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Juggling with Knives
Smart Investing in the Coming Age of Volatility
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In his new book, investment expert Jim Jubak explores the new normal” of market volatility. With remarkable insights into the zeitgeist of financial markets and the economy, Jubak combines the big macro trends with the more mundane aspects of life to depict why volatility is here to stay, why...
Power in Numbers
UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
The story of UNITAID begins with two world leaders but quickly becomes a lesson in popular philanthropy, involving millions of people each making a small contribution to a program aimed at treating and ultimately eliminating the threat of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world....
The Art of Screen Time
How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Finally, an evidence-based, don't-panic guide to what to do about kids and screens.
Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to...
Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive story of American health care today-its causes, consequences, and confusions
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was...
Sabotage
The Hidden Nature of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
A fierce denunciation of the practices and principles underlying the financial industry and a history of how we got here--from two professors expert in the workings of financial markets and offshore tax havens
The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better,...
The Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate"...
A Second Opinion
A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients Over Profit
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds the keys to a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary private contracts between individuals...
by Charles Emmerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain...
Radical Abundance
How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology-the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of...
Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species
Participant Second Book Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
What does an unusually large, ugly, invasive species of toad have to do with global warming, international trade, and the survival of biodiversity? Quite a lot, actually. Mark Lewis's amazing and hilarious documentary Cane Toads tells the story of Bufo marinus, which was introduced to Australia in...
The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of...
The Two Percent Solution
Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Suppose someone told you that for just two cents on the national dollar we could have a country where everyone had health insurance, full-time workers earned a living wage, poor children had great teachers in fixed-up schools, and politicians no longer had to grovel to wealthy donors. And suppose...
Inheritors of the Earth
How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.
It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist...
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America.
Between 1987 and 1989, Alepho, Benjamin, and Benson, like tens of thousands...