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Charlie Munger's Book Recommendations
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items Charlie Munger is an American investor, businessman, former real estate attorney, and philanthropist. He is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett.
The widely adopted, now classic book on influence and persuasion—a major national and international bestseller with more than four million copies sold! In this highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini—the seminal expert in t...
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion|Hardcover
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answe...
Outliers: The Story of Success | Hardcover
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins ar...
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition|Paperback
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental f...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Pulitzer Prize Winner)|Paperback
Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive. Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker an...
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company|Paperback
Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest fo...
Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection (A Six-Week Artist's Way Program)|Paperback
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known ...
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.|Paperback
American icon Benjamin Franklin is known for many things: he published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack, helped found the world-famous University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. His iconography is everywh...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude by William Penn: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. I (in 5|Hardcover
“An outstanding book about CEOs who excelled at capital allocation.” — Warren Buffett What makes a successful CEO? Most people call to mind a familiar definition: “a seasoned manager with deep industry expertise.” Others might point to the qualities ...
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success|Hardcover
Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a g...
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Book
Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writer...
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives|Paperback
"There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at...
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns|Hardcover
The true story behind the rise of a tyrannical genius, how he transformed an industry, and why everyone is out to get him. In this fascinating exposé, two investigative reporters trace the hugely successful career of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Par...
Hard Drive: Bill Gates & Microsoft Empire
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. ...
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters|Paperback
Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life. Every day we face t...
Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive|Paperback
"We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and ori...
Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos|Paperback
"Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."―Andrew Porter, New York Times Book Review The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the mo...
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor|Paperback
Behavioral decision research provides many important insights into managerial behavior. From negotiation to investment decisions, the authors weave behavioral decision research into the organizational realm by examining judgment in a variety of manag...
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making|Hardcover
The definitive biography of an industrial genius, philanthropist, and enigma.
The Andrew Carnegie Reader | Paperback
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolut...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal|Paperback
In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, how...
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History|Paperback
Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for this work. It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written ...
Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1 | Paperback
FIASCO is the shocking story of one man's education in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so complex many traders them...
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader | Paperback
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nine...
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It|Paperback
The biography of American businessman Steve Ross, who declares to have learned his greatest business lessons while working in a funeral home. Ross later engineered the merger of Warner Communications and Time Inc. into the largest media and entertain...
MASTER OF THE GAME : Bruck, Connie
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now a...
Deep Simplicity: Order to Chaos & Complexity
Examines the concepts of information, meaning, and purpose, describes the function of information at various levels of organization, and discusses the theories of Edward Fredkin, Edward O. Wilson, and Kenneth Blouding.
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Seeking Meaning
In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segrè, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of how the fundamental scientific concept of temperature is bound up with the very ess...
A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe|Paperback
The Warren Buffett Way provided the first look into the strategies that the master uses to pick stocks. A New York Times bestseller, it is a valuable and practical primer on the principles behind the remarkable investment run of the famed oracle of O...
The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy|Paperback
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And final...
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing|Paperback
In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life. A brilliant ...
Models of My Life | Paperback
On 24 June, 1837 Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences by addressing them, in his role as President, not with an anticipated lecture on fossil fishes, but with a passionate presentation on the existence of...
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