Vignesh's bookshelf: read en-US Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:29:34 -0700 60 Vignesh's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups]]> 65146478
Raw, gut-wrenching in its honesty and completely from the heart, this is storytelling at its finest.



A young boy with a 'refugee' tag growing up in Delhi's Malviya Nagar outpaces his circumstances by becoming a rank-holder at the pinnacle of academic excellence in India-IIT Delhi. He goes on to do an MBA from the hallowed halls of IIM Ahmedabad, builds a career as an investment banker at Kotak Investment Banking and AmEx, and is pivotal in the making of two unicorns-Grofers, as CFO, and BharatPe, as co-founder.



As a judge on the popular TV show Shark Tank India, Ashneer becomes a household name even as his life turns upside down. Controversy, media spotlight, garrulous social media chatter descend, making it difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.]]> 202 Ashneer Grover 9354928706 Vignesh 0 3.79 Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
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]]> <![CDATA[Cimarronin: The Complete Graphic Novel (The Foreworld Saga: Cimarronin)]]> 25789742


As they become embroiled in the deadly politics of New Spain, Kitazume uses his lethal skills to save his friends—and to find redemption. Meanwhile, Luis secretly works as a member of the legendary Shield-Brethren, whose mission is to see that neither China nor Spain controls the silver mines owned by Luis’s very father.



As politics and greed collide, Kitazume must call upon his deadly skills once more. But he’s not just fighting to save his friends—he’s fighting for the redemption he so desperately craves.



Packed with adventure, twists, and gorgeous visuals, Cimarronin: The Complete Graphic Novel collects Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #1-3 and Cimarronin: Fall of the Cross #1-3.]]> 160 Neal Stephenson 1503949508 Vignesh 3 3.05 2015 Cimarronin: The Complete Graphic Novel (The Foreworld Saga: Cimarronin)
author: Neal Stephenson
name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.05
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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]]> Steve Jobs 11084145 630 Walter Isaacson 1451648537 Vignesh 4 favorites 4.15 2011 Steve Jobs
author: Walter Isaacson
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future]]> 18070752 Zero to One.

We live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we're too distracted by our new mobile devices to notice. Progress has stalled in every industry except computers, and globalization is hardly the revolution people think it is. It's true that the world can get marginally richer by building new copies of old inventions, making horizontal progress from '1 to n'. But true innovators have nothing to copy. The most valuable companies of the future will make vertical progress from '0 to 1', creating entirely new industries and products that have never existed before. Zero to One is about how to build these companies.

A business book that also provides insight into the world of start-ups from a Silicon Valley icon, Thiel shows how to pursue your goals using the most important, most difficult, and most underrated skill in every job or industry: thinking for yourself.]]> 211 Peter Thiel Vignesh 5 fundamentals, favorites 4.27 2014 Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
author: Peter Thiel
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2018/11/19
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]]> Zen Mind, Beginners Mind 10391421 BOOKS 148 Shunryu Suzuki 1590308492 Vignesh 5 favorites 4.26 1970 Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
author: Shunryu Suzuki
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> The Road to Character 22551809
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST

With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives.

Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade.

Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.

“Joy,� David Brooks writes, “is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.”]]> 320 David Brooks 081299325X Vignesh 5 favorites 3.62 2015 The Road to Character
author: David Brooks
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average rating: 3.62
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]]> <![CDATA[The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World]]> 30340274 The Big Short and Flash Boys, this is the surprising and profound story of the two men whose ideas changed the world.

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football. Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind.]]> 362 Michael Lewis 0241254736 Vignesh 5 fundamentals, favorites 4.18 2016 The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
author: Michael Lewis
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth]]> 36388445 'Measure What Matters shows how any organization or team can aim high, move fast, and excel' Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of Leanln.org and OptionB.org

In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested $11.8 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, and with OKRs at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google.

Since then Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than fifty companies, helping tech giants and charities exceed all expectations. In the OKR model objectives define what we seek to achieve and key results are how those top­priority goals will be attained. OKRs focus effort, foster coordination and enhance workplace satisfaction. They surface an organization's most important work as everyone's goals from entry-level to CEO are transparent to the entire institution.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations.]]> 352 John Doerr 024134770X Vignesh 5 favorites
The 0.5 deducted is for those parts of the book where Mr. Doerr rehashed and reiterated the values, functions and efficiency of the OKR system. I can understand why the reiteration was necessary- the book, for me personally, would've been even more valuable if Mr. Doerr eliminated a handful of overemphasised reiterations.

But on the whole, this book was a valuable experience. It was eye-opening, and I anticipate its value to directly affect the way I live and work. OKRs, I am confident, will be one of the cornerstones of my journey to design, measure and focus a new way to function in a changing world.

I'd like to thank John Doerr for writing this book and Peter Drucker and Andy Grove, whose ideas and impact roar through the pages.

I deem it recommended reading.]]> 3.90 2017 Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
author: John Doerr
name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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I gave the book 5 stars, but my actual rating would be a 4.5/5.

The 0.5 deducted is for those parts of the book where Mr. Doerr rehashed and reiterated the values, functions and efficiency of the OKR system. I can understand why the reiteration was necessary- the book, for me personally, would've been even more valuable if Mr. Doerr eliminated a handful of overemphasised reiterations.

But on the whole, this book was a valuable experience. It was eye-opening, and I anticipate its value to directly affect the way I live and work. OKRs, I am confident, will be one of the cornerstones of my journey to design, measure and focus a new way to function in a changing world.

I'd like to thank John Doerr for writing this book and Peter Drucker and Andy Grove, whose ideas and impact roar through the pages.

I deem it recommended reading.
]]> The Moon and Sixpence 44795 215 W. Somerset Maugham 0099284766 Vignesh 4 favorites 3.97 1919 The Moon and Sixpence
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1919
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness]]> 23631010 272 Russell "Russ" Roberts 0241003199 Vignesh 5 favorites 3.83 2014 How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
author: Russell "Russ" Roberts
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]]> Stoner 15790264 Librarian's note: Alternative cover edition here.

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value.

Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.]]> 306 John Williams Vignesh 5 favorites 4.32 1965 Stoner
author: John Williams
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> Letters to a Young Poet 539477
A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.]]> 112 Rainer Maria Rilke 0394741048 Vignesh 5 favorites 4.39 1929 Letters to a Young Poet
author: Rainer Maria Rilke
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1929
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness]]> 38598410 The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.

The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It's a philosophy that's profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.

The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you.

Three million copies sold worldwide.

]]> 288 Ichiro Kishimi 1760630721 Vignesh 5 favorites 4.16 2013 The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
author: Ichiro Kishimi
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> Demian 34511849 144 Hermann Hesse 0241307430 Vignesh 5 favorites 3.99 1919 Demian
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1919
rating: 5
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]]> Peter Thiel’s CS183 52755657 688 Peter Thiel Vignesh 5 fundamentals, favorites 4.26 Peter Thiel’s CS183
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]]> <![CDATA[The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness]]> 55309660
ĚýSo what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like?Ěý

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness.Ěý The Almanack of Naval RavikantĚý is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

This book has been created as a public service. It is available for free download in pdf and 3-reader versions on Navalmanack.com. Naval is not earning any money on this book. Naval has essays, podcasts and more at Nav.al and is on Twitter @Naval.]]> 242 Eric Jorgenson 1544514220 Vignesh 5 favorites 4.45 2020 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
author: Eric Jorgenson
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger]]> 1160 From the author of the bestselling WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS. . .
"Charlie Munger, whose reputation is deep and wide, based on an extraordinary record of brilliantly successful business strategies, sees things that others don't. There is a method to his mastery and, through this book, we get a chance to learn about this rare individual." -MICHAEL EISNER, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
"Janet Lowe uncovers the iconoclastic genius and subtle charm behind Charlie Munger's curmudgeonly facade in this richly woven portrait of our era's heir to Ben Franklin. With a biographer's detachment, an historian's thoroughness, and a financial writer's common sense, Lowe produces a riveting account of the family, personal, and business life of the idiosyncratically complex and endlessly fascinating figure." -LAWRENCE CUNNINGHAM, Cardozo Law School, Author of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
"For years, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and investors worldwide (me included) have struggled to learn more about Warren Buffett's cerebral sidekick. Now we can rest and enjoy reading Janet Lowe's book about this rare intellectual jewel called Charlie Munger." -ROBERT G. HAGSTROM, Author of The Warren Buffett Way
"Charlie has lived by the creed that one should live a life that doesn't need explaining. But his life should be explained. In a city where heroism is too often confused with celebrity, Charlie is a true hero and mentor. He lives the life lessons that he has studiously extracted from other true heroes and mentors, from Ben Franklin to Ben Graham. This book illuminates those life lessons." -RONALD L. OLSON, Munger, Tolles & Olson llp
"Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful."-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett]]> 304 Janet Lowe 0471446912 Vignesh 5 favorites 4.15 2000 Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
author: Janet Lowe
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> Vikram Sarabhai 2189595 documentary 248 Amrita Shah 0670999512 Vignesh 5 favorites 4.18 Vikram Sarabhai
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]]> <![CDATA[The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice]]> 58664511
He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds. Is Mother Teresa merely an essential salve to the conscience of the rich West, or an expert PR machine for the Catholic Church? In its caustic iconoclasm and unsparing wit, The Missionary Position showcases the devastating effect of Hitchens' writing at its polemical best.]]> 128 Christopher Hitchens 1838952241 Vignesh 4 4.04 1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
author: Christopher Hitchens
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet]]> 60525704 Walter Isaacson, no. 1 bestselling author of Steve Jobs

Perfect for readers of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance and Zero to One by Peter Theil

Out of PayPal's ranks have come household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman. Since leaving Paypal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. Yet for all their influence, the incredible story of where they started has gone largely untold.

In The Founders, award-winning author Jimmy Soni narrates how a once-in-a-generation collaboration turned a scrappy start-up into one of the most successful businesses of all time. Facing bruising competition, internal strife, the emergence of widespread online fraud, and the devastating dot-com bust of the 2000s, their success was anything but certain. But they would go on to change our world forever.

Informed by hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, The Founders explores how the seeds of so much of what drives the internet today were planted two decades ago.]]> 0 Jimmy Soni 1786498294 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 4.50 2022 The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet
author: Jimmy Soni
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average rating: 4.50
book published: 2022
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]]> A Chess Story 18910767
Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay?

A moving portrait of one man's madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do.

"The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year's refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity." - Simon Winchester, Telegraph

"Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four; the story will grip you." - Economist

"His great achievement in short form" - The Times

A staunch pacifist after his time in the Ministry of War during the First World War, Stefan Zweig was, at his peak, one of the bestselling and most widely acclaimed authors in the world. Following Hitler's rise to power, he and his second wife fled Austria; first to England, then to America, and finally, in 1940, they travelled together to Brazil, where the couple took an overdose and died. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.]]> 112 Stefan Zweig 1782270116 Vignesh 4 4.24 1942 A Chess Story
author: Stefan Zweig
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion]]> 29100194 New York Post Best Book of 2016.

We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it.

Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In Against Empathy, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion.

Basing his argument on groundbreaking scientific findings, Bloom makes the case that some of the worst decisions made by individuals and nations—who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to imprison—are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced, emotions. With precision and wit, he demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from medical care and education to parenting and marriage. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and—yes—ultimately more moral.

Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, Against Empathy shows us that, when it comes to both major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choice we can make.]]> 285 Paul Bloom 0062339338 Vignesh 3 3.56 2016 Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
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average rating: 3.56
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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]]> How Google Works 25224192 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781444792492.

Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that 'it's what you learn after you know it all that counts'. As they helped grow Google from a young start-up to a global icon, they relearned everything they knew about management. How Google Works is the sum of those experiences distilled into a fun, easy-to-read primer on corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption.

The authors explain how the confluence of three seismic changes - the internet, mobile, and cloud computing - has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers. The companies that will thrive in this ever-changing landscape will be the ones that create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom the authors dub 'smart creatives'. The management maxims ('Consensus requires dissension', 'Exile knaves but fight for divas', 'Think 10X, not 10%') are illustrated with previously unreported anecdotes from Google's corporate history.

'Back in 2010, Eric and I created an internal class for Google managers,' says Rosenberg. 'The class slides all read 'Google confidential' until an employee suggested we uphold the spirit of openness and share them with the world. This book codifies the recipe for our secret sauce: how Google innovates and how it empowers employees to succeed.']]> 304 Vignesh 4 4.14 2014 How Google Works
author: Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg with Alan Eagle
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers' Hearts]]> 58210936
Under pressure for quick results and facing fierce marketplace competition, too many marketers are boxed into spaghetti-to-the-wall forms of digital marketing that limit the potential of their long hours, countless experiments, and warehouses of data. And in the end, they watch their competition sprint ahead.
Ěý
But what if you built a business around long-term relationships with customers, using data to understand who they are, what they need, and where to find more customers just like them? You can. And you’ll leave your competitors, with all of their data and their short-term thinking, to poke around in the scraps. In Converted , you will learn how
Ěý
Ěý â€� ĚýUnderstand the full value of each relationship
Ěý â€� ĚýEngage in an ongoing conversation with your best customers
Ěý â€� ĚýAsk the right questions so you can anticipate your customersâ€� needs
Ěý â€� ĚýFind more great customers
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A real person is always on the other end of the transaction. Converted shows you how to win their hearts.]]> 240 Neil Hoyne 0593420659 Vignesh 0 3.87 Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers' Hearts
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]]> Siddhartha 4986731 Siddhartha is one of the most influential spiritual works of the twentieth century.]]> 121 Hermann Hesse 0141189576 Vignesh 4 4.05 1922 Siddhartha
author: Hermann Hesse
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1922
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship]]> 18176747
In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise—from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, including demoting (or firing) a loyal friend;
whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;
if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company; how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you; what to do when smart people are bad employees; why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one; whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.

Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.]]> 304 Ben Horowitz 0062273205 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 4.20 2014 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
author: Ben Horowitz
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> Liftoff 57556735 "This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket Boys

The dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company.

SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a century after the space race it is private companies, led by SpaceX, standing alongside NASA pushing forward into the cosmos, and laying the foundation for our exploration of other worlds.

But before it became one of the most powerful players in the aerospace industry, SpaceX was a fledgling startup, scrambling to develop a single workable rocket before the money ran dry. The engineering challenge was immense; numerous other private companies had failed similar attempts. And even if SpaceX succeeded, they would then have to compete for government contracts with titans such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, who had tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. SpaceX had fewer than 200 employees and the relative pittance of $100 million in the bank.

In Liftoff, Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX. Focusing on the company’s first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, he charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. We travel from company headquarters in El Segundo, to the isolated Texas ranchland where they performed engine tests, to Kwajalein, the tiny atoll in the Pacific where SpaceX launched the Falcon 1. Berger has reported on SpaceX for more than a decade, enjoying unparalleled journalistic access to the company’s inner workings. Liftoff is the culmination of these efforts, drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space.

Filled with never-before-told stories of SpaceX’s turbulent beginning, Liftoff is a saga of cosmic proportions.]]> 268 Eric Berger 000844563X Vignesh 5 4.47 2021 Liftoff
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]]> Seize the Day 456740 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as 'the type that loses the girl') and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope ...]]> 118 Saul Bellow 014118485X Vignesh 3 3.39 1957 Seize the Day
author: Saul Bellow
name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.39
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mamba Mentality: How I Play]]> 40230101 The Mamba Mentality takes us inside the mind of one of the most intelligent, analytical, and creative basketball players ever.

For the first time, and in his own words, Bryant reveals his famously detailed approach and the steps he took to prepare mentally and physically to not just succeed at the game, but to excel. Readers will learn how Bryant studied an opponent, how he channeled his passion for the game, how he played through injuries. They’ll also get fascinating granular detail as he breaks down specific plays and match-ups from throughout his career.

Bryant’s detailed accounts are paired with stunning photographs by the Hall of Fame photographer Andrew D. Bernstein. Bernstein, long the Lakers and NBA official photographer, captured Bryant’s very first NBA photo in 1996 and his last in 2016—and hundreds of thousands in between, the record of a unique, twenty-year relationship between one athlete and one photographer.]]> 208 Kobe Bryant 0374201234 Vignesh 5 4.28 The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
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]]> <![CDATA[An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness]]> 11552857 223 Kay Redfield Jamison 0330528076 Vignesh 5 4.06 1995 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
author: Kay Redfield Jamison
name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better]]> 10276354 Tyler Cowen’s controversialĚýNew York Times bestseller—the bookĚýheard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economicĚýmalaise.ĚýAmerica has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to increase government spending even when we have no good plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and Social Security. The other party seems to think tax cuts will raise revenue and has a record of creating bigger fiscal disasters that the first. Where does this madness come from?ĚýAs Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low-hanging fruit since the seventeenth free land, immigrant labor, and powerful new technologies. But during the last forty years, the low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau. The fruit trees are barer than we want to believe. That's it. That is what has gone wrong and that is why our politics is crazy.ĚýIn The Great Stagnation, Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as a whole.]]> 64 Tyler Cowen 1101502258 Vignesh 5 3.74 2011 The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
author: Tyler Cowen
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> <![CDATA[What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture]]> 44063692 Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.

Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want?

To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake.

What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building—the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, a man convicted of murder who ran the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture.

Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture.

What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted?

Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be—and others want to follow.]]> 288 Ben Horowitz 0062871331 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 3.96 2019 What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility]]> 38457129 Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley.

McCord advocates practicing radical honesty in the workplace, saying good-bye to employees who don't fit the company's emerging needs, and motivating with challenging work, not promises, perks, and bonus plans. McCord argues that the old standbys of corporate HR--annual performance reviews, retention plans, employee empowerment and engagement programs--often end up being a colossal waste of time and resources. Her road-tested advice, offered with humor and irreverence, provides readers a different path for creating a culture of high performance and profitability.

Powerful will change how you think about work and the way a business should be run.]]> 228 Patty McCord 1939714133 Vignesh 3 3.98 2018 Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
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]]> Anatomy of the State 6613404
How can an organization of this type sustain itself? It must engage in propaganda to induce popular support for its policies. Court intellectuals play a key role here, and Rothbard cites as an example of ideological mystification the work of the influential legal theorist Charles Black, Jr., on the way the Supreme Court has become a revered institution.]]> 60 Murray N. Rothbard 1933550481 Vignesh 5 libertarianism 4.19 1974 Anatomy of the State
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name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.19
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rating: 5
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]]> The Lessons of History 6940427
With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.]]> 120 Will Durant 143914995X Vignesh 4 fundamentals 4.12 The Lessons of History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind]]> 3887694 The Crime of Reason is a reader-friendly jeremiad, On Bullshit for the Slashdot and Creative Commons crowd: a short, fiercely argued essay on a problem of increasing concern to people at the frontiers of new ideas.]]> 186 Robert B. Laughlin 0465005071 Vignesh 5 3.29 2008 The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind
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]]> Man's Search for Meaning 19306508 229 Viktor E. Frankl Vignesh 3 4.37 1946 Man's Search for Meaning
author: Viktor E. Frankl
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average rating: 4.37
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It]]> 51923688
Afterwards, people came up individually and told me how much what I'd shared meant to them. This book is based on the truth I spoke about.

