Simone's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:53:02 -0800 60 Simone's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 21 lezioni per il XXI secolo 41393107 In un mondo invaso da informazioni irrilevanti, la lucidità è potere. La censura non opera bloccando il flusso di informazioni, ma inondando le persone di disinformazione e distrazioni.
21 lezioni per il XXI secolo si fa largo in queste acque torbide e affronta alcune delle questioni più urgenti dell’agenda globale contemporanea.

Perché la democrazia liberale è in crisi? Dio è tornato? Si prospetta una nuova guerra mondiale? Che cosa significa l’ascesa di Donald Trump? Che cosa si può fare per contrastare l’epidemia di notizie false? Quale civiltà domina il mondo: l’Occidente, la Cina o l’islam? L’Europa deve tenere le porte aperte ai migranti? I nazionalismi possono risolvere i problemi legati all’ineguaglianza e ai cambiamenti climatici? Che fare per arginare il terrorismo? Che cosa dobbiamo insegnare ai nostri figli? Miliardi di persone possono a stento permettersi il lusso di approfondire simili questioni, perché pressate da ben altre urgenze: andare al lavoro, prendersi cura dei figli o dei genitori anziani. Purtroppo la storia non fa sconti. Se il futuro dell’umanità viene deciso in vostra assenza, perché siete troppo occupati a dar da mangiare e a vestire i vostri bambini, voi e loro ne subirete comunque le conseguenze. Certo è molto ingiusto; ma chi ha mai detto che la storia sia giusta?

Un libro non dà alle persone cibo o vestiti, però può offrire un po� di chiarezza, contribuendo ad appianare le differenze a livello globale. Se questo libro riuscirà a far sì che anche solo una manciata di persone si unisca al dibattito sul futuro della nostra specie, allora avrà fatto il suo dovere.]]> 490 Yuval Noah Harari 8858779622 Simone 0 currently-reading, on-hold 4.09 2018 21 lezioni per il XXI secolo
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]]> Una terra promessa 55889159 807 Barack Obama 8811149878 Simone 3 on-hold 4.11 2020 Una terra promessa
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]]> Leonardo da Vinci 34684622 600 Walter Isaacson 1501139150 Simone 5 on-hold 4.19 2017 Leonardo da Vinci
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]]> Nina 43379758
Per la prima volta pubblicato in Italia, nella splendida traduzione di Gaja Cenciarelli, Nina è il romanzo più misterioso ed enigmatico dell’intera opera di Robert Nathan.]]> 128 Robert Nathan 8899591261 Simone 4 3.29 1967 Nina
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]]> Mozart: The Reign of Love 42117280 From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical. Whether in his rabidly obscene mode or not, Mozart was always hilarious. He went at every piece of his life, and perhaps most notably his social life, with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun.

Mozart was known to be an inexplicable force of nature who could rise from a luminous improvisation at the keyboard to a leap over the furniture. He was forever drumming on things, tapping his feet, jabbering away, but who could grasp your hand and look at you with a profound, searching, and melancholy look in his blue eyes. Even in company there was often an air about Mozart of being not quite there. It was as if he lived onstage and off simultaneously, a character in life’s tragicomedy but also outside of it watching, studying, gathering material for the fabric of his art.

Like Jan Swafford’s biographies Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, Mozart is the complete exhumation of a genius in his life and ours: a man who would enrich the world with his talent for centuries to come and who would immeasurably shape classical music. As Swafford reveals, it’s nearly impossible to understand classical music’s origins and indeed its evolutions, as well as the Baroque period, without studying the man himself.]]> 827 Jan Swafford 0062433598 Simone 0 to-read 4.31 2020 Mozart: The Reign of Love
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]]> <![CDATA[Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data]]> 51781479 224 Carissa Véliz 1787634043 Simone 0 to-read 4.05 2020 Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
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]]> <![CDATA[Diventerai adulto quando perdonerai i tuoi genitori]]> 45997372 195 Gérard Salem 8804709413 Simone 4 2.25 2018 Diventerai adulto quando perdonerai i tuoi genitori
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival]]> 50977893 280 Charles Goodhart 3030426564 Simone 0 to-read 4.10 2020 The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
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]]> <![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin: An American Life]]> 10883
He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical—though not most profound—political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.

Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.

In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.]]> 586 Walter Isaacson 074325807X Simone 0 to-read 4.04 2003 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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]]> Permanent Record 46223297
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.

Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.]]> 339 Edward Snowden 1250237238 Simone 0 to-read 4.29 2019 Permanent Record
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution]]> 43889703 Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?

Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars.

Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that's sweeping the world.

As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit.

The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution means for the rest of us.]]> 359 Gregory Zuckerman 0241309727 Simone 0 to-read 4.01 2019 The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[Da 0 a 500: Storie vissute, idee e consigli da uno dei manager più dinamici della nuova generazione (Tempi) (Italian Edition)]]> 34136781
Uno dei manager italiani più internazionali e dinamici della nuova generazione, oggi responsabile del marketing di tutto il Gruppo Volkswagen, si cimenta nel racconto della sua esperienza professionale ripercorrendo le tappe che lo hanno portato � prima in Renault, poi in Toyota e infine nel Gruppo Fiat � a essere protagonista di alcune tra le più innovative operazioni di marketing nel mondo automobilistico degli ultimi anni. Una serie di consigli sul tema della strategia e della leadership completano e sostanziano il libro rendendolo un coinvolgente, credibile, divertente e utile strumento per chi ha l’ambizione di creare storie di successo.]]> 125 Luca De Meo 8831731963 Simone 5 3.89 Da 0 a 500: Storie vissute, idee e consigli da uno dei manager più dinamici della nuova generazione (Tempi) (Italian Edition)
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]]> Ricordi 55817270 772 Marcus Aurelius 8817171514 Simone 5 4.00 180 Ricordi
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]]> <![CDATA[Serve To Win: The 14-day Gluten-free Plan For Physical And Mental Excellence]]> 18241655
In Serve to Win, Djokovic recounts how he survived the bombing of Belgrade, rising from a war-torn childhood to the top tier of his sport. He reveals the diet that transformed his health and pushed him to the pinnacle. While Djokovic loved and craved bread, pasta and, of course, the pizza from his family's restaurant, he found his body couldn't process wheat. Eliminating gluten made him feel instantly better, clearer, lighter and quicker. His new physical health and mental focus enabled him to achieve his two childhood dreams: to win Wimbledon and to be ranked the world's number-one tennis player.

Djokovic challenges you to try his way of eating for just 14 days. He provides weekly menus and easy-to-prepare recipes that will help you lose weight and find your way to a better you. You don't need to be a professional athlete to start living and feeling better. A trimmer, stronger, healthier you is just two weeks away!]]> 192 Novak Äoković 0552170534 Simone 5 3.93 2013 Serve To Win: The 14-day Gluten-free Plan For Physical And Mental Excellence
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]]> <![CDATA[The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World]]> 50187046
In The Good Ancestor, leading public philosopher Roman Krznaric argues that there is still hope. From the pyramids to the NHS, humankind has always had the innate ability to plan for posterity and take action that will resonate for decades, centuries, even millennia to come. If we want to become good ancestors, now is the time to recover and enrich this imaginative skill.

The Good Ancestor reveals six profound ways in which we can all learn to think long-term, exploring how we can reawaken oft-neglected but uniquely human talents like ‘cathedral thinking� that expand our time horizons and sharpen our foresight. Drawing on radical solutions from around the world, Krznaric celebrates the innovators who are reinventing democracy, culture and economics so that we all have the chance to become good ancestors and create a better tomorrow.]]> 288 Roman Krznaric 0753554496 Simone 0 to-read 3.94 2020 The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
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]]> M. L'uomo della provvidenza 55099308 645 Antonio Scurati 8830102652 Simone 0 to-read 3.97 2020 M. L'uomo della provvidenza
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]]> <![CDATA[Mindset: The New Psychology of Success]]> 40745 A newer edition of this book can be found here.

