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The King of Torts (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as industry)
avg rating 3.73 — 91,641 ratings — published 2003
The Appeal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as industry)
avg rating 3.65 — 63,546 ratings — published 2008
Disclosure (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as industry)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,970 ratings — published 1994
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as industry)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,050 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as industry)
avg rating 4.39 — 43,988 ratings — published 2022
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as industry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,001 ratings — published 2012
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,849 ratings — published 1991
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,311 ratings — published 2012
The Curse of Lono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,293 ratings — published 1983
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as industry)
avg rating 3.69 — 409,528 ratings — published 1957
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as industry)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,186 ratings — published 2013
The Cobra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as industry)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,592 ratings — published 2010
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,280 ratings — published 2023
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,795 ratings — published 2018
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.41 — 7,642 ratings — published 2019
Happy Ever After (Bride Quartet, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.19 — 63,976 ratings — published 2010
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.14 — 407,971 ratings — published 2014
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,082 ratings — published 2013
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.15 — 38,791 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,447 ratings — published 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.30 — 172,939 ratings — published 2010
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,881 ratings — published 2004
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,154 ratings — published 2006
A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities (Crumley Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,834 ratings — published 1990
Fantasy in Death (In Death, #30)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 4.28 — 28,894 ratings — published 2010
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as industry)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,188 ratings — published 2009
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.20 — 104,231 ratings — published 2014
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,955 ratings — published 2022
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,552 ratings — published 2020
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,290 ratings — published 2018
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,989 ratings — published 2000
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,203 ratings — published 2018
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,488 ratings — published 2013
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,927 ratings — published 2012
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.20 — 111,962 ratings — published 2014
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,815 ratings — published 2014
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.26 — 50,670 ratings — published 2013
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,197 ratings — published 2014
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,645 ratings — published 1997
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,065 ratings — published 2012
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,374,536 ratings — published 2011
Kill Your Friends (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,636 ratings — published 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,777 ratings — published 2001
Shock Wave (Dirk Pitt, #13)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.09 — 22,929 ratings — published 1996
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,011 ratings — published 2002
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,375 ratings — published 2003
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,614 ratings — published 1991
Inside Steve's Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,474 ratings — published 2008
Thank You for Smoking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,256 ratings — published 1994
The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)
by (shelved 4 times as industry)
avg rating 4.11 — 57,125 ratings — published 2009
“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.
The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor. Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
― The Communist Manifesto
The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor. Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
― The Communist Manifesto
“There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live.”
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