutsy guidebook will help anyone who's procrastinating on a goal, career change, or business idea stop the obsessive worrying and leap into action. As a 24-year-old li

From CEO and award-winning author Chris Hirst comes a foolproof guide to achieving success and reaching your maximum potential at work.