Business Books
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shippin…
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads hailed it as the…
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an a…
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes…
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founde…
The Road Ahead
Welcome to “The Road Ahead.” We have all been bombarded by the seemingly endless hype about the information highway and the coming age of technolo…
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
If you pick your books by their popularity--how many and which other people are reading them--then know this about The Search: it's probably on Bi…
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, …
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data s…
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to…