By J. Bradford DeLong (2022)
Pages: 546, Final verdict: Should-read
To most of us, the twentieth century feels both intimately familiar and immensely complex. Two world wars, the emergence and collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the CCP in China and multiple economic recessions. It doesn't...
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By Jimmy Soni (2022)
Pages: 496, Final verdict: Great-read
PayPal's impact transcends the company. I heard this a few times before picking up Soni's latest book, and for good reason. Yes, Paypal is - at the time I'm writing this in May '23...
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By John Doerr (2021)
Pages: 448, Final verdict: Should-read
John Doerr is one of the most legendary venture capitalists in the world. A partner at Kleiner Perkins, he is most famous for leading the firm's investment in Amazon in 1995, and in Google in 1999.
Doerr is also...
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By Tim Marshall (2021)
Pages: 360, Final verdict: Great-read
If you've have ever asked me for a book recommendation, odds are that Prisoners of Geography was the one you got. In it - covered in this review - Tim Marshall does a remarkable jobs showing us how much,...
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By Tim Harford (2020)
Pages: 352, Final verdict: Great-read
I first came across Tim Harford's writing more than a decade ago, when he wrote of the most popular economics books of the 00's - The Undercover Economist. Since then, Harford become a leading figure in Economics,...
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By Paul E. Ceruzzi (2010)
Pages: 445, Final verdict: Great-read
There are currently more than 22 billion computing devices in the world. They
are everywhere, in laptops, smartphones, cars, and are used in all areas of the
economy. But unlike many of the technologies we use today, computers are a...
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By Irene Butter (2018)
Pages: 445, Final verdict: Must-read
Like so many Jewish families, the life of the Hasenbergs was shaken as the Nazis
rose to power in Germany. In Shores beyond Shores, Irene Butter walks us, in the
first person, through her family’s terrorizing experience during World War...
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By Rutger Bregman (2019)
Pages: 400, Final verdict: Great-read
Rutger Bregman is not your average historian. 32, Dutch, he rose to fame with
his 2014 best-seller Utopia for Realists, where he shared his thesis for
reconstructing modern society with "utopian" like universal basic income or a
shorter workweek....
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By Bill Bryson (2019)
Pages: 450, Final verdict: Should-read
In the early 2000s I remember seeing an odd book at the front store of a bookshop. Its unusual title - A Short History of Nearly Everything - caught my attention. It told the story of the world (starting with the...
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By Bog Iger (2019)
Pages: 272, Final verdict: Great-read
Bob Iger had a remarkable run as the CEO of Disney. From 2005 to 2020 Disney
stock rose more than 400%, it released dozens of box-office hits, and he
transformed the media landscape with the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel,
Lucasfilm and...
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