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Must ReadEconomics
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends
DID YOU FALL PREY TO INTERNET MANIA? Many investors were lured into the feeding frenzy of Tech stocks, Internet stocks, and dot-coms, but those who followed the proven methods of Edwards and Magee were prepared for a market adjustment. When nothing else seems to work, technical analysis does. Based on extensive research and experience, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends gives you proven trading and investing techniques for success, even in today's seemingly uncertain and unpredictable market. Get the new edition of the trader's bible. Completely revised and updated, the Eighth Edition is the newest testament to the bible of stock market timing. Edward's practical clarification of the Dow Theory, explanations of reversal and consolidation patterns, trendlines, and support or resistance are still the most useful tools you can have. Magee's proven methods remain the most effective measures ever developed for determining reliable buy or sell signals. Easy to follow examples explain how to construct and use charts to monitor trends and project with confidence when prices will fall; how far they will drop; when to buy; and how to calculate and set up "stops" that protect your investment. PLAY THE STOCK MARKET THE RIGHT WAY - USE THE APPROACH THAT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME As a trader, portfolio manager, or long-term investor, you need information that will give you the edge. There are plenty of so-called short cuts out there, but nothing beats rolling up your sleeves, getting your hands dirty, and learning how technical analysis works. This book gives you more than a formula for trading and investing, it gives you a formula for long term success. Old market, new market - technical analysis is the only way to go. Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, Eighth Edition shows you how to do it right. SEE WHAT'S NEW IN THE EIGHTH EDITION: Coverage of options Futures Options on futures ishares Long-term investing Hedging and tax avoidance Portfolio risk management and analysis Controlling trade risk Rhythmic investing Current technology and software Managing speculative frenzies (tulipomanias and Internet crazes) Critical new investment instruments such as DIAMONDS and SPDYRS Current finance theory and practice Pragmatic portfolio theory and practice Current record of Dow Theory Extensive bibliography Appendix of resources such as: Internet sites, professional risk and profit analysis, gambler's ruin analysis, volatility formula, sharpe ratio, software packages ...and much more!
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Artificial Intelligence
This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the field of artificial intelligence. It covers fundamental concepts, algorithms, and applications, including problem-solving, knowledge representation, machine learning, and robotics. Widely adopted as a university textbook, it provides a detailed overview of modern AI research and practice.
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Importanttechnical
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
Theoretical computer science
ImportantReal Estate
The Book on Rental Property Investing
ImportantReal Estate
Renters' Rights
The basic guide every tenant needs--from finding a great apartment to dealing with roommate problems to getting your security deposit back on time. Whether you want to know how to persuade your landlord to make repairs or stop invading your privacy, Renters' Rights is for you. The book includes updated 50-state laws on key topics such as late rent fees, deadlines for the return of security deposits, protections against landlord retaliation, and more.
ImportantTechnology
Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval is a book about the process of finding and retrieving information from large collections of data. It covers topics such as search algorithms, indexing, and query processing. The book provides an overview of the concepts and techniques used in information retrieval systems.
ImportantEconomics
Data Mining
Data mining is the process of discovering patterns and relationships in large datasets. It involves using various techniques such as machine learning and statistical analysis to extract insights from data. The field has applications in areas like business intelligence and scientific research.
ImportantBusiness
Influence Empire
Influence Empire by Lulu Yilun Chen chronicles the ascent of Tencent, a dominant Chinese technology conglomerate. The book delves into the company's founding by Pony Ma, its development of ubiquitous platforms like WeChat, and its profound impact on China's digital economy and society. It also examines Tencent's competitive landscape and its relationship with the Chinese government.
Must ReadInvesting
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The wit and wisdom of Buffett's long-time partner. A framework for multi-disciplinary thinking through mental models spanning physics, biology, economics, and psychology. There is no better guide to building a latticework of ideas.
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Must ReadBusiness
The Search
Battelle's account of the search engine race from AltaVista to Google. A fascinating chronicle of how the database of intentions became the most powerful advertising and information infrastructure in history.
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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists. Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century—an astounding net worth of $10 billion, and counting. His awesome investment record has made him a cult figure popularly known for his seeming contradictions: a billionaire who has a modest lifestyle, a phenomenally successful investor who eschews the revolving-door trading of modern Wall Street, a brilliant dealmaker who cultivates a homespun aura. Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett’s family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive, inside account of the life and career of this American original. Buffett explains Buffett’s investment strategy—a long-term philosophy grounded in buying stock in companies that are undervalued on the market and hanging on until their worth invariably surfaces—and shows how it is a reflection of his inner self.
