• The best books on Machine Learning - Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity by Steve Shwartz
  • The best books on Machine Learning - Mining Your Own Business: A Primer for Executives on Understanding and Employing Data Mining and Predictive Analytics by Gerhard Pilcher & Jeff Deal
  • The best books on Machine Learning - Digital Decisioning: Using Decision Management to Deliver Business Impact from AI by James Taylor
  • The best books on Machine Learning - The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
  • The best books on Machine Learning - Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications by Robert Nisbet, John Elder, Gary D. Miner

The best books on Machine Learning, recommended by Eric Siegel

Machine learning uses data to predict outcomes, explains Eric Siegel, a former professor at Columbia who now advises companies on deploying it in their business. Unlike artificial intelligence, it’s a real technology with a proven track record, he says. He recommends practical books on machine learning that are accessible to the layperson and useful to anyone looking to use it in their business or organization.

  • The best books on Responsible Business - The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World by Judy Samuelson
  • The best books on Responsible Business - The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions by Paul Anastas & Urvashi Bhatnagar
  • The best books on Responsible Business - Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
  • The best books on Responsible Business - Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
  • The best books on Responsible Business - The Value of Everything: Making & Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato

The best books on Responsible Business, recommended by Vincent Stanley

The long-term interests of business often coincide with the long-term interests of nature and society but the short-term interests are a different story, says Vincent Stanley of Patagonia, a multi-billion dollar apparel company owned by a non-profit trust. He recommends five books on sustainable, ethical business, showing that a stock price needn’t be a company’s primary product.

  • The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry by Kit Chellel & Matthew Campbell
  • The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition by Lulu Chen
  • The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle
  • The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption by Sebastian Mallaby
  • The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  • The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson

The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill

For its annual book award, the Financial Times looks beyond books that might be filed under business in a bookshop, picking out books that are compelling and enjoyable, explains Andrew Hill, the newspaper’s senior business writer. He talks us through the 2022 shortlist: books that shine a light on obscure but immensely important companies or industries, or address some of the bigger challenges facing our capitalist economies.

  • The best books on Batteries - Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson
  • The best books on Batteries - The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World by Steve LeVine
  • The best books on Batteries - The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
  • The best books on Batteries - Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner
  • The best books on Batteries - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

The best books on Batteries, recommended by Lukasz Bednarski

As the world turns to electric vehicles and renewable energy to help stave off a climate crisis, there will be huge changes for individuals, industries and even the world geopolitical order. Lukasz Bednarski, a battery analyst, former rare metals trader, and author of Lithium, The Global Race for Battery Dominance, talks us through some of the books that shed light on what’s going on, from the cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the high-tech labs where the latest battery technology is being developed.

  • The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award - The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston
  • The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award - The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Jack Farchy & Javier Blas
  • The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award - The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E Mann
  • The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award - This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
  • The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award - The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge

The Best Business Books: the 2021 FT & McKinsey Book Award, recommended by Andrew Hill

Every year the Financial Times’s management editor, Andrew Hill, helps organize its ‘Business Book of the Year’ award, which celebrates outstanding books relating to business in the broadest sense. Here, he talks us through the 2021 shortlist, six books that will draw you in and open your eyes to how events happening in the world of business affect all of us–sometimes in very profound ways.

  • The best books on Bankruptcy - Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
  • The best books on Bankruptcy - The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac
  • The best books on Bankruptcy - Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta Krippner
  • The best books on Bankruptcy - The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi
  • The best books on Bankruptcy - Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business by Jennifer Taub

The best books on Bankruptcy, recommended by John Ayer

Like the perfume seller in Balzac’s Human Comedy, many people still fear the moral stigma of bankruptcy. But while modern bankruptcy laws allow people to walk away from their debts, they do not address the underlying issues that can all too easily leave hardworking people in dire financial straits. Jack Ayer, emeritus professor and former bankruptcy judge, recommends his top bankruptcy books.