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset � those who believe that abilities are fixed � are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset � those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love � to transform their lives and your own.]]> 276 Carol S. Dweck Simone 0 to-read 4.09 2006 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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]]> I muri che dividono il mondo 41713163 281 Tim Marshall 8811606063 Simone 5 3.92 2018 I muri che dividono il mondo
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]]> Life and Death in Shanghai 537404
Life and Death in Shanghai is the powerful story of Cheng’s imprisonment, of the deprivation she endured, of her heroic resistance, and of her quest for justice when she was released. An astounding portrait of one woman’s courage, Life and Death in Shanghai is also a penetrating account of a terrifying chapter in twentieth-century history.]]> 547 Nien Cheng 014010870X Simone 5 4.31 1986 Life and Death in Shanghai
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If you want to understand something about modern Chinese culture, this is a must.
]]> Jack: Straight from the Gut 5559 496 Jack Welch 5559608475 Simone 4 3.82 2001 Jack: Straight from the Gut
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]]> <![CDATA[Můj obyÄejný život. BÄ›h od revoluce do Evropy a ke Zlatému míÄi.]]> 17283322 164 Pavel NedvÄ›d 8025704017 Simone 5 3.94 2010 Můj obyÄejný život. BÄ›h od revoluce do Evropy a ke Zlatému míÄi.
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]]> Unstoppable: My Life So Far 34884398 From Maria Sharapova, one of our fiercest female athletes, the captivating—and candid—story of her rise from nowhere to tennis stardom, and the unending fight to stay on top.

In 2004, in a stunning upset against the two-time defending champion Serena Williams, seventeen-year-old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon, becoming an overnight sensation. Out of virtual anonymity, she launched herself onto the international stage. “Maria Mania� was born. Sharapova became a name and face recognizable worldwide. Her success would last: she went on to hold the number-one WTA ranking multiple times, to win four more Grand Slam tournaments, and to become one of the highest-grossing female athletes in the world.

And then—at perhaps the peak of her career—Sharapova came up against the toughest challenge yet: during the 2016 Australian Open, she was charged by the ITF with taking the banned substance meldonium, only recently added to the ITF’s list. The resulting suspension would keep her off the professional courts for fifteen months—a frighteningly long time for any athlete. The media suggested it might be fateful.

But ³§³ó²¹°ù²¹±è´Ç±¹²¹â€™s career has always been driven by her determination and by her dedication to hard work. Her story doesn’t begin with the 2004 Wimbledon championship, but years before, in a small Russian town, where as a five-year-old she played on drab neighborhood courts with precocious concentration. It begins when her father, convinced his daughter could be a star, risked everything to get them to Florida, that sacred land of tennis academies. It begins when the two arrived with only seven hundred dollars and knowing only a few words of English. From that, Sharapova scraped together one of the most influential sports careers in history.

Here, for the first time, is the whole story, and in her own words. ³§³ó²¹°ù²¹±è´Ç±¹²¹â€™s is an unforgettable saga of dedication and fortune. She brings us inside her pivotal matches and illuminates the relationships that have shaped her—with coaches, best friends, boyfriends, and Yuri, her coach, manager, father, and most dedicated fan, describing with honesty and affection their oft-scrutinized relationship. She writes frankly about the suspension. As Sharapova returns to the professional circuit, one thing is clear: the ambition to win that drove her from the public courts of Russia to the manicured lawns of Wimbledon has not diminished.

³§³ó²¹°ù²¹±è´Ç±¹²¹â€™s Unstoppable is a powerful memoir, resonant in its depiction of the will to win—whatever the odds.]]> 304 Maria Sharapova 0374715319 Simone 5 4.01 2017 Unstoppable: My Life So Far
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]]> Educazione americana 48671932 diversa, il mondo come lo conosciamo non sarebbe esistito. Dalla Francia a Israele, dal Belgio all’Italia.
L’elenco delle loro operazioni attraversa trent’anni di delitti. Interferiscono nella rivoluzione giudiziaria che con l’inchiesta Mani pulite ha cambiato la storia del nostro paese, ma non impediscono i successivi attentati della mafia. Rubano codici di comunicazione della Russia di Putin, con un’operazione internazionale in cui un agente americano viene ucciso a Roma, e il suo corpo abbandonato nel Tevere. A Bruxelles partecipano all’omicidio di Gerald Bull, il progettista canadese del Super Cannone di Saddam Hussein. A Parigi buttano nella Senna un giovane passante, Brahim Bouarram. La loro attività comprende il furto di segreti bancari in Svizzera, il sequestro di imam islamisti, tra cui Abu Omar a Milano, le trattative per il rilascio degli ostaggi rapiti nel deserto del Sahara. E, ai giorni nostri, il traffico di informazioni finanziarie e industriali, sottratte quotidianamente
dai computer di ignari ministri, manager e imprenditori. In un romanzo mozzafiato in cui tutto è reale,
Fabrizio Gatti ricostruisce la storia segreta che i documenti non possono raccontare.]]> 486 Fabrizio Gatti 8834600509 Simone 3 3.84 Educazione americana
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]]> <![CDATA[Capital in the Twenty First Century]]> 18736925 Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.]]> 685 Thomas Piketty 067443000X Simone 0 currently-reading 4.04 2013 Capital in the Twenty First Century
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]]> <![CDATA[Sergio Marchionne (Italian Edition)]]> 45415265 LA LEADERSHIP, LE SFIDE IMPOSSIBILI, LE STRATEGIE, I SEGRETI DEL MANAGER CHE HA TRASFORMATO LA FIAT IN UN GRUPPO GLOBALE

In quattordici anni ha più che decuplicato il valore del gruppo in Borsa. Ha trasformato la Fiat da azienda italiana sull'orlo del fallimento a potente società globale. E' andato all'assalto dei mercati. Ha pensato in grande. Le sue scelte, mai scontate, hanno esaltato gli investitori, ma gli hanno attirato accuse come quella di aver spostato il baricentro dell'impresa lontano dall'Italia e quella di aver calpestato i diritti degli operai. Chi è stato Sergio Marchionne, leader visionario e divisivo, e che cosa resta della sua eredità? Tommaso Ebhardt - che l'ha inseguito per dieci anni da un capo all'altro del mondo - ritrae in questo libro una figura complessa, che si rivela man mano al giornalista in rapide battute, numerose occasioni professionali e preziosi incontri a due, a microfoni spenti. Il suo racconto inizia nel dicembre 2008 con l'operazione Chrysler, ricostruisce i traguardi storici, i progetti falliti, la leadership di Marchionne.. E lancia uno sguardo a quello che rimane di FCA dopo la sua tragica scomparsa. Ma soprattutto indaga le convinzioni, gli interessi, i sentimenti privati di un uomo riservatissimo, che tuttavia gli aveva affidato a volte i suoi pensieri, riconoscendolo pubblicamente come «il suo stalker più affezionato», e prova a capire il segreto del personaggio che da sconosciuto outsider è diventato uno dei manager di maggior successo sui mercati internazionali.]]> 401 Tommaso Ebhardt 8893428318 Simone 5 4.37 Sergio Marchionne (Italian Edition)
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]]> Gli illuminati 9832265 479 Antoine Bello 8864111220 Simone 5 3.73 2009 Gli illuminati
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]]> I falsificatori 9617650 526 Antoine Bello 8864111212 Simone 5 3.53 2007 I falsificatori
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]]> <![CDATA[What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve]]> 51949252 "The author makes a compelling case that we often start solving a problem before thinking deeply about whether we are solving the right problem. If you want the superpower of solving better problems, read this book." -- Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google

Are you solving the right problems? Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to solve the right problems. The consequences are severe: Leaders fight the wrong strategic battles. Teams spend their energy on low-impact work. Startups build products that nobody wants. Organizations implement "solutions" that somehow make things worse, not better. Everywhere you look, the waste is staggering. As Peter Drucker pointed out, there's nothing more dangerous than the right answer to the wrong question.

