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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
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Annie Duke (Goodreads Author)
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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Charles Duhigg (Goodreads Author)
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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James Clear (Goodreads Author)
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Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
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Ulrich Boser (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 31,968 ratings
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Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 31,037 ratings
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Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company
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Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World
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Jennifer Garvey Berger (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600 - 1900
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Stephen R. Bown (Goodreads Author)
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
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The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
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Adam Kucharski (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 688 ratings
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George C. Marshall: Education of a General: 1880-1939
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The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
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Kevin Ashton (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders
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Jennifer Garvey Berger (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done
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Laura Vanderkam (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,991 ratings
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The Decision Checklist: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Problems
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
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Ben Reiter (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
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Nature: An Economic History
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The Uses and Abuses of History
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Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
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Bill Browder (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 105,916 ratings
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
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Sheelah Kolhatkar (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 16,602 ratings
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Kids Are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side
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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
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How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
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The Razor’s Edge
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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Why Don't We Learn from History?
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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
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Jen Waite (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 14,852 ratings
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
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Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
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Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 6,965 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
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Nick Bilton (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 51,942 ratings
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Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
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Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
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Bandwidth (Analog #1)
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Eliot Peper (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 4,452 ratings
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Tiger Woods
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Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies That Engage the Brain
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Marcia L. Tate (editor)
3.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 87,855 ratings
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The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began
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The Last Alchemist in Paris: And other curious tales from chemistry
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The Warrior Queens
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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter
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Celeste Headlee (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 5,303 ratings
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The Quotable Darwin
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Gridiron Genius: A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL
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Michael Lombardi (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Adam Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 321,427 ratings
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The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
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Michael Bungay Stanier (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 28,238 ratings
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The Order of Time
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Mr. Nice Guy
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The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
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The Laws of Human Nature
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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On Confidence
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Love & Misadventure
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Lang Leav (Goodreads Author)
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Lullabies (Volume 2) (Lang Leav)
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Dirty Pretty Things
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Michael Faudet (Goodreads Author)
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The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Kai-Fu Lee (Goodreads Author)
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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922
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