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The Physics of Wall Street
A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A look inside the world of “quants” and how science can (and can’t) predict financial markets: “Entertaining and enlightening” (The New York Times).
After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But while many of the mathematicians...
Money Mischief
Episodes in Monetary History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1994
The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets.
In this “lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history” (Kirkus Reviews), one of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected...
The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters).
Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she...
The Robber Barons
The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“The best, the liveliest and most illuminating” account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War (The New Republic).
John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick . . ....
What Your Financial Advisor Isn't Telling You
The 10 Essential Truths You Need to Know About Your Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Protect your money with this “accessible and practical” guide to hiring and working with financial advisors (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Hiring a trained expert to safeguard and grow your wealth seems like a foolproof decision, but it can go awry for many people. You should never...
Dangerous Doses
A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An investigation into crime and corruption that offers “a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry” (Buzz Bissinger).
Stolen, tainted, and compromised counterfeit medicine has increasingly made its way into a poorly regulated distribution system—reaching vulnerable and...
The Men Who Would Be King
An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“The definitive history of the studio” created by the larger-than-life team of Spielberg, Geffen, and Katzenberg (Los Angeles Times).
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven...
Organic, Inc.
Natural Foods and How They Grew
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
A “lively, comprehensive, and . . . definitive account of organic food’s rise” from a “first-rate business journalist” (Michael Pollan).
Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food...
by Tina McElroy Ansa
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Three sisters return to their southern hometown after the death of their difficult, demanding mother, in a novel by the author of Baby of the Family.
In life, Esther Lovejoy was an intolerable mother. She raised her daughters with an iron fist, browbeat her husband into submission, and insisted...
by Nicholas Drayson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
“A charming love triangle in Nairobi, Kenya, forms the center of a novel that manages to be both sweet and gripping.” —Publishers Weekly
For the past three years, Mr. Malik, a widower and avid birdwatcher, has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, the lovely woman who leads the Tuesday...
Clock Without Hands
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1998
An “impeccable” novel about race relations and responsibility set in the civil-rights-era South, by the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (The Atlantic Monthly).
In a small Georgia town, pharmacist J. S. Malone, diagnosed with leukemia, is given a mere year to live—and a lifetime’s...
Too Loud a Solitude
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1992
A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times).
A New York Times Notable Book
Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books...
Lay It on My Heart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For a Kentucky girl, coming of age takes a leap of faith in a novel that “will knock you sideways with its Southern charm” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
It’s summer in Kentucky. The low ceiling of August is pressing down on the religious town of East Winder, and on thirteen-year-old Charmaine...
The Alaskan Laundry
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
“This novel will reconvince you of the power of wilderness to heal a human heart” (Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted).
Tara Marconi has made her way from Philadelphia to “the Rock,” a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons. Her mother’s death left her unmoored,...