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$100M Lost Chapters

Alex Hormozi

A compilation of unreleased chapters from Alex Hormozi's $100M Series that deepen understanding of avatar selection, free/discount/premium promotions, customer-financed acquisition math, offer stacking, and lead-getting employees.

12_ The Elements of Great Managing

Rodd Wagner & James Harter

Drawing on Gallup's massive employee-opinion database, the book identifies twelve measurable elements of work life that great managers cultivate to drive engagement, performance, and profitability.

A Philosophy of Software Design (2nd Edition)

John Ousterhout

Software complexity is the root enemy of programmer productivity, and every design decision should be evaluated by how much it reduces or increases complexity in the system as a whole.

A Practical Guide To Conjoint Analysis

A concise practical guide that explains how conjoint analysis infers the value consumers place on individual product attributes by analyzing their ratings of or choices among realistically described products.

A Theory of Human Motivation (Hardcover Library Edition)

Human beings are perpetually wanting animals whose needs arrange themselves into a hierarchy of prepotency, so that satisfying lower needs releases the emergence of higher ones culminating in self-actualization.

Advertising Works 15

A curated collection of 22 prize-winning case studies from the 2006 IPA Effectiveness Awards that forensically prove how investment in marketing communications generates measurable, financially quantifiable business returns.

Agile Workforce Planning

Adam Gibson

A comprehensive, practical methodology for aligning an organization's people strategy with its business strategy through an agile, iterative six-stage workforce planning framework.

AI Agents and Applications (with LangChain, LangGraph, and MCP)

Roberto Infante

A hands-on developer guide that takes you from LLM prompt basics through advanced RAG, multi-tool agents, multi-agent systems, and the Model Context Protocol using LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith.

AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models

Chip Huyen

A comprehensive engineering guide for building production-ready AI applications on top of foundation models, covering the full stack from evaluation and prompt engineering to RAG, finetuning, inference optimization, and deployment architecture.

An a to Z Guidebook on Microservices An Introduction Explaining Microservices and Their Patterns Microservices Patterns Book

Jarred Nawda

A comprehensive A-to-Z introduction to microservices architecture that walks developers and architects through every foundational concept, pattern, and practice needed to design, build, and operate distributed systems.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R

Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani

A practical, accessible introduction to statistical learning that teaches the major supervised and unsupervised methods for understanding and predicting from data, with hands-on Python labs.

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (Dover Books on Biology)

A pioneering physiologist lays out the principles of the experimental method so that medicine can move from empirical guesswork to a true, deterministic science grounded in experimentation on living beings.

Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results

Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, Robert Morison

A practical, implementation-focused guide showing how any organization can build the capabilities to put analytics to work in everyday decisions and processes to make smarter decisions and get better results.

Antifragile (Incerto)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some things benefit from shocks, volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors—and the book builds a systematic, nonpredictive way to identify, classify, and exploit this property called antifragility across health, economics, politics, technology, and ethics.

Anxiety at Work_ 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done

Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

A practical leadership guide showing managers how to identify, reduce, and prevent workplace anxiety using eight evidence-based strategies that build resilience and improve team performance.

Applied Multivariate Stats Social Sciences Stevens

A practical guide for social science students and researchers on how to apply, interpret, and critically evaluate common multivariate statistical techniques using SPSS and SAS, emphasizing conceptual understanding, assumption checking, and the generalizability of results.

Applied Univariate Bivariate Multivariate Denis

A beginner's hands-on guide to applying a wide range of fundamental statistical techniques, from t-tests to multivariate analysis, using Python, with a strong emphasis on conceptual understanding over rote coding.

Architecture Patterns with Python

Harry J. W. Percival & Bob Gregory

A practical guide to applying Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, and Event-Driven Architecture patterns in Python to build maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled systems.

Artificial Intelligence

A comprehensive AI knowledge resource that guides organizations and professionals from foundational AI literacy through practical adoption frameworks, ethical governance, and workforce transformation strategies needed to thrive in an AI-driven future.

Artificial Intelligence - A Very Short Introduction

Margaret A. Boden

A concise, expert tour of what artificial intelligence is, how its major approaches work, what it can and cannot do, and what its philosophical and social implications are.

Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy)

An edited European collection that demonstrates how empirical research methods can be rigorously applied to evaluate process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents without betraying the clinical complexity of the work.

Assessment Methods Recruitment Selection Edenborough

A manager's guide to the theory and practice of using objective assessment methods—psychometric tests, structured interviews, and assessment centres—to improve recruitment, selection, and performance management.

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Small, consistent habit changes—compounded over time and anchored in identity—produce remarkable results, and four behavioral laws make those changes systematic and durable.

Bandura_s Self-Efficacy Theory in Action

A practical guide that translates Albert Bandura's self-efficacy theory into concrete classroom strategies for instruction, practice, and behaviour.

Basic Marketing: A Marketing Strategy Planning Approach

William D. Perreault, Joseph P. Cannon, E. Jerome McCarthy

A foundational textbook that teaches managerial marketing through the four Ps and a target-market-centered marketing strategy planning process.

Basics Qualitative Research Grounded Theory Corbin Strauss

A practical guide that demystifies qualitative data analysis by providing a systematic set of techniques, grounded in Pragmatism and Interactionism, for transforming raw data into credible concepts, rich descriptions, and integrated theories.

Bayesian Multilevel Models for Repeated Measures dаta A Conceptual and Practical Introduction in R

Santiago Barreda, Noah Silbert

A practical, hands-on introduction to building, fitting, and interpreting Bayesian multilevel models for repeated measures data using the R package brms.

Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things_ Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014, HarperBusiness) - libgen.li

A battle-tested guide to the brutal, recipe-less challenges of building and running a company, told through Ben Horowitz's near-death experiences leading Loudcloud and Opsware.

Beyond Hr Boudreau Ramstad

This book introduces 'talentship,' a new decision science for human capital, to help organizations move beyond traditional HR by making strategic, differentiated talent decisions that create sustainable competitive advantage.

Beyond Multiple Linear Regression Applied Generalized Linear Models And Multilevel Models in R

Paul Roback, Julie Legler

An applied textbook that teaches statisticians and data analysts how to move beyond standard linear regression to effectively model non-normal and correlated data using Generalized Linear Models and Multilevel Models in R.

Big Data_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Dawn E. Holmes

A concise introduction to what big data is, how it is collected, stored, and analysed, and how it is transforming medicine, business, security, and society.

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier

Big data—the ability to analyze vast quantities of information rather than samples—is transforming how we understand the world by privileging correlation over causation, scale over exactitude, and prediction over explanation.

Blitzscaling

Blitzscaling is the strategy of prioritizing speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty to achieve massive, market-dominating scale faster than competitors.

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

A strategy framework arguing that lasting profitable growth comes not from competing in existing, overcrowded 'red oceans' but from creating uncontested new market space ('blue oceans') through value innovation that makes the competition irrelevant.

Book Summary_ The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

A failing plant manager, guided by a Socratic physicist named Jonah, discovers that the goal of any manufacturing organization is to make money, and learns to manage by identifying and exploiting system constraints rather than chasing local efficiencies.

Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition (MEAP) With Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform

Ashley Davis

A hands-on, practical guide that takes developers from zero to a fully deployed, continuously delivered microservices application using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform—cutting through the steep learning curve by building a real video-streaming platform step by step.

Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition With Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform

Ashley Davis

A hands-on, project-driven guide that walks developers from zero to a fully deployed, production-ready microservices application using Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.

Breakthrough Advertising

Eugene Schwartz

A master mail-order copywriter reveals that advertising works not by creating desire but by channeling pre-existing mass desire onto a product through the strategic crafting of headlines and body copy.

Building a StoryBrand

A seven-part, story-based communication framework that teaches businesses to clarify their message by casting the customer as the hero and the brand as the guide, so more customers listen and buy.

Business Adventures

Through twelve richly reported case studies from Wall Street and corporate America, John Brooks reveals the enduring human dramas, follies, and institutional behaviors that define financial and business life.

Business Applications of Operations Research

This book demonstrates how to use mathematical Operations Research techniques and software to solve a wide range of common business problems and optimize decision-making across various management functions.

Business Intelligence and Big Data

A scholarly synthesis arguing that organizational success in the digital age depends on building Business Intelligence and Big Data (BI&BD) capabilities to convert data into knowledge, value, and competitive advantage.

Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to Analytics

Rick Sherman

A comprehensive, vendor-agnostic practitioner's guide to building a sustainable business intelligence environment from data integration through advanced analytics, with emphasis that BI success depends as much on people, process, and politics as on technology.

Case Study Research Design Methods Yin

A comprehensive methodological guide for designing and conducting rigorous case study research in the social sciences to produce valid, reliable, and generalizable findings.

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick

A Wharton professor guides readers through the alien nature of Large Language Models, offering four principles for working alongside AI as a genuine co-intelligence rather than fearing or blindly trusting it.

Cognitive Therapy of Depression

Aaron Beck and colleagues lay out the theory and practice of cognitive therapy for depression, demonstrating that correcting inaccurate beliefs and maladaptive information processing relieves symptoms and, uniquely among treatments, produces enduring effects that reduce future relapse.

Common Sense

A practical guide to using strategic human resources processes to drive business execution by getting the right people in the right jobs doing the right things the right way while supporting the right development.

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

Paul Jarvis

A manifesto and practical guide arguing that questioning growth and staying small on purpose is a smarter, more resilient, and more profitable way to build a business and a life.

Compensating Employees Fairly

A practical, statistically grounded guide to measuring and achieving internal pay equity so employers can detect, prevent, and remedy compensation discrimination before it becomes litigation.

Compensating the Sales Force_ A Practical Guide to Designing Winning Sales Reward Programs, Second Edition

David J. Cichelli

A practical, job-content-driven guide to designing, constructing, administering, and assessing sales compensation plans that align seller behavior with company strategy.

Compensating the Sales Force, Third Edition_ A Practical Guide to Designing Winning Sales Reward Programs

David J. Cichelli

A practical, comprehensive guide to designing strategically aligned, motivating sales compensation plans by grounding plan design in sales job content and the point of persuasion.

Compensation

Lance A. Berger & Dorothy Berger

A comprehensive, multi-author reference that shows compensation and HR professionals how to design, implement, and audit pay programs that align with business strategy, culture, and talent management to create sustainable competitive advantage.

Compensation (Milkovich, Newman & Gerhart)

George T. Milkovich, Jerry M. Newman, Barry Gerhart

A comprehensive textbook that provides a strategic framework for designing and managing compensation systems to drive organizational performance, ensure fairness, and maintain legal compliance.

Compensation and Benefit Design

Bashker D. Biswas

A technical guide that teaches human resource professionals how to apply finance and accounting principles to the design, costing, and administration of global compensation and benefit programs.

Compensation: Theory, Evidence, and Strategic Implications

Barry Gerhart, Sara L. Rynes

An interdisciplinary, research-based examination of how organizations decide pay level, pay structure, and pay basis, and how those compensation choices affect individual and organizational outcomes.

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris

A definitive guide showing how companies turn sophisticated data analysis into a distinctive, hard-to-copy capability that drives superior competitive performance.

Competing on Analytics: Updated, with a New Introduction

Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris

A field-defining guide arguing that organizations can build durable competitive advantage by systematically using data, statistical and quantitative analysis, and fact-based decision making as a distinctive strategic capability.

Competitive Strategy

A foundational guide that introduces timeless frameworks, including the Five Forces, for analyzing industry structure and competitor behavior to formulate a strategy that achieves sustainable competitive advantage and superior profitability.

Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer

A comprehensive primer on how to build, calibrate, maintain, and validate computerized adaptive tests (CAT) that tailor item selection to each examinee while preserving measurement quality, fairness, and security.

Confessions of an Advertising Man

David Ogilvy

David Ogilvy distills the principles, craft, and ethics of running an advertising agency and creating advertising that sells.

Consulting Frameworks Startup

A concise guide to the most common consulting frameworks and how to deploy them to ace case interviews and solve real business problems.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger

Products, ideas, and behaviors catch on not because of luck or special people, but because they embody six shareable qualities captured in the STEPPS framework.

Content Inc.: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful

Joe Pulizzi

A proven, audience-first business model that flips conventional startup wisdom by building a loyal content audience before defining products or services.

Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition (Collins Business Essentials)

A field-tested marketing model explaining why disruptive high-tech products stall between early enthusiasts and mainstream buyers, and how to bridge that gap to achieve market dominance.

Cultural Analytics

Lev Manovich

Cultural Analytics argues that the only way to truly understand contemporary global culture at its unprecedented scale is to apply computational methods and data science to the systematic study of cultural artifacts, behaviors, and trends.

Cultures and Organizations_ Software of the Mind, Third Edition

Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede & Michael Minkov

A research-grounded account of how national, organizational, and occupational cultures differ along measurable dimensions, why those differences persist, and what they mean for cooperation in an interdependent world.

Data Analysis with LLMs

Immanuel Trummer

A hands-on guide showing developers and data scientists how to use large language models—across text, tables, images, audio, and graphs—to build effective, cost-efficient data analysis pipelines in Python.

Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications

Galit Shmueli, Peter C. Bruce, Inbal Yahav, Nitin R. Patel, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr.

A practical, hands-on guide that teaches the core concepts, techniques, and applications of data mining for business analytics using R, organized around a disciplined predictive-modeling process.

Data Science Bookcamp

Leonard Apeltsin

A project-driven Python bootcamp that teaches probability, statistics, machine learning, and NLP through five progressively complex real-world case studies, requiring no prior math background.

Data Science Bookcamp_ Ten case studies MEAP V01

A project-driven Python bootcamp that teaches data science by solving five realistic, open-ended case studies spanning probability, statistics, machine learning, NLP, and network analysis.

Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett

A conceptual guide that distills the fundamental principles underlying data science so that business people and aspiring data scientists can think data-analytically about extracting useful knowledge from data to improve business decisions.

Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python

Joel Grus

A hands-on introduction to data science that teaches the core concepts, algorithms, and mathematics by implementing everything from scratch in Python rather than relying on existing libraries.

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

John W. Foreman

A hands-on guide that teaches the core algorithms of data science from scratch using spreadsheets (and finally R), so business people can understand, prototype, and deploy these techniques without first buying tools or hiring consultants.

Data Warehouse and Data Mining

A comprehensive textbook that teaches the foundational concepts, architectures, and techniques of data warehousing and data mining and their real-world applications.

Data-Driven HR

Bernard Marr

A practical guide showing HR professionals how to harness the explosion of data, analytics, and AI to transform people management from an administrative function into a strategic, value-adding driver of organizational performance.

Data-Driven Marketing with Artificial Intelligence: Harness the Power of Predictive Marketing and Machine Learning

Martin Wass, Magnus Unemyr

A practical, non-technical guide for marketers and executives on how artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning are transforming marketing into a data-driven, autonomous, and hyper-personalized discipline.

Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know

Mark Jeffery

A practical guide showing that focusing on just 15 essential marketing metrics lets any organization measure, justify, and radically improve marketing performance and gain competitive advantage.

Design for Developers

Adrian Twarog, George Moller

A practical, step-by-step visual design guide that teaches developers and non-designers the core formulas of color theory, typography, component design, visual hierarchy, and design systems so they can build beautiful, usable interfaces.

Design for Developers

Stephanie Stimac

A practical guide that teaches web developers the visual design and user experience fundamentals they need to build polished, well-structured websites with confidence.

Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)

Irmtraud N. Gallhofer & Willem E. Saris

A systematic, science-based method for designing survey questions, predicting their measurement quality before data collection, and correcting for measurement error in analysis.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

A deep, principles-first guide to the architecture of reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems, explaining the trade-offs behind databases, distributed systems, and data processing.

Designing Global Sales Incentive Plans_ Step-By-Step Guide

A practical nine-step framework for diagnosing sales performance problems and designing globally consistent yet locally flexible sales incentive plans.

Designing Machine Learning Systems

Chip Huyen

A holistic, iterative framework for designing production-ready machine learning systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptive across every stage from data engineering to continual learning.

Developing and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments (Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods)

Neil Abell, David W. Springer .

A practical, step-by-step guide for social work practitioners and researchers on how to design, develop, and psychometrically validate rapid assessment instruments using classical test theory and factor analysis.

Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture

Kim S. Cameron & Robert E. Quinn

A practical, research-grounded guide to diagnosing and transforming organizational culture using the Competing Values Framework and its validated assessment instruments.

Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition

Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin

In an era of overwhelming consumer choice and killer competition, businesses must find and communicate a meaningful point of differentiation or perish.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook

Bill Aulet

A hands-on workbook of templates, worksheets, and process guides that operationalizes Bill Aulet's 24 Steps of Disciplined Entrepreneurship so founders can systematically build an innovation-driven startup around a paying customer.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

Bill Aulet

Entrepreneurship can be taught as a disciplined, 24-step, customer-first process for systematically creating an innovation-driven new venture that produces a product customers will pay for.

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

Domain-Driven Design argues that the key to building complex, long-lived software is tightly coupling a rich, collaboratively developed domain model to every aspect of the implementation, from code to team communication.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

Drawing on decades of behavioral science, Daniel Pink argues that the traditional carrot-and-stick approach to motivation is obsolete and that true high performance flows from autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Effective Data Science Infrastructure

Ville Tuulos

A practical guide to building human-centric infrastructure that empowers data scientists to develop, deploy, and operate machine learning applications end-to-end without becoming DevOps experts.

Epic Content Marketing: Break through the Clutter with a Different Story

Joe Pulizzi, Brian Piper

A comprehensive guide to building loyal audiences and growing a business by consistently creating and distributing valuable, differentiated content rather than interrupting people with product-centric advertising.

Excellence in People Analytics

Jonathan Ferrar & David Green

A practical, case-study-rich guide showing how organizations can use workforce data to create measurable business value through nine interconnected dimensions of people analytics excellence.

Executive Compensation

Andrew Stumpff

A casebook that maps the patchwork of U.S. tax, securities, ERISA, state corporate, and employment law governing how American executives are paid, while interrogating whether high executive pay reflects market forces or a governance failure.

Experimental Quasiexperimental Designs Shadish

A comprehensive guide to designing and interpreting experimental and quasi-experimental studies to draw valid inferences about cause, effect, and their generalization to broader populations, settings, treatments, and outcomes.

Exploratory Factor Analysis (Understanding Statistics)

Marley W. Watkins

A practical, formula-light, step-by-step guide to conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in SPSS using evidence-based best practices.

Facebook Advertising

Edwards, Charles

A beginner's practical guide to setting up, targeting, budgeting, and optimizing Facebook (and Instagram) advertising campaigns to grow a business.

Factor Analysis Sem Joreskog

A collection of foundational papers by Karl Jöreskog and Dag Sörbom that establishes a general statistical framework (LISREL) for confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, enabling researchers to specify, estimate, and test complex causal models involving latent variables and measurement error.

First, Break All the Rules_ What the World_s Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

Based on Gallup's massive study of over 80,000 managers and a million employees, this book reveals that great managers reject conventional wisdom and instead select for talent, define outcomes, focus on strengths, and find the right fit for each person.

Flourish_ A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being

Martin Seligman reframes the goal of positive psychology from increasing happiness to building flourishing, defined by five measurable elements—positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (PERMA)—and shows how these can be taught and built in individuals, schools, armies, and nations.

Flow (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Happiness is not a matter of luck or external circumstance but a skill: it arises from learning to control the contents of consciousness so as to experience 'flow'—the state of complete, ordered absorption in an optimally challenging activity.

Founder’s Pocket Guide_ Cap Tables

A concise, practical guide that teaches startup founders how to build and use a capitalization table to track equity ownership, model funding rounds, and plan exits.

Founder’s Pocket Guide_ Founder Equity Splits

A concise, practical playbook for startup founders to fairly and objectively divide equity ownership among co-founders and protect that split with vesting schedules.

Founder’s Pocket Guide_ Raising Angel Capital

A concise, practical handbook that walks early-stage startup founders through understanding angel investors and successfully raising angel capital.

Founder’s Pocket Guide_ Startup Valuation

A concise, practical handbook teaching early-stage founders how to estimate, justify, and negotiate a reasonable pre-money valuation for their startup.

Founder’s Pocket Guide_ Stock Options and Equity Compensation

A concise, practical handbook that demystifies how startups use stock options and equity compensation to attract, motivate, and retain talent within US tax and securities rules.

Founder’s Pocket Guide_ Term Sheets and Preferred Shares

A plain-English field guide that demystifies startup investment term sheets and preferred share rights so founders can negotiate funding deals intelligently before paying lawyers.

From Invention to Patent Voldman

A practical, end-to-end guide that teaches scientists and engineers how to recognize their own inventiveness, document inventions, draft patents, navigate office actions, and build patent portfolios.

Fundamentals of HR Analytics A Manual on Becoming HR Analytical

Fermin Diez, Mark Bussin, Venessa Lee

A practical manual showing HR practitioners how to apply data, statistics, and analytical thinking to connect HR policies and practices to measurable business performance.

Fundamentals of Social Research

A beginner-friendly guide that marries social research methods with statistics to teach students—especially social workers and development officers—how to conduct systematic, objective, and ethical inquiry.

Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

Mark Richards & Neal Ford

A comprehensive modern engineering guide that equips architects and aspiring architects with the analytical frameworks, architectural styles, and soft skills needed to make principled trade-off decisions in an ever-evolving software ecosystem.

Generative Deep Learning

David Foster

A hands-on technical guide to building generative deep learning models that can paint, write, compose music, and play games by teaching machines to create original content through VAEs, GANs, RNNs, and reinforcement learning.

Get Programming with JavaScript

John R. Larsen

A hands-on, project-driven introduction to JavaScript that teaches complete beginners the core concepts of programming by building a text-based adventure game and a suite of mini-apps from scratch.

Getting It Published Germano

An insider's guide for scholars and serious nonfiction writers on how to successfully navigate the academic publishing process, from writing a winning proposal to promoting the finished book.

Getting Published Hook an Agent Bingham

A practical guide for aspiring authors on navigating the traditional publishing industry, from manuscript preparation and securing a literary agent to negotiating deals and building a sustainable writing career.

Goal Setting & Team Management with OKR - Objectives and Key Results_ Skills for Effective Office Leadership, Smart Business Focus, & Growth. How to Manage Projects, People & Employees. 2nd Edition

Thomas Pearson

A practical guide to adopting the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) framework to set ambitious goals, align teams, and lead an engaged, high-performing workforce.

Good Strategy Bad Strategy Rumelt

A good strategy is a coherent response to a critical challenge, consisting of a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coordinated actions, while the common affliction of 'bad strategy' is merely a mix of wishful thinking, buzzwords, and ambitious goals.

Good to Great

A rigorous, data-driven investigation reveals how a small number of companies successfully transitioned from being merely good to achieving enduring greatness by applying a framework of disciplined principles, consistently, over time.

Google Analytics and GA4: Improve Your Online Sales by Better Understanding Customer Data

Christopher Pittman

A beginner-friendly guide that teaches small business owners how to set up, navigate, and use Google Analytics and GA4 to understand customer behavior and improve online sales.

Graph Databases in Action

Dave Bechberger & Josh Perryman

A hands-on guide that teaches developers how to model, query, and build production applications on graph databases using Apache TinkerPop's Gremlin language, illustrated through the end-to-end development of a restaurant recommendation app called DiningByFriends.

Great Course - Great Ideas of Psychology

A sweeping intellectual history of psychology that traces its great ideas from ancient Greek philosophy through behaviorism, cognitivism, psychobiology, and artificial intelligence, while questioning whether psychology can ever be a 'science' in the way physics is.

Great Course - Psychology of Human Behavior

A 36-lecture survey of modern psychology that examines human behavior from both clinical and experimental perspectives, framed by scientific method and increasingly informed by evolutionary theory.

Great Course - Psychology of Performance

A clinical sport psychologist distills the science of excellence into a practical system for performing your best in any domain by training your mind to value, accept, focus, and commit—no matter how you feel.

Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising

Ryan Holiday

A primer arguing that the future of marketing is growth hacking—building testable, trackable, scalable customer acquisition into the product itself rather than relying on expensive traditional advertising.

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown

Hacking Growth lays out a cross-functional, data-driven, rapid-experimentation methodology that today's fastest-growing companies use to systematically acquire, activate, retain, and monetize customers.

Hacking Marketing

Marketing has become a digital, software-powered profession, and marketers can dramatically improve agility, innovation, scalability, and talent by borrowing and adapting management practices forged in software development.

Halo Effect Rosenzweig

A critical examination of popular business thinking, revealing how the Halo Effect and eight other delusions cause us to mistake attributions for the causes of company performance, leading to a flawed understanding of success.

Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics

Keith McNulty

A practical handbook teaching the theory and applied methods of graph and network analysis for studying people, groups and organizations, with worked examples in R and Python.

Handbook of Marketing Scales Multi-Item Measures for Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research

William O. Bearden, Richard G. Netemeyer .

A comprehensive reference compendium of psychometrically validated multi-item measurement scales for marketing and consumer behavior research, organized by topical domain.

Handbook of organizational measurement

Price, James L

A foundational handbook designed to standardize and improve the empirical measurement of key concepts in the study of organizations.

Handbook of Regression Modeling in People Analytics

Keith McNulty

A practical handbook teaching analytics practitioners how to select, run, and interpret the full range of regression models for inferential analysis of people-related questions, with worked examples in R and Python.

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Aurélien Géron

A hands-on, code-first guide that teaches the concepts, tools, and techniques needed to build intelligent systems using Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, from fundamental ML algorithms to deep learning.

Hierarchical Linear Models Raudenbush Bryk

This book provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to hierarchical linear models (HLM), a class of statistical methods for analyzing data with nested or multilevel structures, such as students within schools or repeated measures within individuals.

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

A practicing CEO teaches managers that their true output is the output of their team, and shows how applying production principles, leverage, and motivation systematically raises that output.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover

A practical framework—the four-phase Hook Model—for designing products that build habits by connecting users' internal triggers to a company's solution through cycles of trigger, action, variable reward, and investment.

How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know

Byron Sharp

An evidence-based demolition of conventional marketing wisdom, showing that brands grow chiefly by increasing market penetration and building mental and physical availability, not through differentiation, loyalty, or targeting.

How to Make Patent Drawings Lo

A practical, step-by-step manual that teaches inventors how to create their own formal patent drawings that meet strict U.S. Patent and Trademark Office requirements, using pen and ink, a computer, or a camera.

How to Measure Anything

A practical guide arguing that anything a manager cares about—however 'intangible'—can be measured by reframing measurement as the economically justified reduction of uncertainty to inform decisions.

Human + Machine

Paul R. Daugherty & H. James Wilson

In the age of AI, the greatest business value comes not from machines replacing humans but from humans and machines collaborating in a 'missing middle' to reimagine work and processes.

Inbound Marketing: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online

Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah

A practical playbook for replacing interruptive outbound marketing with inbound methods that attract, engage, and convert customers by getting found online through content, search, and social media.

Influence (Collins Business Essentials)

An experimental social psychologist reveals the six universal psychological principles that drive automatic human compliance and shows how to recognize and defend against their exploitation.

Information Architecture

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville & Jorge Arango

A practical, principles-based guide to information architecture—the discipline of structuring shared information environments to make content findable and understandable across websites, apps, and the broader cross-channel ecosystem.

Innovators Dilemma Christensen

Well-managed, successful companies fail to stay atop their industries because the very management practices that make them successful also prevent them from developing the disruptive technologies that ultimately usurp their markets.

Innovators Dna Dyer

Innovation is a developable skill, not just a genetic trait, stemming from five key discovery behaviors—associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting—that anyone can cultivate to generate creative ideas.

Innovators Solution Christensen

A practical guide for managers on how to create new growth businesses with predictable success by applying the theories of disruptive innovation.

Internet Marketing Essentials A Comprehensive Digital Marketing Textbook

Jeff Larson, Stuart Draper

A practical, up-to-date primer that teaches how the core disciplines of internet marketing—SEO, paid search, display advertising, landing pages, analytics, email, social media, reputation management, and mobile—work together to drive traffic, conversions, and revenue for any kind of website.

Internet Marketing Integrating Online and Offline Strategies

Mary Lou Roberts,_ Debra Zahay

A comprehensive guide to integrating online and offline marketing strategies across the customer lifecycle of acquisition, conversion, retention, and value growth.

Internet Marketing Made Easy

Cole Martins

A step-by-step beginner's guide to using internet marketing tools and techniques to promote products, drive high-quality traffic, and grow any business online.

Internet Marketing Metrics: The 8 Most Important Metrics to Track

A practical guide to the eight most important internet marketing metrics you must track to understand, optimize, and grow a profitable website.

Introduction to Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Data Science

A practitioner-oriented overview of the statistical and machine learning methods used across the data science lifecycle, emphasizing business applicability over math and code.

Introduction to Survey Sampling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Graham Kalton

A concise, practical guide to designing and analyzing probability sample surveys, balancing sampling theory with the real-world problems of frames, nonresponse, and complex designs.

Investing in People Financial Impact of Human Resource Initiatives (2nd Edition)

Wayne F. Cascio, John W. Boudreau

A decision-science approach to human resource measurement that shows leaders how to estimate the financial impact of HR initiatives and make better, evidence-based investments in talent.

Invisible Influence_ The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Other people invisibly shape almost every decision we make—what we buy, who we marry, how hard we try—and understanding how social influence works lets us harness it rather than be ruled by it.

Item Response Theory Fundamentals

This book provides a practical and accessible introduction to Item Response Theory (IRT), a modern measurement framework that overcomes the limitations of classical test theory to enable more precise, fair, and efficient psychological and educational assessment.

Jump Start Your Marketing Brain_ Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas

A data-driven, two-page-per-idea field guide that replaces marketing 'guru opinion' with statistically proven Scientific Advice and Practical Ideas for doubling your sales-and-marketing success rate.

Just Use Postgres

Denis Magda

A hands-on developer guide that reveals the full breadth and depth of PostgreSQL's capabilities—from classic relational features to JSON, full-text search, generative AI, time series, geospatial, and message queuing—arguing that one database is often all you need.

Leadership and the New Science

Margaret J. Wheatley

A management thinker argues that the discoveries of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory offer a radically new and more hopeful way to lead organizations in a world of constant change.

Leading Organization Design

Gregory Kesler & Amy Kates

A practical, five-milestone process for business leaders to make deliberate organization design decisions that translate strategy into executable capabilities, balanced power relationships, and the right talent.

Leading Teams

J. Richard Hackman

Effective work teams come not from leaders managing behavior in real time but from leaders creating and sustaining five enabling conditions that set the stage for great team performance.

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz

A practical guide to using the right metrics at the right stage of a startup to validate problems, build products people want, and grow a sustainable business faster.

Lean Recruitment_ Finding Better Talent Faster

Gary Romano & Alison LaRocca

A practical, three-phase methodology that lets small and medium-sized organizations recruit top talent faster and cheaper than traditional hiring or recruitment firms.

Learning from Data: A Short Course

Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

A comprehensive introductory textbook that teaches statistical reasoning as a way of learning about the world from variable, messy data through descriptive and inferential procedures.

Lords of Strategy Kiechel

An intellectual history of the corporate strategy revolution, chronicling the pioneering consultants and academics who invented the concepts and frameworks that define modern business competition.

Machine Learning and Data Science

A practical, math-light introduction to applying statistical learning and machine learning methods using the R programming environment across the full data science workflow.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Some ideas survive and thrive while others die, and the difference lies in six learnable principles that make ideas 'sticky'—understood, remembered, and capable of changing behavior.

Madness and Civilization

A historical-philosophical excavation of how Western civilization, between the Renaissance and the modern age, progressively divided reason from unreason and reconstituted madness as mental illness through confinement, moral judgment, and the medical asylum.

Managing Employee Performance and Reward Shields

A conceptually integrated treatment of employee performance management and reward management that argues both must be designed and aligned using a 'best fit' strategic approach to elicit desired employee attitudes, behaviours, competencies and results.

Mans search for meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

A Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist argues that the deepest human drive is the search for meaning, which can be fulfilled under any conditions—even the most agonizing—through how we choose to respond to life.

Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit

Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan

Marketing 3.0 argues that the next era of marketing treats consumers as whole human beings—mind, heart, and spirit—by embedding mission, vision, and values centered on making the world a better place into every aspect of the business.

Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital

Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan

Marketing 4.0 shows how marketers can blend traditional and digital approaches to guide connected customers along a new path from awareness to advocacy in the digital economy.

Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity

Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan

Marketing 5.0 shows how companies can apply human-mimicking technologies—AI, NLP, sensors, robotics, mixed reality, IoT, and blockchain—to create, communicate, deliver, and enhance value across the customer journey while keeping humanity at the center.

Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business

Paul Roetzer, Mike Kaput

A practical, nontechnical guide showing marketers how to understand, pilot, and scale artificial intelligence to make their marketing smarter, more efficient, and more human.

Marketing Made Simple

A step-by-step checklist for building a marketing sales funnel that uses clear, story-driven words to turn curious prospects into paying customers.

Marketing Management

Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller

A comprehensive managerial guide to modern marketing that frames marketing as a holistic, value-creating discipline tasked with identifying and meeting customer needs profitably amid the new realities of technology, globalization, and social responsibility.

Marketing of services

A 1981 American Marketing Association conference proceedings compiling early academic and practitioner thought on why and how the marketing of intangible services differs from the marketing of physical goods.

Marketing plans how to prepare them, how to use them

McDonald, Malcolm

A practical, research-grounded guide that demystifies marketing planning by teaching managers how to prepare and use strategic and tactical marketing plans that match company capabilities to customer wants in order to create sustainable competitive advantage.

Mastering search advertising how the top 3 of search advertisers dominate Google AdWords

Stokes, Richard, 1971-

A data-driven playbook revealing the unwritten rules and statistical tactics the top 3% of Google AdWords advertisers use to dominate paid search.

Measurement_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

David J. Hand

A concise tour of what measurement actually is, how it spans a continuum from representational to pragmatic, and how it underpins—and shapes—our understanding across the physical, life, behavioural, and social sciences.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

C. G. Jung's autobiographical account of his inner life—dreams, visions, and confrontations with the unconscious—reveals how the self-realization of the unconscious shapes a meaningful human existence.

Methods of Meta Analysis Hunter Schmidt

A comprehensive guide to psychometric meta-analysis, a set of statistical methods for correcting error and bias in research findings to reveal the true underlying relationships across studies.

Microservices Patterns

Chris Richardson

A comprehensive pattern-language guide that teaches developers and architects how to design, build, test, deploy, and incrementally migrate to microservice-based applications by applying proven architectural and design patterns.

Modern Marketing

Paul Odame, Gloria Jubi

A practical compendium of SEO, social media, and internet marketing tactics aimed at helping website owners rank higher on Google and earn more money online.

Monolith to Microservices

Sam Newman

A practical, pattern-driven guide to incrementally decomposing existing monolithic systems into microservice architectures while managing organizational change, data migration, and the growing pains that follow.

Multilevel statistical models

Goldstein, Harvey, -, Goldstein, Harvey .

A comprehensive statistical textbook that introduces the theory and application of multilevel models for analyzing hierarchically structured and cross-classified data common in the social and biological sciences.

Networks_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Guido Caldarelli & Michele Catanzaro

A concise introduction to network science showing how the hidden web of connections among elements—rather than the elements themselves—governs the behavior of social, biological, technological, and economic systems.

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World

David Easley, Jon Kleinberg

An interdisciplinary introduction to how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected through networks, and how individual behavior aggregates into population-wide outcomes via structure, incentives, and feedback effects.

Obedience to Authority (Perennial Classics)

Stanley Milgram

Through a series of controlled laboratory experiments, Stanley Milgram demonstrates that ordinary people will inflict apparently lethal harm on an innocent person simply because a legitimate authority commands them to.

Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

April Dunford

A practical 10-step methodology for deliberately positioning products by setting the right market context so customers instantly understand why a product is uniquely valuable.

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

A master adman distills decades of experience and research into a practical, opinionated guide to producing advertising that actually sells products.

OKRs - From Mission to Metrics - How Objectives and Key Results Can Help Your Company Achieve Great Things

Francisco S. Homem de Mello

A practical, science-grounded guide to implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that actually work by detangling goals from compensation and running disciplined short cycles from mission down to metrics.

One hundred years of attrition research (2017)

Peter W. Hom, Jason D. Shaw, Thomas W. Lee & John P. Hausknecht

A century-spanning review of employee turnover theory and research that traces how scholarship moved from atheoretical cost-control studies to rich models of why people leave, why they stay, and how collective turnover shapes organizations.

Operations Research for Social Good

A practical guide that teaches data scientists and operations research practitioners how to model and solve real-world social good problems using mathematical optimization with SAS and Python.

Operations Research Using Excel

This book teaches students and practitioners how to solve complex business decision-making problems by applying quantitative Operations Research techniques using a case study approach with Excel.

Organizations_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Mary Jo Hatch

A concise tour of how and why humans organize, weaving metaphors, theories, and disciplines to show that organization, organizations, and organizing are distinct yet inseparable facets of coordinated human life.

Patent Copyright Trademark Desk Reference Stim

A comprehensive desk reference explaining the fundamental principles, processes, and legal statutes for protecting intellectual property through patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.

Patent It Yourself

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for inventors to evaluate the patentability of their idea, prepare and file their own U.S. patent application, and ultimately protect and market their invention without a lawyer.

Patent Law Essentials Durham

A concise guide to the principles, processes, and litigation of United States patent law, designed to be accessible for non-lawyers and a useful reference for legal practitioners.

Patent Strategy Implementation Rimai

A practical guide for inventors, scientists, and engineers on how to develop and implement a coherent patent strategy to protect their intellectual property and achieve commercial success.

Pay Matters_ The Art and Science of Employee Compensation

A practical guide that teaches HR professionals and business leaders how to build a fair, market-aligned, performance-based compensation system that retains talent and controls the organization's largest cost.

Pay People Right!: Breakthrough Reward Strategies to Create Great Companies

Patricia K. Zingheim, Jay R. Schuster

A practical guide showing how companies can align base pay, variable pay, recognition, and total rewards with business goals to create a win-win 'better workforce deal' that drives organizational success.

Peak

Expert performance is not the product of innate talent but of a specific, highly structured form of training called deliberate practice that harnesses the brain's and body's natural adaptability to build new skills and mental representations.

People Analytics & Text Mining with R

Cedric Ng Mong Shen

A practical, beginner-friendly guide to using free R software to run People Analytics, predictive HR modeling, social media mining, and text/sentiment analysis to link HR levers to business outcomes.

People Analytics Data to Decisions

Rahul Ghatak

A practitioner's guide showing how HR can transform from a gut-feel, transactional function into a data-driven strategic partner by deploying People Analytics across the entire employee lifecycle to drive measurable business outcomes.

People Analytics For Dummies

Mike West

A practical primer on applying data, science, statistics, and systems to human resources decisions so companies can attract, activate, and retain talent while becoming better places to work.

People Analytics in the Era of Big Data

Jean Paul Isson, Jesse S. Harriott

A practical framework for applying advanced analytics and Big Data across every stage of the talent life cycle to attract, acquire, develop, and retain a high-value workforce.

People Analytics Theory, Tools and Techniques

Pratyush Banerjee, Jatin Pandey .

A practical, hands-on guide that demystifies people analytics for managers and students by teaching the metrics, visualization tools, and statistical techniques needed to turn workforce data into evidence-based HR decisions.

Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends and Friends Into Customers

Seth Godin

In an age of overwhelming advertising clutter, marketers should stop interrupting strangers and instead earn consumers' permission to deliver anticipated, personal, and relevant messages over time.

Personnel Selection Adding Value Cook

A comprehensive guide to evidence-based personnel selection, arguing that the scientific use of validated assessment methods is a critical driver of organizational value and performance.

Personnel Selection in Organizations

Neil Schmitt, Walter C. Borman

Leading experts present a comprehensive overview of the cutting-edge science and practice of personnel selection, emphasizing a construct-oriented approach to understanding job performance, predictors, validity, and the impact of societal and organizational change.

Philosophy of Science_ Very Short Introduction

Samir Okasha

A concise tour of the central questions in philosophy of science—what science is, how scientific inference works, what explanation means, whether theories describe reality, how science changes, and how it relates to its critics.

Pioneers of Digital: Success Stories from Leaders in Advertising, Marketing, Search and Social Media

Paul Springer, Mel Carson

Through twenty behind-the-scenes profiles of innovators in advertising, marketing, search and social media, the book distills what it takes to pioneer in the digital era.

Playing to Win Lafley Martin

Two seasoned strategists reveal that winning in business is not about visions or plans, but about making a rigorous and integrated set of five choices that define where to play and how to win in the marketplace.

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

Al Ries, Jack Trout

In an overcommunicated society, marketing success comes not from changing minds but from finding and occupying a simple, distinct position in the prospect's mind relative to competitors.

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists

A practical reference that distills 50+ essential statistical and machine learning concepts—from exploratory data analysis to ensemble methods—and explains which ideas matter for data science and why, with parallel R and Python code.

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Robert B. Cialdini

The decisive moment for persuasion comes not during a message but in the privileged instant before it, when a communicator channels attention to ideas that pre-load the recipient to say yes.

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition

Dan Ariely

A behavioral economist demonstrates through clever experiments that human irrationality is not random but systematic and predictable, shaping the decisions we make about money, relationships, honesty, and happiness.

Predictive Analytics for Human Resources

Jac Fitz-enz, John R. Mattox II

A practical, step-by-step guide for HR professionals to move from descriptive metrics to predictive and prescriptive analytics that connect human capital investments to business outcomes.

Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management: A Hands-on Approach

Shivinder Nijjer, Sahil Raj

A hands-on, accessible guide that shows HR professionals how to apply predictive data analytics to human resource problems—especially recruitment, selection, and turnover—using a step-by-step holistic approach and R-based tools.

Predictive HR Analytics

A hands-on guide that teaches HR and management-information professionals how to move beyond descriptive reporting to apply inferential, predictive statistical techniques to people-related data using SPSS (and R).

Predictive HR Analytics, Text Mining & Organizational Network Analysis_ with Excel

Cedric Ng Mong Shen

A practical, do-it-yourself guide showing HR professionals how to run predictive analytics, text mining, sentiment analysis, and organizational network analysis entirely in Microsoft Excel to drive better business decisions.

Predictive Marketing: Easy Ways Every Marketer Can Use Customer Analytics and Big Data

Omer Artun, Dominique Levin

A practical guide showing how every marketer—not just data scientists at giant companies—can use big data, customer analytics, and machine learning to deliver personalized experiences that maximize customer lifetime value.

Primal Branding: Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future

Patrick Hanlon

Brands that inspire zealous loyalty share seven definable assets — a 'primal code' that constructs a belief system people want to belong to.

Principles of Marketing

Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong

A comprehensive introduction to modern marketing centered on creating customer value and engagement in order to capture value from customers in return.

Principles of Topological Psychology

Kurt Lewin argues that psychology must represent behavior as a function of the whole life space—the person and environment together—using the mathematical language of topology to make psychological dynamics rigorous and predictive.

Probabilistic Deep Learning with Python, Keras and TensorFlow Probability

Oliver Dürr, Beate Sick & Elvis Murina

A hands-on guide to building probabilistic deep learning models using the maximum likelihood principle and Bayesian inference, implemented in Python with Keras and TensorFlow Probability.

Probability_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

John Haigh

A concise tour of probability as the formal study of uncertainty, explaining its core interpretations, mathematical laws, history, and wide-ranging applications to decisions in everyday life, games, science, medicine, law, and finance.

Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

A simple cash-management system that flips the traditional accounting formula by taking profit first from every deposit, forcing businesses to become profitable immediately and permanently.

Psychology of the Unconscious

Jung reinterprets a young woman's spontaneous phantasies through comparative mythology to argue that the unconscious libido—understood as a broad life-energy, not merely sexuality—drives the universal hero-myth of separation from the mother toward psychological rebirth and moral autonomy.

Psychometric Theory Nunnally Bernstein

A comprehensive textbook for graduate students and researchers on the theory and statistical methods for creating, evaluating, and applying psychological measures, covering both classical and modern approaches.

Publishing 101 Friedman

A comprehensive guide for first-time authors on navigating the business of publishing, from manuscript readiness and finding an agent to self-publishing, marketing, and building a sustainable writing career.

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Alfie Kohn

A sweeping indictment of the carrot-and-stick approach to motivation, arguing that rewards—like punishments—fail to produce lasting change and actively undermine intrinsic motivation, quality, relationships, and the development of good values.

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Seth Godin

In a world saturated with advertising and choice, the only way to grow is to build products and services so remarkable that they market themselves.

Python for Data Analysis

A practical, hands-on guide to manipulating, processing, cleaning, and analyzing structured data in Python using pandas, NumPy, and the Jupyter/IPython ecosystem.

Python Mini Reference 2022 A Quick Guide to the Modern Python Programming Language for Busy Coders (A Hitchhikers Guide to…

Harry Yoon

A concise, intermediate-level language reference that systematically covers the grammar, type system, and modern features of Python 3.10/3.11 so programmers can quickly build a solid, structured understanding of the language.

R for Data Science

A practical, hands-on guide to doing data science in R using the tidyverse, walking the reader through the complete workflow of importing, tidying, transforming, visualizing, modeling, and communicating data.

Reliability and Validity Assessment

Edward G. Carmines & Richard A. Zeller

A concise, foundational guide to how social scientists can assess whether their measures consistently capture (reliability) and accurately represent (validity) the abstract concepts they intend to measure.

Remuneration and Talent Management Bussin

A practical South African handbook showing HR practitioners and line managers how to manage the tension between attracting, retaining, and engaging talent and rewarding it fairly within organisational and financial constraints.

Research Methods In Psychology

A comprehensive introduction to the logic, methods, and ethics of psychological research that teaches students to think like scientists and become competent producers and critical consumers of empirical evidence about behavior.

Rewarding Excellence: Pay Strategies for the New Economy

Edward E. Lawler III

In the new economy where human capital is the chief source of competitive advantage, organizations must abandon traditional job- and seniority-based pay in favor of reward systems that pay the person, reward excellence, and tie compensation to performance.

Rework

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

A contrarian guide arguing that building a real business is simpler, leaner, and faster than conventional wisdom suggests—if you act now, stay small, and stop imitating big companies.

Running Lean (Lean Series)

A systematic, experiment-driven process for iterating from your initial startup vision (Plan A) to a business model that actually works before you run out of resources.

Sales Compensation Solutions_ Addressing the Toughest Sales Incentive Issues in Today’s Changing World

A practical guide for sales and compensation leaders on designing and implementing sales incentive plans that motivate, pay for performance, and stay aligned with a rapidly changing selling environment.

Sales Incentive Plans for Special Business Objectives_ The Sales Compensation Series for the Small Business Owner

A practical guide for small business owners on designing sales incentive plans that drive three special growth objectives: getting off to a fast start, selling new products, and winning new accounts.

Scale

A theoretical physicist reveals how simple, universal scaling laws rooted in network structure govern the growth, metabolism, pace of life, and mortality of organisms, cities, and companies, with profound implications for global sustainability.

Scale Development (Applied Social Research Methods)

Robert F. DeVellis & Carolyn T. Thorpe

A practical and theoretically grounded guide to creating, evaluating, and validating multi-item measurement instruments—scales and indices—for assessing unobservable social and psychological constructs.

Scale Geoffrey West

Organisms, cities, and companies are governed by universal scaling laws rooted in the physics of network structures, which dictate their growth, metabolism, innovation, and lifespan.

Scaling Up Compensation

Verne Harnish & Sebastian Ross

A practical guide to designing compensation systems that turn payroll—your largest expense—into a strategic advantage for attracting, retaining, and motivating talent while minimizing drama.

Scientific Advertising

Claude C. Hopkins

Advertising is salesmanship in print, governed by testable, fixed laws, and every campaign should be measured by traced returns to know its true cost and result.

Search Engine Advertising: Buying Your Way to the Top to Increase Sales

Catherine Seda

A practical, end-to-end manual for buying your way to top search engine positions to drive qualified traffic and increase sales at the lowest cost-per-customer.

Sem Paths to Networks Westland

A critical survey of the history, methods, and practical application of structural equation modeling, guiding researchers from the origins of path analysis to the future of network science.

Sem Principles Practice Kline

A practical and accessible guide for researchers and students on the principles, assumptions, and application of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) without requiring an extensive quantitative background.

Seven Powers Helmer

A guide to business strategy that identifies the seven durable sources of competitive advantage, or 'Powers,' that enable a company to achieve persistent, superior financial returns.

Show Me the Money_ A Statistical Analysis of Commission-Based Compensation Models

A statistical and qualitative study showing that for commission-based medical sales representatives, years of experience on the job—not income or commission structure—is the strongest predictor of satisfaction and retention.

Show Me the Money_ How to Determine ROI in People, Projects, and Programs

A step-by-step methodology for determining the return on investment of projects, programs, and people by collecting, isolating, converting, and reporting six types of data that culminate in a credible, conservative ROI calculation.

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff & Niall Murphy

Google's Site Reliability Engineering organization reveals the principles, practices, and cultural norms that allow software engineers to run the world's largest production systems with high reliability, rapid velocity, and sublinear operational scaling.

Social Cognitive Theory

Albert Bandura's culminating statement of Social Cognitive Theory, presenting human beings as agents who shape their own lives and societies through forethought, self-regulation, self-reflection, and especially beliefs in their own efficacy.

Social Media for Writers Morris

A comprehensive, hands-on guide for writers to master various social media platforms, build an engaged audience, and effectively market their books through content marketing and community building.

Social Media: Dominating Strategies for Social Media Marketing

Michael Richards

A practical playbook for building a strong, organically grown brand presence across the major social media platforms by matching tailored content and engagement strategies to each platform's audience.

Social Psychology_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Richard J. Crisp

Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction explores the intricate ways in which our perceptions, memories, motivations, and social interactions shape our understanding of ourselves and others, challenging the assumptions we hold about human behavior.

Sociology_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

A concise argument that sociology is a genuine social science that reveals how reality is socially constructed, how our actions have hidden social causes, and how social life is profoundly ironic.

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage & Zhamak Dehghani

A rigorous, trade-off-driven guide to the most difficult structural, data, and communication decisions architects face when designing and evolving modern distributed systems.

Spring AI in Action

Craig Walls

A hands-on guide for Java developers to build production-grade generative AI applications using Spring AI, covering everything from basic prompting to RAG, tools, MCP, multimodal generation, observability, security, and autonomous agents.

Spring Microservices in Action, Second Edition

John Carnell Illary Huaylupo Sánchez

A hands-on, pattern-driven guide for Java/Spring developers to design, build, secure, deploy, and operationalize production-ready microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Sprint Knapp

A step-by-step five-day process, pioneered at Google Ventures, for solving big problems and testing new ideas by mapping a challenge, sketching solutions, deciding, building a realistic prototype, and testing it with real customers.

Sprint_ How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

A step-by-step playbook for running a five-day 'sprint' that lets teams answer their most important questions by prototyping and testing ideas with real customers before committing significant time and money.

Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

Will Larson

A practical field guide to reaching and thriving in Staff-plus engineering roles—technical leadership positions that exist beyond the management track.

Start With Why

Simon Sinek

Great leaders and organizations inspire action by communicating from the inside out—starting with WHY (their purpose, cause or belief) rather than WHAT they do.

Starting an Online Business and Internet Marketing 2021

S. K. Holder

A practical end-to-end guide to building, optimizing, and marketing an e-commerce website so a small business or solo entrepreneur can generate relevant traffic, conversions, and revenue.

Startup Owners Manual

A step-by-step manual teaching founders to search for a repeatable, scalable, and profitable business model through Customer Development rather than executing a premature business plan.

Statistical Rethinking Mcelreath

A course that re-trains researchers to approach statistics as a principled process of building, comparing, and critiquing generative models within a Bayesian framework to achieve causal understanding and predictive accuracy.

Statistics for Compensation

John H. Davis

A practical, applied guide that teaches compensation and HR professionals the descriptive statistics and model-building techniques needed to analyze pay data and make sound, defensible decisions.

Statistics_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

David J. Hand

A concise tour of modern statistics that reframes the discipline as the exciting technology of extracting meaning and understanding from data rather than tedious arithmetic.

Staying Power - Why Your Employees Leave and How to Keep Them Longer

Cara Silletto & Leah Brown

A practical guide explaining why today's employees leave faster than ever and how managers can adapt their leadership to retain talent longer in an employee-driven market.

Stop Random Acts of Marketing

Mid-market CEOs stuck on a revenue plateau must replace 'random acts of marketing' with a customer-driven strategy that aligns marketing and sales for sustainable growth.

strategic compensation

A comprehensive guide to designing and managing employee compensation systems as a strategic human resource function that supports a company's competitive advantage.

Strategic Compensation and Talent Management

Jed DeVaro

A practical, manager-focused guide arguing that compensation is fundamentally driven by market competition, and that good managers use pay strategically to attract, motivate, and retain talent.

Strategic Pay: Aligning Organizational Strategies and Pay Systems

Edward E. Lawler III

Edward Lawler argues that pay systems, when strategically aligned with a company's business strategy and management style, can be a powerful and lasting source of competitive advantage rather than merely a cost of doing business.

Strategy That Works Leinwand

Companies achieve sustained success by closing the gap between strategy and execution through 'coherence'—the alignment of a distinct value proposition with a system of a few mutually reinforcing, differentiating capabilities.

Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data

Cindi Howson

A practitioner's guide to why some organizations unlock extraordinary value from business intelligence and big data while others flounder, grounded in survey research and in-depth case studies.

suicide_a_study_in_sociology

Durkheim demonstrates that suicide, though seemingly the most private and individual of acts, is governed by social forces measurable through the stable, society-specific suicide-rate.

SURVEY & QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN_ Collecting Primary Data to Answer Research Questions (55)

Jane Bourke, Ann Kirby & Justin Doran

A practice-oriented guide to designing surveys and questionnaires that collect valid, reliable primary data to answer well-formulated research questions.

Survey Research Methods - Fowler

A practical guide to the principles and procedures of survey research, focusing on identifying and minimizing various sources of error to produce high-quality statistical descriptions of populations.

The $100 Startup

A practical blueprint showing how ordinary people build profitable microbusinesses on tiny budgets by converging personal passion or skill with what other people will pay for.

The 100 Dollar Startup

Ordinary people can build profitable, freedom-generating microbusinesses for $100 or less by converging their passions and skills with what other people will pay for.

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Al Ries, Jack Trout

Marketing success is governed by fundamental, immutable laws centered on perception and being first in the prospect's mind, and violating them dooms even well-funded programs.

The Adweek Copywriting Handbook

Joseph Sugarman

A master direct-response copywriter reveals the mental process, structural axioms, and psychological triggers that cause readers to exchange their hard-earned money for a product or service.

The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five-Step AI Plan for Marketers

Rajkumar Venkatesan, Jim Lecinski

A practical five-step framework called the AI Marketing Canvas that guides marketers from awareness to action in adopting AI and machine learning to supercharge every moment of the customer relationship.

The Art of Statistics

David Spiegelhalter

A leading statistician explains how to think clearly about data, drawing reliable conclusions from imperfect numbers while guarding against the many ways statistical reasoning goes wrong.

The Basic Principles of People Analytics

A practical primer that demystifies people analytics and shows HR professionals how to use workforce data to make better, evidence-based decisions for the business and its employees.

The Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie

A manifesto for the Causal Revolution showing how causal diagrams and the mathematics of counterfactuals let us answer 'why' questions that statistics alone never could.

The Brand Flip (Voices That Matter)

In a world where connected customers now hold the power, brands are no longer owned by companies but co-created by the customers who draw meaning from them—and companies must flip their thinking to profit from it.

The Brand Gap (AIGA Design Press)

Branding succeeds only when a company bridges the gap between business strategy (logic) and design (magic) by mastering five disciplines: differentiate, collaborate, innovate, validate, and cultivate.

The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers

A comprehensive reference manual that profiles 35 distinct methods for coding qualitative data and guides researchers through first and second cycle analytic processes toward categories, themes, concepts, and theory.

The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation

A comprehensive, practical guide to designing, evaluating, and implementing sales force incentive compensation plans that align salespeople, customers, and company objectives within the broader sales management system.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Direct Marketing

Robert W. Bly

A practical, no-theory handbook on how to plan, create, execute, and measure profitable direct marketing campaigns across every medium from direct mail to the internet.

The Complete Idiots Guide to Getting Published (2nd Edition)

Sheree Bykofsky, Jennifer Basye Sande

A comprehensive, step-by-step insider's guide for aspiring authors on how to navigate the publishing industry, from developing a marketable idea and securing a contract to working with a publisher and building a successful writing career.

The Culture Code

Daniel Coyle

Through a patented 'discovery' method, Clotaire Rapaille reveals the unconscious 'Culture Codes'—the emotional meanings cultures imprint on things like cars, love, food, and money—that secretly drive why people buy and behave as they do.

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling

Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross

The definitive guide to dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence, teaching practitioners how to design simple, fast, business-driven analytic databases through case-study-driven techniques.

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber & David Wengrow

A sweeping reinterpretation of human history that argues social inequality, hierarchy, and the state were not inevitable consequences of agriculture or scale, but the result of self-conscious political choices that humans made—and frequently unmade—over tens of thousands of years.

The DevOps Handbook (2nd Edition)

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois & John Willis

A comprehensive prescriptive guide showing how any technology organization—from legacy enterprise to digital native—can adopt DevOps principles and practices to simultaneously achieve faster flow, higher reliability, better security, and a more humane workplace.

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber

Most small businesses fail because they are started by skilled technicians who don't know how to build a business that works without them, but by adopting an entrepreneurial perspective and systematizing the business like a franchise prototype, any owner can create a business that serves their life.

The Foundations of Social Research

A scaffolding for understanding social research that shows how research methods are grounded in methodologies, theoretical perspectives, and epistemologies, and traces the meaning of the major philosophical traditions that inform inquiry.

The Future of Sales Compensation

A forward-looking guide arguing that sales compensation must evolve from one-size-fits-all cash plans toward holistic, personalized, technology-enabled, and research-driven incentive programs that blend intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

The Information

James Gleick

A sweeping history and theory of information, tracing how the abstract concept of information—measurable in bits, divorced from meaning—became the foundational substrate of communication, computation, biology, physics, and modern life.

The Interpretation Of Dreams_ A Collector_s Edition – Featuring Original Illustrations & a Modernized Translation

Freud argues that dreams are not meaningless physiological noise but meaningful, interpretable psychic acts that disguise the fulfillment of repressed, often infantile, wishes.

The Knowledge Machine_ How Irrationality Created Modern Science

Modern science is so powerful and arrived so late because it rests on a strategically irrational rule that forces disputatious humans to settle all arguments exclusively through painstaking empirical testing.

The Lean Startup

A scientific, management-driven approach to building startups under extreme uncertainty by maximizing validated learning through rapid Build-Measure-Learn cycles.

The Lucifer Effect

Philip Zimbardo

Drawing on his Stanford Prison Experiment and the Abu Ghraib abuses, Philip Zimbardo demonstrates how powerful situational and systemic forces can lead ordinary, good people to commit acts of evil—and how understanding these forces enables both resistance and heroism.

The Model Thinker

Scott E. Page

A guide to becoming a 'many-model thinker' who confronts the complexity of the modern world by applying ensembles of formal models to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Anniversary Edition)

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

A seasoned manager of IBM's OS/360 distills why large software projects fail and argues that conceptual integrity, achieved through disciplined human organization rather than added manpower, is the key to building usable systems on time.

The Nature of Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

W. Allen Wallis & Harry V. Roberts

Statistics is not merely numbers but a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty, and this book teaches readers to interpret statistical claims skillfully through real-world examples rather than technical figuring.

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company's Human Capital Investments

Jac Fitz-enz

A predictive management model (HCM:21) that uses human capital analytics to forecast the economic value of an organization's investments in people and shift HR from a cost center to a strategic, value-generating function.

The New Human Capital Strategy

Bradley W. Hall

A systematic framework for measuring and managing human capital with the same discipline as financial capital, so organizations can prove their people in critical roles outperform competitors and improve year-over-year.

The Outsiders

William N. Thorndike Jr.

Eight unconventional CEOs achieved extraordinary long-term returns for their shareholders by rejecting conventional management wisdom and adopting a radically rational, investor-like approach focused on disciplined capital allocation.

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford

A reluctant new VP of IT Operations must save a struggling manufacturing company from itself by transforming chaotic, firefighting IT practices into disciplined, flow-optimized DevOps delivery—before the business collapses under the weight of its own technical debt.

The Positioning Manual for Indie Consultants

Philip Morgan

A practical guide showing independent consultants how to earn greater visibility and trust by specializing and choosing a strategic 'beachhead' market position.

The Power of Character Strengths_ Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality

A scientifically grounded, practical guide to identifying, appreciating, and deliberately using your 24 VIA character strengths to thrive in life, relationships, work, and community.

The Power of People - How Successful Organizations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business Performance

A practical, expert-informed guide to establishing, operating, and leading a workforce analytics function that uses people data to improve business performance.

