The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1814–1838. The book's main themes are justice, vengeance, mercy and forgivene...

''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'' presents an inside-out approach to effectiveness that is centered on principles and character. Inside-out means that the change starts within oneself. F...

Providing tips and strategies for communicating with people, How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. In contrast with some modern theories of ...

Who are the New Rich? They are people who make their money (quite a lot of money) by doing the minimum amount necessary to obtain the maximum effect. They do not work for others-others work for them...

Bilobo Baggins is visited one day by an old wizard Gandalf, who persuades Bilbo to set out on an adventure with a group of thirteen militant dwarves. The dwarves are embarking on a great quest to recl...

Freakonomics is a 2005 non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner that has been described as melding pop culture with economics. ...

Success in business isn't crushing the weak, disdaining others, and using our time and talents to further our agenda. In fact, success is just the opposite. We have to truly care about others. The pri...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English casta...

The narrator and main character, ten-year-old Jane Eyre, is a poor orphan being raised in the home of her wealthy aunt, the widowed Mrs. Reed. Although bound by a deathbed promise to her husband to ra...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. It is the second book of The Chronicles of Narnia and is the best known book of the series. Although it was written...

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialized in th...

The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1814–1838. The book's main themes are justice, vengeance, mercy and forgivene...

This book is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up: the fairy, Tinker Bell, the evil pirate, Captain Hook, and the three children-Wendy, John, and Michael-who ...

The mission of this book is to improve the state of the art of software craftsmanship. The books is technical, pragmatic, and substantive and aimed at helping to improve software and software efficien...

''Outliers'' is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high level...

The story begins as Gandalf delivered news to Denethor, the steward of Gondor, that war was imminent. He then brought Pippin with him, who entered the service of the steward. Aragorn, having confronte...

The idea for this book evolved from a lunch meeting with Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper’s during a discussion of future articles. The conversation had drifted to poverty and welfare reform, which, a...

Who are the New Rich? They are people who make their money (quite a lot of money) by doing the minimum amount necessary to obtain the maximum effect. They do not work for others-others work for them...

Duct Tape Marketing is the entrepreneurs guide to big marketing on a small budget. The author offers an impressive collection of tools and tactics paired with step-by-step systems that show small busi...

''Mansfield Park'' is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, ''Sense...

''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'' presents an inside-out approach to effectiveness that is centered on principles and character. Inside-out means that the change starts within oneself. F...

Providing tips and strategies for communicating with people, How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. In contrast with some modern theories of ...

World nuclear war forces a group of boys to be relocated to an undisclosed location, but en route their plane crashes on an uninhabited island. Ralph and Piggy meet in a forest on the island after the...

The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1814–1838. The book's main themes are justice, vengeance, mercy and forgivene...

The Tipping Point introduces the dynamic behind social epidemics. It is that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once. Malcolm Gladwell begins by discussing the inexp...

Who are the New Rich? They are people who make their money (quite a lot of money) by doing the minimum amount necessary to obtain the maximum effect. They do not work for others-others work for them...

Bilobo Baggins is visited one day by an old wizard Gandalf, who persuades Bilbo to set out on an adventure with a group of thirteen militant dwarves. The dwarves are embarking on a great quest to recl...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English casta...

Mrs Bennet is greatly excited by news of the arrival of a single man of considerable fortune in the neighbourhood. Mr Bingley has leased the Netherfield estate where he plans to temporarily settle wit...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. It is the second book of The Chronicles of Narnia and is the best known book of the series. Although it was written...

Being an expert in your field and keeping your judgment unclouded by subconscious desires, will allow you to make better decisions. Making a good decision doesn't require massive amounts of deliberati...

Duct Tape Marketing is the entrepreneurs guide to big marketing on a small budget. The author offers an impressive collection of tools and tactics paired with step-by-step systems that show small busi...

Who are the New Rich? They are people who make their money (quite a lot of money) by doing the minimum amount necessary to obtain the maximum effect. They do not work for others-others work for them...

Built to Last is a compilation of the results of a six year study of eighteen of America’s most enduring companies and their relationships with their own ”market” competitor.

''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'' presents an inside-out approach to effectiveness that is centered on principles and character. Inside-out means that the change starts within oneself. F...

Providing tips and strategies for communicating with people, How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. In contrast with some modern theories of ...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is a best-selling book by Thomas L. Friedman analyzing the progress of globalization with an emphasis on the early 21st century. First r...

Focusing on 'disruptive technology'--the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example--Clayton M. Christensen shows why most companies miss 'the next great wave.' ...

A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening. Mr Scrooge is a financier...

In Flip the author uncovers what the superstars of modern business have in common: an ability to flip—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for business as usual convention...

C. S. Lewis, known to his friends as Jack, was a Northern Irish academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Le...

Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure. One of the most widely read French authors in the world, many of his novels, including The...

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She wrote the best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and developed the philosophical system known as Objectivis...

Pen-name Boz, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich ...

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was...

Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

Steven David "Steve" Levitt is a prominent American economist best known for his work on crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. He is one of the most well known e...

A writer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His most popular book is The Alchemist. In total, Coelho has published 26 books. Two of them -- The Pilgrimage and The Valkyries -- are autobiographical, while th...

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels ''A Wind in the Door'', ''A Swiftly Tiltin...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''....