Basic Books: 1466 books
Hot Time in the Old Town
The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City...
The Race To The Bottom
Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson...
The Lawyer Bubble
A Profession in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story-the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions...
by Max Lenderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Consumers - exposed to roughly four thousand marketing messages a day - are no longer willing to be part of a passive consumer base, subject to conventional advertising and marketing. Rather, they are joining a growing tribe of brand atheists who don't want to be targeted by impersonal messages. They...
The Laws of Disruption
Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching their heads, frantically trying to figure out what they can and can’t do. Some want to bring innovation...
American Aristocrats
A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism
American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning...
by James Hoopes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds with principles of life in a democratic society-freedom, equality, individualism. False Prophets critically examines the pioneering theories of the early management thinkers,...
by Jeffrey E. Garten
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Based on extensive and highly personal interviews with forty chief executives around the world-among them GE's Jack Welch, AOL's Steven Case, Intel's Andy Grove, Newscorp's Rupert Murdoch, BP Amoco's John Browne, Nokia's Jorma Olilla, and Toyota's Hiroshi Okuda-The Mind of the CEO takes us on a journey...
Preparing For Power
America's Elite Boarding Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prepschool life and underlife.
Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted...
Fables Of Abundance
A Cultural History Of Advertising In America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1995
Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.
The End of Influence
What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
At the end of World War II, the United States had all the money—and all the power. Now, America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent power follows money. In The End of Influence, renowned economic analysts Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong explore the grave consequences this loss...
An Extraordinary Time
The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped...
And The World Closed Its Doors
The Story Of One Family Abandoned To The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Much has been written about the West's unwillingness to attempt the rescue of tens of thousands of European Jews from the hands of the Nazis. Now David Clay Large gives a specific human face to this tragedy of bureaucratic inertia and ill will. In this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, Large tells...