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Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea’s chances—essential reading in the “fake news” era.
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots...
Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE**
Every year, the average...
Unfinished Business
Women Men Work Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Includes a new afterword by the author • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington
**NAMED ONE OF THE...
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.
“Invaluable.”—Deborah...
The Leader's Code
Mission, Character, Service, and Getting the Job Done
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What does it take to be a great leader? In a word: character. This unique bookby decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran Donovan Campbell, the New York Times bestselling author of Joker One, draws on his years of training and combat experience to reveal the specific virtues that underpin effective leadership—and...
Vital Little Plans
The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist
No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global...
The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American Prospect
In this forceful and impassioned...
The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that...
The Only Game in Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • With a new introduction by the author
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by Gordon G. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon....
The Predictioneer's Game
Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial,...
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Oil and the End of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book...
Dear Undercover Economist
Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life's Other Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Throughout history, great philosophers have been answering profound questions about life. But do they know why your socks keep disappearing from the dryer, or how to choose the quickest line at the supermarket? Probably not, but Tim Harford does. . . .
In Dear Undercover Economist, the first...