Economics and Business

Named a most-anticipated book of 2024 by NPR.org, Oprah Daily, Town & Country, The Millions, Financial Times, and more. “Sun writes clearly about the demands and privileges of the job, though this isn´t a tell-all about abuses in the industry but rather a more probing inquiry into what we deem success and the values underpinning it.” —Vogue, Best Books of 2024 So Far A gripping m

"Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain liberal democracy? The best recent work on this subject comes from a remarkable pair of scholars, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. In their latest book, The Narrow Corridor, they have answered this question with great insight." -Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a cruci

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health.   “The processed food industry has managed to avoid being lumped in with Big Tobacco&mdash

A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.   At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world´s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under duress to rival JPMorgan Chase. The eff

The card deck version of this international bestseller playfully challenges you to get more of the important things done. You´ll stop procrastinating and start eating those frogs in no time! There´s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you´ll have the satisfaction of knowing you´re done with the worst thing you´ll have to do all day. For Brian T

Stories and wisdom from the pioneering basketball coach and Nike executive George Raveling, coauthored by bestselling author of The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday Orphaned at just thirteen in a still-segregated Washington, D.C., George Raveling was introduced to a relatively unpopular sport—basketball—in high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Raveling went on to become one of the w

Align your financial goals with your Meaningful Mission to achieve lasting abundance and prosperity, from the host of School of Greatness. Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Do you feel trapped by all your expenses every month? Do you wonder how some people enjoy financial peace and freedom while others seem stuck? Your relationship with money begins with having the right mindset. U

“A really moving and heart-rending story. Unshrunk will help and empower so many people.” —Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus The powerful memoir of one woman´s experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industry At age fourteen, Laura Delano saw her first psychiatrist who immediately di

We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into--one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations--Amazon, Goog

The astonishing, behind-the-scenes story of the race to perfect the greatest invention in human history, artificial intelligence, and the men, women and companies that seek to profit from it all.

Tech has been the most important theme for human development for the last several decades. Biotech is next.

Named a most-anticipated book of 2024 by the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Stylist, Vogue, NPR.org, Oprah Daily, Town & Country and more.'A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul' Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of Four Thousand WeeksWhat are you willing to sacrifice to get to the top?What it might take to break free and leave it all

'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid From Britain's top-selling true crime writer and author of Sunday Times #1 bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER... London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, th

Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social, and financial fallout.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "

...refreshing...concentrates on small 'boring' businesses... serves up a recipe to bypass the challenges of a founder by creatively financing smart deals." - Forbes

Rich people know a secret. In this book, former Wall Street investor Codie Sanchez pulls back the curtain.

THE WILD INSIDE STORY OF CRYPTO'S GET-RICH-QUICK UNDERBELLY Nat Eliason had six months to make as much money as possible before his first child was born. So, he turned to where countless others did in 2021: Crypto. Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. He'd been hacked. He'd sold a picture of a monkey for two hundred gran

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what´s right – even when it isn´t easy For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one´s commitment to