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The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy

10 best books like The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy (Robert B. Reich): Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63, The Wall, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, House of Light, Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports, The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company, Macroeconomics as a Second Language, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism

Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
AuthorTaylor Branch
ISBN0333529456
First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure. This 1000-page effort, which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction,...
The Wall
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws...
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
AuthorChuck Klosterman
ISBN0743264460
Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman unleashes his best book yet—the story of his cross-country tour of sites where rock stars have died and his search for love, excitement, and the meaning of death.

For...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316478520
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
House of Light
AuthorMary Oliver
‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?’

Despite owning Oliver’s two volume New and Selected Poems, I couldn’t resist snatching up this tiny collection when I stumbled upon it at a library book sale in the fifty cents bin. Although it was her American...
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
AuthorJay Stevens
ISBN0802135870
Storming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories. His prodigiously researched narrative moves from Aldous Huxley's...
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
AuthorJoshua Robinson
ISBN1328506452
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet.
 
This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a...
The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
AuthorJohn Rossman
In just twenty years, Amazon.com has gone from a start-up internet bookseller to a global company revolutionizing and disrupting multiple industries, including retail, publishing, logistics, devices, apparel, and cloud computing.

But what is at the heart of Amazon.com’s rise to success?...
Macroeconomics as a Second Language
AuthorMartha L. Olney
ISBN0470505389
The key to understanding macroeconomics for business professionals is to view it as a second language. Olney takes this innovative approach as he zeroes in on the concepts, assumptions, and models they'll need to learn. Each chapter begins with the equations and graphs that will enable them to dive...
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism
AuthorElizabeth Grosz
ISBN0253208629
"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." — Alphonso Lingis"This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual...
How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers
AuthorNeil Irwin
ISBN1250176271
From New York Times bestselling author and senior economic correspondent at The New York Times, how to survive--and thrive--in this increasingly challenging economy.

Every ambitious professional is trying to navigate a perilous global economy to do work that is lucrative and satisfying,...
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
AuthorPaul Collier
ISBN0062748661
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western...
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