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The Inevitable
Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**A New York Times Bestseller
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives**
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological...
The White Man's Burden
Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world
In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of...
Common Wealth
Economics for a Crowded Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity....
The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists
Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his...
by Roger Lowenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
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The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.
The End of...
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.
Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....
The Fourth Revolution
The Global Race to Reinvent the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state
Dysfunctional government: It’s become a cliché, and most of us are resigned to the fact that...
The Alchemists
Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King...
The Shifts and the Shocks
What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economy
There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another...
Imagining India
The Idea of a Renewed Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A visionary look at the evolution and future of India
In this momentous book, Nandan Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped India's past and present and asks the key question of the future: How will India as a global power avoid the mistakes of earlier development models? As a co-founder...
Windfall
The Booming Business of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world
McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is...
Oil and Ice
A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read."
-Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea
In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived,...
The Art of Woo
Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
You may need The Art of War to defeat your enemies, but if you prefer to win them over, read The Art of Woo
G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa know what it takes to drive new ideas through complex organizations. They have advised thousands of executives from companies such as Google, Microsoft,...
While America Aged
How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The retirement crisis facing America-and the road map for a way out-from The New York Times bestselling author of Origins of the Crash
In the last several decades, corporations and local governments made ruinous pension and healthcare promises to American workers. With these now coming due,...