The Library
The books behind the guides.
Every guide is built from these books and cites them per claim. Here they are on their own — what each argues, the ideas it contributes, and the guides it grounds. 4844 books.
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The Library
Every guide is built from these books and cites them per claim. Here they are on their own — what each argues, the ideas it contributes, and the guides it grounds. 4844 books.
60 of 4,844 books
A warm, humorous, illustrated children's book that explains sex, conception, pregnancy, and birth honestly and age-appropriately without embarrassment.
After analyzing 1,200+ sports teams across history, this book argues that the single defining ingredient of the greatest dynasties was neither talent, money, coaching, nor culture, but the character and behavior of a specific, unglamorous kind of team captain.
Children thrive when they feel a sense of control over their own lives, and parents help most by acting as calm consultants rather than anxious controllers.
A comprehensive question-and-answer guide for designing, implementing, and administering effective executive compensation programs aligned with strategic business objectives.
A veteran pastor argues that the local church is the hope of the world and that its redemptive potential can only be unleashed when people with the spiritual gift of leadership develop and deploy that gift with courage, skill, and dependence on God.
A practical, skills-based guide teaching parents specific communication techniques that respect both children's and parents' feelings while fostering cooperation, autonomy, and self-esteem.
A book that presents the 'backward design' framework for educators to create curriculum, instruction, and assessments focused on developing deep, enduring student understanding and the ability to transfer learning.
This definitive classic introduces and details the theory of andragogy—the art and science of adult learning—contrasting it with traditional pedagogy and providing a comprehensive framework for educators to create more effective and engaging learning experiences for adults.
A social psychologist reveals the six universal principles of influence that cause people to automatically comply with requests and explains how to recognize and resist this manipulation.
Executive compensation should be engineered first and foremost as a motivational system that ties meaningful rewards to demonstrated performance while balancing risk, recognition, and the symbiotic interests of executives, companies, and shareholders.
A comprehensive, data-driven analysis of traffic crashes that argues driver behavior, not vehicle technology, is the dominant factor in traffic safety and the key to preventing hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Children who chronically explode (or implode) are lacking skills—not motivation—and their behavior improves when caregivers stop imposing solutions and instead collaboratively and proactively solve the specific problems that trigger their outbursts.
A landmark synthesis of research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and developmental psychology that presents a new, unified framework for designing effective learning environments that foster deep, transferable understanding for all learners.
Simone de Beauvoir builds an existentialist ethics grounded in the irreducible ambiguity of the human condition, arguing that genuine morality consists in willing one's own freedom and, inseparably, the freedom of all others.
A concise accounting-and-economics guide to how, why, and how much top corporate executives are paid—covering pay components, accounting treatment, disclosure, history, economic theory, and international comparisons.
Frantz Fanon's seminal work argues that decolonization is an inherently violent process through which the colonized psychologically reclaim their humanity, warning post-independence nations against the pitfalls of mimicking their former European colonizers and the rise of a self-serving national bourgeoisie.
Based on decades of laboratory research, this book identifies seven science-backed principles that distinguish marriages that thrive from those that fail, and gives couples concrete tools to strengthen their friendship and manage conflict.
A concise accounting-and-economics guide to how, why, and how much top corporate executives are paid—covering pay components, accounting treatment, disclosure, history, economic theory, and international comparisons.
A former Stanford dean argues that overparenting harms children by robbing them of the life skills, resilience, and self-efficacy they need to become capable, independent adults.
A former NFL star turned minister-coach argues that coaches must do the inner work of understanding their own life stories before they can transform young athletes into people of empathy, integrity, and purpose.
A practical, cognitively grounded guide to designing learning experiences that close the real gaps—knowledge, skills, motivation, and environment—so learners can actually do more, not just know more.
A comprehensive question-and-answer guide for designing, implementing, and administering effective executive compensation programs aligned with strategic business objectives.
A comprehensive guide offering 50,000 baby names with their origins and meanings, along with practical advice to help expectant parents navigate the naming process and find the perfect name for their child.
Sustained sales success comes not from silver bullets but from fanatical, disciplined, balanced prospecting that keeps the pipeline perpetually full of qualified opportunities.
Claude Lévi-Strauss argues that 'primitive' thought is not a rudimentary stage of intellectual development but a parallel, equally complex and logical system for ordering the world, which he terms the 'science of the concrete'.
A restaurateur who helped make Eleven Madison Park the best restaurant in the world reveals how being unreasonable about hospitality—giving people more than they expect—transforms any business.
A clinical psychologist and adolescent expert provides parents with a comprehensive, research-grounded framework for understanding, preventing, and addressing the epidemic of stress and anxiety afflicting today's girls.
Society's 'good people' delegate morally compromised but necessary work to an invisible class of disadvantaged 'dirty workers,' perpetuating a system of profound moral and economic inequality.
A hands-on guide for training professionals to abandon ineffective, information-dump courses in favor of a strategic design process called Action Mapping, which focuses on solving business problems by creating targeted, activity-based experiences that change on-the-job behavior.
