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Summary of The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist born in 1769. Humboldt had an older brother, Wilhelm. Their father died when...

Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis   Preview: In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she’s lived and the knowledge she’s learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development...

Summary of Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen | Includes Analysis   Preview: Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen blends historical narrative with an in-depth account of the personal lives of members of the British royal family....

**Summary of The Third Wave by Steve Case | Includes Analysis **   Preview: The Third Wave relates AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case’s reflections on his career and the future of the technology industry in America. Part memoir, part analysis of the industry, The...

Scaling Up by Verne Harnish | Key Takeaways & Analysis   Preview: Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t is a guide for growing businesses successfully and profitably. It is the 2014 sequel to Mastering the Rockefeller Habits (2002), a book which derives...

Summary of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Lean Startup offers a set of tools and methodologies for entrepreneurs both in startups and established corporations to better achieve success. Since the vast majority of startups fail,...

Summary of The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Phoenix Project is a business allegory about how a fictional company becomes profitable after a crisis-driven change in its information technology management style....

Summary of Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reich | Includes Analysis   Preview: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich examines the intersection of economics and politics in order to make sense of income inequality and wealth disparity in the 21st century...

Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis Preview: Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain,...

Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis   Preview: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler’s role in developing and popularizing the field. The traditional...

Summary of Dark Money by Jane Mayer | Includes Analysis   Preview: Dark Money by Jane Mayer profiles the wealthy donors who have funded and established organizations to promote libertarian ideals, particularly the brothers Charles and David Koch. They and their two other...

Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an analysis of American growth from 1870 to the present. It focuses especially on the unprecedented “special century” of 1870-1970....

Summary of The Only Game in Town by Mohamed A. El Erian | Includes Analysis   Preview: Mohamed A. El-Erian’s The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse is a discussion of the role of central banks in confronting the current financial...

Summary of Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis   Preview: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style, from a rigid command...