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Philanthropist Bill Gates recommends five favorite books he read this year.
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The books:
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
How Asia Works
The Rosie Effect
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
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Money and Finance
Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2014
Philanthropist Bill Gates recommends five favorite books he read this year.
Link to: Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2014
..........
The books:
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
How Asia Works
The Rosie Effect
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
- Links
3G Capital, Berkshire to Buy Kraft, Merge It With Heinz (video) (LINK) Warren Buffett was also on CNBC discussing the deal, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. ValueWalk with more excerpts from the Baupost Group 2014 Letter (LINK) Farnam Street - Mental...
- Latest Book Purchases...
Like some others that probably follow this blog, I tend to be in the habit of buying more books than I can read. Shane over at Farnam Street had a great post on reading where he discussed some of his habits as well, which I recommend reading, HERE. So...
- The Most Staggering Statistic In Vaclav Smil's Latest Book...
Via Bill Gates [H/T Phil]: "China used more cement in the last three years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century" Related book: Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization ...
- Bill Gates: The Seven Best Books I Read In 2013
Found via Farnam Street. Link to: Bill Gates: The Seven Best Books I Read in 2013 .......... The books: The Box, by Marc LevinsonThe Most Powerful Idea in the World, by William RosenHarvesting the Biosphere, by Vaclav SmilThe World Until Yesterday, by...
- Meet Vaclav Smil, The Canadian Polymath Whose Books Bill Gates Is Racing To Read
A few weeks ago, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates published his personal summer reading list on his blog Gates Notes. Of the eight titles, two are by the same author, a Canadian professor emeritus you’ve probably never heard of: Vaclav...