This work has shaken Wall Street thanks to its contention that much of what people perceive as skill playing the markets is often nothing more than luck.
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Author: Taleb, NassimSummary: -
Author: Lowe, JanetSummary:
Lowe profiles what some call the prototypical 21st-century company, Internet giant Google. In less than 15 years, creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page built what was supposed to be a simple search...
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Author: Butler-Bowdon, TomSummary:
Butler-Bowdon explores important contemporary writings as well as wisdom from key figures in psychology's development to discover why we think and act the way we do.
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Author: Krames, Jeffrey A.Summary:
Krames examines how the leading management strategist's core ideas remain relevant to business leaders, in a guide the explains the benefits of adopting a specific mindset in order to obtain...
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Author: Wallace, David FosterSummary:
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to...
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Author: Fletcher, EmilySummary:You know you should be meditating, so what's stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation will finally take meditation mainstream. Filled with...
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Author: Sims, Thomas J.Summary:
Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world's most isolated and unforgiving environments-Nome...
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Author: Pillemer, KarlSummary:
Based on the most detailed survey of longmarried people ever conducted, 30 Lessons for Loving shows the way to lifelong, fulfilling relationships. The author, an internationally renowned...
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Author: Stipp, DavidSummary:Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry." This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More...
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Author: Schwager, EdieSummary:
"Would you like to find new, exciting words to use in your speech and writing' Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist' Would you like to be a Scrabble expert' Better Vocabulary In 30...
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Author: Field, Simon QuellenSummary:When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature...
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Author: Thomas, RhysSummary:
Trying to meet everyone else's expectations about the type of role you should play-whether in your job, your family, or society-can leave you constantly striving but ultimately dissatisfied. In...
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Author: Head, SimonSummary:
Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the...
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Author: Fazio, RobSummary:
"Whether you are at work or at home, you are probably being asked to do more with less. We often become consumed with what doesn't really matter, and spend far too much of our precious time on...
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Author: Van der Kolk, Bessel A.Summary:Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent decades working with survivors of traumatic life experiences. The Body Keeps the Score shows how to reclaim lives with innovative treatments including...