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The Predator State
How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept...
by Sam Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of...
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Freedom of speech is one of our greatest legal rights and Cass Sunstein is one of our greatest legal theorists. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to think seriously about the free speech issues facing this generation.
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Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor, Yale Law School
This is an...
The Typewriter Is Holy
The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
2014 ACKER AWARD WINNER
Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation.
In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the...
Forge of Empires
Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power:
Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic.
Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs...
The Shadow University
The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
Universities once believed themselves to be sacred enclaves, where students and professors could debate the issues of the day and arrive at a better understanding of the human condition. Today, sadly, this ideal of the university is being quietly betrayed from within. Universities still set themselves...
Lapdogs
How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Lapdogs is the first book to demonstrate that, for the entire George W. Bush presidency, the news media have utterly failed in their duty as watchdog for the public. In blistering prose, Eric Boehlert reveals how, time after time, the press chose a soft approach to covering the government, and as...
The Halo Effect
... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Much of our business thinking is shaped by delusions -- errors of logic and flawed judgments that distort our understanding of the real reasons for a company's performance. In a brilliant and unconventional book, Phil Rosenzweig unmasks the delusions that are commonly found in the corporate world....
21 Dog Years
Doing Time @ Amazon.com
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion.
In...
The Nature of the Future
Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A renowned futurist offers a vision of a reinvented world.
Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald...
Lincoln's Men
How President Lincoln Became Father To an Army an
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)...My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal...I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers...
So wrote Private Joe Hass to Abraham Lincoln, February 20, 1864. Like an extraordinary...
The Betrayal of American Prosperity
Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
CONSIDER THIS SHOCKING FACT: while China’s number one export to the United States is $46 billion of computer equipment, the number one export from the U.S. to China is waste—$7.6 billion of waste paper and scrap metal.
Bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz reveals the astonishing extent of...
It's All Too Much Workbook
The Tools You Need to Conquer Clutter and Create the Life You Want
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
The perfect companion to the New York Times bestselling book by organizing icon Peter Walsh, the It’s All Too Much Workbook delves deeper than the original book to help readers let go of the physical and mental clutter that is holding them back from a happier, more fulfilled life.
In his...
The Mind of the Soul
Responsible Choice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2007
"This book can dramatically change your life by showing you how to take responsibility for the choices you make and break free from the illusion that you are a victim of your circumstances." So begins one of the most significant works you will ever encounter.
People make hundreds of choices every...