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Governance & Leadership

  • The Emperor's Handbook

    Marcus Aurelius

    Translation by C. Scot Hicks and David V. Hicks

  • The Big Mo

    Mark Roeder

    Why Momentum Now Rules Our World

  • How the Mighty Fall

    Jim Collins

    And why some companies never give in

  • Great By Choice

    Jim Collins

    Uncertainty, Chaos, And Luck - Why Some Companies Thrive Despite them all

  • Good to Great

    Jim Collins

    Why some companies make the leap … and others don't

  • Thinking Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahnemann

  • Lives of the Stoics

    Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

    The art of living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

  • Leadershp Wisdom from the Monk who sold his Ferrari

    Robin Sharma

    The 8 Rituals of the Best Leaders

  • Leaders Eat Last

    Simon Sinek

    Why some teams pull together and other's don't

  • Thick Face, Black Heart

    Chin-Ning Chu

    Thriving and succeeding in everyday life and work using the ancient wisdom of the East

  • :59 seconds

    Professor Richard Wiseman

    Think a little - Change a lot

Global

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

    David Landes

    Why some are so rich and some are so poor

  • Why Nations Fail

    Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

    The origins of power, prosperity and poverty

  • Upheaval

    Jared Diamond

    Turn points for Nations in Crisis

  • Collapse

    Jared Diamond

    How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

    David Landes

    Why some are so rich and some are so poor

  • The Earth Transformed

    Peter Frankopan

    An Untold History

Intellect & Intellectual Anthropology

  • Was Einstein Right

    Clifford M. Will

    Putting General Relativity to the Test

  • The Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  • Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Things that gain from disorder

  • Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    The hidden role of Chance in Life and the Markets

  • Voltaire's Bastards

    John Ralston Saul

    The dictatorshp of reason in the west

  • The Doubter's Companion

    John Ralston Saul

    A dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

  • The Unconscious Civilization

    John Ralston Saul

    Knowledge has not made us conscious.

  • The Comeback

    John Ralston Saul

    The comeback of aboriginal peoples to a position of power, influence and civilizational creativity

  • Whatever you think - Think the opposite

    Paul Arden

    The benefits of making bad decisions and other valuable perspectives

  • The Invisible Gorilla

    Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

    And other ways our intuition deceives us

  • The Psychology of Stupidity

    Jean-Francois Marmion

    Explained by some of the world's smartest people

  • The Origins of Knowledge and Imagation

    Jacob Bronowski

  • The Age of Unreason

    Charles Handy

  • Birth of a Theorem

    Cedric Villani

    A Mathematical Adventure

  • How to think like a Philosospher

    Julian Baggini

    Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking

  • Descartes' Error

    Antonio Damasio

  • Knowing What we Know

    Simon Winchester

    How we acquire, retain and communicate knowleedge

  • Quiet

    Susan Cain

    The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking

Strategy & Risk Management

  • The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

    Thomas Cleary Translation

  • Sun Tzu The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

    General Tao Hanzhang

  • The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

    John Minford translation

  • The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi

    You can attain an undestanding with which to win against ten thousands

  • Anything you want

    Derek Sivers

    40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur

  • The Tipping Point

    Malcolm Gladwell

    How little things can make a big difference

  • Blink

    Malcolm Gladwell

    The Power of Thinking without Thinking

  • Good Strategy Bad Strategy

    Richard Rumelt

    The difference and why it matters

  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

    John Coates

    Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

  • Flip

    Peter Sheehan

    How counter-intuitive thinking is changing everything - fro branding and strategy to technology and talent

  • The Social Labs Revolution

    Zaid Hassan

    Why planning is killing us and Prototyping Will save us

IP, Culture & Values

  • The Monk who sold his ferrari

    Robin Sharma

    A Fable of Fulfilling Dreams and Reaching Destiny

  • Tribes

    Seth Godin

    We need You to lead Us

  • Deep Purpose

    Ranjay Gulati

    The heart and soul of high-performance companies

  • Blink

    Malcolm Gladwell

    The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  • The Tipping Point

    Malcolm Gladwell

    How Little Things can make a Big Difference

  • What the Dog Saw

    Malcolm Gladwell

    Stories of insight from one of the world's most influential thinkers

  • Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell

    The Story of Success

  • Revene of The Tipping Point

    Malcolm Gladwell

    Overstores, Superspreaders and the Risk of Social Engineering

  • Surrounded by Idiots

    Thomas Erikson

    How to understand those who cannot be understood.