There is a way to do better.

The key is reframing, a crucial, underutilized skill that you can master with the help of this book. Using real-world stories and unforgettable examples like "the slow elevator problem," author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg offers a simple, three-step method - Frame, Reframe, Move Forward - that anyone can use to start solving the right problems. Reframing is not difficult to learn. It can be used on everyday challenges and on the biggest, trickiest problems you face. In this visually engaging, deeply researched book, you’ll learn from leaders at large companies, from entrepreneurs, consultants, nonprofit leaders, and many other breakthrough thinkers.

It's time for everyone to stop barking up the wrong trees. Teach yourself and your team to reframe, and growth and success will follow.

]]> 232 Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg 1633697231 Simone 0 to-read 4.25 2020 What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve
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]]> <![CDATA[The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer]]> 39088907 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible story of the discoveries of the tricks cancer uses to avoid the immune system, and the important new therapies already unleashing the immune system to fight -- and beat -- the disease.
Four years in the writing, The Breakthrough is an "exciting read" about the discoveries which received the 2018 Nobel Prize winning discoveries in October, and a dramatic and exciting turning point in our relationship with a disease that has for too long defined us.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why doesn't our immune system recognize and fight cancer the way it does other diseases, like the common cold?
As it turns out, the answer to that question can be traced to a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses-tricks that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat. The result is what many are calling cancer's "penicillin moment," a revolutionary discovery in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.
In THE BREAKTHROUGH, Graeber guides readers through the revolutionary scientific research bringing immunotherapy out of the realm of the miraculous and into the forefront of twenty-first-century medical science. As advances in the fields of cancer research and the human immune system continue to fuel a therapeutic arms race among biotech and pharmaceutical research centers around the world, the next step-harnessing the wealth of new information to create modern and more effective patient therapies-is unfolding at an unprecedented pace, rapidly redefining our relationship with this all-too-human disease.
Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, THE BREAKTHROUGH is the story of the game-changing scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognize and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and cancer immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, a dispatch from the life-changing world of modern oncological science, and a brave new chapter in medical history]]> 320 Charles Graeber 1455568503 Simone 0 to-read 4.27 2018 The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
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]]> The Magic of Thinking Big 759945 238 David J. Schwartz 0671646788 Simone 0 to-read 4.26 1959 The Magic of Thinking Big
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]]> <![CDATA[Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything]]> 43261127
When it comes to change, tiny is mighty. Start with two pushups a day, not a two-hour workout; or five deep breaths each morning rather than an hour of meditation. In Tiny Habits, B.J. Fogg brings his experience coaching more than 40,000 people to help you lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or achieve any goal of your choice.  You just need Fogg’s behavior formula: make it easy, make it fit your life, and make it rewarding. Whenever you get in your car, take one yoga breath. Smile.  Whenever you get in bed, turn off your phone. Give yourself a high five. 

Change can be easy—once it starts, it grows.  Let B.J. Fogg show you exactly how.]]> 320 B.J. Fogg 0358003326 Simone 0 to-read 4.13 2019 Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
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]]> Such a Fun Age 43923951 Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.

But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.

With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone family, and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.]]> 310 Kiley Reid 052554190X Simone 0 to-read 3.76 2019 Such a Fun Age
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]]> <![CDATA[Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature]]> 432853 308 Janine M. Benyus 0060533226 Simone 0 to-read 3.99 1997 Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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]]> <![CDATA[The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power]]> 22891629
“It’s a triumphant work that transcends the title, lifting the reader from mere motivation into a soaringly purposeful and meaningful life. I love this book." —Paulo Coelho

The Motivation Manifesto is a call to claim our personal power. World-renowned high performance trainer Brendon Burchard reveals that the main motive of humankind is the pursuit of greater Personal Freedom.

We desire the grand liberties of choice—time freedom, emotional freedom, social freedom, financial freedom, spiritual freedom.

