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As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which philosophy is a practical form of self-improvement rather than a matter of argument or wordplay. Seneca's letters to a young friend advise action rather...
Akshay M
2022-03-19T05:48:03.000ZLucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is--in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking in a park--and shows how deep meditative presence is availab...
Akshay M
2022-02-22T23:50:51.000ZAlso recommended by
Taylor OtwellLibrarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cas...
Akshay M
2021-06-13T10:59:58.000ZAlso recommended by
Gretchen RubinBestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human ...
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2021-06-13T10:45:28.000ZThis text focuses on the output of financial statements,not the input. As such,the book asks what financial statements tell you,not how they are prepared. The idea is to get students to see accounting "working. " The particular use of financial statements that the book focuses on is valuation. The text takes the approach that the best way to accura...
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2021-05-13T05:35:26.000Z
Who Moved My Cheese?
An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps ...
In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fas...
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2021-01-17T14:03:45.000ZThe #1 Personal Finance book of all time, Robert Kiyosaki shares the story of his two dad: his real father, whom he calls his poor dad, ' and the father of his best friend, the man who became his mentor and his rich dad.' One man was well educated and an employee all his life, the other's education was street smarts" over traditional classroom educ...
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2021-01-17T04:57:29.000Z100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be ens...
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2020-10-18T06:08:46.000ZNassim Nicholas Taleb s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes "Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, "and the expanded edition of" The Bed of Procrus...
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2020-10-18T06:06:08.000ZThinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Zen by Shunmyo Masuno
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Dollars and Sense by Dan Ariely
The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli
Atomic Habits by James Clear
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Mind Full to Mindful by Om Swami
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
A Book of Simple Living by Ruskin Bond
The Lessons of History by Will Durant
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
The Little Book That Builds Wealth by Pat Dorsey
Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca