Readims
Meltdown
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Notes on a Nervous Planet
An Elegant Defense
A Walk in the Woods
The Joy of Work
Happy
A Beginner’s Guide to the End
The Creativity Code
Utopia for Realists
Surrounded by Idiots
A History of Nigeria
Shoot for the Moon
Because Internet
User Research
How to Prepare a Business Plan
Elderhood
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Drawdown
The Coach’s Survival Guide
Autonomy
The Way We Eat Now
Quit Like a Millionaire
Start at the End
Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon
A Brief History of Thought
The Happy Mind
Steal the Show
When Women Ruled the World
The Coffee Bean
Chernobyl
Reboot
More Than Enough
We’re All Marketers
Siege
The Surprising Science of Meetings
Presidents of War
Super Thinking
The Joy of Less
Feedback (and Other Dirty Words)
Extraordinary Influence
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
True North
New to Big
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose
The Millionaire Dropout: Fire Your Boss. Do What You Love. Reclaim Your Life!
Blockchain: The Next Everything
Written in History: Letters That Changed the World
Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
The Leader Habit: Master the Skills You Need to Lead–in Just Minutes a Day
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships
The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life
No Bullsh*t Leadership: Why the World Needs More Everyday Leaders and Why That Leader Is You
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Shoot For the Moon
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
What’s in it for me? Get insight into innovation in action. What do Renaissance scientists charting the movement of the planets, military planners battling Hitler’s U-boats and an American airline getting to grips with a newly deregulated market have in common? Well, their successes were the result of pursuing loonshots – ideas that seem
The Case for Trump
What’s in it for me? Discover the meaning of Trumpism, and how it won the 2016 election. Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few years, you’ve probably heard that Donald J. Trump is now the president of the United States. His candidacy, nomination and election rocked the world, and his
Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom?
What’s in it for me? Join the path to early retirement and living a more meaningful life. Like many Americans today, ever since graduating from college, Scott Rieckens had been overworking himself in order to afford a luxurious lifestyle he thought he needed. Then, driving to work one day, he heard a podcast interview with
The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery
What’s in it for me? Make any job work for you. Life’s too short to have a miserable job. But don’t blame the job itself. If you take the right approach, any role has the potential to become a meaningful one. In The Truth about Employee Engagement, Lencioni explores the effects unhappy employees can
Move: How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy Despite Obstacles, Setbacks, and Stalls
What’s in it for me? Learn how to implement long-lasting change. You’ve got it. Out of the blue, while you’re taking a shower, it hits you like a thunderbolt: the idea that will transform your company into a unicorn – no, a decacorn! All you’ve got to do is introduce the necessary organizational changes, and
India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
What’s in it for me? Discover the riveting story of post-independence India. After China, India is the second most-populous nation in the world. But India has something that China doesn’t – an unbroken record of democratic elections since its independence from British rule in 1947. This is in itself a remarkable feat if you consider
The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age (The Plant Paradox)
What’s in it for me? Learn the surprising secrets to living a long and healthy life. Almost everyone wants to live a long life – but almost nobody actually wants to get old. That’s the paradox at the center of many of our thoughts, feelings and desires about aging. It’s a paradox because the two
Design Your Future: 3 Simple Steps to Stop Drifting and Take Command of Your Life
What’s in it for me? Learn to live your life to the fullest. Success doesn’t guarantee happiness. Even if you’ve got it all – a high income, the perfect house, a loving family and your dream car parked in the driveway – things can sometimes just feel off. Maybe the job you once adored has
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
What’s in it for me? Reduce your phone usage and improve your life. When you’re on the bus, waiting at the doctor’s office or simply walking down the street, do you often find yourself taking up your phone? This might seem innocuous enough, but the truth is, all that time spent staring at a screen
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
What’s in it for me? Discover the inspiring, true-life tale of the Indian boy who became the CEO of Microsoft. Some words lose their meaning through overuse. “Globalization” is definitely an example of this. We generally associate this concept with abstract, large-scale processes and movements. What’s often missing, however, are the personal stories of the
Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do To Win At Life
What’s in it for me? Learn the secrets of biohacking. There’s a reason self-improvement books often take their cues from science. If you want to improve yourself, you first have to understand what makes your body and mind tick – your physical and mental operating system, so to speak. With that understanding in place,
Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth―and How You Can Too
What’s in it for me? Millionaires are everywhere – here’s how to become one. When the author was in his thirties, he began working with Dave Ramsey, famous for his radio program and best-selling books about fiscal discipline and wealth creation. As a result of this influence, the author became a financial coach and
The Brain: The Story of You
What’s in it for me? A brilliantly brainy book to get the gray cells going. The mind is an uncanny thing. It’s both deeply familiar and entirely strange. We usually think of it as a cockpit controlled by our own personality. But as anyone who’s studied the mind – from old-school Freudians to the
What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food
What’s in it for me? Learn what to eat, and when to eat it. Most of us know that what we eat is important. We all know that if we regularly eat a large pizza with extra cheese for dinner, we’ll put on weight. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re eating as we
Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business
What’s in it for me? Grow your company, no matter its size. Whether you’re trying to get a start-up off the ground or revive an established giant that’s run out of steam, there’s no way but up – you need to grow. Easier said than done, right? After all, with hundreds of different growth
Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty
Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
What’s in it for me? A scintillating study of the suffragettes. The struggle for equal suffrage – a vote for every citizen – took a long time in the United Kingdom. In fact, it took just under a century before the dream was realized. But inequality also defined the struggle itself. The idea that
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Robert Wright What’s in it for me? An evolutionary look at human history. What is morality? We often think of it in terms of imperatives like treating others as we’d like to be treated ourselves. Principles like the so-called
Tiger Woods
What’s in it for me? Find out what led to Tiger Woods’s rise to fame and fall from grace. Tiger Woods is a name synonymous with golf, extraordinary success, and marital infidelity. Ever since emerging on the scene as a golf wunderkind, Woods’s life, both professional and private, has been scrutinized and scorned by
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership
What’s in it for me? Run your company the way it should be run. Executives and managers take great pride in bringing their best to the companies they work for. But more often than not, it takes more than individual passion to ensure a company’s success. In fact, it is the structure of a
An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
What’s in it for me? Get inspired by a remarkable life story about the world-changing power of Truth and nonviolence. There are some historical figures who can seem larger-than-life. Whether it’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart or Albert Einstein, it can often be difficult to imagine them growing up and having some of
Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
What’s in it for me? Discover the secrets of true leadership in today’s world. The world is changing more rapidly than ever. This means two things for leadership. First, it means that leaders are needed more than ever. Sure, in times of stability we can survive with just managers. But when facing the unknown,
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
What’s in it for me? Discover the amazing life story of one of the most important Americans in history. The name Frederick Douglass looms large in the history of the United States, and for good reason. Here was a man who was born a slave and yet rose to such prominence that he became
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
What’s in it for me? Declutter your life. In a world of mass consumption and persuasive advertising, it’s easier than ever to fill your home with things you neither want, need nor love. Before you know it, your belongings are spilling out of closets, heaped in piles on the floor and bursting out of
Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
What’s in it for me? Discover the secrets to love-filled relationships by going on eight dates. Love is a fickle thing. The majority of us have felt love at some point in our lives, and many of us are currently in love with people we’re honored to call our partners. But whether you’re newly
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
What’s in it for me? Discover scientifically proven methods for dealing with stress and society’s unrealistic expectations. Tons of products are marketed to women as stress-relievers and ways to relax and feel better about themselves. But all the spa days, coloring books and bath bombs in the world aren’t going fix the real problems
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
What’s in it for me? Learn the chilling future of a warming Earth. David Wallace-Wells lays out a terrifying vision: The world we live in is on the verge of dramatic and disastrous change. We have damaged our environment almost beyond repair. Complacency and negligence have finally caught up with us; soon, our once-prosperous
Difference Makers: A Leader’s Guide to Championing Diversity on Boards
What’s in it for me? Learn what diversity can do for your company. Most people agree that diversity in the workplace is a good thing. The problem, however, is getting there. Corporate bids to improve the representation of minorities by means of quotas often lead to controversy. Worst of all, new appointees end up
China in Ten Words
Yu Hua What’s in it for me? Understand ten key words underlying China’s transformation. If you want to understand an unfamiliar culture, it’s a good idea to learn its language. The way people talk about the world tells you a lot about their values, ideas and customs. The belief that some words
The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation
What’s in it for me? The present is a gift. Are you living in the moment? Or are you living relentlessly in the future – always picturing how things will play out, dreaming of something better around the corner, or worrying what tomorrow will bring? Many of us have been raised with the idea
The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great
What’s in it for me? Learn some priceless tips on how to build and lead the perfect team. Great teams are far more than a collection of talented people. You can bring together some of the brightest minds and still have a highly dysfunctional team. As you’ll find out in the blinks ahead, what
Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He will Change
What’s in it for me? Why do we love the wrong men? Why do some women get so strung out on emotionally unavailable men? Whether it’s the borderline alcoholic who cares more about the bottle than his girlfriend or the married man who promises his illicit lover the world and then never leaves his wife,
The Free-Time Formula: Finding Happiness, Focus, and Productivity No Matter How Busy You Are
What’s in it for me? Learn a formula for fulfilling your potential. Whether it’s learning Japanese, taking up pottery or just reading more blinks, we all want more time to pursue the things that matter most to us. But carving out some time to pursue those goals often seems impossible. Work and family commitments, housework
No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
What’s in it for me? Learn to understand and embrace the role of emotion in the workplace. For some reason, too many people downplay the importance and impact of emotion at work. Sure, we pay lip service to the importance of soft skills, like communication, but we worry about appearing to be too soft.
Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative
What’s in it for me? Discover simple stress-busting strategies that deliver. It’s often said that the past is a foreign country. That certainly applies to the world of work. From the perspective of our relentless 24/7 business culture today, the old days of nine-to-five shifts and three-martini lunches look about as mysterious and decadent
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
What’s in it for me? Put a face to the Cold War, and be entertained by a good adventure story. The showdown between the USSR and the West in the second half of the twentieth century could have escalated into nuclear war at any moment. It was a terrifying time to be alive. As part
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
What’s in it for me? Take a crash course in the history of US involvement in cyber wars. These days, whenever there’s a national election, we assume there will also be a certain amount of online interference in the form of cyber warfare – maybe even from some shady source of organized crime. But
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt What’s in it for me? Get a landmark account of how totalitarianism can corrupt so many. We’ve come a long way and made a great many advancements over the years, but the fact remains that we’re only a few generations away from one of the most devastating wars humanity has known. It’s
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
What’s in it for me? Learn how philosophy can be a part of life. Philosophy can seem like a distant subject to most of us. Perhaps we might imagine a bearded figure in a cave somewhere, pondering the nature of reality. It doesn’t seem to have much to do with our everyday lives.