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by Andy Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analyst-unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooney's great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating,...
Wait
The Art and Science of Delay
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?
In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy...
Left Brain, Right Stuff
How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil Rosenzweig...
Power and Restraint
A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the ChinaU.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. Historically, the ascension of a great power has...
1913
In Search of the World Before the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features-last...
Type R
Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Forget Type As and Bs. The future lies with Type Rs-the resilient individuals, leaders, businesses, families, and communities who turn challenges into opportunities in times of upheaval, crisis, and change.
In Type R, Ama Marston and Stephanie Marston explore Transformative Resilience and the...
The Longevity Economy
Unlocking the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Oldness: a social construct at odds with reality that constrains how we live after middle age and stifles business thinking on how to best serve a group of consumers, workers, and innovators that is growing larger and wealthier with every passing day.
Over the past two decades, Joseph F. Coughlin...
To Save Everything, Click Here
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In the very near future, smart” technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right...
Landmark
The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law-The Affordable Care Act-and What It Means for Us All
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The Washington Post**’s must-read guide to the health care overhaul**
What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—or won’t—mean. In Landmark, the national...
The Arab Uprising
The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled...
The New Arab Wars
Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Marc Lynch's last book, The Arab Uprising, described the then ongoing revolutionary change and prospect for the consolidation of democracy in key Arab countries that still seemed possible. But Lynch saw dark signs on the horizon, especially in Syria. That book ended with the hope that the Arab uprisings...
Fair Food
Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Our food system is broken, and it's endangering what's most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In recent years, a host of books and films have compellingly documented the dangers. But advice on what to do about them largely begins and ends with the admonition...
Geek Heresy
Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban...
Champagne, Uncorked
The House of Krug and the Timeless Allure of the World's Most Celebrated Drink
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Champagne is the epitome of effervescence, the centerpiece of celebration, and a symbol of good fortune. It has become an icon, a symbol of luxury, an emblem of the "good life," and few are not attracted to its sparkle.
Champagne, Uncorked is a journey into the heart of this beloved...