In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
10 best books like In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands (Martin Gilbert): Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Getting Naked: A Business Fable about Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, Antisemitism: Here and Now, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations, Lean Change Management: Innovative practices for managing organizational change, Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped,...
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot...
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
| Author | Arthur Herman |
| ISBN | 0609809997 |
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 nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education,...
Getting Naked: A Business Fable about Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
| Author | Patrick Lencioni |
| ISBN | 0470597607 |
Another extraordinary business fable from the New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni Written in the same dynamic style as his previous bestsellers including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni illustrates the principles of inspiring client loyalty through a fascinating business...
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
| Author | Tom DeMarco |
| ISBN | 0932633439 |
Two of the computer industry's most popular authors and lecturers return with a new edition of the software management book that started a revolution.With humor and wisdom drawn from years of management and consulting experience, DeMarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software...
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
| Author | Adam Winkler |
| ISBN | 0393077411 |
Gunfight promises to be a seminal work in its examination of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In the tradition of Gideon's Trumpet, Adam Winkler uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns...
Antisemitism: Here and Now
| Author | Deborah E. Lipstadt |
| ISBN | 0805243372 |
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville,...
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
| Author | Ronen Bergman |
| ISBN | 1400069718 |
The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”
The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct...
Lean Change Management: Innovative practices for managing organizational change
This book will help you implement successful change and bypass change resistance by co-creating change. The book will do that through examples of how innovative practices can dramatically improve the success of change programs. These practices combine ideas from the Agile, Lean Startup, change...
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
| Author | Dan Ariely |
| ISBN | 0062651226 |
Why is paying for things painful?
Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we’ve overpaid for it in the past?
Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn’t spend more than $1 on that same soda at our local grocery store?
We think of money...
The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat
| Author | Pedro Sanjuan |
| ISBN | 0385513194 |
On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he confronted the undersecretary to the chief Soviet diplomat—really a KGB colonel and the top Russian spy—the...
The Consultant's Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, New and Revised
| Author | Geoffrey M. Bellman |
| ISBN | 0787958476 |
A classic revised and updated for the twenty-first-century consultant
Revised and updated for consulting in the twenty-first century, this new edition is for anyone who wants to know what consulting is really like as a career, as a living, and as a life. Geoffrey Bellman reveals how to make the...
Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech
A book about what the Cambridge Analytica scandal shows: That surveillance and data privacy is every citizens’ concern
An important look at how 50 years of American privacy law is inadequate for the today's surveillance technology, from acclaimed Ars Technica senior business editor...
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
| Author | Christian Davenport |
| ISBN | 1610398297 |
The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes...
| Author | Greg Marinovich |
| ISBN | 0465044131 |
Most people, upon hearing gunfire, would run away and hide. Conflict photojournalists have the opposite reaction: they actually look for trouble, and when they find it, get as close as possible and stand up to get the best shot. This thirst for the shot and the seeming nonchalance to the risks entailed...
| Author | Pete Carroll |
| ISBN | 1101437197 |
"I know that I'll be evaluated in Seattle with wins and losses, as that is the nature of my profession for the last thirty-five years. But our record will not be what motivates me. Years ago I was asked, 'Pete, which is better: winning or competing?' My response was instantaneous: 'Competing. . . because...
Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education
| Author | Jason Brennan |
| ISBN | 0190846283 |
Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives.
But as Jason Brennan...
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War
| Author | Victoria Schofield |
| ISBN | 1860648983 |
Why has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquility, become a major flashpoint, threatening the stability of a region of great strategic importance to pose a nuclear threat for the entire world? This book examines the Kashmir conflict in its historical context, from the period when...
