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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
2021
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this urgent, singularly authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid an irreversible climate catastrophe.**Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help and guidance of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, poli...
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My Beginnings
2025
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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barnes & Noble’s Best Business Books of 2025The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years. . . . Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWire**The business triumph...
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
2018
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One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest).Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics...
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2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they’re also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy?Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explains...
Hit Refresh
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
2017
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“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like never before.” – Satya Nadella from Hit Refresh“Satya has charted a course for making the most of the opportunities created by technology while also facing up to the hard questions.” – Bill Gates from the Foreword of Hit Refresh
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
2009
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A heartfelt, deeply personal book that shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”: lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Through the course of several dozen narratives arranged in roughly chronological fashion, Gates introduces the p...
Tools and Weapons
The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
2019
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**The New York Times bestseller, now updated with new material on cyber attacks, digital sovereignty, and tech in a pandemic.From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.“A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, t...
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
2010
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“A Zen classic” (The Washington Post) about achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—now in a 50th anniversary edition with an updated epilogue and a foreword by NFL coach Pete Carroll“The Inner Game of Tennis is not just a tennis book . . . because inner voices torture all of us—not just country-club tennis players.”—Michael Lewis, author ...
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Moguls: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
2009
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The biggest brains—and bank accounts—in business share their secrets of the trade in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From media titans Ted Turner and Barry Diller to technology visionaries Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to board-room barons T. Boone Pickens and Lee Iacocca, these business tycoons reflect the very best of 50 years of the Playboy Interview.Moguls is part of the 50 Years of the Playboy Interview e-book series, for which the ma...
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Your Life, Uploaded
The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity
2010
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"A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."-Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc.Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital revolution. Our daily life started becoming digital a decade ago. Now much of what we do is digitally recorded and accessible. This trend won't stop. And the benefits are astonishing.Based on their own research Bell and Gemmell explain the ever- incr...
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What Will Be
How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives
2009
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Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following new technologies and challenges will have on our lives as the Information Revolution progresses:all the music, film and text ever produced will be available on-demand i...
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The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
2018
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**Foreword by Bill GatesLinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.**What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants?The s...











