Find Your Next Great Summer Read. Dive into the perfect beach book. Or test out some new ideas with our collection of books that make you think.
Finance and the Good Society
Challenging the public and its leaders to rethink finance and its role in society, Shiller argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society’s assets. He explains how people in financial careers—from CEO, investment manager, and banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator—can and do manage, protect, and increase these assets. Ultimately, Shiller shows how society can once again harness the power of finance for the greater good.
Grey by E.L. James
The author dedicates this novel “to all the readers who asked…and asked…and asked…and asked for this” retelling of Fifty Shades of Grey, her 2012 erotic series that thrust BDSM sex into mainstream pop culture. So, dear friends, you apparently only have yourselves to blame for Grey, which tells the Fifty Shades story from a different perspective, the man’s perspective.
Why We Build: Power and Desire in Architecture
We are living in one of the most dramatic periods in modern architectural history: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are invented overnight. In this bold and wide- ranging new work, Rowan Moore—former director of the Architecture Foundation, now a leading architecture critic—explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they change the way we live in the world.
The Art of Captaincy: The Principles of Leadership in Sport and Business
Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, and, in 1981, he captained the England team to the momentous Ashes series victory against Australia. In The Art of Captaincy, his treatise on leadership and motivation, he draws directly on his experience of man-managing a team, which included a pugnacious Ian Botham and Geoffrey Boycott, to explain what it takes to be a leader on and off the field. Giving an insight into both his tactical understanding of the game, as well as how to get a group of individuals playing as a team in order to get the best out of them, The Art of Captaincy is a classic handbook on how to generate, nurture, and inspire success.