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ImportantBusiness
American Express
This is the fascinating inside story of one of the best-known and most influential corporations, an object lesson in corporate success and endurance.
Must ReadEconomics
Buffett and Munger Unscripted
For decades, thousands of people have gathered in Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway AGM, and quizzed Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on everything from the psychology of successful investors to the future of Coca-Cola and Apple. But unless you attended, for many years you only had access to what people could remember and report back from the meetings. In 2018, Berkshire released the archives of the annual meetings going back to 1994. Alex Morris-an equities analyst and financial writer-watched hundreds of hours of video from these annual meetings (as well as the six AGMs held since 2018), covering more than 1,700 questions asked by Berkshire Hathaway shareholders over the past 31 years. He then gathered, organized and edited the most interesting material into a comprehensive and accessible form. Buffett and Munger Unscripted is the result. From the art of intelligent capital allocation to the best ways to judge and compensate management, from understanding the nature of markets to embracing the power of long-term time horizons, this is a book with compelling insights on every page. In addition to collecting many famous quotes in their original context, it is a deep treasure trove of profound insights on all aspects of investing and business. Discover the importance of avoiding difficult decisions, the first question you should ask on a potential new investment, how to recover from unsuccessful investments, the importance of finding the right owners to partner with, Buffett and Munger's book recommendations-and much more. The perfect companion to The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Poor Charlie's Almanack, Buffett and Munger Unscripted belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the keys to long-term success in business and investing.
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Technology
Linux In A Nutshell
Everything you need to know about Linux is in this book. Written by Stephen Figgins, Ellen Siever, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins -- people with years of active participation in the Linux community -- <i>Linux in a Nutshell</i>, Sixth Edition, thoroughly covers programming tools, system and network administration tools, the shell, editors, and LILO and GRUB boot loaders. <br><br>This updated edition offers a tighter focus on Linux system essentials, as well as more coverage of new capabilities such as virtualization, wireless network management, and revision control with git. It also highlights the most important options for using the vast number of Linux commands. You'll find many helpful new tips and techniques in this reference, whether you're new to this operating system or have been using it for years. <br><br></p><ul><li>Get the Linux commands for system administration and network management</li><li>Use hundreds of the most important shell commands available on Linux</li><li>Understand the Bash shell command-line interpreter</li><li>Search and process text with regular expressions</li><li>Manage your servers via virtualization with Xen and VMware</li><li>Use the Emacs text editor and development environment, as well as the vi, ex, and vim text-manipulation tools</li><li>Process text files with the sed editor and the gawk programming language</li><li>Manage source code with Subversion and git</li>
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ImportantPsychology
Intellectuals And Society
This is a book about intellectuals written for the lay person. Its purpose is to unravel the world of intellectuals in order to understand an important social phenomenon how the thinkers of our society mold that society, leaving an impact on people in every walk of life, even if they are basically unknown to the world at large. It is a portion of the population whose activities can have, and have had, momentous implications for nations and civilizations.
ImportantBiography
Keith Richards
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones' first fame and success as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust and subsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishment that led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero. Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumping Jack Flash' and 'Street Fighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the US, 'Exile on Main Street' and 'Some Girls'. Ever increasing fame, isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Mick Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Solo albums and performances with his band the Xpensive Winos. Marriage, family and the road that goes on for ever. In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.
Must ReadPsychology
The Righteous Mind
A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."
Must ReadEconomics
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Unicorns—companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion—are rare. Uri Levine has built two. And in Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution, he shows you just how he did it. As the cofounder of Waze—the world’s leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion—Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies. Levine offers an inside look at the creation and sale of Waze and his second unicorn, Moovit, revealing the formula that drove those companies to compete with industry veterans and giants alike. He offers tips on: Firing and hiring Disrupting “broken” markets Raising funding Understanding your users Reaching product market fit Making scale-up decisions Going global Deciding when to sell Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution offers mentorship in a book from one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, and empowers you to build a successful business by identifying your consumers’ biggest problems and disrupting the inefficient markets that currently serve them.
Economics
The Lean Startup
In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. Every day countless promising startup companies fail, despite seemingly doing everything right. But there's a new approach to running a startup, and its revolutionary principles are changing the face of entrepreneurship worldwide. It's called the "Lean Startup" method, and its secrets will transform the way you do business. If you're an entrepreneur looking to launch a successful startup, The Lean Startup is a must-read. Its methods have been proven worldwide, turning misguided startups into dynamic, profitable ventures with a future of success ahead. What worked for them will work for you too. You will learn: - Why a good startup needs a.
