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Karl Polanyi
A Life on the Left
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. This biography...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This anthology of the year's best investigative business writing explores the secret dealings of an elite Wall Street society and uncovers the crimes and misadventures of the young founder of Silk Road, the wildly successful online illegal goods site known as the "eBay of vice." It reveals...
The Good Among the Great
19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
What Makes Some High Achievers Great Human Beings? Donald Van de Mark spent more than 25 years interviewing prominent people for CNN and CNBC. He discovered that some people aren't just successful, they're extraordinary. And more, these people share many of the same traits. Confirming the theories of...
An All-Consuming Century
Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called "riveting and indispensable," The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year's selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot technology and...
The Activist Director
Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive...
When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?
And 101 Other Questions About New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
For years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious New Yorkers and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's official seal? Is it true that a nineteenth-century...
Hollywood’s Copyright Wars
From Edison to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach. Everyone from producers...
Smart Machines
IBM's Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
We are crossing a new frontier in the evolution of computing and entering the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM's Watson on the television quiz show Jeopardy! revealed how scientists and engineers at IBM and elsewhere are pushing the boundaries of science and technology to create machines...
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate...
Nancy Cunard
Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."
Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that...
Black & White & Noir
America's Pulp Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2002
Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural...
Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure
The Dirty Art of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at...
by Sylvia Beach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate...