Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Atul Gawande is author of three bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. His latest book is Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. 
 
He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women&rsquo;s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Between You &amp; Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Dr. Perlmutter is a Board-Certified Neurologist, Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and four-time&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was awarded the&nbsp;Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals including&nbsp;Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Journal of Applied Nutrition,&nbsp;and is a frequent lecturer at symposia sponsored by such medical institutions as Columbia University, Scripps Institute, New York University, and Harvard University. He serves as Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Perlmutter has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated television programs including&nbsp;20/20, Larry King Live, CNN, Fox News, Fox and Friends, The Today Show, Oprah, The Dr.Oz Show&nbsp;and&nbsp;The CBS Early Show.&nbsp;He is the recipient of the&nbsp;Linus Pauling Award&nbsp;for his innovative approaches to neurological disorders. He is the recipient of the 2006 National Nutritional Foods Association&nbsp;Clinician of the Year&nbsp;Award and was awarded the&nbsp;Humanitarian of the Year&nbsp;award from the American College of Nutrition in, 2010. In 2015 Dr. Perlmutter was awarded both the&nbsp;Media Award&nbsp;from the American College of Nutrition and the&nbsp;Healthy Living Award&nbsp;from The Invisible Disabilities Association.

Dr. Perlmutter&rsquo;s books have been published in 28 languages and include&nbsp;Grain Brain,&nbsp;The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar,&nbsp;with over 1 million copies in print. Other&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestsellers include&nbsp;Brain Maker, The Grain Brain Cookbook,&nbsp;and his most recent book,&nbsp;The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan.

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain-for Life

Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and the author of xkcd: volume 0. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him; asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause a mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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<div id="flashContainer" style="text-align: justify;">Simon Sinek is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. 
 
Described as &ldquo;a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,&rdquo; Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people go home everyday feeling fulfilled by their work, Sinek is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them. 
 
Sinek&rsquo;s unconventional and innovative views on business and leadership have attracted international attention and have earned him invitations to meet with an array of leaders and organizations, including: Microsoft, MARS, SAP, Intel, 3M, the United States Military, members of the United States Congress, multiple government agencies and entrepreneurs. Sinek has also had the honor of presenting his ideas to the Ambassadors of Bahrain and Iraq, at the United Nations and to the senior leadership of the United States Air Force.</div>

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Sinek is an adjunct staff member of the RAND Corporation, one of the most highly regarded think tanks in the world. He is also active in the arts and not-for-profit world, working with Education for Employment Foundation to help create opportunities for young men and women in the Middle East region. When not in hotels, he lives in New York, where he teaches graduate level strategic communications at Columbia University.</div>
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Best-selling author and public speaker, Robert Greene was born in Los Angeles. He attended U.C. California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New York as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Esquire; and in Hollywood as a story developer and writer. 
 
Robert has lived in London, Paris, and Barcelona; he speaks several languages and has worked as a translator. In 1995 he was involved in the planning and creation of the art school Fabrica, outside Venice, Italy. There he met Joost Elffers, the New York book packager and discussed with him his idea for a book on power and manipulation, the ultimate modern version of Machiavelli&#39;s The Prince. 
 
Robert and Joost became partners and in 1998, The 48 Laws of Power was born. The book has been a national and international bestseller, and has been translated into 17 languages. In 2001, Robert released his second book, The Art of Seduction, which is more than a sequel to The 48 Laws; it is both a handbook on how to wield the ultimate form of power, and a detailed look at the greatest seducers in history. 
 
The third in this highly anticipated series of books, The 33 Strategies of War, hit bookstores January 2006 and offers a strategic look behind the movements of War in application to everyday life. In addition to having a strong following within the business world and a deep following in Washington, DC, these books are also being hailed by everyone from war historians to some of the heaviest hitters in the rap world (including Jay-Z and 50 Cent). 
 
The popularity of these books along with their vast and fiercely loyal audience proves these are profound, timeless lessons from historical leaders that still ring true in today&#39;s culture. Robert currently lives in Los Angeles.

The 48 Laws of Power

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur&nbsp;and author of the popular blog&nbsp;Startup Lessons Learned. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, &nbsp;and has had plenty of startup failures along the way.&nbsp;He is a frequent speaker at business events, has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy, and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many blogs. He lives in San Francisco.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

David Allen is a productivity consultant who is best known as the creator of the Getting Things Done time management method. 
 
He is the founder of the David Allen Company, which is focused on productivity, action management and executive coaching. His Getting Things Done method is part of his coaching efforts. He was also one of the founders of Actioneer, Inc., a company specializing in productivity tools for the Palm Pilot.

He has been a keynote speaker and productivity facilitator for organizations such as Oracle, L. L. Bean, Microsoft, Lockheed, and the World Bank.His work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, and many other publications.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Ashlee Vance is an award winning feature writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Vance is also the host of the &quot;Hello World&quot; TV show. Previously, he worked for The New York Times and The Register. 
 
Vance was born in South Africa, grew up in Texas and attended Pomona College. He has spent more than a decade covering the technology industry from San Francisco and is a noted Silicon Valley historian.&nbsp;

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Kevin M. Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. He specializes in the political, social, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America, with a particular interest in conflicts over race, rights and religion and the making of modern conservatism.

His most recent book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, published by Basic Books in April 2015, investigates the making and meaning of American religious nationalism in the mid-twentieth century.

Kevin is also the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, published by Princeton University Press in 2005. That book won prizes including the 2007 Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association (for the best first book in the field of Southern history, 2005-2006) and the 2007 Best Book Award in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association.

In addition, he has co-edited three essay collections: The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2006), with Thomas Sugrue; Spaces of the Modern City (Princeton University Press, 2008), with Gyan Prakash; and Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2012) with Stephen Tuck. He has been honored as one of America&rsquo;s top young &ldquo;Innovators in the Arts and Sciences&rdquo; by the Smithsonian Magazine, selected as one of the top young historians in the country by the History News Network, and named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.

A Nashville native and an alumnus of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Kevin went on to earn his MA and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2000. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his family.

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firm&#39;s investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously, he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly 10 million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. Horowitz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Felicia.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs&#39; Organization (EO), with over 11,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO&rsquo;s premiere CEO program, the &quot;Birthing of Giants&quot; held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.

Founder and CEO of Gazelles, a global executive education and coaching company with over 180 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping companies scale-up.

The &quot;Growth Guy&quot; syndicated columnist, he&#39;s also the Venture columnist for FORTUNE magazine. He&#39;s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won seven major international book awards including the prestigious 2015 International Book Award for Best General Business book. Verne also chairs FORTUNE Magazine&#39;s annual ScaleUp and Growth Summits and serves on several boards including chairman of The Riordan Clinic and the newly launched Geoversity.

A private investor in many scale-ups, Verne resides in Barcelona, Spain, with his wife and four children and enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

Carl&nbsp;Richards is a Certified Financial Planner&trade; and&nbsp;the creator of the weekly Sketch Guy column in the New York Times and is a columnist for Morningstar Advisor.

Carl&nbsp;has also been featured on&nbsp;Marketplace Money,&nbsp;The Leonard Lopate Show, Oprah.com and Forbes.com.&nbsp;In addition,&nbsp;Carl&nbsp;has become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the world.

Through his simple sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts easy to understand. His sketches also serve as the foundation for his two books, The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money and&nbsp;The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money<a href="http://amzn.to/bgapbook" target="_blank" title="The Behavior Gap">&nbsp;</a>(Portfolio/Penguin). Carl&rsquo;s art appeared in a solo show&nbsp;at the Kimball Art Center, in Park City, Utah. Other showings include The&nbsp;Parson&rsquo;s Gallery in New York, The Shultz Museum, and an exhibit at the Mansion House in London.&nbsp;His commissioned work is on display in businesses and educational institutions across the country.&nbsp;He lives with his family in Park City, Utah.

The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money

Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and bestselling author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On and Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior. 
 
Dr. Berger has spent over 15 years studying how social influence works and how it drives products and ideas to catch on. He&rsquo;s published dozens of articles in top-tier academic journals, consulted for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, and popular outlets like the New York Times and Harvard Business Review often cover his work.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Robert J. Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is the author of Finance and the Good Society and other books.

	Name	Book
	Erik Larson	Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
	Atul Gawande	Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
	Mary Norris	Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
	David Perlmutter	Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain-for Life
	Randall Munroe	What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
	Simon Sinek	Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
	Robert D. Putnam	Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
	Robert Greene	The 48 Laws of Power
	Eric Ries	The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
	David Allen	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
	Ashlee Vance	Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
	Simon Sinek	Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
	Kevin M. Kruse	One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
	Atul Gawande	The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
	Ben Horowitz	The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
	Verne Harnish	Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
	Carl Richards	The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money
	Jonah Berger	Contagious: Why Things Catch On
	Robert J. Shiller	Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition
	Robert J. Shiller	Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition

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