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Donald Trump Oprah WinfreyMartha Stewart Larry King Bill Clinton George Bush Ronald ReaganVladimir PutinCharlie MungerDavid Einhorn Whitney Tilson Peter Thiel Andrew Grove Jack Dorsey Evan Williams Kevin Rose Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Mark Cuban Seth Godin Ted Turner Salman Khan Paul Krugman Dustin Moskovitz Eric Schmidt Guy Kawasaki Richard Branson Peter Thiel Tony Hsieh Richard Gelfond Rex Tillerson Randall Stephenson Michael Bloomberg Jamie Dimon Michael Dell Carlos Ghosn James Gorman Sheryl Sandberg Howard LutnickSteve Jobs Warren Buffett Mark Zuckerberg Bill Gates Bob Diamond Obama Ken Powell Muhtar Kent
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The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining
management study of the nineties, showed
how great companies triumph over time
and how long-term sustained performance
Good to Great: Why Some can be engineered into the DNA of an
Companies Make the Leap... enterprise from the verybeginning. http:
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YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIf you want to
build a better future, you must believe in
secrets.The great secret of our time is that
there are still uncharted frontiers to explore
and new inventions to create. In Zero to
One, legendary entrepreneur and investor
Peter Thiel shows how we can find
singular ways to create those new things.
Thiel begins with the contrarian premise
that we live in an age of technological
stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by
shiny mobile devices to notice. Information
technology has improved rapidly, but there
is no reason why progress should be
limited to computers or Silicon Valley.
Progress can be achieved in any industry
or area of business. It comes from the
most important skill that every leader must
master: learning to think for yourself.Doing
what someone else already knows how to
do takes the world from 1 to n, adding
more of something familiar. But when you
do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The
next Bill Gates will not build an operating
system. The next Larry Page or Sergey
Brin won’t make a search engine.
Tomorrow’s champions will not win by
competing ruthlessly in today’s
marketplace. They will escape competition
altogether, because their businesses will
be unique. Zero to One presents at once
an optimistic view of the future of progress
in America and a new way of thinking
about innovation: it starts by learning to
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, ask the questions that lead you to find
or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
value in unexpected places. http://amzn.to/1NXhesv
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How to Win Friends and
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From Wall Street to Main Street, John
Brooks, longtime contributor to the New
Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve
classic and timeless tales of corporate and
financial life in America. What do the $350
million Ford Motor Company disaster
known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible
rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable
scandals at General Electric and Texas
Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an
example of how an iconic company was
defined by a particular moment of fame or
notoriety; these notable and fascinating
accounts are as relevant today to
understanding the intricacies of corporate
life as they were when the events
happened. Stories about Wall Street are
infused with drama and adventure and
reveal the machinations and volatile nature
of the world of finance. John Brooks’s
insightful reportage is so full of personality
and critical detail that whether he is looking
at the astounding market crash of 1962,
the collapse of a well-known brokerage
firm, or the bold attempt by American
bankers to save the British pound, one
gets the sense that history repeats itself.
Five additional stories on equally
fascinating subjects round out this
wonderful collection that will both entertain
and inform readers . . . Business
Business Adventures: Twelve Adventures is truly financial journalism at
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“Absolutely brilliant. Clayton Christensen
provides an insightful analysis of changing
technology and its importance to a
company’s future success.”
—Michael R. Bloomberg
“This book ought to chill any executive who

feels bulletproof —and inspire
entrepreneurs aiming their guns.”
—Forbes
The Innovator’s Dilemma is the

revolutionary business book that has
forever changed corporate America. Based
on a truly radical idea—that great
companies can fail precisely because they
do everything right—this Wall Street
Journal, Business Week and New York
Times Business bestseller is one of the
most provocative and important business
The Innovator's Dilemma: The books ever written. Entrepreneurs,
Revolutionary Book That Will managers, and CEOs ignore its wisdom
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One of the most inspiring and impactful
books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People has captivated readers for
25 years. It has transformed the lives of
Presidents and CEOs, educators and
parents— in short, millions of people of all
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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen
Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most
respected and experienced entrepreneurs,
offers essential advice on building and
running a startup—practical wisdom for
managing the toughest problems business
school doesn’t cover, based on his popular
ben’s blog.
While many people talk about how great it

is to start a business, very few are honest
about how difficult it is to run one. Ben
Horowitz analyzes the problems that
confront leaders every day, sharing the
insights he’s gained developing, managing,
selling, buying, investing in, and
supervising technology companies. A
lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business
lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs,
telling it straight about everything from
firing friends to poaching competitors,
cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality
to knowing the right time to cash in.
Filled with his trademark humor and

straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard
Things is invaluable for veteran
The Hard Thing About Hard entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to
Things: Building a Business their own new ventures, drawing from
When There Are No Easy Horowitz's personal and often humbling
Answers Ben Horowitz experiences. http://amzn.to/1MmgXiv http://amzn.to/1MmgXiv
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has been called the "Granddaddy of All
Motivational Literature." It was the first book to
boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man
who asked and listened for the answer,
Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks
of the world's winners himself.
The most famous of all teachers of success
spent "a fortune and the better part of a lifetime
of effort" to produce the "Law of Success"
philosophy that forms the basis of his books
and that is so powerfully summarized in this
Think And Grow Rich Napoleon Hill one. 5 5
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Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric
Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan
Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago
as proven technology executives. At the time,
the company was already well-known for doing
things differently, reflecting the visionary--and
frequently contrarian--principles of founders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If Eric and
Jonathan were going to succeed, they realized
they would have to relearn everything they
thought they knew about management and
How Google Works Eric Schmidt business. 5 5
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the hip, iconoclastic CEO of Zappos shows
how a different kind of corporate culture can
make a huge difference in achieving
remarkable results -- by actually creating a
company culture that values happiness --and
Zappos: Delivering Happiness Tony Hseih then delivers on it. 5 5
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Drawing upon a six-year research project
at the Stanford University Graduate School
of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I.
Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and
long-lasting companies and studied each
in direct comparison to one of its top
competitors. They examined the
companies from their very beginnings to
the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize
companies, and as large corporations.
Throughout, the authors asked: "What
makes the truly exceptional companies
different from the comparison companies
and what were the common practices
these enduringly great companies followed
throughout their history?" Filled with
hundreds of specific examples and
organized into a coherent framework of
practical concepts that can be applied by
managers and entrepreneurs at all levels,
Built to Last provides a master blueprint for
building organizations that will prosper long
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The greatest investment advisor of the
twentieth century, Benjamin Graham,
taught and inspired people worldwide.
Graham's philosophy of "value investing" --
which shields investors from substantial
error and teaches them to develop long-
term strategies -- has made The Intelligent
Investor the stock market bible ever since
its original publication in 1949.
Over the years, market developments have

proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies.
While preserving the integrity of Graham's
original text, this revised edition includes
updated commentary by noted financial
journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective
incorporates the realities of today's market,
draws parallels between Graham's
examples and today's financial headlines,
and gives readers a more thorough
understanding of how to apply Graham's
principles.
Vital and indispensable, this

HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The
Intelligent Investor is the most important
book you will ever read on how to reach
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Forget the old concept of retirement and the
rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to
wait and every reason not to, especially in
unpredictable economic times. Whether your
dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing
high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-
figure income with zero management, or just
living more and working less, The 4-Hour
The Four Hour Workweek Tim Ferriss Workweek is the blueprint 4 4
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Source http://amzn.to/1ir1ReG The bible
for bringing cutting-edge products to larger
markets—now revised and updated with
new insights into the realities of high-tech
marketingIn Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey
A. Moore shows that in the Technology
Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with
innovators and moves to early adopters,
early majority, late majority, and
laggards—there is a vast chasm between
the early adopters and the early majority.
While early adopters are willing to sacrifice
for the advantage of being first, the early
majority waits until they know that the
technology actually offers improvements in
productivity. The challenge for innovators
and marketers is to narrow this chasm and
ultimately accelerate adoption across
every segment. This third edition brings
Moore's classic work up to date with
dozens of new examples of successes and
failures, new strategies for marketing in the
digital world, and Moore's most current
insights and findings. He also includes two
new appendices, the first connecting the
ideas in Crossing the Chasm to work
subsequently published in his Inside the
Tornado, and the second presenting his
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing recent groundbreaking work for technology
and Selling Disruptive Products adoption models for high-tech consumer
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Source http://amzn.to/1FshXtI In this
stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell
takes us on an intellectual journey through
the world of "outliers"--the best and the
brightest, the most famous and the most
successful. He asks the question: what
makes high-achievers different? His
answer is that we pay too much attention
to what successful people are like, and too
little attention to where they are from: that
is, their culture, their family, their
generation, and the idiosyncratic
experiences of their upbringing. Along the
way he explains the secrets of software
billionaires, what it takes to be a great
soccer player, why Asians are good at
math, and what made the Beatles the
greatest rock band. Brilliant and
entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work
that will simultaneously delight and
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Most startups fail. But many of those
failures are preventable. The Lean Startup
is a new approach being adopted across
the globe, changing the way companies
are built and new products are launched.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an

organization dedicated to creating
something new under conditions of
extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for
one person in a garage or a group of
seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500
boardroom. What they have in common is
a mission to penetrate that fog of
uncertainty to discover a successful path to
a sustainable business.
The Lean Startup approach fosters

companies that are both more capital
efficient and that leverage human creativity
more effectively. Inspired by lessons from
lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated
learning,” rapid scientific experimentation,
as well as a number of counter-intuitive
practices that shorten product
development cycles, measure actual
progress without resorting to vanity
metrics, and learn what customers really
want. It enables a company to shift
directions with agility, altering plans inch by
inch, minute by minute.
Rather than wasting time creating

elaborate business plans, The Lean
Startup offers entrepreneurs - in
companies of all sizes - a way to test their
vision continuously, to adapt and adjust
before it’s too late. Ries provides a
The Lean Startup: How Today's scientific approach to creating and
Entrepreneurs Use Continuous managing successful startups in a age
Innovation to Create Radically when companies need to innovate more
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composer, musician, and philanthropist
Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and
inspirational book that asks, Which will you
choose: the path of least resistance or the
path of potentially greatest satisfaction?
You may think that with a last name like
his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless
privilege. But the son of billionaire investor
Warren Buffett says that the only real
inheritance handed down from his parents
was a philosophy: Forge your own path in
life. It is a creed that has allowed him to
follow his own passions, establish his own
identity, and reap his own successes. In
Life Is What You Make It, Buffett expounds
on the strong set of values given to him by
his trusting and broadminded mother, his
industrious and talented father, and the
many life teachers he has met along the
way.Today’s society, Buffett posits, has
begun to replace a work ethic, relishing
what you do, with a wealth ethic, honoring
the payoff instead of the process. We
confuse privilege with material
accumulation, character with external
validation. Yet, by focusing more on
substance and less on reward, we can
open doors of opportunity and strive
toward a greater sense of fulfillment. In
clear and concise terms, Buffett reveals a
great truth: Life is random, neither fair nor
unfair. From there it becomes easy to
recognize the equal dignity and value of
every human life—our circumstances may
vary but our essences do not. We see that
our journey in life rarely follows a straight
line but is often met with false starts,
crises, and blunders. How we push
through and persevere in these
challenging moments is where we begin to
create the life of our dreams—from
discovering our vocations to living out our
bliss to giving back to others.Personal and
revealing, instructive and intuitive, Life Is
What You Make It is about transcending
your circumstances, taking up the reins of
your destiny, and living your life to the
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Internationally recognized leadership expert,
speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has
The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership
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For decades, The One Minute Manager® has
helped millions achieve more successful
professional and personal lives. While the
principles it lays out are timeless, our world has
changed drastically since the book’s
publication. The exponential rise of technology,
global flattening of markets, instant
communication, and pressures on corporate
workforces to do more with less—including
resources, funding, and staff—have all
revolutionized the world in which we live and
The One Minute Manager Ken Blanchard work. 3 3
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This book is written so everyone -- from
frontline employees to senior executives -- can
get aligned in contributing to the growth of a
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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller
Good to Great, Jim Collins returns
withanother groundbreaking work, this time
to ask: why do some companies thrive
inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do
not? Based on nine years of research,
buttressed by rigorous analysis and
infused with engaging stories, Collins
andhis colleague Morten Hansen
enumerate the principles for building a truly
greatenterprise in unpredictable,
tumultuous and fast-moving times. This
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-
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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is
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Influence, the classic book on persuasion,
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Poor Charlie's Almanack contains the wit
and wisdom of Charlie Munger: his talks,
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his scientific imagination sprang from the
rebellious nature of his personality. His
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difficult marriage who couldn’t get a
teaching job or a doctorate—became the
mind reader of the creator of the cosmos,
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children. The hero-narrator of THE
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thing we can say about Holden is that he
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own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously
faithful to it, he issues a perfectly
articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure.
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What you are today is not important... for in this
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The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting
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One of the greatest entrepreneurial
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As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday
The bestselling book, now with a new

preface by the authors
At once a bold defense and reimagining of

capitalism and a blueprint for a new
system for doing business, Conscious
Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a
more cooperative, humane, and positive
future.
Whole Foods Market cofounder John

Mackey and professor and Conscious
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today’s best-known and most successful
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investors, society, and the environment.
Read this book and you’ll better

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conscious leadership, and conscious
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Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who
want to lead their employees to new
heights, a manual for anyone who strives
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president Ed Catmull writes, “an
expression of the ideas that I believe make
the best in us possible.”
For nearly twenty years, Pixar has

dominated the world of animation,
producing such beloved films as the Toy
Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding
Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E,
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reveals the ideals and techniques that
have made Pixar so widely admired—and
so profitable.
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream:

to make the first computer-animated
movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D.
student at the University of Utah, where
many computer science pioneers got their
start, and then forged a partnership with
George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his
founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John
Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy
Story was released, changing animation
forever. The essential ingredient in that
movie’s success—and in the thirteen
movies that followed—was the unique
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colleagues built at Pixar, based on
philosophies that protect the creative
process and defy convention, such as:
• Give a good idea to a mediocre team,

and they will screw it up. But give a
mediocre idea to a great team, and they
will either fix it or come up with something
better.
• If you don’t strive to uncover what is
unseen and understand its nature, you will
be ill prepared to lead.
• It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks.
It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for
others to take them.
• The cost of preventing errors is often far
greater than the cost of fixing them.
• A company’s communication structure
should not mirror its organizational
structure. Everybody should be able to talk
to anybody.
Praise for Creativity, Inc.
“Over more than thirty years, Ed Catmull

has developed methods to root out and
destroy the barriers to creativity, to marry
creativity to the pursuit of excellence, and,
most impressive, to sustain a culture of
disciplined creativity during setbacks and
success.”—Jim Collins, co-author of Built
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The phenomenal bestseller about Apple

co-founder Steve Jobs from the author of
the acclaimed biographies of Benjamin
Franklin and Albert Einstein.
Based on more than forty interviews with

Jobs conducted over two years—as well
as interviews with more than 100 family
members, friends, adversaries,
competitors, and colleagues—Walter
Isaacson set down the riveting story of the
roller-coaster life and searingly intense
personality of a creative entrepreneur
whose passion for perfection and ferocious
drive revolutionized six industries: personal
computers, animated movies, music,
phones, tablet computing, and digital
publishing. Isaacson’s portrait touched
hundreds of thousands of readers.
At a time when America is seeking ways to

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Asked to explain why a few people truly
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know plenty of hard workers who have
been doing the same job for years or
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other possibility is that the elite possess an
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According to distinguished journalist Geoff

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Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of
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The tipping point is that magic moment
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crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like
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Widely respected and admired, Philip
Fisher is among the most influential
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ago, are not only studied and applied by
today's financiers and investors, but are
also regarded by many as gospel. This
book is invaluable reading and has been
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updated paperback retains the investment
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs,
and Steel is a brilliant work answering the
question of why the peoples of certain
continents succeeded in invading other
continents and conquering or displacing
their peoples. This edition includes a new
chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations
drawn from the television series. Until
around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still
Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point,
a great divide occurred in the rates that
human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts
of the Americas, and Africa, farming
became the prevailing mode of existence
when indigenous wild plants and animals
were domesticated by prehistoric planters
and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly
reveals, the very people who gained a
head start in producing food would collide
with preliterate cultures, shaping the
modern world through conquest,
displacement, and genocide.The paths that
lead from scattered centers of food to
broad bands of settlement had a great deal
to do with climate and geography. But how
did differences in societies arise? Why
weren't native Australians, Americans, or
Africans the ones to colonize Europe?
Diamond dismantles pernicious racial
theories tracing societal differences to
biological differences. He assembles
convincing evidence linking germs to
domestication of animals, germs that
Eurasians then spread in epidemic
proportions in their voyages of discovery.
In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel
encompasses the rise of agriculture,
technology, writing, government, and
religion, providing a unifying theory of
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the Year A Businessweek Best Business
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Book of the Year In this brilliant, essential
book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's
urgent need for national renewal and
explains how a green revolution can bring
about both a sustainable environment and
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how global warming, rapidly growing
populations, and the expansion of the
world's middle class through globalization
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In this Release 2.0 edition, he also shows
how the very habits that led us to ravage
the natural world led to the meltdown of the
financial markets and the Great Recession.
The challenge of a sustainable way of life
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From the world’s leading thinker on
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author of The Innovator’s Dilemma,
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Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma,
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s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him,
is widely recognized as one of the most
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They called him Neutron Jack. They called
him the world's toughest boss. And then
Fortune called him "The Manager of the
Century." In his twenty-year career at the
helm of General Electric, Jack Welch
defied conventional wisdom and turned an
aging behemoth of a corporation into a
lean, mean engine of growth and corporate
innovation. In this remarkable
autobiography-a classic business book and
runaway New York Times bestseller now
updated with a new afterword by the
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remarkable life. From his working-class
childhood to his early days in G.E. Plastics
to his life at the top of the world's most
successful company, Welch tells his
intensely personal story with his well-
known fire and candor. And although it
chronicles billion-dollar deals and high-
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A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning
author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a
stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life
and presidency.
Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual

ascent from humble beginnings in rural
Kentucky to the ever-expanding political
circles in Illinois, and finally to the
presidency of a country divided by civil
war. Donald goes beyond biography,
illuminating the gradual development of
Lincoln’s character, chronicling his
tremendous capacity for evolution and
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possible for a man so inexperienced and
so unprepared for the presidency to
become a great moral leader. In the most
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While many of us are familiar with the
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than you may be aware of, and it is a rich
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The hugely acclaimed New York Times
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In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss

addresses our fear of the government, the
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our children's air, food, mattresses,
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Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has
become the world's largest chip maker and
one of the most admired companies in the
world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove
reveals his strategy of focusing on a new
way of measuring the nightmare moment
every leader dreads--when massive
change occurs and a company must,
virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the
wayside.
Grove calls such a moment a Strategic

Inflection Point, which can be set off by
almost anything: mega-competition, a
change in regulations, or a seemingly
modest change in technology. When a
Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary
rules of business go out the window. Yet,
managed right, a Strategic Inflection Point
can be an opportunity to win in the
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ever.
Grove underscores his message by

examining his own record of success and
failure, including how he navigated the
events of the Pentium flaw, which
threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and
how he has dealt with the explosions in
growth of the Internet. The work of a
lifetime, Only the Paranoid Survive is a
classic of managerial and leadership skills.
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Meet a genuine American folk hero cut
from the homespun cloth of America's
heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a
single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton
town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in
the world. The undisputed merchant king
of the late twentieth century, Sam never
lost the common touch. Here, finally,
inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but
always sure if his ambitions and
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"Graham's method of investing is as
relevant today as it was when he first
espoused it during the Roaring Twenties."
--Investor's Business Daily
Benjamin Graham's revolutionary theories