It's something I learned from within myself, something I believed saved me. And more than that, the way I set about to do it.

This is a collection of thoughts on what I learned, what worked, what didn't. Where I succeed and importantly, where I fail daily.

The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it. Once you get going, it's not hard to do. Just takes commitment and I'll share how I did it.

It's been transformative for me. I know it will be transformative for you as well.]]> 224 Kamal Ravikant 0008405174 Vignesh 4 4.05 2012 Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
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]]> <![CDATA[What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence]]> 45733286
From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize your potential, the same lessons apply.

People know who Stephen Schwarzman is—at least they think they do. He’s the man who took $400,000 and co-founded Blackstone, the investment firm that manages over $500 billion (as of January 2019). He’s the CEO whose views are sought by heads of state. He’s the billionaire philanthropist who founded Schwarzman Scholars, this century’s version of the Rhodes Scholarship, in China. But behind these achievements is a man who has spent his life learning and reflecting on what it takes to achieve excellence, make an impact, and live a life of consequence.

Folding handkerchiefs in his father’s linen shop, Schwarzman dreamed of a larger life, filled with purpose and adventure. His grades and athleticism got him into Yale. After starting his career in finance with a short stint at a financial firm called DLJ, Schwarzman began working at Lehman Brothers where he ascended to run the mergers and acquisitions practice. He eventually partnered with his mentor and friend Pete Peterson to found Blackstone, vowing to create a new and different kind of financial institution.

Building Blackstone into the leading global financial institution it is today didn’t come easy. Schwarzman focused intensely on culture, hiring great talent, and establishing processes that allow the firm to systematically analyze and evaluate risk. Schwarzman’s simple mantra “don’t lose money� has helped Blackstone become a leading private equity and real estate investor, and manager of alternative assets for institutional investors globally. Both he and the firm are known for the rigor of their investment process, their innovative approach to deal making, the diversification of their business lines, and a conviction to be the best at everything they do.

Schwarzman is also an active philanthropist, having given away more than a billion dollars. In philanthropy, as in business, he is drawn to situations where his capital and energy can be applied to drive transformative solutions and change paradigms, notably in education. He uses the skills learned over a lifetime in finance to design, establish, and support impactful and innovative organizations and initiatives. His gifts have ranged from creating a new College of Computing at MIT for the study of artificial intelligence, to establishing a first-of-its-kind student and performing arts center at Yale, to enabling the renovation of the iconic New York Public Library, to founding the Schwarzman Scholars fellowship program at Tsinghua University in Beijing—the single largest philanthropic effort in China’s history from international donors.

Schwarzman’s story is an empowering, entertaining, and informative guide for anyone striving for greater personal impact. From deal making to investing, leadership to entrepreneurship, philanthropy to diplomacy, Schwarzman has lessons for how to think about ambition and scale, risk and opportunities, and how to achieve success through the relentless pursuit of excellence. Schwarzman not only offers readers a thoughtful reflection on all his own experiences, but in doing so provides a practical blueprint for success.]]> 384 Stephen A. Schwarzman 1501158147 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 4.22 2019 What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity]]> 49348225 "A masterly book" --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan
"A classic" --Simon Kuper, Financial Times

In the spirit of On Bullshit and Assholes: A Theory, an economist explores the five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world

Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local pub. This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity.

Seeing the shambolic state of human affairs, and sensing the dark force at work behind it, Carlo M. Cipolla, the late, noted professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, created a vitally important economic model that would allow us to detect, know, and neutralize this threat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.

If you've ever found yourself despairing at the ubiquity of stupidity among even the most 'intellectual' of people, then this hilarious, timely, and slightly alarming little book is for you. Arm yourself in the face of baffling political realities, unreasonable colleagues, or the unbridled misery of Christmas day with the in-laws with the first and only economic model for stupidity.

"Cipolla's subtle tongue-in-cheek humor made this book an underground classic in Italy. Today, under current worldwide political trends, it reads more like black humor. Keep in mind: reliable statistical data shows that 98% of the people seriously believe that they are far less stupid than the average." --Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics]]> 96 Carlo M. Cipolla 0385546475 Vignesh 5 3.78 1976 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> <![CDATA[The Genius and the Goddess (Vintage Classics)]]> 23664677 128 Aldous Huxley 1784870366 Vignesh 4 3.69 1955 The Genius and the Goddess (Vintage Classics)
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name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 158853 The best story Hemingway has written... No page of this beautiful masterwork could have been done better - Sunday Times]]> 99 Ernest Hemingway Vignesh 2 3.73 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1952
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series)]]> 17354208
Fore more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.

Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In “The Relentless 13,� he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent’s weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients—“don’t think”—and shows you that anything is possible. Packed with previously untold stories and unparalleled insight into the psyches of the most successful and accomplished athletes of our time, Relentless shows you how even the best get better . . . and how you can too.]]> 233 Tim S. Grover 1476714207 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 3.93 2013 Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series)
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> <![CDATA[Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries]]> 43410945 370 Safi Bahcall 1250225612 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 4.10 2019 Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
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name: Vignesh
average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping Our Future]]> 23912415 Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior.

The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties.

He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life ...

Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.]]> 392 Ashlee Vance 0753555638 Vignesh 4 4.30 2015 Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping Our Future
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]]> <![CDATA[Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth]]> 6493321 This graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, he crosses paths with thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert & Kurt Gödel, & finds a passionate student in Ludwig Wittgenstein. But his most ambitious goal—to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics—continues to loom before him. Thru love & hate, peace & war, he persists in the mission threatening to claim both his career & happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity.
This story is at the same time a historical novel & an accessible explication of some of the biggest ideas of mathematics & modern philosophy. With rich characterizations & atmospheric artwork, it spins the pursuit of such ideas into a satisfying tale.
ĚýProbing, layered, the book throws light on Russell’s inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he tried to answer. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the conflict between ideal rationality & the flawed fabric of reality.]]> 347 Apostolos Doxiadis 1596914521 Vignesh 5 4.05 2009 Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
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]]> <![CDATA[Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs]]> 18669497 384 Yukari Iwatani Kane 0062128256 Vignesh 0 3.34 2014 Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs
author: Yukari Iwatani Kane
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average rating: 3.34
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]]> <![CDATA[You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto]]> 8845281 223 Jaron Lanier 0141049111 Vignesh 3 3.59 2010 You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
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name: Vignesh
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Maus: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)]]> 64229 New York Times Book Review has commented, "a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event."

