Publicaffairs imprint: 611 books

Think Outside the Building

How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Small Innovation at a Time

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020

One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems. To address the big social and environmental issues of our day--from poverty, to race and gender disparities,...

Tower of Basel

The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

by Adam LeBor
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers-including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US...

The American Health Care Paradox

Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including...

Narconomics

How to Run a Drug Cartel

by Tom Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

What drug lords learned from big business How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of...

The Big Nine

How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday...

The Looting Machine

Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

by Tom Burgis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging markets” have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa...

No One at the Wheel

Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

by Samuel I. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than...

The Tastemakers

Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue

by David Sax
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014

Tastemaker, n. Anyone with the power to make you eat quinoa. Kale. Spicy sriracha sauce. Honeycrisp apples. Cupcakes. These days, it seems we are constantly discovering a new food that will make us healthier, happier, or even somehow cooler. Chia seeds, after a brief life as a novelty houseplant...

The Signals Are Talking

Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

by Amy Webb
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

A Fast Company best book of the year A Washington Post bestseller Winner of the 2017 Axiom Business Book Award in Business Technology How do you tell a real trend from the merely trendy? How, for example, will a technology--like artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-driving...

The Right-and Wrong-Stuff

How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade

by Carter Cast
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

"Warning: Your career might be in danger of going off the rails. You probably have blind spots that are leaving you closer to the edge than you realize. Fortunately, Carter Cast has the solution. In this smart, engaging book he shows you how to avoid career derailment by becoming more self-aware,...

The Revenge of Analog

Real Things and Why They Matter

by David Sax
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

A #1 Washington Post bestseller One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016 A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses...

Will College Pay Off?

A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make

by Peter Cappelli
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved. Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees...

Army of God

Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa

by David Axe, Tim Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Joseph Kony is the most dangerous guerilla leader in modern African history. It started with a visit from spirits. In 1991, Kony claimed that spiritual beings had come to him with instructions: he was to lead his group of rebels, the Lord's Resistance Army, in a series of brutal raids against...
by Mojha Kahf
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her African-American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault-lines...
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