  • Linchpin

    Seth Godin

    Are you Indispensable?

Business Development, Sales and Marketing

  • Never split the difference

    Chris Voss with Tahl Raz

    Negotiating as if your life dependend on it

  • Ready or Not

    Doug Paul

    Kingdom Innovation for a brave new world

  • Purple Cow

    Seth Godin

    Transform your business by being remarkable

  • Break From the Pack

    Oren Harari

    How to compete in a copycat environment

  • Bounce

    Matthew Syed

    The myth of talent and the power of practice

  • No Logo

    Naomi Klein

    The Das Kapital of the growing anti-corporate movement

  • Creating Competitive Advantage

    Jayne L. Smith with William G. Flanagan

    Give customers a reason to chose you over your Competitors

  • The Man Who Sold American

    Jeffrey L. Cruikshan & Arthur W. Schultz

    The story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century

Science, Technology, Environmental

  • Rottonomics

    Peter Dyer

    The story of New Zealand's Leaky Buildings Disaster

  • Colour

    Victorial Finaly

    Hidden Secrets of Colour

  • Science Under Seige

    Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

    How to fight the five most powerful forces that threaten our world

  • Is A River Alive

    Robert Macfarlane

    Rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings

  • Underland

    Robert Macfarlane

    The history of the planet told through rock layers

  • The Code Breaker

    Walter Isaacson

    Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the development of the CRISPR Technology

  • Breaking Through

    Katalin Kariko

    My Life in Science ribonucleic acid (RNA)-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-transcribed messenger RNA

  • The Tesla Files

    Mark Samuelson

    The Truth Behind his experiments, breakthroughs, and Legacy

Health

  • The Brain that Changes

    Norman Doige, M.D.

    Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of Brain Science

  • When the Body says No

    Gabor Mate

    The cost of Hidden Stress

  • Pain

    Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

    What it is, Why it happens and how to cope

  • Manage your Pain

    Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin, Lee Beeston

    Practical and Positive Ways of Adapting to Chronic Pain

  • Unthinkable

    Helen Thomson

    An extraordinary journey through the world's strangest brains

  • Shoot the Damn Dog

    Sally Brampton

    Depression

  • The ESP Enigma

    Dian Hennacy Powell, M.D.

    The scientific case for psychic phenomena

  • Sane New World

    Ruby Wax

    Taming the Mind

Biographies

Corporates and Leaders

  • Exposure

    Robert Bilott

    Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed and one Lawyer's twenty-year Battle against Dupont

  • Soros

    Robert Slater

    The Life, Times and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor

  • In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

    Neil White

    A story of fraud, imprisonment and transformation.

  • Apple in China

    Patrick McGee

    The capture of the world's greatest company

  • The House of Gucci

    Sara Gay Forden

    A sensational story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed

  • Toughten Up

    Michael Hill

    What I've learned about surviving tough times in business

  • A Society of Gentlemen

    Richard Wolfe

    The Untold story of the first New Zealand company

  • The Widow Clicquot

    Tilar J. Mazzeo

    The story of a champagne empire and the woman who ruled it

  • The Inmates are running the Asylum

    Alan Cooper

    Why High-Tech Products drive us crazy and how to restore the sanity

  • How to be Wrong

    Rowan Simpson

    A crash course in startup success

  • Dining with Terrorists

    Phil Rees

    Meetings with the World's most wanted Militants

  • Dark Wire

    Josepth Cox

    Technology and the largest sting operation ever

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