Titan

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller (1998)

Biography

Author(s): Ron Chernow

Best book about Rockefeller and Standard Oil in my opinion. The story starts with the life of Rockefeller and the building of the company, how it gained power thanks to its size, the break up, and the last years of Rockefeller as a philanthropist.

Conspiracy of Fools

Conspiracy of Fools (2005)

Business History

Author(s): Kurt Eichenwald

The rise and fall of Enron. The book features a lot of details about the grow of enron, their corporate policies, how they approached projects, the financial tricks and their slow and painful crash.

Computational Finance

Computational Finance with R (2014)

Finance / Programming

Author(s): Argimiro Arratia

Financial methods in R including time series analysis, monte carlo simulations, technical trading and portfolio optimization.

Private Empire

Private Empire: ExxonMobil (2012)

Business History

Author(s): Steve Coll

History of ExxonMobil including the merger between the two companies, the exxon valdez incident, their power inside the white house, the fight against climate change evidence and much more.

Web Scraping with Python

Web Scraping with Python (2015)

Academic / Programming

Author(s): Ryan Mitchell

Nice book for automatic web downloading, searching and saving using python. It also includes advanced aspects like solving captchas, downloading javascript code and how to avoid being detected by web administrators.

The Frackers

The Frackers (2013)

Non-Fiction / Energy

Author(s): Gregory Zuckerman

Great book about the history of fracking and horizontal drilling, the pioneers of the industry and how many of them became big players. The book also highlights how important was this tecnological improvement to the US and how it changed the world's oil landscape.

The Industries of the Future

The Industries of the Future (2016)

Non-Fiction

Author(s): Alec Ross

The book explores several aspects of certain labor markets and how they are being disrupted by automation and software. It also features recommendations and insights about what should the incoming generations do about it.