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8 Book

The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, Be a Good Blamer, and Throttle Your Inner Child
Paul Pearsall
Basic Books, 2005
9 Book

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
8 Book

The Essential Art of War
Sun Tzu and Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 2005
8 Book

Emotional Design
Why we love (or hate) everyday things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2005
7 Book

Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2000
10 Book

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod
Basic Books, 2006
8 Book

False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg
Basic Books, 2021
10 Book

The Biological Mind
How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Alan Jasanoff
Basic Books, 2018
9 Book

The Happiness Hypothesis
Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Basic Books, 2005
8 Book

How We Talk
The Inner Workings of Conversation
N. J. Enfield
Basic Books, 2017
9 Book

Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

The Patient Will See You Now
The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2015
9 Book

Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2019
8 Book

Code
Version 2.0
Lawrence Lessig
Basic Books, 2006
8 Book

Group Genius
The Creative Power of Collaboration
Keith Sawyer
Basic Books, 2007
9 Book

The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
Cathy N. Davidson
Basic Books, 2017
9 Book

Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

The Two-Income Trap
Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book

For Profit
A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Captains of Consciousness
Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Stuart Ewen
Basic Books, 2001
8 Book

George Washington on Leadership
Richard Brookhiser
Basic Books, 2008
8 Book

The Simplicity Survival Handbook
32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More
Bill Jensen
Basic Books, 2003
10 Book

Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2003
9 Book

Too Big to Know
Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
David Weinberger
Basic Books, 2012
8 Book

Rock, Paper, Scissors
Game Theory in Everyday Life
Len Fisher
Basic Books, 2008
9 Book

The Partnership Charter
How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (Or Fix the One You're in)
David Gage
Basic Books, 2004
9 Book

The Evolution of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
David M. Buss
Basic Books, 2003
8 Book

The Cash Nexus
Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Niall Ferguson
Basic Books, 2002
8 Book

My Time
Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life
Abigail Trafford
Basic Books, 2003
8 Book

Oceans of Grain
How American Wheat Remade the World
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Basic Books, 2022
9 Book

Buzz
The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson
Basic Books, 2018
8 Book

The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets
Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox
Basic Books, 2009
8 Book

The Climate Fix
What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
Roger Pielke Jr.
Basic Books, 2010
8 Book

The Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2009
8 Book

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
including The Art of War
Ralph D. Sawyer
Basic Books, 1993
8 Book

Commodore
The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Edward J. Renehan Jr.
Basic Books, 2007
8 Book

University Inc.
The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
Jennifer Washburn
Basic Books, 2006
7 Book

The Story Factor
Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling
Annette Simmons
Basic Books, 2006
9 Book

Letters to a Young Journalist
Samuel G. Freedman
Basic Books, 2006
10 Book

The (Mis)behavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
Basic Books, 2004
9 Book

Letters to a Young Lawyer
Alan M. Dershowitz
Basic Books, 2001
9 Book

The Hydrogen Revolution
A Blueprint for the Future of Clean Energy
Marco Alverà
Basic Books, 2021
8 Book

The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
Basic Books, 2018
8 Book

The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
Basic Books, 2015
8 Book

Rise of the Robots
Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin Ford
Basic Books, 2015
9 Book

Winner Take All
China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World
Dambisa Moyo
Basic Books, 2012
8 Book

The China Strategy
Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
Edward Tse
Basic Books, 2010
7 Book

The Power of Pull
How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
John Hagel III et al.
Basic Books, 2010