Alibaba by Duncan Clark
Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on …
Should have read this years ago.
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Huey rated The Phantom Tollbooth: 4 stars
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got …
Huey rated Permanent record: 4 stars
Permanent record by Edward Snowden, Esther Cruz Santaella
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first …
Huey reviewed How the Law Works by Gary Slapper
Review of 'How the Law Works' on 'LibraryThing'
5 stars
Huey rated Off to Be the Wizard: 4 stars
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer (Magic 2.0, #1)
Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality …
Huey rated What Money Can't Buy: 5 stars
What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the …
Huey rated Small Gods (Discworld, #13): 5 stars
Small Gods (Discworld, #13) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (13))
Small Gods is the thirteenth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, published in 1992. It tells the origin of the god …
Huey rated Equal Rites: 5 stars
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (The Discworld series)
Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the …
Huey rated Citizens and politics: 5 stars
James H. Kuklinski: Citizens and politics (2001, Cambridge University Press)
Citizens and politics by James H. Kuklinski (Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion)
Huey rated Invitation to law and society: 4 stars
Invitation to law and society by Kitty Calavita (Chicago series in law and society)
Huey rated The Gods Themselves: 5 stars
The Gods Themselves by Айзек Азимов
The year is 2100 A.D.…
And Man no longer stands alone in the universe.
Now there are other …
Huey rated Rawlicious at home: 5 stars
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout …
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who …