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Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
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41 Best Industry Books
What is the best book to learn about an industry? That is the question @TrungTPhan asked his 500k+ Twitter followers. To which he got over 250 replies! We thought this was an amazing list (did you know there was a book about the sand industry??) and reading it would give anyone a great view of how the modern world works. Here are the top 41 replies.
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41 Best Industry Books
Animation
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull
7 recommenders:
Alexis Ohanian, Demis Hassabis, Ezra Klein, Jason Calacanis, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Mauboussin, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Art
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
by Donald N. Thompson
2 recommenders:
Auto
The Reckoning
by David Halberstam
Bananas
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
by Rich Cohen
4 recommenders:
Jason Calacanis, Ryan Holiday, Andrew Wilkinson, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Banking
The House of Morgan
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow
1 recommender:
Beer
Dethroning the King
The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
by Julie MacIntosh
Biotech
Genentech
The Beginnings of Biotech
by Sally Smith Hughes
1 recommender:
Bitcoin
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper
2 recommenders:
Cable TV
Cable Cowboy
John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
by Mark Robichaux
Chemicals
The Alchemy of Air
A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
by Thomas Hager
1 recommender:
Commodity Trading
The World for Sale
Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
by Javier Blas
Confectionary
The Emperors of Chocolate
Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
by Joël Glenn Brenner
Containers
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
3 recommenders:
Digital Ads
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu
2 recommenders:
Digital Music
How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
by Stephen Richard Witt
Early PC
Fire in the Valley
The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
by Michael Swaine
Electricity
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
by Jill Jonnes
2 recommenders:
Fast Food
Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
1 recommender:
Footwear
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
by Phil Knight
Hedge Funds
More Money Than God
Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
by Sebastian Mallaby
1 recommender:
Hip-Hop
The Big Payback
The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
by Dan Charnas
Machining
The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Management Consulting
Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
by Walter Kiechel
Media Platforms
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu
1 recommender:
Nuclear
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
2 recommenders:
Oil
The Prize
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin
3 recommenders:
Operations
The Goal
A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
2 recommenders:
PC Gaming
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
6 recommenders:
Alexis Ohanian, Elon Musk, Jeff Atwood, Patrick Collison, Tobi Lütke, Austen Allred
Pharma
Bad Pharma
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by Ben Goldacre
Post-70s Hollywood
Easy Riders Raging Bulls
How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind
1 recommender:
Private Equity
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
by Bryan Burrough
3 recommenders:
Railroads
Nothing Like It In the World
The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Rare Metals
The Elements of Power
Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
by David S. Abraham
Restaurants
Setting the Table
The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
by Danny Meyer
6 recommenders:
Bill Gurley, Chip Conley, Julie Rice, Noah Kagan, Fred Wilson, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Sand
The World in a Grain
The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
by Vince Beiser
Talent
Powerhouse
The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
by James Andrew Miller
Trading
Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis
3 recommenders:
Trash
Junkyard Planet
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
by Adam Minter
Urban Planning
The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
3 recommenders:
VC
The Power Law
Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby
2 recommenders:
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