have influenced and inspired investors for
nearly 70 years. First published in 1934,
his Security Analysis is still considered to
be the value investing bible for investors of
every ilk. Yet, it is the second edition of
that book, published in 1940 and long
since out of print, that many experts--
including Graham protégé Warren Buffet--
consider to be the definitive edition. This
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Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of
Tim Geithner’s education in financial
crises. As president of the Federal
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President Barack Obama’s secretary of the
Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the
United States navigate the worst financial
crisis since the Great Depression, from
boom to bust to rescue to recovery. In a
candid, riveting, and historically
illuminating memoir, he takes readers
behind the scenes of the crisis, explaining
the hard choices and politically unpalatable
decisions he made to repair a broken
financial system and prevent the collapse
of the Main Street economy. This is the
inside story of how a small group of policy
makers—in a thick fog of uncertainty, with
unimaginably high stakes—helped avoid a
second depression but lost the American
people doing it. Stress Test is also a
valuable guide to how governments can
better manage financial crises, because
this one won’t be the last.Stress Test
reveals a side of Secretary Geithner the
public has never seen, starting with his
childhood as an American abroad. He
recounts his early days as a young
Treasury official helping to fight the
international financial crises of the 1990s,
then describes what he saw, what he did,
and what he missed at the New York Fed
before the Wall Street boom went bust. He
takes readers inside the room as the crisis
began, intensified, and burned out of
control, discussing the most controversial
episodes of his tenures at the New York
Fed and the Treasury, including the rescue
of Bear Stearns; the harrowing weekend
when Lehman Brothers failed; the searing
crucible of the AIG rescue as well as the
furor over the firm’s lavish bonuses; the
battles inside the Obama administration
over his widely criticized but ultimately
successful plan to end the crisis; and the
bracing fight for the most sweeping
financial reforms in more than seventy
years. Secretary Geithner also describes
the aftershocks of the crisis, including the
administration’s efforts to address high
unemployment, a series of brutal political
battles over deficits and debt, and the
drama over Europe’s repeated flirtations
with the economic abyss. Secretary
Geithner is not a politician, but he has
things to say about politics—the silliness,
the nastiness, the toll it took on his family.
But in the end, Stress Test is a hopeful
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A New York Times bestseller―the
outrageous exploits of one of this century's
greatest scientific minds and a legendary
American original.
Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel

Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous
adventures. Here he recounts in his
inimitable voice his experience trading
ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and
Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the
Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes
guarding the most deeply held nuclear
secrets; accompanying a ballet on his
bongo drums; painting a naked female
toreador. In short, here is Feynman's life in
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Source http://amzn.to/1KVGrS5 Winner of
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political genius in this highly original work,
as the one-term congressman and prairie
lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over
three gifted rivals of national reputation to
become president.On May 18, 1860,
William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase,
Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln
waited in their hometowns for the results
from the Republican National Convention
in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the
victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.
Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had
energetically sought the presidency as the
conflict over slavery was leading
inexorably to secession and civil war. That
Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin
demonstrates, was the result of a
character that had been forged by
experiences that raised him above his
more privileged and accomplished rivals.
He won because he possessed an
extraordinary ability to put himself in the
place of other men, to experience what
they were feeling, to understand their
motives and desires. It was this capacity
that enabled Lincoln as president to bring
his disgruntled opponents together, create
the most unusual cabinet in history, and
marshal their talents to the task of
preserving the Union and winning the war.
We view the long, horrifying struggle from
the vantage of the White House as Lincoln
copes with incompetent generals, hostile
congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He
overcomes these obstacles by winning the
respect of his former competitors, and in
the case of Seward, finds a loyal and
crucial friend to see him through. This
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$100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you
how to lead of life of adventure, meaning
and purpose – and earn a good
living. Still in his early thirties, Chris is on
the verge of completing a tour of every
country on earth – he’s already visited
more than 175 nations – and yet he’s
never held a “real job” or earned a regular
paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius
for turning ideas into income, and he uses
what he earns both to support his life of
adventure and to give back. There are
many others like Chris – those who’ve
found ways to opt out of traditional
employment and create the time and
income to pursue what they find
meaningful. Sometimes, achieving that
perfect blend of passion and income
doesn’t depend on shelving what you
currently do. You can start small with your
venture, committing little time or money,
and wait to take the real plunge when
you're sure it's successful. In preparing
to write this book, Chris identified 1,500
individuals who have built businesses
earning $50,000 or more from a modest
investment (in many cases, $100 or less),
and from that group he’s chosen to focus
on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In
nearly all cases, people with no special
skills discovered aspects of their personal
passions that could be monetized, and
were able to restructure their lives in ways
that gave them greater freedom and
fulfillment. Here, finally, distilled into one
easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable
lessons from those who’ve learned how to
turn what they do into a gateway to self-
fulfillment. It’s all about finding the
intersection between your “expertise” –
even if you don’t consider it such -- and
what other people will pay for. You don’t
need an MBA, a business plan or even
employees. All you need is a product or
service that springs from what you love to
do anyway, people willing to pay, and a
way to get paid. Not content to talk in
generalities, Chris tells you exactly how
many dollars his group of unexpected
entrepreneurs required to get their projects
up and running; what these individuals did
in the first weeks and months to generate
significant cash; some of the key mistakes
they made along the way, and the crucial
insights that made the business
stick. Among Chris’s key principles: if you’
re good at one thing, you’re probably good
at something else; never teach a man to
fish – sell him the fish instead; and in the
battle between planning and action, action
wins. In ancient times, people who were
dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of
finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or
streets paved with gold. Today, we know
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Pinker argues throughout the course of the
book that contrary to popular belief,
"humankind has become progressively
less violent, over millenia and decades"
The Better Angels of Our argues that modernity and its cultural
Nature: A History of Violence institutions are actually making us better
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swan is an event, positive or negative, that
is deemed improbable yet causes massive
consequences. In this groundbreaking and
prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful
way that Black Swan events explain almost
everything about our world, and yet we—
especially the experts—are blind to them.
In this second edition, Taleb has added a
new essay, On Robustness and Fragility,
The Black Swan: The Impact of which offers tools to navigate and exploit a
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Source http://amzn.to/1FsqSuW In his
latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows
what the simple idea of the checklist
reveals about the complexity of our lives
and how we can deal with it.The modern
world has given us stupendous know-how.
Yet avoidable failures continue to plague
us in health care, government, the law, the
financial industry—in almost every realm of
organized activity. And the reason is
simple: the volume and complexity of
knowledge today has exceeded our ability
as individuals to properly deliver it to
people—consistently, correctly, safely. We
train longer, specialize more, use ever-
advancing technologies, and still we fail.
Atul Gawande makes a compelling
argument that we can do better, using the
simplest of methods: the checklist. In
riveting stories, he reveals what checklists
can do, what they can’t, and how they
could bring about striking improvements in
a variety of fields, from medicine and
disaster recovery to professions and
businesses of all kinds. And the insights
are making a difference. Already, a simple
surgical checklist from the World Health
Organization designed by following the
ideas described here has been adopted in
more than twenty countries as a standard
for care and has been heralded as “the
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Crash, Neal Stephenson took science
fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The
Diamond Age, he delivers another
stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century
Shanghai, it is the story of what happens
when a state-of-the-art interactive device
falls in the hands of a street urchin named
Nell. Her life—and the entire future of
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We know that power is shifting: From West
to East and North to South, from
presidential palaces to public squares,
from once formidable corporate behemoths
to nimble startups and, slowly but surely,
from men to women. But power is not
merely shifting and dispersing. It is also
decaying. Those in power today are more
constrained in what they can do with it and
more at risk of losing it than ever before.
In The End of Power, award-winning

columnist and former Foreign Policy editor
Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle
between once-dominant megaplayers and
the new micropowers challenging them in
every field of human endeavor. Drawing on
provocative, original research, Naím shows
how the antiestablishment drive of
micropowers can topple tyrants, dislodge
monopolies, and open remarkable new
opportunities, but it can also lead to chaos
and paralysis. Naím deftly covers the
seismic changes underway in business,
religion, education, within families, and in
all matters of war and peace. Examples
abound in all walks of life: In 1977, eighty-
nine countries were ruled by autocrats
while today more than half the world’s
population lives in democracies. CEO’s are
more constrained and have shorter tenures
than their predecessors. Modern tools of
war, cheaper and more accessible, make it
possible for groups like Hezbollah to afford
their own drones. In the second half of
2010, the top ten hedge funds earned
more than the world’s largest six banks
combined.
Those in power retain it by erecting

powerful barriers to keep challengers at
bay. Today, insurgent forces dismantle
those barriers more quickly and easily than
ever, only to find that they themselves
The End of Power: From become vulnerable in the process.
Boardrooms to Battlefields and Accessible and captivating, Naím offers a
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For twelve thousand years the Galactic
Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying.
But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the
revolutionary science of psychohistory, can
see into the future--to a dark age of
ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will
last thirty thousand years. To preserve
knowledge and save mankind, Seldon
gathers the best minds in the Empire--both
scientists and scholars--and brings them to
a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to
serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre
generations. He calls his sanctuary the
Foundation.
But soon the fledgling Foundation finds

itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising
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Mankind's last best hope is faced with an
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and be overrun--or fight them and be
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Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs,
four agreements in life are essential steps
on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs
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agreements, shamanic teacher and healer
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American interest in the problems here
discussed is hardly less vital than that of
Europe I am even more persuaded than
when the first American edition of this book
was issued in 1910. It is certain that
opinion in America will not be equipped for
dealing with her own problems arising out
of her relations with the Spanish American
states, with Japan, with the Philippines,
unless it has some fair understanding of
the principles with which this book deals.
Its general interest even goes farther than
this: no great community like that of
modern America can remain indifferent to
the drift of general opinion throughout the
world on matters wrapped up with issues
so important as those of war and peace.
That the tangible commercial and business
interests of America are involved in these
European events is obvious from the very
factors of financial and commercial
interdependence which form the basis of
the argument. That the interests of
Americans are inextricably, if indirectly,
bound up with those of Europe, has
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researcher for the revised edition of The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for
the last fifteen years, has been posing as
an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic
pair begin a journey through space aided
by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A
towel is about the most massively useful
thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have")
and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers:
Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed,
three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-
lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian,
Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia
McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at
a cocktail party once upon a time zone;
Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and
chronically depressed robot; Veet
Voojagig, a former graduate student who is
obsessed with the disappearance of all the
ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
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The great war epic of Western literature,
translated by acclaimed classicist Robert
Fagles
Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s

timeless poem still vividly conveys the
horror and heroism of men and gods
wrestling with towering emotions and
battling amidst devastation and
destruction, as it moves inexorably to the
wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan
War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox
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and relentless, it coexists with both images
of civilized life and a poignant yearning for
peace.
Combining the skills of a poet and scholar,

Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph
Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996
Academy Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters,
brings the energy of contemporary
language to this enduring heroic epic. He
maintains the drive and metric music of
Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact
and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing
repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls
“an astonishing performance.”
This Penguin Classics Deluxe edition also

features French flaps and deckle-edged
paper.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has

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The great epic of Western literature,
translated by the acclaimed classicist
Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph

Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996
Academy Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters,
presents us with Homer's best-loved and
most accessible poem in a stunning
modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of
the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he
had plundered the hallowed heights of
Troy." So begins Robert Fagles'
magnificent translation of the Odyssey,
which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times
Book Review hails as "a distinguished
achievement."
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic,

the Odyssey is literature's grandest
evocation of an everyman's journey
through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit
and wiliness for survival in his encounters
with divine and natural forces during his
ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the
Trojan War is at once a timeless human
story and an individual test of moral
endurance. In the myths and legends
retold here,
Fagles has captured the energy and poetry

of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary
idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read
aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its
sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist
Bernard Knox's superb introduction and
textual commentary provide insightful
background information for the general
reader and scholar alike, intensifying the
strength of Fagles's translation. This is an
Odyssey to delight both the classicist and
the general reader, to captivate a new
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Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and
the National Book Award. A collector’s item
in its original edition, it has never been out
of print as a paperback. This classic book
is now reissued in hardcover, along with
Theodore Rex, to coincide with the
publication of Colonel Roosevelt, the third
and concluding volume of Edmund Morris’s
definitive trilogy on the life of the twenty-
sixth President.
Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s

years in the White House (1901–1909),
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins
with a brilliant Prologue describing the
President at the apex of his international
prestige. That was on New Year’s Day,
1907, when TR, who had just won the
Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors
of the White House to the American people
and shook 8,150 hands, more than any
man before him. Morris re-creates the
reception with such authentic detail that
the reader gets almost as vivid an
impression of TR as those who attended.
One visitor remarked afterward, “You go to
the White House, you shake hands with
Roosevelt and hear him talk—and then
you go home to wring the personality out of
your clothes.”
The rest of this book tells the story of TR’s

irresistible rise to power. (He himself
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It is, in effect, the biography of seven
men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a
hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a
politician—who merged at age forty-two to
become the youngest President in our
history. Rarely has any public figure
exercised such a charismatic hold on the
popular imagination. Edith Wharton likened
TR’s vitality to radium. H. G. Wells said
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will in man.” Walter Lippmann
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“lovable” chief executive.
During the years 1858–1901, Theodore

Roosevelt, the son of a wealthy Yankee
father and a plantation-bred southern belle,
transformed himself from a frail, asthmatic
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the Badlands of North Dakota with a copy
of Anna Karenina in one hand and a
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childhood sweetheart in 1886, he became
the country squire of Sagamore Hill on
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under President McKinley, he almost
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Spanish-American War. After leading
“Roosevelt’s Rough Riders” in the famous
charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba, he
returned home a military hero, and was
rewarded with the governorship of New
York. In what he called his “spare hours”
he fathered six children and wrote fourteen
books. By 1901, the man Senator Mark
Hanna called “that damned cowboy” was
vice president of the United States. Seven
months later, an assassin’s bullet gave TR
the national leadership he had always
craved.
His is a story so prodigal in its variety, so

