Books

In this article we are going to see what it is about. Who was Chris Voss and why his story matters.

Hesse wrote this book with a razor blade on the table and the date of his own suicide marked on the calendar. What came out wasn't a farewell note but one of the strangest and most widely read novels of the twentieth century. Why does Steppenwolf keep ...

One night in crisis, a Cambridge student asked himself such a strange question that it changed his life: who is the one observing the one who suffers? What he found in answering that question became one of the bestselling spirituality books of the cent...

Everyone cites Adam Smith but almost nobody has read him. The same book that coined the invisible hand also warned that businessmen conspire against the public whenever they get the chance. Which Adam Smith is the real one, and why does it matter?

Forty million copies sold and the book still divides opinion: genuine transformation manual or surface techniques dressed up as philosophy? Covey bets that the difference between living well and merely staying busy comes down to one question almost nob...

Carl Sagan wrote this book dying and furious, convinced that the greatest threat to democracy wasn't political but epistemological: citizens who can't distinguish evidence from fiction. Thirty years later, his diagnosis reads like a prophecy fulfilled ...

A tortured and exiled Florentine bureaucrat wrote, five hundred years ago, the most unsettling power manual in history. Not because he invented political cruelty, but because he dared to describe it with brutal honesty. What does The Prince actually sa...

In 1930 John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the year 2030 we would be working fifteen hours a week. Here we are in 2025 with an average workweek of forty-five. Anthropologist James Suzman wants to know why, and to find the answer he travels three hun...

Sometime in 1930, one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century sat down to write an essay that would turn out to be the most famous — and most embarrassingly wrong — of his entire career. John Maynard Keynes — the guy who basically i...