The Happiness Hypothesis

By Jonathan Haidt (2006) Pages: 243, Final verdict: Must-read How should we live our life in order to be happy? The Happiness Hypothesis is the first book by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, today a professor of business ethics at New York University and an expert in the field of psychology concerned... Read more

Personal Development

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By Gregory Zuckerman (2019) Pages: 357, Final verdict: Great-read Jim Simmons is one of the most secretive and fascinating man in Wall Street. A mathematician and former code breaker for the US government, he is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most lucrative hedge funds. In... Read more

Business Biography

Energy and Civilization: A History

By Vaclav Smil (2017) Pages: 568, Final verdict: Great-read Vaclav Smil, distinguished professor of the University of Manitoba, Canada, has made a career of dissecting broad topics of society from food production, the history of materials to energy. A prolific writer, with more than 40 books published under his belt,... Read more

Science

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

By Jennifer A. Doudna (2016) Pages: 281, Final verdict: Should-read The power of controlling human evolution has long been an endeavour reserved to realm of science fiction. For billions of years, our biological destiny has been dictated by nature, expressed in Darwin's theory of evolution, where random genetic... Read more

Science Biology

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By Alfred Lansing (1959) Pages: 357, Final verdict: Should-read 1914 was an eventful year in history. Escalating tensions in Europe culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, setting in motion a series of events that lead to World War I. At the same time, 2 000 kms away and... Read more

History

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The Happiness Hypothesis

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

Energy and Civilization: A History

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage