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Scott Adams collects the mental reframes he uses to turn fear, failure and bad habits into useful energy.

Scott Adams explains why systems beat goals, and how a long string of failures added up to Dilbert.

Artist Daniel Arsham tells the story of his life and work, from Miami to the eroded, fictional-archaeology sculptures he is known for.

Lionel Barber traces how Masayoshi Son built SoftBank on outsized bets, from Yahoo and Alibaba to the Vision Fund.

Traces the evolution of international trade, from ancient Mesopotamia to today's global marketplace, exploring the influence of commerce on agriculture, technology, politics, and civilization as a…

In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade…

Frank Brady's biography of Aristotle Onassis, the shipping magnate who built a fortune from nothing and lived it loudly.

The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world's most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.Whether…

Viktor Frankl draws on his years in Nazi camps to argue that finding meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps people alive.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen shows how the buildings and streets around us shape how we think, feel and live.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter…

A curated collection of Steve Jobs's speeches, interviews and emails, in his own words, from the Steve Jobs Archive.

Palantir's Alexander Karp argues that Silicon Valley should return to hard problems and the defense of the West.

Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of twentieth century psychology, The Courage to Be Disliked follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man.

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage.

When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, Austin Kleon wrote a simple list often things he wished he'd heard when he was their age:…

In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan.

Coby Lefkowitz makes the case for building beautiful, walkable places again, and for the optimism it takes to do it.

Sebastian Mallaby's history of venture capital, from Arthur Rock to Sequoia, and the power-law bets that built Silicon Valley.

Haruki Murakami's memoir on long-distance running and how it shaped his life as a novelist.

The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to…

Derek Sivers offers 27 conflicting answers to how to live, each argued with full conviction, and one weird conclusion.

Rory Sutherland argues that the best ideas in business and life are often irrational, and that logic is overrated.

Taleb argues that nobody should make decisions for others unless they share in the downside.

In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time.

From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life.

Taleb on how much of success in markets and in life is luck that gets mistaken for skill.

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

Bob Thomas's authorized biography of Walt Disney, from a Missouri farm to the studio and the parks.

William Thorndike profiles eight unconventional CEOs whose focus on capital allocation beat the market by huge margins.

Andrew Wilkinson's memoir of going from barista to billionaire, and finding that more money didn't make him happier.

Albert Camus's novel about Meursault, a detached man whose senseless killing on an Algerian beach puts his indifference on trial.

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish.

A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement…

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past .

A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together.

Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever.

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.

The King James Version, the 1611 English translation whose language shaped English literature for centuries.

Augustine's account of his restless youth and conversion, written as one long prayer to God.

A selection of Cicero's writings on friendship, duty, old age and what makes a life worth living.

First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere…

A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation.

Meditations is a collection of personal reflections and notes by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161 to 180 AD), offering a profound look into the philosophy of Stoicism.