Moving back and forth from Poland to Rego Park, New York, Maus tells two powerful stories: the first is Spiegelman's father's account of how he and his wife survived Hitler's Europe, a harrowing tale filled with countless brushes with death, improbable escapes, and the terror of confinement and betrayal. The second is the author's tortured relationship with his aging father as they try to lead a normal life of minor arguments and passing visits against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At all levels, this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that, too, of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.

Part I of Maus takes Spiegelman's parents to the gates of Auschwitz and him to the edge of despair. Put aside all your preconceptions. These cats and mice are not Tom and Jerry, but something quite different. This is a new kind of literature.]]> 160 Art Spiegelman 0394747232 Vignesh 5 4.44 1986 Maus: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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average rating: 4.44
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The 50th Law (The Robert Greene Collection)]]> 21356826 304 50 Cent 1846680794 Vignesh 4 fundamentals 4.19 2008 The 50th Law (The Robert Greene Collection)
author: 50 Cent
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Down and Out in Paris and London]]> 873273 246 George Orwell 0141184388 Vignesh 5 fundamentals 4.09 1933 Down and Out in Paris and London
author: George Orwell
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book published: 1933
rating: 5
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]]> Einstein’s Dreams 14376 Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.

Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein's Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.]]> 140 Alan Lightman 140007780X Vignesh 4 4.08 1993 Einstein’s Dreams
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]]> Blitzscaling 41716504 288 Chris Yeh Reid Hoffman 0008303630 Vignesh 4 4.05 2018 Blitzscaling
author: Chris Yeh Reid Hoffman
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]]> <![CDATA[The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator]]> 17707671 A behind-the-scenes look at how tomorrow’s hottest startups are being primed for greatness
Ěý
Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guidance from Paul Graham, YC’s impresario, and his partners. Receiving an offer from YC creates the opportunity of a lifetime.
Ěý
Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross was granted unprecedented access to Y Combinator, enabling a unique inside tour of the world of software startups. Over the course of a summer, we watch as a group of founders scramble to make something people want.
Ěý
This is the definitive story of a seismic shift in the business world, in which coding skill trumps experience, undergraduates confidently take on Goliaths, and investors fall in love.
Ěý

]]> 304 Randall E. Stross 1591846587 Vignesh 4 3.97 2012 The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator
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]]> <![CDATA[Naruto, Vol. 72: Uzumaki Naruto!! (Naruto, #72)]]> 25111246 208 Masashi Kishimoto 1421582848 Vignesh 5 4.50 2015 Naruto, Vol. 72: Uzumaki Naruto!! (Naruto, #72)
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average rating: 4.50
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]]> <![CDATA[21 Lessons for the 21st Century]]> 38820046 In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues.

How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children?

Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive.

In twenty-one accessible chapters that are both provocative and profound, Harari builds on the ideas explored in his previous books, untangling political, technological, social, and existential issues and offering advice on how to prepare for a very different future from the world we now live in: How can we retain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching us? What will the future workforce look like, and how should we ready ourselves for it? How should we deal with the threat of terrorism? Why is liberal democracy in crisis?

Harari's unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Here he invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty. When we are deluged with irrelevant information, clarity is power. Presenting complex contemporary challenges clearly and accessibly, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is essential reading.]]> 372 Yuval Noah Harari 0525512179 Vignesh 5 4.15 2018 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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]]> <![CDATA[Seven Brief Lessons on Physics]]> 28284636 Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons

'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking'

These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.]]> 83 Carlo Rovelli 0141981725 Vignesh 4 3.98 2014 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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]]> <![CDATA[12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos]]> 38207608 What are the most valuable things that everyone should know?

Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of unprecedented change and polarizing politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world.

In this book, he provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.

Drawing on vivid examples from the author's clinical practice and personal life, cutting edge psychology and philosophy, and lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, 12 Rules for Life offers a deeply rewarding antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.]]> 409 Jordan B. Peterson 0241351642 Vignesh 5 3.98 2018 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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]]> Norse Mythology 33290550 Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly reincarnating Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki, the son of giants, a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. From Gaiman’s deft and witty prose emerges the gods with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to dupe others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.]]> 281 Neil Gaiman 1408886804 Vignesh 5 4.02 2017 Norse Mythology
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]]> Norse Mythology 37903770 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780393356182

Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok.

In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki—son of a giant—blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.

Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.]]> 301 Neil Gaiman Vignesh 0 4.11 2017 Norse Mythology
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]]> <![CDATA[Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]]> 833091 65 Pablo Neruda 0224074415 Vignesh 4 4.06 1924 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
author: Pablo Neruda
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1924
rating: 4
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]]> In Praise of Darkness 17720 142 Jorge Luis Borges 0525036350 Vignesh 5 3.85 1969 In Praise of Darkness
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]]> <![CDATA[Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches]]> 6818300 72 Saki 140654289X Vignesh 0 3.82 1910 Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
author: Saki
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]]> Reginald 6818303 112 Saki 1598184873 Vignesh 0 3.76 1904 Reginald
author: Saki
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]]> Meditations 30659 Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries.]]> 254 Marcus Aurelius 0140449337 Vignesh 4 4.29 180 Meditations
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]]> <![CDATA[An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India]]> 32618967
British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialization and the destruction of its textile industry.

In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.]]> 360 Shashi Tharoor 938306465X Vignesh 4 4.17 2016 An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
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]]> The Book of Dreams 2037030 La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and La Strada. A unique combination of memory, fantasy, and desire, this illustrated volume is a personal diary of Fellini’s private visions and nighttime fantasies. Fellini, winner of four Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, kept notebooks filled with unique sketches and notes from his dreams from the 1960s onward. This collection delves into his cinematic genius as it is captured in widely detailed caricatures and personal writings. This dream diary exhibits Fellini’s deeply personal taste for the bizarre and the irrational. His sketches focus on the profound struggle of the soul and are tinged with humor, empathy, and insight. Fellini’s Book of Dreams is an intriguing source of never-before-published writings and drawings, which reveal the master filmmaker’s personal vision and his infinite imagination.]]> 584 Federico Fellini 0847831353 Vignesh 0 4.43 2003 The Book of Dreams
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins]]> 35113975
It wasn't a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man's fight against the machines. Chess has long been the fulcrum in development of machine intelligence; the hoax automaton “The Turk� in the 18th century and Alan Turing's first chess program in 1952 were two early examples of the quest for machines to think like humans—a talent we measured by their ability to beat their creators at chess. As the preeminent chessmaster of the 80s and 90s, it was Kasparov's blessing and his curse to play against each generation's strongest computer champions, contributing to their development and advancing the field.

