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Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
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With The Great Transformation, published in 1944, the Hungarian-born historian and economist Karl Polanyi offers one of the best accounts of that techno-economic transition[58]. Although it’s not autobiographical, the book is deeply rooted in Polanyi’s life. Like many who grew up in Budapest and Vienna before the Great War, he witnessed first-hand
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Finally, on Saturday, May 20, 1905, a week behind schedule, the Igorrote Village opened to the public. Crowds thronged Stillwell and Surf Avenues. Sixty thousand people surged through the gates of Luna Park. Many made straight for the Igorrote Village.
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Kelleher was a hero-worshiper and a reader of history and literature who could reel off couplets from Wordsworth, aphorisms from Clausewitz, and exchanges from Nixon’s 1950 debates with Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Thomas Petzinger Jr. • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Douglas MacArthur is one of those blips in history, an idiosyncratic figure who, for reasons hard to satisfactorily explain, acquired far more power than he had any reason to. In the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there were three such men, each operating on a different scale. On the level of the city, there was Robert Moses, who someh
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
The mysterious life and death of Intrade’s CEO
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