Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
6.13 USD
19.75 (68% off)
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this e ...Show more
The Penguin History of Economics by Roger E. Backhouse
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law
Presents a history of economic thought since the ancient world. This book discusses from Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill. It shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians.
The Secrets of Economic Indicators - Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities by Bernard Baumohl
11.38 USD
34.99 (67% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law
For years, investors, business strategists, and policymakers worldwide have turned to one book to help them translate the massive flow of economic data into knowledge for intelligent decision-making. The Wall Street Journal called this book ...the real deal, saying it miraculously breathes life into eco ...Show more
The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success by Eric Ries
7.35 USD
20.99 (64% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law | Reading Level: very good
Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. "The Lean Startup" is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. "The Lean Startup" is about learning what your customers really want. It ...Show more
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism by Philip Delves Broughton
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law
Graduates of Harvard Business School run many of the world's biggest and most influential banks, companies and countries. But what kind of person does it take to succeed at HBS? And what do they learn there? Philip Delves Broughton's enlightening and hilarious memoir of his two years at Harvard takes us ...Show more
Women of the Somali Diaspora - Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding after Conflict by Joanna Lewis
14.18 USD
42.02 (66% off)
Category: History & Politics
This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war. Many had never left Somalia before, followed nomadic traditions, did not speak English, were bereaved and were suffering from PTSD.Their stories begin with war and genocide in the north, followed by har ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6.13 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law | Reading Level: good
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
What Am I Doing With My Life? by LAW, STEPHEN
7.96 USD
24.95 (68% off)
Category: Philosophy
Life philosophy based on Google searches Have I found 'the one'?Am I a psychopath?Should I be allowed to say whatever I want? Millions of people ask Google all sorts of questions, everything from the big and small. Responding to the biggest, existential questions asked online and using the wisdom of ...Show more
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
6.01 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: Science
In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies. This ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary perspectiv ...Show more
Why Information Grows - The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies by César Hidalgo
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Business Finance & Law
In Why Information Grows, rising star César Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economicsWhat is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But M ...Show more
Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by McNamee, Roger
10.41 USD
23.80 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting hi ...Show more
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
7.96 USD
18.19 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature o ...Show more