Only two enemies stand in our an external enemy, defined as the social oppression of who we are by the mediocre masses, and an internal enemy, a sort of self-oppression caused by our own doubt and fear.

The march to Personal Freedom, Brendon says, can be won only by declaring our intent and independence, stepping into our personal power, and battling through self-doubt and the distractions of the day until full victory is won.

Recalling the revolutionist voices of the past that chose freedom over tyranny, Brendon motivates us to free ourselves from fear and take back our lives once and for all.

In this life-changing personal growth book, Brendon presents his nine declarations for personal power and motivation, drawing on insights from his own personal journey and from the lives of some of history's greatest leaders and thinkers.

Each chapter focuses on one of the nine declarations, offering practical strategies and exercises to help you apply these principles to your life.

Whether you're seeking to overcome self-doubt, boost your confidence, or achieve your goals, The Motivation Manifesto is an invaluable guide to unlocking your full potential.

With its inspiring message and actionable advice, this bestselling book is a must-read for anyone who wants to unleash their inner greatness with the power of determination, resilience, and an empowering mindset.]]> 236 Brendon Burchard 1401948073 Simone 0 to-read 4.01 2014 The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power
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]]> <![CDATA[All That Is Solid Melts Into Air]]> 18505785 464 Darragh McKeon 0062246879 Simone 0 to-read 3.85 2014 All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
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]]> <![CDATA[Summary of Switch: by Chip Heath and Dan Heath | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review]]> 28229544 33 Eureka Books 1944195505 Simone 0 to-read 4.18 Summary of Switch: by Chip Heath and Dan Heath | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google]]> 34427200 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.

For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway.

Instead of buying the myths these compa-nies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they're almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world's first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal-lenge them?

In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world's most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can't match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career.

Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.]]> 320 Scott Galloway 0735213658 Simone 4 3.80 2017 The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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]]> The 4-Hour Workweek 368593
Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want?
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs?
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist?
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"?
- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income?
- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair?
- What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks?
- How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet?
- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are?
- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off?
- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office]]> 308 Timothy Ferriss 0307353133 Simone 0 3.93 2007 The 4-Hour Workweek
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]]> M. Il figlio del secolo 41731319 841 Antonio Scurati 8845298132 Simone 5 4.18 2018 M. Il figlio del secolo
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]]> Stoner 166997
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]> 292 John Williams 1590171993 Simone 5 4.35 1965 Stoner
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]]> <![CDATA[Le 10 mappe che spiegano il mondo]]> 35393157 Non c'è storia senza geografia

Per comprendere quel che accade nel mondo abbiamo sempre studiato la politica, l’economia, i trattati internazionali. Ma senza geografia, suggerisce Tim Marshall, non avremo mai il quadro complessivo degli eventi: ogni volta che i leader del mondo prendono decisioni operative, infatti, devono fare i conti con la presenza di mari e fiumi, di catene montuose e deserti. Perché il potere della Cina continua ad aumentare? Perché l’Europa non sarà mai veramente unita? Perché Putin sembra ossessionato dalla Crimea? Perché gli Stati Uniti erano destinati a diventare una superpotenza mondiale? Le risposte a queste domande, e a molte altre, risiedono nelle dieci fondamentali mappe scelte per questo libro, che descrivono il mondo dalla Russia all’America Latina, dal Medio Oriente all’Africa, dall’Europa alla Corea. Con uno stile chiaro e una prosa appassionante, Marshall racconta in che modo le caratteristiche geografiche di un paese hanno condizionato la sua forza e la sua debolezza nel corso della storia e, così facendo, prova a immaginare il futuro delle zone più calde del pianeta.

]]> 288 Tim Marshall 8811147921 Simone 5 4.08 2015 Le 10 mappe che spiegano il mondo
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]]> <![CDATA[Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance]]> 27213329
Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments.

Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not genius, but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own character lab and set out to test her theory.

Here, she takes readers into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers; from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.

Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that not talent or luck makes all the difference.]]> 277 Angela Duckworth 1443442313 Simone 5 4.07 2016 Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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