There's a book published in 1997 that has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, spent decades on bestseller lists, and practically invented an entire genre: popular financial education. It wasn't published by a big house. Robert Kiyosaki published it ...
Robert Kiyosaki grew up with two very different father figures: his biological father, highly educated and always struggling financially, and his best friend's father, with little formal schooling but a self-made fortune. Rich Dad Poor Dad contrasts th...
In 2008, the global financial system collapsed in a way almost nobody saw coming. The world's biggest banks were on the brink of failure. Governments had to step in with trillions of dollars to bail them out. Millions of people lost their homes, their ...
Fragile is what breaks when the world shakes. Robust is what survives. But Nassim Taleb says there is a third category nobody had named: what actually gets stronger from chaos. Antifragile proposes that this property isn't just possible but cultivatabl...
There's a book that has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. It's been translated into more than 80 languages. It's the best-selling book by any Latin American author in history. And yet, when Paulo Coelho finished writing it, his publisher dropped i...
His publisher dropped it within a month. The editor said nobody would read it. Coelho spent years trying to get it back into print, convinced he had written something that mattered. Today The Alchemist has sold over 65 million copies and been translate...
In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 and 2 probes into deep space. On board they carried a golden record with sounds and images from Earth — a kind of cosmic message in a bottle for any alien civilization that might one day find them. Among the many vo...
Carl Sagan had the gift of making looking at the night sky feel like an act of both humility and grandeur at the same time. Cosmos is his most ambitious work: a journey from the Big Bang to the farthest reaches of the observable universe, written by so...
Big Brother. Room 101. Doublethink. Newspeak. In 1949, Orwell invented a vocabulary for totalitarianism so precise that we still use it to describe the present. He wrote it dying, on a Scottish island in the rain, knowing he probably wouldn't live to s...
