{"id":9837,"date":"2017-08-04T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insabarcelona.com\/?p=9837\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:24:10","slug":"summer-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insabarcelona.com\/en\/summer-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Best sellers, classics, must-read, deep readings and light readings, many pages among wich we can escape and enjoy the summer.<\/p>\n<p>If you still don&#8217;t know what book to take on your suitcase, here is a list of recommendations.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9860&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>1.- Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert Kiyosaki\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A book about the importance of financial independence and building wealth through investing, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one&#8217;s financial intelligence.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9861&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>2.- Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years. The roller-coaster life of this creative entrepreneur.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9858&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>3.- Guerrilla Marketing | Jay Conrad Levinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A book that explains why it&#8217;s no longer necessary to spend a great deal of money to gain visibility, as long as you&#8217;re willing to get creative.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9857&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>4.- 1984 | George Orwel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dystopian novel that portraits a world divided by three totalitarian states, with a total elimination of human freedom where violence and hatred are the norm.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9875&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>5.- Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think | Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A New York Times bestseller that explains us more about the age of big data providing us with invaluable insights about the rather than the why.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9859&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>6.- \u00a0Rayuela | \u00a0Julio Cort\u00e1zar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With an unconventional plot and chronology the novel focuses on two stages of the life of Horacio Olivera, an argentine intellectual with few economic resources.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9856&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>7.- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley | Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Begins with the author leaving his job in New York to head west. He joins a startup, leaves it to launch another, sells that one to Twitter, then goes to work in the feverish cult of pre-initial public offering Facebook and that&#8217;s just the first part of the book.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9855&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>8. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The book focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events and human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9862&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>9. 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