Recommended Holiday Reading on Kindle
Last week’s book recommendations were from Bryan Burrough in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal – What to Give (to family and friends for the holidays). Today we post more recommendations – popular new books just loaded onto Ford Library Kindles – each book selected with Fuqua students in mind.
Students, as our (temporary) gift to you, consider taking home a Ford Library Kindle to use over the holidays – returning it in January. Each Kindle contains a library of the most important reading for business professionals. Choose among three book collections: Business Best Sellers, Business Classics, or Career Management books.
Here are the six additions to Ford Library Kindles:
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt. This story of genius and deceit covers the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked 2000 recorded albums over 10 years, and then into the darkest recesses of the Internet where music is always available for free.
Awards: Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, named one of Time magazine’s Best Books of 2015 So Far, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a Washington Post Notable Book of 2015.
Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection, as an OverDrive audiobook, and as an OverDrive ebook.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler. The author of the business bestseller Nudge presents an entertaining view of how economists are deviating from the traditional standard of rationality to study real human behaviors, showing how miscalculations affect decision making and how incentives affect markets.
Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection and as an OverDrive ebook.
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur argues that as technology continues to accelerate, machines are beginning to take care of themselves, making human jobs obsolete. Both blue-collar and professional jobs are evaporating, while education and health care costs continue to rise rapidly, leading to massive unemployment, income inequality and the implosion of the consumer economy.
Winner of the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection and as an OverDrive ebook.
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter and Karen White. Author of a controversial article in The Atlantic that sparked a national debate, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter describes her vision for what true equality between men and women really means and how American culture and organizations need to change to eliminate the “motherhood penalty”.
Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Bestseller collection, as an OverDrive audiobook, and as an OverDrive ebook.
Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money while Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson. Two leaders in the emerging field of impact investing for blended value outline a set of investment strategies that generate financial return while intentionally improving social and environmental conditions, showing how for-profit investments can help address social problems.
Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Classics collection and as an OverDrive ebook.
Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century by Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers. The rapid urbanization of a new 2.5-billion-person middle class in Asia is creating an unprecedented demand for oil, steel, land, food, water, cement, and other commodities. This book shows how innovators are turning worldwide resource crises into business opportunities using breakthrough performance in effective use of natural resources.
Also available in the Ford Library Kindle – Business Classics collection.
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