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The Growth Map

by Jim O'Neill • 2011

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

3.59

288

🗺️ Global Macroeconomics 📈 Emerging Markets Investing 👥 Demographic Economics 🔮 Economic Forecasting 🌐 Geopolitical Risk

The Growth Map

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

by Jim O'Neill 2011 256 pages

3.59

288 ratings

🗺️ Global Macroeconomics 📈 Emerging Markets Investing 👥 Demographic Economics 🔮 Economic Forecasting 🌐 Geopolitical Risk

Object-oriented Programming with C++

by E. Balagurusamy • 1994

Classes, inheritance, templates: C++ tools for building software that scales without falling apart.

3.98

278

🧱 Object Orientation 💻 C++📐 Oop Principles 🧩 Generic Programming 💾 Memory Management

Object-oriented Programming with C++

Classes, inheritance, templates: C++ tools for building software that scales without falling apart.

by E. Balagurusamy 1994 336 pages

3.98

278 ratings

🧱 Object Orientation 💻 C++📐 Oop Principles 🧩 Generic Programming 💾 Memory Management

Six Sigma for Managers

by Greg Brue • 2002

The data-driven playbook for cutting defects to near zero and making those gains stick.

3.25

138

🌀 Continuous Improvement 📊 Data-Driven Decisions ⚙️ Total Quality Management 🏭 Operational Excellence 🧪 Deming Philosophy

Six Sigma for Managers

The data-driven playbook for cutting defects to near zero and making those gains stick.

by Greg Brue 2002 272 pages

3.25

138 ratings

🌀 Continuous Improvement 📊 Data-Driven Decisions ⚙️ Total Quality Management 🏭 Operational Excellence 🧪 Deming Philosophy

AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development

by Laurence Moroney • 2021

Privacy-respecting on-device AI: face detection, text analysis, custom models. No cloud, no PhD.

4.17

📱 Mobile Development 🧠 On-Device Ai 🤖 Applied Machine Learning 🚀 Model Deployment 👁️ Computer Vision

AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development

Privacy-respecting on-device AI: face detection, text analysis, custom models. No cloud, no PhD.

by Laurence Moroney 2021 326 pages

4.17

6 ratings

📱 Mobile Development 🧠 On-Device Ai 🤖 Applied Machine Learning 🚀 Model Deployment 👁️ Computer Vision

Digital to the Core

by Mark Raskino • 2015

Every industry is becoming a tech industry. The C-suite playbook just expired.

3.81

242

🖥️ Digital Transformation 🔄 Organizational Change 🧭 Digital Leadership ⚡ Disruptive Technology 📊 Data Strategy

Digital to the Core

Every industry is becoming a tech industry. The C-suite playbook just expired.

by Mark Raskino 2015 234 pages

3.81

242 ratings

🖥️ Digital Transformation 🔄 Organizational Change 🧭 Digital Leadership ⚡ Disruptive Technology 📊 Data Strategy

World on Fire

by Amy Chua • 2002

Markets enrich minorities; elections enrage majorities. Exporting both is a global powder keg.

3.82

1k+

🌋 Ethnic Conflict 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Wealth Inequality 📊 Free Market Critique 🌍 Post-Colonialism

World on Fire

Markets enrich minorities; elections enrage majorities. Exporting both is a global powder keg.

by Amy Chua 2002 368 pages

3.82

1k+ ratings

🌋 Ethnic Conflict 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Wealth Inequality 📊 Free Market Critique 🌍 Post-Colonialism

An Economy and a State for Lebanon

by Charbel Nahas • 2020

Behind Lebanon's crisis: a currency illusion, a sectarian spoils system, and a generation that fled.

4.33

🏛️ Political Economy 🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 💥 Financial Crises 🏗️ State Building 🛢️ Rentier States

An Economy and a State for Lebanon

Behind Lebanon's crisis: a currency illusion, a sectarian spoils system, and a generation that fled.

by Charbel Nahas 2020

4.33

15 ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 🌍 Middle Eastern Politics 💥 Financial Crises 🏗️ State Building 🛢️ Rentier States

Urban Acupuncture

by Jaime Lerner • 2003

Fast, precise interventions where a city hurts trigger chain reactions no master plan ever could.

3.66

490

🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space ♻️ Adaptive Reuse 🚲 Car-Free Cities

Urban Acupuncture

Fast, precise interventions where a city hurts trigger chain reactions no master plan ever could.

by Jaime Lerner 2003 160 pages

3.66

490 ratings

🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space ♻️ Adaptive Reuse 🚲 Car-Free Cities

How to Change the World

by David Bornstein • 2013

The method for scaling a social mission from one village to an entire continent.

3.94

2k+

💡 Social Innovation 🌍 International Development 📈 Scaling Impact 🔄 Systems Change 👥 Community-Led Solutions

How to Change the World

The method for scaling a social mission from one village to an entire continent.

by David Bornstein 2013 336 pages

3.94

2k+ ratings

💡 Social Innovation 🌍 International Development 📈 Scaling Impact 🔄 Systems Change 👥 Community-Led Solutions

LLM Adoption in the Enterprise (for True Epub)

by Isabelle Nguyen

AI demos that never ship: a product-first playbook for turning LLMs into real business value.

🤖 Ai Product Management 🧠 Llm Applications 🏢 Enterprise Ai ✍️ Prompt Engineering 🔄 Rapid Prototyping

LLM Adoption in the Enterprise (for True Epub)

AI demos that never ship: a product-first playbook for turning LLMs into real business value.

by Isabelle Nguyen

🤖 Ai Product Management 🧠 Llm Applications 🏢 Enterprise Ai ✍️ Prompt Engineering 🔄 Rapid Prototyping

Nation Building

by Andreas Wimmer • 2018

Ethnic diversity doesn't predict state failure. A missing centralized state centuries ago does.

4.08

🏗️ Nation Building 🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Capacity 🤝 Ethnic Politics 🗣️ Linguistic Diversity

Nation Building

Ethnic diversity doesn't predict state failure. A missing centralized state centuries ago does.

by Andreas Wimmer 2018 376 pages

4.08

36 ratings

🏗️ Nation Building 🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Capacity 🤝 Ethnic Politics 🗣️ Linguistic Diversity

Python for Data Analysis

by Oscar Scratch • 2019

Python data analysis, taught through questions: NumPy, Pandas, and the bridge to machine learning.

3.50

🧮 Scientific Computing 🔄 Data Manipulation 📊 Data Visualization 🐍 Introductory Programming 📈 Beginner Data Science

Python for Data Analysis

Python data analysis, taught through questions: NumPy, Pandas, and the bridge to machine learning.

by Oscar Scratch 2019 249 pages

3.50

2 ratings

🧮 Scientific Computing 🔄 Data Manipulation 📊 Data Visualization 🐍 Introductory Programming 📈 Beginner Data Science

Trust and Market Institutions in Africa

by Kingsley Obi Omeihe • 2023

Why Africa's entrepreneurs lean on chiefs, imams, and cousins instead of contracts.

🌍 African Enterprise 📊 Institutional Economics 🤝 Trust And Business 🏛️ Indigenous Institutions 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kinship Networks

Trust and Market Institutions in Africa

Why Africa's entrepreneurs lean on chiefs, imams, and cousins instead of contracts.

by Kingsley Obi Omeihe 2023 224 pages

🌍 African Enterprise 📊 Institutional Economics 🤝 Trust And Business 🏛️ Indigenous Institutions 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kinship Networks

Business-to-Business Marketing

by Richard Afriyie Owusu • 2021

What separates B2B wins from losses in emerging African markets: the frameworks that close the gap.

🏢 B2B Marketing 📈 Emerging Markets 🛒 Organizational Buying 🤝 Relationship Marketing ✅ Service Quality

Business-to-Business Marketing

What separates B2B wins from losses in emerging African markets: the frameworks that close the gap.

by Richard Afriyie Owusu 2021 300 pages

🏢 B2B Marketing 📈 Emerging Markets 🛒 Organizational Buying 🤝 Relationship Marketing ✅ Service Quality

Growing an In-Sync Child

by Carol Stock Kranowitz • 2009

Screen time replaced crawl time. Movement activities to build the brains kids need for school.

4.18

121

🧠 Sensory Integration 🏃 Movement And Learning 👐 Occupational Therapy 🎯 Developmental Activities 📵 Screen-Free Childhood

Growing an In-Sync Child

Screen time replaced crawl time. Movement activities to build the brains kids need for school.

by Carol Stock Kranowitz 2009 240 pages

4.18

121 ratings

🧠 Sensory Integration 🏃 Movement And Learning 👐 Occupational Therapy 🎯 Developmental Activities 📵 Screen-Free Childhood

Investment Prospects of Nigeria

by A J Wright • 2020

Nigeria's 36 states mapped for investors: the minerals, the markets, and the permits you need.

📘 Investment Guides 🌐 Emerging Markets 🇳🇬 Nigerian Economy 🌍 African Business ⛏️ Natural Resources

Investment Prospects of Nigeria

Nigeria's 36 states mapped for investors: the minerals, the markets, and the permits you need.

by A J Wright 2020 162 pages

📘 Investment Guides 🌐 Emerging Markets 🇳🇬 Nigerian Economy 🌍 African Business ⛏️ Natural Resources

The Idealist

by Nina Munk • 2013

The $120-per-person plan to end poverty in Africa: why it failed, village by village.

3.94

1k+

📈 Development Economics 🌍 Foreign Aid 🏛️ Top-Down Planning 🪤 Poverty Traps 🔄 Aid Dependency

The Idealist

The $120-per-person plan to end poverty in Africa: why it failed, village by village.

by Nina Munk 2013 272 pages

3.94

1k+ ratings

📈 Development Economics 🌍 Foreign Aid 🏛️ Top-Down Planning 🪤 Poverty Traps 🔄 Aid Dependency

Bringing the State Back In

by Peter B. Evans • 1985

The state is an actor, not just an arena, with autonomous power to reshape society.

3.64

🏛️ State Theory 📜 Historical Sociology 🌍 Comparative Politics 💰 Political Economy ⚔️ War And State Formation

Bringing the State Back In

The state is an actor, not just an arena, with autonomous power to reshape society.

by Peter B. Evans 1985 390 pages

3.64

53 ratings

🏛️ State Theory 📜 Historical Sociology 🌍 Comparative Politics 💰 Political Economy ⚔️ War And State Formation

Financial Sector Development in Ghana

by James Atta Peprah • 2023

Ghana's informal lenders and formal banks respond to the same interest rate in opposite directions.

📊 Development Economics 🌍 Sub-Saharan Africa 📱 Financial Inclusion 🏦 Banking Regulation 💰 Monetary Policy

Financial Sector Development in Ghana

Ghana's informal lenders and formal banks respond to the same interest rate in opposite directions.

by James Atta Peprah 2023 435 pages

📊 Development Economics 🌍 Sub-Saharan Africa 📱 Financial Inclusion 🏦 Banking Regulation 💰 Monetary Policy

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