Like all passionate competitors, Kasparov has taken his defeat and learned from it. He has devoted much energy to devising ways in which humans can partner with machines in order to produce results better than either can achieve alone. During the twenty years since playing Deep Blue, he's played both with and against machines, learning a great deal about our vital relationship with our most remarkable creations. Ultimately, he's become convinced that by embracing the competition between human and machine intelligence, we can spend less time worrying about being replaced and more thinking of new challenges to conquer.

In this breakthrough book, Kasparov tells his side of the story of Deep Blue for the first time—what it was like to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent—the mistakes he made and the reasons the odds were against him. But more than that, he tells his story of AI more generally, and how he's evolved to embrace it, taking part in an urgent debate with philosophers worried about human values, programmers creating self-learning neural networks, and engineers of cutting edge robotics. He surveys the serious questions facing a world that is becoming increasingly reliant on AI, creating an essential guide for the business readers and educators he speaks to by the thousands every year.
]]> 285 Garry Kasparov 1473653495 Vignesh 5 3.91 Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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]]> Competing Against Luck 28925252
How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights.

After years of research, Christensen and his co-authors have come to one critical conclusion: our long held maxim--that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation--is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world's most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes--it's about predicting new ones.

Christensen, Hall, Dillon, and Duncan contend that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they'll pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts.

This book carefully lays down the authors' provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world--and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides.]]> 288 Clayton M. Christensen 0062435612 Vignesh 5 4.18 2016 Competing Against Luck
author: Clayton M. Christensen
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]]> <![CDATA[Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business]]> 13235901
Do you have what it takes to build a great business?

In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs—now venture capitalists and CEO advisers—share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their goals. The common traits? Heart, smarts, guts, and luck.

After interviewing and researching hundreds of business-builders across the globe, the authors found that every one of them—from young founder to seasoned CEO—holds a combination of these four attributes. Indeed each of us tends to be biased toward one of these traits in our decision-making, and figuring out which trait drives you will lead to greater self-awareness and likelihood of success in starting and growing a business.

So are
� Heart-dominant, like renowned chef Alice Waters or Starbucks’s Howard Schultz?
� Smarts-dominant, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon or legendary investor Warren Buffett?
� Guts-dominant, like Nelson Mandela or Virgin’s Richard Branson?
� Or are you most defined by the luck trait, like Tony Hsieh of Zappos (and a surprisingly high proportion of other successful entrepreneurs)?

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck includes the first Entrepreneurial Aptitude Test (E.A.T), a simple tool to help determine your specific profile.

Though no single archetype for entrepreneurial success exists, this book will help you understand which traits to “dial up� or “dial down� to realize your full potential, and when these traits are most and least helpful (or even detrimental) during critical points of a company lifecycle. Not only will you know how to build a better business faster, you’ll also take your natural leadership style to the next level.]]> 256 Anthony K. Tjan 1422161943 Vignesh 5 3.73 2012 Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business
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]]> <![CDATA[Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy]]> 23834688
Thirty years later, Apatow is still that same comedy nerd—and he’s still interviewing funny people about why they do what they do.

Sick in the Head gathers Apatow’s most memorable and revealing conversations into one hilarious, wide-ranging, and incredibly candid collection that spans not only his career but his entire adult life. Here are the comedy legends who inspired and shaped him, from Mel Brooks to Steve Martin. Here are the contemporaries he grew up with in Hollywood, from Spike Jonze to Sarah Silverman. And here, finally, are the brightest stars in comedy today, many of whom Apatow has been fortunate to work with, from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer. And along the way, something kind of magical happens: What started as a lifetime’s worth of conversations about comedy becomes something else entirely. It becomes an exploration of creativity, ambition, neediness, generosity, spirituality, and the joy that comes from making people laugh.

Loaded with the kind of back-of-the-club stories that comics tell one another when no one else is watching, this fascinating, personal (and borderline-obsessive) book is Judd Apatow’s gift to comedy nerds everywhere.

Praise for Sick in the Head

“I can’t stop reading it. . . . I don’t want this book to end.�—Jimmy Fallon

“An essential for any comedy geek.��Entertainment Weekly

“Fascinating . . . a collection of interviews with many of the great figures of comedy in the latter half of the twentieth century.� —The Washington Post

“Open this book anywhere, and you’re bound to find some interesting nugget from someone who has had you in stitches many, many times.�—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“An amazing read, full of insights and connections both creative and interpersonal.��The New Yorker

“Fascinating and revelatory.� —Chicago Tribune

“For fans of stand-up, Sick in the Head is a Bible of sorts.��Newsweek

“These are wonderful, expansive interviews—at times brutal, at times breathtaking—with artists whose wit, intelligence, gaze, and insights are all sharp enough to draw blood.�—Michael Chabon

“Anyone even remotely interested in comedy or humanity should own this book. It is hilarious and informative and it contains insightful interviews with the greatest comics, comedians, and comediennes of our time. My representatives assure me I will appear in a future edition.�—Will Ferrell


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 489 Judd Apatow 0812997581 Vignesh 4 3.64 2015 Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist]]> 17913320 190 Orhan Pamuk 0143419110 Vignesh 5 3.92 2010 The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
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]]> Without Feathers 35503 224 Woody Allen Vignesh 4 3.95 1981 Without Feathers
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival]]> 208580 � this is one book you won't be able to put down and which you'll never forget.]]> 240 Martin J. Rees 0099436868 Vignesh 4 3.44 2003 Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival
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]]> Fictions 16564 Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget nothing; the French poet who recreated Don Quixote word for word; the fatal lottery in Babylon; the mysterious planet of Tlön; and the library containing every possible book in the whole universe. Here too are the philosophical detective stories and the haunting tales of Irish revolutionaries, gaucho knife fights and dreams within dreams which proved so influential (and yet impossible to imitate). This collection was eventually to bring Borges international fame; over fifty years later, it remains endlessly intriguing.

This edition is the collection originally published in Spanish as Ficciones (1944).

