Summer Reading, Deep Reading

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Summer is finally here, meaning it will soon be time to kick back and enjoy some great books. Our selection for 2018 is brimming with profound thoughts and insights, selected to help you feed your brain over the hot summer months. In an age saturated with fake news and junk reading, what could be better than some super food for thought? Leave the light reading aside for busier times and devote your free time to deep thought and reflection.

Hope you get engaged with the books we recommend. The Library Team wishes you all a great summer and some very pleasant, productive reading!

  • Summer Reading List 2018

Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists
Breit, William
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009
06.00-LIV

The Book of Business Wisdom: Classic Writings by the Legends of Commerce and Industry
Krass, Peter
New York: J. Wiley, 1997
10.09-BOO

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman, Daniel
London: Allen Lane, 2011
12.42-KAH

The Strategy of Conflict
Schelling, Thomas C.
London [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 1975
15.41-SCH

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage
Hall, Peter A. (ed.)
Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
30.40-VAR

Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
Easterlin, Richard A.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996
30.70-EAS

Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
Morson, Gary Saul
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2017]
30.70-MOR

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Yunus, Muhammad
New York: PublicAffairs, 2007
30.70-YUN

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
London: Penguin Book, 2008
31.70-TAL

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century
Friedman, Thomas L.
London: Allen Lane, 2005
34.60-FRI – Madrid

Globalization and Its Discontents
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002
34.60-STI

The 100-year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Gratton, Lynda
London: Bloomsbury, 2016
35.10-GRA

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Schumpeter, Joseph Alois
New York: Harper Perennial, 1975
36.01-SCH

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Christensen, Clayton M.
Hammersmith, London: HarperCollins Publisher, 2012
41.01-CHR

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Cialdini, Robert B.
New York: Collins Business, c2007
41.01-CIA

The Art of Thinking Clearly
Dobelli, Rolf
London: Spectre, [2013]
41.01-DOB

Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Frankl, Viktor Emil
London: Rider, Ebury Press, Random House, 2004
41.09-FRA

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Export Ed. 1996)
Goleman, Daniel
New York: Bantam Books, 1996
41.10-GOL

Sensemaking in Organizations
Weick, Karl E.
Thousand Oaks [etc.]: Sage Publications, 1995
41.20-WEI

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Thaler, Richard H.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
41.30-THA

The Evolution of Cooperation
Axelrod, Robert M.
New York: Basic Books, 2006
42.01-AXE

Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
New York: Harper Perennial, 1991
42.01-CSI

The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristóteles
Oxford (Oxfordshire) ; New York: Oxford University Press, [1998]
68.01-ARI(D)

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Sandel, Michael J.
London: Penguin Books, 2010
68.10-SAN

Principles
Dalio, Ray
New York: Simon & Schuster, [2017]
68.30-DAL

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Sandel, Michael J.
London: Allen Lane 2012
68.40-SAN

Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
Dweck, Carol S.
London: Robinson, 2017
69.01-DWE

Metaphors We Live By
Lakoff, George
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
69.01-LAK

Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Pieper, Josef
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, [1999]
69.01-PIE(D)

A Theory of Justice
Rawls, John
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985
69.01-RAW(D)

The Prince
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998
99.40-MAC