Must ReadHistory
D-Day
The preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century.
Must ReadHistory
Citizen Soldiers
In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it. From June 7, 1944, on the beaches of Normandy to the final battles of Germany, acclaimed historian Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides to write a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the Citizen Soldiers who made up the U.S. Army. Ambrose re-creates the experiences of the individuals who fought the battle, from high command - Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton - on down to the enlisted men. Within the chronological story, there are chapters on medics, nurses, and doctors; on the quartermasters; on the replacements; on what it was like to spend a night on the front lines; on sad sacks, cowards, and criminals; on Christmas 1944; and on weapons of all kinds. In this engrossing history, Ambrose reveals the learning process of a great army - how to cross rivers, how to fight in snow or hedgerows, how to fight in cities, how to coordinate air and ground campaigns, and how citizens become soldiers. Throughout, the perspective is that of the enlisted men and junior officers - and how decisions of the brass affected them.
Must ReadHistory
Blood Tears and Folly
Bestselling author Len Deighton probes behind the scenes of World War II, revealing shocking truths about the poor planning, machinery, and performances of both sides--and how this affected the war. "A comprehsnvie and absorbing look at this century's major conflict".--Booklist.
Must ReadFiction
Catch 22
A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. Joseph Heller revisits the unforgettable characters of Catch-22, now facing the twilight of their lives and the end of the century. The generation that fought in World War II—Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, along with newcomers little Sammy Singer and giant Lew—are bound together in uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but the inevitability of The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of postwar America with the same ferocious humor as his masterpiece, Catch-22, exploring the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and great cities, and the greed and hypocrisy at the heart of our business and culture. Outrageously funny yet deadly serious, and as brilliant as Catch-22 itself, Closing Time is a fun-house mirror reflecting, at once grotesquely and accurately, who we truly are.
ImportantInvesting
Den of Thieves
Stewart's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the insider trading scandal of the 1980s: Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine. The most comprehensive narrative of how junk bonds, leveraged buyouts, and corrupt information networks nearly corrupted the entire securities market.
ImportantBusiness
Barbarians at the Gate
The definitive account of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988 -- at the time the largest corporate takeover in history. A savage comedy of greed, ego, and boardroom warfare that defined an era and remains the most entertaining book ever written about corporate finance.
Must ReadInvesting
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Mallaby's definitive history of venture capital from its origins in postwar America to the dominance of Silicon Valley. The story of how a small group of investors -- Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark -- shaped the technology industry and why the power law of returns that governs VC explains so much about how innovation actually works.
Must ReadBusiness
Alibaba's World
An insider account of how Jack Ma built Alibaba from a Hangzhou apartment into the largest e-commerce company in the world. Erisman, who worked alongside Ma for eight years, captures the unique combination of vision, showmanship, and ruthlessness that made Alibaba a case study unlike any in Silicon Valley.
Must ReadBusiness
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
The sequel to The Everything Store, covering Amazon's expansion from 2013 to 2021: Alexa, Prime Video, AWS dominance, the HQ2 saga, Bezos's personal transformation, and his eventual departure. A portrait of a company that kept reinventing itself even after becoming the most valuable in the world.
Must ReadBusiness
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The definitive account of Amazon's rise from online bookstore to the world's most powerful retailer. Stone traces Bezos's obsessive vision, his brutal management style, and the strategic decisions that gave Amazon its seemingly unassailable position in global commerce and cloud computing.
Must ReadInvesting
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Lewis follows the handful of investors who saw the 2008 financial crisis coming and bet against the mortgage market. A devastating portrait of the stupidity, corruption, and willful blindness that nearly destroyed the global financial system -- told through some of the most eccentric characters in Wall Street history.
Must ReadInvesting
Liar's Poker
Lewis's first-person account of his years at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s -- the firm that invented mortgage bonds and defined the era of Wall Street excess. The funniest and sharpest memoir ever written about the bond markets, and still the best account of what investment banking actually is.
Must ReadBusiness
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
How the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane used statistical analysis to compete against teams with three times the payroll. The book that introduced the world to sabermetrics and launched a revolution in how every sport -- and increasingly every business -- evaluates talent and allocates resources.
Must ReadBusiness
Kanban: Just-in-Time at Toyota
The foundational text of the Toyota Production System and just-in-time manufacturing. The Japan Management Association's study of how Toyota eliminated waste, synchronized production to demand, and created the kanban card system that became the basis of lean manufacturing worldwide.