A position paper arguing that Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) meta-heuristic techniques can be effectively combined with software model checking to overcome state explosion and solve broader software engineering problems.
A comprehensive history of Bayes' Rule, charting its 250-year journey from a controversial idea about learning from experience to a cornerstone of modern science and technology.
A compilation of unreleased chapters from Alex Hormozi's $100M Series that deepen understanding of avatar selection, free/discount/premium promotions, customer-financed acquisition math, offer stacking, and lead-getting employees.
A practical activity handbook offering more than 100 Montessori-inspired activities for children aged 6 to 12 across practical life, mathematics, sensorial life, culture, and language.
A curated reference of 100 proven management models, tools, and techniques spanning leadership, strategy, innovation, sales, operations, finance, personal effectiveness, and culture, each distilled to its practical essence.
Bruce Lansky
A comprehensive guide for expecting parents to choose the perfect baby name by providing over 100,000 options, detailed information, and a practical step-by-step decision-making process.
Bruce Lansky
A comprehensive guide for expecting parents to choose the perfect baby name by providing over 100,000 options, detailed information, and a practical step-by-step decision-making process.
Drawing on Gallup's massive employee-opinion database, the book identifies twelve measurable elements of work life that great managers cultivate to drive engagement, performance, and profitability.
Jackie Silberg
A practical guide of 125 simple, age-appropriate games for parents to play with babies from birth to one year old, designed to promote early brain development through loving, everyday interactions.
A practical guide and competency framework for administering the State System of Higher Education's Management Performance and Reward Program, linking manager behaviors and results to organizational goals.
Ro Gorell, Gillian Jones
A practical, dip-in reference toolkit of 50 proven, adaptable coaching tools that equip coaches, managers, and individuals to develop and empower people across every situation from goal setting and confidence to hybrid working and neurodivergence.
Ro Gorell, Gillian Jones
A practical, dip-in reference toolkit of 50 proven, adaptable coaching tools that equip coaches, managers, and individuals to develop and empower people across every situation from goal setting and confidence to hybrid working and neurodivergence.
A cross-cultural meta-analysis demonstrating that leaders' emotional intelligence predicts subordinates' task performance and organizational citizenship behavior beyond personality and cognitive ability, with effects amplified by specific national cultural dimensions.
A veteran crowdfunder argues that the surest path to funding success is to stop making campaigns about you and instead build a community by putting your backers first.
The PMBOK® Guide provides the globally recognized foundational standard and framework of processes, tools, and techniques for managing individual projects to successfully achieve their objectives.
Lorilee Craker
A curated, opinionated guide that mines great books and literary figures for 470 meaningful, stylish baby names, profiling each for popularity, image, and cultural resonance.
Lorilee Craker
A curated, opinionated guide that mines great books and literary figures for 470 meaningful, stylish baby names, profiling each for popularity, image, and cultural resonance.
The Cynefin framework helps leaders diagnose which of five decision contexts they face—simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, or disorder—and adapt their leadership style accordingly.
A mathematician's autobiography detailing his journey from academia to conquering blackjack and roulette with quantitative methods, and then applying these principles to create revolutionary, low-risk, high-return strategies on Wall Street.
A definitive chronicle of the Apollo moon missions, told through the personal experiences and in-depth interviews with the 24 astronauts who voyaged to the Moon.
A meta-analytic review of two decades of research on Spreitzer's psychological empowerment, quantifying its organizational antecedents, consequences, and the moderating roles of age, culture, and profession.
A 30-year psychometric meta-analysis showing that employees' emotional intelligence is positively linked to organizational commitment, citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, and performance, and negatively linked to job stress.
A meta-analysis showing that horizontal team-member exchange fosters employee innovation more strongly than vertical leader-member exchange, working through cognitive, motivational, and affective mechanisms.
A neuroscience-grounded guide showing that anyone can excel at math and science by learning how the brain actually learns, thinks, and remembers.
John Ousterhout
Software complexity is the root enemy of programmer productivity, and every design decision should be evaluated by how much it reduces or increases complexity in the system as a whole.
Ian Taylor M.B
A hands-on manual showing HR and recruitment practitioners how to design, sell, and run valid assessment and development centres that measure competency through observable behaviour rather than inferred internal states.
A concise practical guide that explains how conjoint analysis infers the value consumers place on individual product attributes by analyzing their ratings of or choices among realistically described products.
Erich P. Prien, Leonard D. Goodstein
A step-by-step practitioner's manual arguing that a competent job analysis is the indispensable foundation of every human resource function, complete with eight ready-to-use job-family templates.
A step-by-step practitioner's manual arguing that a competent job analysis is the indispensable foundation of every human resource function, complete with eight ready-to-use job-family templates.
Stock market prices are unpredictable, so investors achieve superior results by buying and holding a diversified, low-cost portfolio of index funds rather than trying to beat the market through active management or stock picking.
A relational psychoanalytic model for couples therapy that operationalizes three core themes—self-actualization, mutual recognition, and the relationship having a mind of its own—through a six-step, non-linear therapeutic process.