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by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

The bestselling citizen's guide to economics Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different...

The Best Business Books Ever

The Most Influential Management Books You'll Never Have Time To Read

by Basic Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

Every manager could benefit from a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking. The Best Business Books Ever is a uniquely organized guide and an illuminating collection of key ideas from the 130 most influential business books of all time. It places both historical and contemporary...

High Tech Harvest

Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants

by Paul Lurquin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007

Genetically engineered plant products line the shelves of our grocery stores, but we don't know which ones they are because no label identifies them. Should we be concerned? It is true that biotech companies are saying that engineered corn and canola are safe, but are they telling the truth? In High...

Intelligence Reframed

Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

by Howard E. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2000

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

The History and Future of Reading

by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:...

The Reckoning

Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

by Jacob Soll
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern capitalism and the nation-state....

The Economic Naturalist

In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas

by Robert H. Frank
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer questions like these as a way of learning how economic...
by Dinesh D'Souza
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling exposé Illiberal Education. Now,...

Six Easy Pieces

Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

"If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces."- John Gribbin, New Scientist It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students...

The Art of Statistics

How to Learn from Data

by David Spiegelhalter
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019

The definitive guide to statistical thinking Statistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact...

The Trainable Cat

A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat

by John Bradshaw, Sarah Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

A New York Times Bestseller "I have to hand it to Bradshaw and Ellis: Once you suss out their basic cat-training philosophy, their methods totally work." --Slate We often assume that cats can't be trained, and don't need to be. But in The Trainable Cat, bestselling anthrozoologist John...

Edmund Burke

The First Conservative

by Jesse Norman
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

A provocative biography of Edmund Burke, the underappreciated founder of modern conservatism Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of...

Ametora

How Japan Saved American Style

by W. David Marx
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look-known as ametora, or "American traditional"-and turned it into a huge...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III

The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics

by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning publications that have remained definitive and introductory to physics for decades. Ranging from the basic...
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