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The Triple Package
How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
"That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are...
Thanks for the Feedback
The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learning
We swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers—but also family, friends, and in-laws—they all have “suggestions”...
The Art of the Sale
Learning from the Masters About the Business of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A revelatory examination of the alchemy of successful selling and its essential role in just about every aspect of human experience.
When Philip Delves Broughton went to Harvard Business School, an experience he wrote about in his New York Times bestseller Ahead of the Curve, he was baffled...
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Brand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis
The brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the...
The Inevitable
Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**A New York Times Bestseller
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives**
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological...
The White Man's Burden
Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world
In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of...
Common Wealth
Economics for a Crowded Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity....
The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists
Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his...
by Roger Lowenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
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The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.
The End of...
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.
Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....
The Fourth Revolution
The Global Race to Reinvent the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state
Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that...
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King...
Imagining India
The Idea of a Renewed Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A visionary look at the evolution and future of India
In this momentous book, Nandan Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped India's past and present and asks the key question of the future: How will India as a global power avoid the mistakes of earlier development models? As a co-founder...
Windfall
The Booming Business of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world
McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is...