NBS recommends reads that teach
Jesus, Career Counselor: How To Find (And Keep) Your Perfect Work
By Laurie Beth Jones
P845
MANILA, Philippines - Written to help readers get, find, and keep the work they love, Jesus, Career Counselor weaves together practical self-help concepts, intriguing stories, relevant statistics, and Bible scriptures. Divided into four sections centered on the four natural gifting or personalities of people, this book explores 12 dreams that God has for each individual — including rise, risk, roar, renew, regenerate, rejoice, relate, and more. It then instructs readers in how to realize each one of these dreams, no matter their natural inclination.
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
By Tom Rath & Jim Harter
P1,095
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements provides you with a holistic view of what contributes to your wellbeing over a lifetime. Written in a conversational style, this book is filled with fascinating research and innovative ideas for boosting your wellbeing in each of the five areas: Career Wellbeing, Social Wellbeing, Financial Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing, and Community Wellbeing. By the time you finish reading this book, you’ll have a better understanding of what makes life worthwhile. This will enable you to enjoy each day and get more out of your life — while boosting the wellbeing of your friends, family members, colleagues, and others in your community.
War
By Sebastian Junger
P615
In his breakout bestseller The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created “a wild ride that brilliantly captured the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat — the fear, honor, and trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour-of-duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.
Oprah: A Biography
By Kitty Kelley
P1,199
For the past 25 years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests — often the biggest celebrities in the world — to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons.
There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the 20th and 21st centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.
Buffett Beyond Value: Why Warren Buffett Looks To Growth And Management When Investing
By Prem C. Jain
P1,385
While Warren Buffett’s investment ideas are simple to understand, his success can be difficult to duplicate—unless you become familiar with how he really goes about the process of investing.
In this engaging new book, author Prem C. Jain extracts Warren Buffett’s investment wisdom from Berkshire Hathaway annual reports, Buffett’s letters to shareholders and partners in his partnership firms, and as many of Buffett’s other writings as he could find—thousands of pages written over the past 50 years. Through this effort, Jain uncovers the key elements of Buffett’s approach and offers an accessible way to apply it to your own investment endeavors.
Predictably Irrational
By Dan Ariely
P335
Predictably Irrational comes from Dr. Ariely’s work as a behavioral economist, but it’s not for economists. Well, it is, but mainly to the extent that it can help them the same way it can help anyone. If the behaviors that skew our judgments were random or senseless, we’d be hard put to sort them out and make better decisions. But research has shown that our irrationality is, in fact, systematic. People will make the same types of mistakes over and over, in a predictable manner, because the behaviors have structural origins. So recognizing them and understanding them offers us a way to do better. And that’s the aim of this book: to leave you with new knowledge of human nature, derived from a wide range of scientific experiments and findings, that will help you make better decisions in your personal life, your business life, and in the choices we all need to make about our collective welfare.
