Review imprint: 1779 books
by Freeman Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of nature’s truths, they are guided as much by imagination as by reason, and...
The Cowshed
Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them. The Cowshed is Ji’s harrowing...
Hospital Always Wins
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Issa Ibrahim's memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to the accidental killing of his mother, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly 20 years. Raised in an idyllic creative environment, mom and...
The Sixteenth Round
From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The survivor of a difficult childhood and youth, Rubin Carter rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people in a New Jersey bar. While in prison, Carter...
Uncaged
My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Before Frank Shamrock became known professionally as “The Legend”—winning almost every mixed martial arts title in existence—he endured a childhood marred with abuse, neglect, and molestation that led to an equally troubled young adulthood. This riveting book tells his whole story: his neglect...
Conscious Capitalism
Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring...
So You Want to Start a Brewery?
The Lagunitas Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
So You Want to Start a Brewery? is the first-person account of Tony Magee’s gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes in founding Lagunitas Brewing Company. In just 20 years, the company has grown from a seat-of-the-pants, one-man operation to be the fifth largest—and the fastest-growing—craft...
An Everyone Culture
Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s Potential
In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for-namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people’s impressions of them. There may be no greater waste...
How Finance Works
The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Based on a popular class taught by a Harvard Business School professor.
If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate...
Entering StartUpLand
An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Entering StartUpLand is your practical guide to what it’s like to work in a start-up, deconstructing the responsibilities and skills of the actual roles.
Lays out expectations of what it means to join a start-up.
Clear descriptions of jobs and responsibilities.
Portraits of...
The Other Side of Innovation
Solving the Execution Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
In their first book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, the authors provided a better model for executing disruptive innovation. They laid out a three-part plan for launching high-risk/high-reward innovation efforts: (1) borrow assets from the existing firms, (2) unlearn and unload certain processes...
by Jeff Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Forget about the hard bargain.
Whether you’re discussing the terms of a high-stakes deal, forming a key partnership, asking for a raise, or planning a family event, negotiating can be stressful. One person makes a demand, the other concedes a point. In the end, you settle on a subpar solution...
Reinforcements
How to Get People to Help You
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
People have a natural instinct to help other human beings; you just need to know how to channel this urge into what it is you specifically need them to do.
Addresses a core need that remains a mystery to most of us: how to get the help we need.
Each chapter ends with a summary and a list of do's...
Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface
Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires taking risks that can jeopardize your career and your personal life. It requires putting yourself on the line, disrupting the status quo, and...