Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us.

Wherever they are applying, the advice and tested strategies in 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays give business professionals and undergraduates the insider’s knowledge to market themselves most effectively and truly own the process.

Part small-business manual, part how-to-get-rich guide, this succinct book What Rich People Know & Desperately Want to Keep Secret by Brian Sher reveals simple, practical, and innovative methods to enrich and enhance one’s life and bottom line with the development of entrepreneurial skills.

Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin shows that the skills of business: negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort.

Allison Allen made a career of being someone else. Formerly a professional actor and now a highly sought-after Bible teacher, she knows a thing or two about playing a role. But, she says, all of us play roles nearly all of the time, and it’s exhausting.

In The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.

The Balanced Scorecard translates a company’s vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures.

In this groundbreaking book Superminds by Thomas W. Malone, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds — like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities — have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond. And these collectively intelligent human groups are about to get much smarter.