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- JPMorgan Chase has released its 20th annual summer reading list — 10 nonfiction books stretching from business to cook books.
- The list includes notable titles like "The Moment of Lift" by Melinda Gates and "Literary Places" by Sarah Baxter and Amy Grimes.
- According to JPMorgan, this is their most diverse list to date.
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Every summer for the last 20 years, JPMorgan Chase has released its summer reading list of noteworthy nonfiction titles.
While some books are business focused, like Clayton Christensen’s "The Prosperity Paradox," others are about as far from banking as you can get — "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future" by Tracey Bashkoff made the cut.
According to JPMorgan’s newsletter debuting the reading list, "this is the most diverse collection of topics and authors since [the list’s] inception."
Despite their wide-ranging topics, the banking giant says the 10 books have a lot in common: they’re engaging summer reads, they delve deeper than the average beach book, and they may stretch a reader’s comfort zone, especially if said reader absorbed them all in one summer.
Here are all 10 books on JPMorgan’s 20th summer reading list, along with descriptions of each title from Amazon, and where to find them online.
"Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America"
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Author: Weijian Shan
Description: Weijan Shan, a Chinese financier, started out working as a hard laborer in the Gobi desert when he was exiled from Mao Zedong’s Communist regime at age 15. His inspiring journey led back to Beijing to finish his schooling, then to UC Berkeley in the 1980s. In five years, Shan went from working in the Gobi to meeting Senator Dianna Feinstein. And now that the United States and China’s relationship has never been more tense, "Out of the Gobi" illustrates the cultural and political differences between the two world powers through Shan’s point of view.
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"The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution"
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Author: Susan Hockfield
Description: With climate change, extreme weather, and overpopulation threatening our way of life, neuroscientist Susan Hockfield says biology will be crucial. She foresees a future where cancer-detecting nanoparticles, mind-controlled bionic limbs, and computer-engineered crops save the planet. Hockfield, a former president of MIT, is calling this book the story of a technological revolution. And with the global population set to rise to 9.5 billion by 2050, a technological revolution couldn’t pick a better time to arrive.
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"Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future"
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Author: Tracey Bashkoff
Description: When painter Hilma af Klint died in 1944, she asked that her work not be seen until 20 years after her death. It’s been around seven decades since then, and her seminal abstract paintings are finally coming to light. The Swedish artist left over 1,000 works behind, many of which were recently exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum. While she may not be as well-known as abstract contemporaries like Kandinsky and Malevich, af Klint was decades ahead of her time.
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Source: Business Insider – ideluce@businessinsider.com (Ivan De Luce)