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Ellen Ruppel Shell
The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Ben Carlson
Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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Latest additions in Politics & Economics
Justin Lee
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
Neil Price
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
Durreen Shahnaz
Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.
Jody Rosen
The History and Mystery of the Bicycle. Crown, 2022
Toby Wilkinson
The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Max Fisher
The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World. Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Thomas C. Foster
A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between. Harper Perennial, 2020.
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Andrew W. Lo
Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. Princeton, 2019.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Alan S. Blinder
The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead. Penguin, 2013.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Costas Lapavitsas
Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
Scott Page
Princeton University Press, 2010.
Raghuram Rajan
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.
Thomas E. Ricks
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.
John David Turner
A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Yanis Varoufakis
My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
Dambisa Moyo
Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
David Wann
How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
Mark Buchanan
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Raghuram Rajan
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.
William J. Bernstein
How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.
Ellen Ruppel Shell
The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Ben Carlson
Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.
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