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Tao of Charlie Munger
A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Words of wisdom from Charlie Munger—Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway—collected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by David Clark, coauthor of the bestselling Buffettology series.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924...
by Mary Buffett, Sean Seah
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
A clear, simple, and complete guide for beginning investors from bestselling author Mary Buffett and Sean Seah that explains Warren Buffett’s techniques of Value Investing and his proven strategies to ensure long-term success.
For twelve years, Mary Buffett was part of the Buffett inner circle....
My Father Before Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).
The...
Hyperwars
11 Strategies For Survival and Profit In the Era of Online Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1999
The effects of the online revolution are being felt far beyond Silicon Valley, and now all businesses -- from start-ups to established companies -- face "survival of the fittest." A company or product can be an industry leader one moment and obsolete six months later. Entire industries, ranging from...
Beyond Addiction
How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The groundbreaking method that upends current treatment models and “offers collective hope to families of substance abusers” (Kirkus Reviews), helping loved ones conquer addiction and compulsion problems through positive reinforcement and kindness—from the leaders in progressive addiction treatment...
Voice Lessons for Parents
What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
New York Times **bestselling author Dr. Wendy Mogel “**teaches parents the dialect needed to converse with their daughters and sons at every stage of life. It’s kind and loving, but it’s also strategic” (Chicago Tribune).
Most parents are perfectly fine communicators—unless they’re...
Mad Cowboy
Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2001
Told by the man who kicked off the infamous lawsuit between Oprah and the cattlemen, Mad Cowboy is an impassioned account of the highly dangerous practices of the cattle and dairy industries.
Howard Lyman's testimony on The Oprah Winfrey Show revealed the deadly impact of the livestock industry...
Inferno
The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
In the summer of 1943, British and American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg that was unlike anything the world had ever seen. For ten days they pounded the city with over 9,000 tons of bombs, with the intention of erasing it entirely from the map. The fires they created were...
The Dragon Behind the Glass
A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
WINNER OF THE 2017 NASW SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARD
A FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“[A] curiously edifying book.” —The New York Times...
by Vine Deloria
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about US race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This “manifesto” provides valuable insights on...
AsapSCIENCE
Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible illustrated answers to the scientific “questions you had no idea were bugging you all your life” (Fast Company), from the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE.
Why do we...
The Duel
Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence....
by Mark Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Provides an inside look at eight of the most influential accounting firms in the United States, examining their pivotal roles in the world of national and international finance.
by David G. Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex—an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally-minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic...