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Class Clowns
How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost...
The Education of Ronald Reagan
The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Reagan...
The Secret Financial Life of Food
From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to take a...
Social Value Investing
A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company, Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer John McAfee's personal and public breakdown from Wired; Kyle Dickman's haunting investigation into the...
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...
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...