13 of the best business books of 2017 by cnbc

Title: The One Device

This is the untold account, ten years in the making, of the device that changed everything.

Author(s): Brian Merchant

ISBN 13: 9780316546164
Pages: 416

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Title: The Captain Class

"The captain class" draws on a lifetime of sports spectatorship and two decades of sports reporting to tell the surprising story of what makes teams exceptional.

Author(s): Sam Walker

ISBN 13: 9780812997194
Pages: 352

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Title: Reset

The co-founder of the diversity nonprofit Project Include shares the story behind her landmark 2015 lawsuit against powerhouse venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins, exploring what her case and refusal to settle revealed about Silicon ...

Author(s): Ellen Pao

ISBN 13: 9780399591013
Pages: 288

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Title: Principles

Dalio "shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business--and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals"- ...

Author(s): Ray Dalio

ISBN 13: 9781501124020
Pages: 592

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Title: Machine, Platform, Crowd

For startups and established businesses, or for anyone interested in what the future holds, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading.

Author(s): Andrew McAfee Erik Brynjolfsson

ISBN 13: 9780393254297
Pages: 288

Title: The Spider Network

This is the story of the guys who gleefully realized that you had no idea what was actually going on.

Author(s): David Enrich

ISBN 13: 9780062452986
Pages: 528

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Title: If Youre in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!

Filled with dozens of illustrative examples of inspiring successes and dispiriting falls from grace, this book provides deep insights on how to become the cat in a dogfight, whether you are a CEO, mid-level manager, aspiring business school ...

Author(s): Leonard Sherman

ISBN 13: 9780231174824
Pages: 368

Title: The Great Leveler

No one before Walter Scheidel has shown us just how closely they have been intertwined. This is a masterful new assessment of an age-old problem.

Author(s): Walter Scheidel

ISBN 13: 9780691165028
Pages: 520

Title: Janesville

"This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills--but it's not the familiar tale.

Author(s): Amy Goldstein

ISBN 13: 9781501102264
Pages: 368

Title: Stealing Fire

Stealing Fire is a provocative examination of what’s actually possible; a guidebook for anyone who wants to radically upgrade their life.

Author(s): Steven Kotler Jamie Wheal

ISBN 13: 9780062429650
Pages: 288

Title: Adaptive Markets

In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework, the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, in which rationality and irrationality coexist.

Author(s): Andrew W. Lo

ISBN 13: 9780691135144
Pages: 496

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Title: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

Reveals how the Wu-Tang Clan secretly recorded a single-copy album before auctioning it for millions to one of the most hated men in America, detailing how they prevented leaks using strategies that reflect present-day views on creative ...

Author(s): Cyrus Bozorgmehr

ISBN 13: 9781250125279
Pages: 288

Title: Superconsumers

Part 1. An introduction to superconsumers: Making your best customers better -- Part 2. How they did it: TK (Kraft) -- TK (Easy Grocery) -- TK (American Girl) -- Part 3.

Author(s): Eddie Yoon

ISBN 13: 9781633692077
Pages: 224