The Practice of Social Research

A comprehensive introduction to the logic and methods of social science research, teaching readers to understand the theoretical foundations, design rigorous studies, collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data, and communicate findings responsibly.

The Pragmatic Programmer (20th Anniversary Edition)

Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

A comprehensive philosophy and toolkit for software developers who want to take ownership of their craft, career, and code quality through pragmatic, adaptable, and deliberate practices.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman's 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' explores the intricate dynamics of social interaction and the cooperative performance required to manage impressions in various social settings.

The Psychology of Survey Response

A comprehensive cognitive theory of how survey respondents understand questions, retrieve information, form judgments, and report answers—and what this implies for survey error and practice.

The Quick Python Book, Third Edition

Naomi Ceder

A concise, example-driven guide that takes experienced programmers from Python basics through advanced features and real-world data-handling applications as fast as possible.

The Science of Living

Alfred Adler argues that every human life is a unified, goal-directed striving to overcome a fundamental feeling of inferiority, and that psychological health depends on directing that striving into socially useful channels.

The Social Construction of Reality_ A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

A systematic treatise arguing that everyday reality—what people take for granted as objectively real—is in fact produced, sustained, and internalized through ongoing social processes that the sociology of knowledge must analyze.

The Sociological Imagination

C. Wright Mills argues that the central promise of social science is the 'sociological imagination'—the quality of mind that grasps the interplay of biography, history, and social structure—and indicts the dominant tendencies of mid-century sociology for betraying that promise.

The Software Engineer's Guidebook

Gergely Orosz

A career-spanning field manual that explains the skills, behaviors, and judgment software engineers need to grow from entry-level developer through senior, tech lead, and staff/principal roles at tech companies and startups.

The Staff Engineer's Path

Tanya Reilly

A practical guide for senior individual contributors navigating the ambiguous staff engineer role by mastering big-picture thinking, cross-team project execution, and organizational influence without direct authority.

The Startup Owner_s Manual_ The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

A step-by-step operating manual that teaches founders to search for a repeatable, scalable, profitable business model using the Customer Development process rather than blindly executing a business plan.

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

Daniel Coyle

Talent is not an innate gift but a biological process of skill-building driven by deep practice, motivational ignition, and master coaching, all mediated by the brain's growth of myelin around neural circuits.

The truth about search engine advertising

Lee, Kevin

A practical, principle-driven guide to pay-per-click search engine marketing that reframes paid search as a profit-maximizing, ROI-driven media channel rather than a narrow sales tactic.

The Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Marketing: Pay Per Click Advertising Secrets Revealed

Bruce C. Brown

A practical, step-by-step guide to mastering pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization so any business can drive targeted traffic and increase revenue at low cost.

The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits and Total Rewards

WorldatWork

A comprehensive practitioner's guide to designing, administering, and communicating total rewards programs—compensation, benefits, and work-life—that align employee value with organizational business strategy.

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Daniel Coyle

Greatness isn't an innate gift but a process that can be grown through deep practice, ignition, and master coaching, all working through a neural insulator called myelin.

They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer

Marcus Sheridan

By obsessively answering the questions buyers actually ask—about cost, problems, comparisons, reviews, and competitors—a business can become the most trusted teacher in its industry and dramatically grow sales.

Thinking and Reasoning_ A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Jonathan St B. T. Evans

A concise survey of how cognitive psychology explains human thinking, reasoning, and decision making, showing why we are often biased yet broadly intelligent, and proposing a dual-process 'two minds' account.

Thinking Like Your Editor Rabiner

A veteran editor and agent reveals that the key to getting serious nonfiction published is to stop thinking like a writer and start thinking like an editor, focusing relentlessly on audience, commercial viability, and a strategic submission package.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

A groundbreaking exploration of the two systems that drive the way we think—the fast, intuitive System 1 and the slow, deliberative System 2—revealing the pervasive cognitive biases that systematically shape our judgments and decisions in everything from financial markets to personal happiness.

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

Seth Godin

Marketing is the generous, empathetic act of making change happen for the smallest viable market by understanding people's dreams, status, and worldviews rather than interrupting the masses with selfish hype.

Time Series Forecasting Using Foundation Models

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A hands-on practitioner's guide to understanding, applying, fine-tuning, and comparing foundation models—from TimeGPT to LLM-based approaches—for time-series forecasting and anomaly detection.

Traction - Get A Grip - Audible

A practical operating system that helps entrepreneurs strengthen six key components of their business to gain traction and execute their vision.

Traction Eos Wickman

A practical operating system (EOS) that helps entrepreneurial leaders strengthen six key components of their business to gain traction and realize their vision.

Traction_ Get a Grip on Your Business

A practical operating system (EOS) that helps entrepreneurial leaders strengthen six key components of their business to gain control, traction, and growth.

Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

A practical playbook for startups to systematically find the customer acquisition channel that will unlock rapid growth, using a repeatable testing framework across nineteen distinct traction channels.

Transformative HR: How Great Companies Use Evidence-Based Change for Sustainable Advantage

John W. Boudreau, Ravin Jesuthasan

Great organizations transform HR from a service-delivery and compliance function into a discipline of evidence-based change that uses logic, analytics, and skillful influence to make smarter human-capital decisions for sustainable competitive advantage.

Turning the Flywheel Collins

Great organizations build sustained momentum by understanding, applying, and relentlessly renewing their unique, self-reinforcing flywheel, turning initial successes into a compounding effect that leads to breakthrough results.

Understanding Deep Learning

Simon J. D. Prince

A comprehensive conceptual guide to deep learning that builds from fundamental supervised learning through generative models and reinforcement learning, candidly acknowledging what remains unknown about why deep learning works.

Understanding Human Nature_ The Psychology of Personality

Alfred Adler argues that human personality is a unified, goal-directed style of life formed in early childhood by the interplay between feelings of inferiority and a striving for power, and that mental health depends on developing social feeling—cooperation and fellowship with humankind.

Understanding Michael Porter Magretta

An essential guide that distills Michael Porter's foundational frameworks on competition and strategy, arguing that sustained superior performance comes not from being the best, but from being unique.

Understanding Sponsored Search Core Elements of Keyword Advertising

Jim Jansen

A foundational examination of why sponsored search (keyword advertising) works the way it does, integrating theory from information science, consumer behavior, advertising, economics, and game theory into a coherent model of the keyword advertising process.

Using Multivariate Statistics Tabachnick Fidell

A practical guide for researchers on how to choose, execute, and interpret a wide range of multivariate statistical analyses using common software, with a strong emphasis on data screening and understanding underlying assumptions.

Using R in HR Analytics A practical guide to analysing people data

Martin Edwards, Kirsten Edwards .

A practical, hands-on guide to applying inferential and predictive statistical techniques to human resources data using the open-source R programming language.

Using R with Multivariate Statistics Schumacker

A practical guide for researchers and students on how to perform a wide range of common multivariate statistical analyses using the free and powerful R software.

Ux Strategy Levy

A practical guide for product makers to devise innovative digital solutions by integrating business strategy with validated user research, competitive analysis, and frictionless UX design.

Valuation Koller Mckinsey

A comprehensive guide to creating corporate value by mastering the principles of valuation, centered on the core drivers of return on invested capital (ROIC) and growth, and applying them to strategic decision-making.

Web Copy That Sells

Maria Veloso

A practical, psychology-driven guide to writing online sales copy that converts website visitors, email recipients, and social media audiences into paying customers.

Web3 Marketing A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution

Amanda Cassatt

A pioneering Web3 marketer explains what Web3 is and how to bring decentralized blockchain-based products to market by understanding audiences, designing marketing funnels, and building incentive-aligned communities.

What Your CEO Needs to Know About Sales Compensation

A strategic guide for senior executives showing how sales compensation, when aligned with business strategy through a structured framework, becomes one of the most powerful levers for driving profitable revenue growth.

Work Rules!

Laszlo Bock

Google's former head of People Operations reveals the data-driven, values-based people practices that any organization can adopt to attract, develop, and retain great people while making work more meaningful and free.

Workforce Ecosystems (Management on the Cutting Edge)

Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz & Robin Jones

A practical framework for leaders to recognize, define, and orchestrate workforce ecosystems—interdependent networks of employees, external contributors, partners, complementors, and technologies—to reach strategic goals.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Michael C. Feathers

A battle-tested field guide for software developers who must safely change, test, and improve code they didn't write and can barely understand.

Writers Artists Guide Getting Published Owen

A comprehensive guide for aspiring authors on navigating the modern publishing landscape, from manuscript preparation and agent submissions to understanding contracts, marketing, and the pros and cons of traditional versus self-publishing routes.

Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies

George Green, Lizzy Kremer

A comprehensive guide for aspiring authors on mastering the craft of novel writing and navigating the business of publishing to successfully get a book deal.

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy Reeves

To achieve superior performance, leaders must abandon a one-size-fits-all approach and instead select and execute the right strategy—Classical, Adaptive, Visionary, Shaping, or Renewal—that best fits their specific business environment.