HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan Garner
DON'T LET YOUR WRITING HOLD YOU BACK.When you’re fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a nicety. But it’s a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You’ll lose time, money, and influence if you...
HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case Raymond Sheen and Amy Gallo
Get your idea off the ground.You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or boost productivity--but how do you get the buy-in you need to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows your idea's value. That's not always easy:...
HBR Guide to Coaching Employees Harvard Business Review
Help your employees help themselves.As a manager in today's business world, you can't just tell your direct reports what to do: You need to help them make their own decisions, enable them to solve tough problems, and actively develop their skills on ...
HBR Guide to Dealing With Conflict (HBR Guide Series) Amy Gallo
Learn to assess the situation, manage your emotions, and move on.While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an off...
HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers (HBR Guide Series) Harvard Business Review
DON’T LET YOUR FEAR OF FINANCE GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR SUCCESSCan you prepare a breakeven analysis? Do you know the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet? Or understand why a business that’s profitable can still go belly-up? Has y...
HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need (HBR Guide Series) Harvard Business Review
Find the right person to help supercharge your career.Whether you’re eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior ma...
HBR Guide to Leading Teams (HBR Guide Series) Mary Shapiro
Great teams don’t just happen.How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, “Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve?” As a team leader, you have the power to improve th...
HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter (HBR Guide Series) Harvard Business Review
Make every minute count.Your calendar is full, and yet your meetings don’t always seem to advance your work. Problems often arise with unrealistic or vague agendas, off-track conversations, tuned-out participants who don’t know why they’re there, and...
HBR Guide to Office Politics Karen Dillon
Don't let destructive drama sideline your career.Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues--even difficult ones--for the good of ...
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Harvard Business Review
Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review art...
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself Harvard Business Review
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed ...
Hacker's Delight Henry S. Warren
-- At long last, proven short-cuts to mastering difficult aspects of computer programming.-- Learn to program at a more advanced level than is generally taught in schools and training courses, and much more advanced than can be learned through indivi...
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas From the Computer Age Paul Graham
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living...
Handbook of Polytomous Item Response Theory Models Michael L. Nering , Remo Ostini
This comprehensive Handbook focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book re...
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale [1]:
** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The Testaments‘I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no l...
Hate Inc. Matt Taibbi
Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business In this characteristically turbocharged new book, ce...
Head First Kotlin: A Brain-Friendly Guide Dawn Griffiths and David Griffiths
What will you learn from this book? Head First Kotlin is a complete introduction to coding in Kotlin. This hands-on book helps you learn the Kotlin language with a unique method that goes beyond syntax and how-to manuals and teaches you how to think...
The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By Carol S. Pearson
The Classic Guide, Updated for Our Contemporary World A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawin...
Herzog Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirl...
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People Elad Gil
Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of thes...
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People Elad Gil
High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand.
"If you want the chance to turn your startup into the next Google or Twitter, then read this trenchant guide from someone who played key roles in the growth of these...
High Performance Python, 2nd Edition Micha Gorelick, Ian Ozsvald
Your Python code may run correctly, but you need it to run faster. Updated for Python 3, this expanded edition shows you how to locate performance bottlenecks and significantly speed up your code in high-data-volume programs. By exploring the fundame...
A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World Georges Duby
A History of Private Life [2]:
The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing “secret epic” constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patric...
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides
Written by Thucydides around 400 AD, The History of the Peloponnesian War is a meticulous account by the Athenian general of the extended struggle that raged between Athens and Sparta for the better part of twenty years. Thucydides eschews the romanc...
A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor
This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women w...
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Dr. Sue Johnson
Heralded by the New York Times and Time as the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond.
This idea, once controversial, is now supported by scie...
How Brands Grow Byron Sharp
This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty, How B...
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Stewart Brand
Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants...
How Music Works David Byrne
How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian ...
How To Randall Munroe
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wro...
How to Be Miserable Randy J. Paterson
Want to be miserable? It isn't as difficult as it sounds, and chances are, you're already doing it! Studies show that repeating specific behaviors can actually increase feelings of dissatisfaction, foster a lack of motivation, and detract from your q...