Ficciones is in fact a compilation of two collections: El JardĂ­n de senderos qui se bifurcan ("The Garden of Forking Paths"), first published in 1941, and Artificios ("Artifices"), unpublished in book form prior to 1944.]]> 179 Jorge Luis Borges Vignesh 5 4.33 1944 Fictions
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]]> <![CDATA[Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb]]> 13166598 Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project. Along the way, Fetter-Vorm takes special care to explain the fundamental science of nuclear reactions. With the clarity and accessibility that only a graphic book can provide, Trinity transports the reader into the core of a nuclear reaction—into the splitting atoms themselves.

The power of the atom was harnessed in a top-secret government compound in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where some of the greatest scientific minds in the world gathered together to work on the bomb. Fetter-Vorm showcases J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and General Leslie Groves, the fathers of the atomic bomb, whose insights unleashed the most devastating explosion known to humankind. These brilliant scientists wrestled daily with both the difficulty of building an atomic weapon and the moral implications of actually succeeding.

When the first bomb finally went off at a test site code-named Trinity, the world was irreversibly thrust into a new and terrifying age. With powerful renderings of the catastrophic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Fetter-Vorm unflinchingly chronicles the far-reaching political, environmental, and ethical effects of this new discovery. Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Trinity is a dramatic, informative, and thought-provoking book on one of the most significant and harrowing events in history.]]> 154 Jonathan Fetter-Vorm 0809094681 Vignesh 4 4.13 2012 Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
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]]> Time Travel: A History 28587584 The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.

Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks.

Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.]]> 304 James Gleick 0307908801 Vignesh 3 3.57 2016 Time Travel: A History
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]]> <![CDATA[Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall From America's Brightest Prodigy To the Edge of Madness]]> 12265808
But nobody truly understood him. What motivated him from such a young age, and what was the source of his remarkable intellect? How could a man so ambivalent about money and fame be so driven to succeed? What drew this man of Jewish descent to fulminate against Jews, and how was it that a mind so famously disciplined could unravel so completely? From his meteoric rise, to an utterly dominant prime, to his eventual descent into madness, the book draws upon hundreds of newly discovered documents and recordings, and numerous firsthand interviews conducted with those who knew Fischer best, to paint, for the very first time, a complete picture of one of the most enigmatic icons.

This is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischer's deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question: 'Who was Bobby Fischer?']]> 418 Frank Brady Vignesh 3 The first half of the book was about worship; Bobby's revering of a sport that allowed him to be comfortable with himself and to open his mind to a most direct representation of probabilistic human nature - chess. The first half of the book chronicles Bobby's rise to the top - his US Chess Championship victories, his indignant opinion of the Soviets and the gentle awakening of a neurotic self.
The balance between the two halves of this book can be found in the famous 1972 World Championship Match between Bobby and Boris Spassky. I call this episode in Bobby's life as the Point of Balance because firstly, it sees Bobby achieve his youthful obsession of being crowned World Champion; but, it most fundamentally, takes us into the second part of the book - Bobby's seclusion and the consecration of his antisemitic views. Its paints a portrait of Bobby as a man who forgot his joys, his goals, his aspirations and the perseverance that catapulted him into Chess' Pantheon.
Simply put, the the first half of the book celebrates Bobby's chess genius and second half admonishes Bobby's antisemitic rants.
I wouldn't say that the book was an extraordinary read. But Frank Brady did his best to be an objective Boswell as often as he could. Chronicling the life of Bobby Fischer is no mean task; to paint the portrait of a genius who scales the heights of success who then slowly spirals into the depths of loneliness and failure is the stuff of Hollywood screenplays- but Frank Brady kept the story engaging enough from start to finish- not fabricating bits of Bobby's life as it was so done in the film 'Pawn Sacrifice'.
All in all my rating of this books falls somewhere between 3.25 and 3.75 out of five. I think its a great introduction to the embodiment of a remarkably diverse set of opinions called Bobby Fischer.]]> 3.84 2011 Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall From America's Brightest Prodigy To the Edge of Madness
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A boringly typical read of a remarkable life in an intellectual sport. Frank Brady does a nice job in "chronicling'' the life of Bobby Fischer, but one can write only so much about Bobby Fischer.
The first half of the book was about worship; Bobby's revering of a sport that allowed him to be comfortable with himself and to open his mind to a most direct representation of probabilistic human nature - chess. The first half of the book chronicles Bobby's rise to the top - his US Chess Championship victories, his indignant opinion of the Soviets and the gentle awakening of a neurotic self.
The balance between the two halves of this book can be found in the famous 1972 World Championship Match between Bobby and Boris Spassky. I call this episode in Bobby's life as the Point of Balance because firstly, it sees Bobby achieve his youthful obsession of being crowned World Champion; but, it most fundamentally, takes us into the second part of the book - Bobby's seclusion and the consecration of his antisemitic views. Its paints a portrait of Bobby as a man who forgot his joys, his goals, his aspirations and the perseverance that catapulted him into Chess' Pantheon.
Simply put, the the first half of the book celebrates Bobby's chess genius and second half admonishes Bobby's antisemitic rants.
I wouldn't say that the book was an extraordinary read. But Frank Brady did his best to be an objective Boswell as often as he could. Chronicling the life of Bobby Fischer is no mean task; to paint the portrait of a genius who scales the heights of success who then slowly spirals into the depths of loneliness and failure is the stuff of Hollywood screenplays- but Frank Brady kept the story engaging enough from start to finish- not fabricating bits of Bobby's life as it was so done in the film 'Pawn Sacrifice'.
All in all my rating of this books falls somewhere between 3.25 and 3.75 out of five. I think its a great introduction to the embodiment of a remarkably diverse set of opinions called Bobby Fischer.
]]> <![CDATA[The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction]]> 24331386 522 Neil Gaiman 0062262262 Vignesh 4 3.95 2016 The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder]]> 13530973
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what he calls the "antifragile" is one step beyond robust, as it benefits from adversity, uncertainty and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension.

Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, and proposing that things be built in an antifragile manner. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave—and thrive—in a world we don't understand and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand. He who is not antifragile will perish. Why is the city state better than the nation state, why is debt bad for you, and why is almost everything modern bound to fail? The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. Throughout, the voice and recipes of the ancient wisdom from Phoenician, Roman, Greek, and Medieval sources are heard loud and clear.]]> 426 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1400067820 Vignesh 5 4.08 2012 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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]]> <![CDATA[Civilization: The West and the Rest]]> 10475421
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.


Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.]]> 402 Niall Ferguson 1846142733 Vignesh 3 3.84 2011 Civilization: The West and the Rest
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World]]> 25744928 One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.]]> 296 Cal Newport 1455586692 Vignesh 5 4.16 2016 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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]]> Rich Dad, Poor Dad 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Vignesh 3 4.10 1997 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives]]> 7841446
Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes readers inside Google headquarters—the Googleplex—to show how Google works.

While they were still students at Stanford, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revolutionized Internet search. They followed this brilliant innovation with another, as two of Google’s earliest employees found a way to do what no one else had: make billions of dollars from Internet advertising. With this cash cow, Google was able to expand dramatically and take on other transformative projects: more efficient data centers, open-source cell phones, free Internet video (YouTube), cloud computing, digitizing books, and much more.

The key to Google’s success in all these businesses, Levy reveals, is its engineering mind-set and adoption of such Internet values as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk taking. After its unapologetically elitist approach to hiring, Google pampers its engineers—free food and dry cleaning, on-site doctors and masseuses—and gives them all the resources they need to succeed. Even today, with a workforce of more than 23,000, Larry Page signs off on every hire.

But has Google lost its innovative edge? With its newest initiative, social networking, Google is chasing a successful competitor for the first time. Some employees are leaving the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. Can the company that famously decided not to be evil still compete?

No other book has ever turned Google inside out as Levy does with In the Plex.]]> 432 Steven Levy 1416596585 Vignesh 3 3.83 2011 In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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]]> <![CDATA[Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance]]> 88061 453 Barack Obama 1921351438 Vignesh 5 3.93 1995 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]> 92057
Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himself "the angriest Black man in America" relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind.

An established classic of modern America, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was hailed by the New York Times as "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." Still extraordinary, still important, this electrifying story has transformed Malcolm X's life into his legacy. The strength of his words, and the power of his ideas continue to resonate more than a generation after they first appeared.]]> 466 Malcolm X Vignesh 5 4.35 1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Vignesh 4 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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]]> <![CDATA[Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience]]> 66354 303 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 0060920432 Vignesh 5 4.11 1990 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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]]> <![CDATA[Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges]]> 15735106
'It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. As I was returning to my room in the evening, the vice-chancellor, Prof. A. Kalanidhi, fell in step with me. Someone had been frantically trying to get in touch with me through the day, he said. Indeed, the phone was ringing when I entered the room. When I answered, a voice at the other end said, 'The prime minister wants to talk with you.' Some months earlier, I had left my post as Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India to return to teaching. Now, as I spoke to the PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, my life was set for an unexpected change.'

Turning Points takes up the incredible Kalam story from where Wings of Fire left off. It brings together details from his career and presidency that are not generally known as he speaks out for the first time on certain points of controversy. It is a continuing saga, above all, of a journey - individual and collective - that will take India to 2020 and beyond as a developed nation.]]> 176 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 9350293471 Vignesh 4 4.10 2012 Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges
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]]> <![CDATA[Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India]]> 693771
Ignited Unleashing the Power Within India goes the logical next step and examines why, given all our skills, resources and talents, we, so obviously capable of being the best, settle so often for the worst. What is it that we as a nation are missing? For at the heart of Ignited Minds is an irresistible the people of a nation have the power, by dint of hard work, to realize their dream of a truly good life.

Kalam offers no formulaic prescription in Ignited Minds . Instead, he takes up different issues and themes that struck him on his pilgrimage around the country as he met thousands of school children, teachers, scientists and saints and seers in the course of two the necessity for a patriotism that transcends religion and politics; for role models who point out the path to take; and for confidence in ourselves and in our strengths.

Who was he to write on so large a theme, he wondered as he started writing this book. But at the end, Kalam's humility notwithstanding, this may well prove to be the book that motivates us to get back on the winning track and unleash the energy within a nation that hasn't allowed itself full rein.]]> 222 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 0143029827 Vignesh 5 4.01 2002 Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India
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]]> <![CDATA[Less but Better / Weniger, aber besser]]> 22005475 154 Dieter Rams 3899555252 Vignesh 5 4.27 1995 Less but Better / Weniger, aber besser
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]]> <![CDATA[Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works]]> 13586928
Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get to the heart of strategy—explaining what it’s for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. And they use one of the most successful corporate turnarounds of the past century, which they achieved together, to prove their point.

A.G. Lafley, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, doubled P&G’s sales, quadrupled its profits, and increased its market value by more than $100 billion in just ten years. Now, drawn from their years of experience at P&G and the Rotman School of Management, where Martin is dean, this book shows how leaders in organizations of all sizes can guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business success� where to play and how to win .

The result is a playbook for winning. Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are:

� What is our winning aspiration?
� Where will we play?
� How will we win?
� What capabilities must we have in place to win?
� What management systems are required to support our choices?

The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approach—and then making the right choices to support it—makes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.]]> 272 A.G. Lafley 142218739X Vignesh 4 3.95 2013 Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
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]]> <![CDATA[Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All]]> 17288649
Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." ĚýBut two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every Ěýone of us is creative. ĚýIn an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and with many of the world's top companies, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, and allow us to innovate in terms of how we approach and solve problems. ĚýIt is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.]]> 288 Tom Kelley 038534936X Vignesh 4 3.97 2013 Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman]]> 10260
El placer de descubrir permite acceder al mundo personal, social y cientíco de Richard Feynman, por ejemplo, a sus aventuras mientras participó en el Proyecto Manhattan, cuando se divertía —y escandalizaba� descifrando las claves de cajas fuertes, o a cómo se inició, siendo un niño, en el estudio de la naturaleza (en el «placer de descubrir»), que terminaría ocupando toda su vida. Podemos, asimismo, conocer sus pioneras ideas sobre las computadoras del futuro, su opinión acerca del valor de la ciencia o la explicación, tan sencilla como profunda, que dio al desastre de la lanzadera espacial Challenger. Es este, sin duda, un libro tan fascinante como su autor.]]> 270 Richard P. Feynman Vignesh 5 4.26 1999 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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]]> <![CDATA[What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character]]> 5548 256 Richard P. Feynman 0393320928 Vignesh 5 4.24 1988 What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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]]> <![CDATA[Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character]]> 5544
In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.]]> 350 Richard P. Feynman 0393316041 Vignesh 5 4.27 1985 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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]]> <![CDATA[The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation]]> 10589332 0 Jay Elliot 1455807974 Vignesh 3 3.91 2009 The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation
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]]> <![CDATA[iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business]]> 49312 368 Jeffrey S. Young 0471787841 Vignesh 3 4.06 2005 iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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