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1) Atomic habits: tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones

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Clear, James

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#1 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

2) The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking about

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Robbins, Mel

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#2 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Sunday Times Bestseller
#1 Amazon Bestseller
#1 Audible Bestseller
A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?
If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple...

3) The creative act: a way of being

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Rubin, Rick

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#3 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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"Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he...

4) Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

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Harari, Yuval N

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#4 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI--a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the...

5) Main Street millionaire: how to make extraordinary wealth buying ordinary businesses

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Sanchez, Codie

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#5 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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"From the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, an investment empire with more than two million fans, an empowering guide to getting rich and a call to arms to save America's small businesses"--

6) Unreasonable hospitality: the remarkable power of giving people more than they expect

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Guidara, Will

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#6 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry.
- Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions
- JP Morgan NextList Pick

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant...

7) Extreme ownership: how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win

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Willink, Jocko

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#7 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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Two highly decorated Navy SEALs, now successful businessmen, demonstrate how to lead and win in business and in life with principles learned on the battlefield.

8) ELON MUSK

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Isaacson, Walter

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#8 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Steve Jobs—this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa,...

9) I will teach you to be rich: No guilt. No excuses. No BS. Just a 6-week program that works

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Sethi, Ramit

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#9 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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The groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER that taught a generation how to earn more, save more, and live a rich life-now in a revised 2nd edition. Buy as many lattes as you want. Choose the right accounts and investments so your money grows for you-automatically. Best of all, spend guilt-free on the things you love. Personal finance expert Ramit Sethi has been called a "wealth wizard" by Forbes and the "new guru on the...

10) Hidden potential: the science of achieving greater things

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Grant, Adam

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#10 on the Business list for 2025-01-12.

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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and...