Books like Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
12 books with a reading profile close to Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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THE INVISIBLE COUP
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, accessible
Peter Schweizer argues that current patterns of mass migration are not accidental shifts in population but are instead calculated tools of political warfare.
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy
Malcolm Gladwell outlines how small behaviors or localized trends reach a threshold and spread like a contagion.
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THE DAY AFTER
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
The author of “Shameless” looks at the relationship Republicans and Democrats have to power and prescribes ways for it to be used after Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
Neil deGrasse Tyson assembles a collection of essays that explain the laws governing the universe and the history of scientific discovery.
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The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Eric Ries argues that startups fail when they rely on traditional business plans and long-term market research to predict consumer behavior.
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy
Daniel H.
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The science of Game of thrones
by Helen Keen
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
Helen Keen investigates the technical and historical realities behind George R.R.
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
In Michael Pollan’s analysis of the Western diet, he identifies the rise of nutritionism—the ideology that views food merely as a collection of nutrients rather than a whole substance.
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The Undercover Economist
by Tim Harford
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
Tim Harford explains how price discrimination, scarcity power, and information asymmetry dictate the costs of daily life.
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, accessible
Richard Preston chronicles the emergence of lethal filoviruses, specifically Ebola and Marburg, from the central African rainforest into human populations.
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
John Carreyrou chronicles the rise and collapse of Theranos, a biotech firm led by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed to revolutionize blood testing through proprietary Edison devices.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy
Steven Levy narrates the internal evolution of Google from its origins as a Stanford research project to a global data empire.
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