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Surfing the Edge of Chaos
The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Every few years a book changes the way people think about a field. In psychology there is Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. In science, James Gleick's Chaos. In economics and finance, Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. And in business there is now Surfing the Edge of Chaos by...
The Future Arrived Yesterday
The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. . . .
The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death...
Economics Without Illusions
Debunking the Myths of Modern Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946)
Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to support social and political positions. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them...
Fire in the Ashes
Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys...
by George Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Machinery of Mind is a full-scale, indispensable examination of the history, content, politics, and philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. In detail, consecutively but with a keen awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, Johnson traces the history of the burgeoning science from its...
Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are texting...
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.
Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material....
How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt
The Perfect Husband Handbook Featuring Over 50 Foolproof Ways to Win, Woo & Wow Your Wife
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
PERFECT HUSBANDS ARE MADE, NOT BORN
LADIES: At long last, a practical guide to help your man become the perfect husband. How to Iron Your Own Damn Shirt is your salvation, with simple, easy-for-a-guy-to-follow instructions on those little things you can never get him to do, such as:
•...
The Plot to Save the Planet
How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to to Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
American entrepreneurs, corporate tycoons, and financiers are plotting what they do best—creating new industries that change the world and making billions in the process—a plot that will ultimately save the planet.
The Plot to Save the Planet is an illuminating and inspiring look at the...
The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones...
Ingenious
A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car
In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles...
Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition
The Essential Elements of a Great Leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Since it was first published to wide acclaim in 1992, the bestselling Leadership Jazz has firmly placed itself among the great business classics. Former President Bill Clinton called it “astonishing,” and the late Peter Drucker advised, “Read this slowly. This book is wisdom in action.”
Now...
Guts!
Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-as-usual
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Kevin and Jackie Freiberg’s previous book, Nuts!: Southwest Airline’s Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, described the unconventional leadership that made Southwest an airline industry dynamo. In GUTS!, the Freibergs look at twenty-five gutsy and extraordinarily successful businesses...
Company Manners
How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
In Company Manners, Lois Wyse gives the ploys, power plays, and protocols that have nothing to do with Emily Post and everything to do with making it to the top in any corporation.
Company Manners will show you:
• How to survive and win despite mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, shakeouts,...