Must ReadInvesting
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
Yale's legendary endowment manager turns his attention to individual investors. Swensen's conclusion is unsparing: the mutual fund industry is structurally designed to enrich managers at investors' expense. His prescription -- low-cost index funds in a diversified, rebalanced portfolio -- is the most credible framework for the non-institutional investor.
Must ReadFiction
The Hobbit
The prequel to The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins is swept from his comfortable hobbit-hole on an adventure with thirteen dwarves to reclaim their mountain home from the dragon Smaug. The book that invented the modern concept of the fantasy adventure and introduced the world Tolkien had been building for decades.
Must ReadFiction
The Silmarillion
The mythology and deep history of Middle-earth, from the creation of the world to the end of the First Age. Tolkien's most ambitious work -- a complete cosmology that gives the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings their full weight. Dense and rewarding for those who want to understand the world beneath the story.
Must ReadFiction
A Song of Ice and Fire (Complete Series)
Martin's epic fantasy series set in the war-torn kingdoms of Westeros. Five noble houses, a zombie apocalypse from the north, and dragons from the east collide in a story that refuses to protect its heroes. The most politically sophisticated fantasy ever written -- a meditation on power, consequence, and the cost of idealism.
Must ReadFiction
World Without End
The sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, set two hundred years later in the same English town of Kingsbridge. The Black Death, the Hundred Years War, and the struggle of ordinary people against the power of church and nobility. An equally sweeping and page-turning epic from one of the great storytellers.
Must ReadStrategy
The Military Institutions of the Romans (De Re Militari)
Written in the late 4th century AD, Vegetius compiled the military knowledge of the entire Roman empire into a single training manual. The most widely read military text in medieval Europe, it covers recruitment, drill, tactics, fortification, and naval warfare. Every serious student of strategy has read this book.
Must ReadFiction
Crime and Punishment
A young ex-student in St. Petersburg murders a pawnbroker to test his theory that extraordinary men are above the law -- and is destroyed not by justice but by his own conscience. Dostoevsky's psychological masterpiece is the first great thriller and the deepest examination of guilt, redemption, and what it costs to live with yourself.
Must ReadBiography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
The autobiography of Frederick Douglass -- born into slavery, self-taught to read and write, escaped to freedom, and became the most powerful abolitionist voice of the 19th century. One of the most important books in American literature: a first-person account of the institution that nearly destroyed the republic.
Must ReadFiction
The Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caulfield wanders New York for three days after being expelled from prep school, raging against phoniness and mourning innocence. The defining novel of adolescent alienation -- and a book adults return to to remember how the world looked before compromise set in.
Must ReadFiction
Harry Potter (Complete Series, Books 1-7)
The seven-book journey of Harry Potter from the cupboard under the stairs to the final battle against Voldemort. One of the most complete imagined worlds in all of literature -- and an enduring story about friendship, sacrifice, the corruption of power, and the courage required to do what is right.
Must ReadFiction
Shogun
An English navigator is shipwrecked in feudal Japan in 1600 and drawn into a deadly struggle for power among rival warlords. Clavell's epic is one of the finest historical novels ever written about Japan -- a complete immersion in a culture, a time, and the universal dynamics of power, loyalty, and reinvention.
Must ReadFiction
The Pillars of the Earth
The story of the building of a cathedral in 12th-century England, spanning decades and generations of builders, monks, lords, and queens. Follett's masterpiece is one of the great page-turning historical novels -- a portrait of ambition, faith, brutality, and beauty that never lets go.
Must ReadFiction
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's final and greatest novel. Three brothers -- sensual Dmitri, rational Ivan, saintly Alyosha -- collide around the murder of their father in a book that contains the most profound debate between faith and doubt in all of literature. Sigmund Freud called it the greatest novel ever written.
Must ReadFiction
The Iliad
The founding poem of Western literature. Fifty-one days in the tenth year of the Trojan War: rage, honor, glory, grief, and the terrible cost of heroism. Homer's meditation on war has defined how the West thinks about conflict, courage, and mortality for three thousand years.
Must ReadFiction
War and Peace
The greatest novel ever written, according to many. Five aristocratic families navigate Napoleon's invasion of Russia across 1,500 pages that encompass love, death, history, and the nature of human agency. Tolstoy's argument that history is made by millions of small human acts, not by great men, has never been bettered.
Must ReadFiction
The Odyssey
Odysseus's ten-year journey home from Troy -- a story of cunning, endurance, loyalty, and the meaning of home. The original adventure narrative and one of the most influential stories ever told, still the richest account of what it means to find your way back to who you are.
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