Category: Books

Beyond Tremendous is available for preorder. Tracey will personally autograph all preordered books!

50% OFF ALL MIT PRESS BOOKS! Use discount code "MITP50" at checkout.

Over the course of his lifetime, Charles F. Haanel wrote five known books and four known pamphlets or marketing pieces. There are also mentions of books that he wrote (either in marketing pieces or in the US Copyright Office) for which examples could not be found, so it is unknown if they were ever published or, if they were, if there are any copies surviving today.

Infographic.

John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath 75 years ago today. To mark the occasion, we've gathered a few surprising facts about Steinbeck's groundbreaking tale of the Joad family.

Did you know that Moby-Dick was originally rejected for publication because it had the word "dick" in the title? No? Well, that's because we just made that up. But it turns out that some of the most-read books in the world were in fact rejected for similarly preposterous reasons over the years. Take, for example ...

Below are some notes on a handful of my favorite investing books. To make things more interesting, I'm leaving off those books widely considered as part of the canon. So you won't find anything by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Seth Klarman or Joel Greenblatt, for example.

The reciter’s gaze was resting in the air in front of him as he talked. I have no idea how accurate his reconstruction of the poem was—whether what he recited differed from the original text, if at all. To us listeners, spellbound by the beauty and simplicity of his words, it just didn’t matter.

The dirty little secret of the publishing industry is that virtually every new work of fiction and nonfiction hitting the market today is a piece of garbage.

Boxcar Indy is the new full-color, hardcover children's book from Tracey C. Jones with pictures by Neil McMillin.

The first — and only — traditionally published book by the legendary Five Hundred Million Dollar Man. J.F. (Jim) Straw’s business activities have generated over $500,000,000 in revenues. Now, Mr. Straw explains how he used what he calls “Physio-Psychic Power” to achieve such incredible success. A #1 Best Seller!

Will you enjoy marital bliss or divorce hell? Mr. Papps will share with you his findings as to the true causes for divorce after analyzing almost 2,000 divorce cases in which he was an attorney. you will find two important tests that were developed based on the data from Mr. Papps’s cases: The Pre-Marriage Test (“Should you get married?”) and the Marriage Test (“Will your marriage last?”).

Here are my favorite movies that star bookstores.

Writing is a tough business. And there's a lot of advice out there and inspirational stuff. Sometimes, I just want to give the advice that maybe isn't so romantic but has gotten me through the rough spots. So I'm doing that today. Take it for what you will—the advice of a slightly-jaded, midlist author.

It's About TIME is an essential read to complete your business library. Get ready to leverage time and regain control of destiny!

This brilliant, inspirational work of daring ideas and breathtaking research offers more than hope. It offers unseen levels of understanding. Understanding that can literally redefine what it means to be a human being.

Here are the 13 books most frequently mentioned by those around the Street, from finance to fiction.

The books, which Gates replenishes at an impressive rate, encompass an admirable breadth of topics.

In Ada Lovelace, James Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries ago if Lovelace’s contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped its implications.

In this modern approach to integrative health and wellness, board certified physician Dr. Maiysha Clairborne takes it back to the basics to teach you how to integrate very simple habits into your life that will empower you to reclaim your mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

What could Jobs learn from Socrates or Socrates learn from Jobs, separated as they were by more than 23 centuries and wildly divergent cultures?

A list of essential reading from Ryan Holiday.

9 great books that you probably should have read, but didn't. Stop whatever you're doing and read them now.