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Blog / News & Opinion
Porchlight's Bestselling Business Books of 2019
By Dylan Schleicher
The 15 books that we sold the most, and most often, in 2019. Thank you to everyone who helped bring the books into existence, who brought them to our awareness, and who worked with us to deliver them into the hands of readers.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
From Brokenness To Blessing
By Matthew Emerzian
"You matter to your family. To your friends. Your company. Your community. Every word you speak. Every thought you have. Every action you take matters. It’s time for you to truly love yourself for who you really are. You matter."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | February 11, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
By Porchlight
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a delightful new window into the public and private lives of our highest leaders.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Life's Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
"Self-awareness is extremely important. But getting to know yourself is important primarily, Tom Rath believes, because it allows you to connect and contribute to the lives of others."
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Permanent Disequilibrium: Finance as an Industry of Sabotage
By Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan
"It is quite difficult to make sense of finance today by relying on textbook approaches, wherever their intellectual or political affinities may lie. To understand the remarkable persistence and prevalence of rogue behaviour, we returned to the ideas of a school of thought, often ignored nowadays, known as the old institutional economics (OIE)."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | February 4, 2020
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade
By Porchlight
Trade myths, busted and debunked, with the help of six surprising everyday goods—the taco salad, the Honda Odyssey, the banana, the iPhone, the college degree, and the blockbuster HBO series Game of Thrones
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
“The very idea of a ‘free’ market has become synonymous with an ‘unregulated’ market—one that is unaccountable to the wider public that must act as a lender of last resort when their financial machinations come to a grinding halt due to an engineering flaw of their own design.”
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
Scenes from the 2019 Porchlight Business Book Awards Party
By Dylan Schleicher
A peak inside the business book awards and industry appreciation event we hosted this year in New York City, honoring those in the publishing industry whose work makes our work possible.
Categories: news-opinion