surprising in its turns of fate, that previous
biographers have treated it as a series of
haphazard episodes. This book, the only
full study of TR’s pre-presidential years,
shows that he was an inevitable chief
executive, and recognized as such in his
early teens. His apparently random
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various aspects of his character, not least
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The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman's
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technology and communications put
people all over the globe in touch as never
before--creating an explosion of wealth in
India and China, and challenging the rest
of us to run even faster just to stay in
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In The World Is Flat, Friedman at once
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the life of a society, according to Girard,
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up
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environments finally recognized the urgent
need to get their computers and other business
systems up to speed and able to deal with
unprecedented change. And businesses
realized that this was not enough: they needed
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson to help people get ready, too. http://www.amazon.com/Who-Moved-My-Cheese-Amazing/dp/0399144463/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444207933&sr=1-1&keywords=Who+Moved+My+Cheese%3F
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In this instant New York Times Bestseller,
Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a
simple, practical, and effective solution to
what The Economist calls “the single
Who Geoff Smart & Randy Street
biggest problem in business today” http://www.amazon.com/Who-Geoff-Smart/dp/0345504194/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444208001&sr=1-1&keywords=Who
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In this business classic—now with a new
Afterword in which the author draws
parallels to the recent financial crisis—
Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping
roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital
Management. Drawing on confidential
internal memos and interviews with dozens
of key players, Lowenstein explains not
just how the fund made and lost its money
but also how the personalities of Long-
Term’s partners, the arrogance of their
mathematical certainties, and the culture of
Wall Street itself contributed to both their
When Genius Failed Roger Lowenstein rise and their fall http://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Management/dp/0375758259/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444208318&sr=1-1&keywords=When+Genius+Failed
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the
story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete,
who journeys into realms of romance and
magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and
spirit. Guided by a powerful old warrior named
Socrates and tempted by an elusive, playful
woman named Joy, Dan is led toward a final
confrontation that will deliver or destroy him.
Readers join Dan as he learns to live as a
peaceful warrior. This international bestseller
conveys piercing truths and humorous wisdom,
speaking directly to the universal quest for
Way Of The Peaceful Warrior Dan Millman happiness. http://www.amazon.com/Way-Peaceful-Warrior-Changes-Lives/dp/1932073205/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444208572&sr=1-1&keywords=Way+Of+The+Peaceful+Warrior
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Warren Buffett has become a living legend
because of his strong track record of sound
investments and his overall success in
everything he does. He is a prolific writer,
publishing many books detailing the ways in
which others could be as successful as he has
Warren Buffet: Top Life Lessons Terence Lawfield become http://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Unlimited-Management-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00JD22AEA/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444208714&sr=1-3&keywords=Warren+Buffet%3A+Top+Life+Lessons
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Warren E. Buffett first took control of Berkshire
Hathaway Inc., a small textile company, in April
of 1965. A share changed hands for around
$18 at the time. Fifty letters to shareholders
later, the same share traded for $226,000,
compounding investor capital at just under 21%
Letters to Shareholders Warren Buffet per year—a multiplier of 12,556 times http://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Hathaway-Letters-Shareholders-2014-ebook/dp/B00DUM1W3E/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444208927&sr=1-1&keywords=Shareholder+Letter
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Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry
David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple
living in natural surroundings. The work is part
personal declaration of independence, social
experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery,
Walden Henry David Thoreau satire, and manual for self-reliance http://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/1505297729/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444209147&sr=1-1&keywords=Walden
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You don’t have to choose between wealth
and happiness—they spring from the same
7 Strategies fountain of abundance. With this book, you’
For Wealth And ll discover the seven essential strategies
Happiness Jim Rohn you need for success http://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Wealth-Happiness-Americas-Philosopher/dp/0761506160/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444209322&sr=1-1&keywords=7+Strategies+For+Wealth+And+Happiness
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A bold experiment is taking place these
days, as leading-edge companies turn
upside down the management paradigm
that has dominated corporate thinking for
A Stake In The Outcome Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham
more than one hundred years. http://www.amazon.com/Stake-Outcome-Building-Ownership-Long-Term/dp/0385505094/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444209495&sr=1-1&keywords=a+stake+in+the+outcome
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The Effective Executive in Action is a journal
based on Peter F. Drucker's classic and
preeminent work on management and
effectiveness -- The Effective Executive. Here
Drucker and Maciariello provide executives,
managers, and knowledge workers with a
guide to effective action -- the central theme of
The Effective Executive In Action Peter Drucker and Joseph Maciariello
Drucker's work http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Action-Journal-Getting/dp/0060832622/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444209646&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Effective+Executive+In+Action
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Once powerful companies that haven’t gotten
the message are faltering, while others, new
and old, are thriving. In disarmingly simple and
provocative terms, Treacy and Wiersema show
what it takes to become a leader in your
market, and stay there, in an ever more
The Discipline Of Market LeadersMichael Treacy and Fredsophisticated
Wiersema and demanding world. http://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Market-Leaders-Customers-Dominate/dp/0201407191/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444209966&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Discipline+Of+Market+Leaders
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Back in 1978, Kip Tindell (Chairman & CEO of
The Container Store) and his partners had the
vision that people were eager to find solutions
to save both space and time - and they were
definitely onto something. A new category of
the retailing industry was born - storage and
Uncontainable Kip Tendell organization http://www.amazon.com/Uncontainable-Commitment-Conscious-Capitalism-Business/dp/1455526851/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444210094&sr=1-1&keywords=Uncontainable
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An enduring scriptural treasure and a classic of
Christian literature, this modern translation is a
beautiful and true rendering of the New
The New Testament (Bible) Bible Testament. http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Modern-English-J-B-Phillips/dp/068482633X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444210322&sr=1-1&keywords=The+New+Testament
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The stories of THE WIZARDS are, on their own
merits, interesting. But for readers looking for
the Keys to the Kingdom of Success, they
provide a road map that is east to follow, but
The Wizards Michael Caldwell virtually impossible to duplicate. http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-Millionaire-Magicians-American-Dream/dp/0962447900/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444210514&sr=8-2&keywords=the+wizards+michael+caldwell
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To achieve unimaginable business success
and financial wealth—to reach the upper
echelons of entrepreneurs, where you’ll find
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sara Blakely of
Spanx, Mark Pincus of Zynga, Kevin Plank of
Under Armour, and many others—you have to
change the way you think. In other words, you
must develop the Entrepreneur Mind, a way of
thinking that comes from learning the vital
The Entrepreneur Mind Kevin Johnson lessons of the best entrepreneurs. http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneur-Mind-Essential-Characteristics-Entrepreneurs/dp/0988479702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444210645&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Entrepreneur+Mind
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Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks
and companies for investment, Warren Buffett
amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the
twentieth century--an astounding net worth of
Buffet: The Making Of An American
Roger
Capitalist
Lowenstei $10 billion, and counting http://www.amazon.com/Buffett-American-Capitalist-Roger-Lowenstein/dp/0812979273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444210783&sr=8-1&keywords=Buffet%3A+The+Making+Of+An+American+Capitalist
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The Culture Blueprint is a systematic guide to
building a company culture. This book is about
The Culture Blueprint Robert Richman fostering committed, enthusiastic employees http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Blueprint-Building-High-Performance-Workplace/dp/0692274774/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444211199&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+richman
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Richard Branson is an iconic entrepreneur and
the founder of Virgin Airways, Virgin Records,
and many other Virgin businesses around the
world. Now he shares the inside track on his
life in business and reveals the incredible truth
about his most risky, brilliant, and audacious
Business Stripped Bare Richard Branson deals http://www.amazon.com/Business-Stripped-Bare-Adventures-Entrepreneur/dp/1591844061/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444211247&sr=1-1&keywords=Business+Stripped+Bare
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The need to understand what top-performing
reps are doing that their average performing
colleagues are not drove Matthew Dixon, Brent
Adamson, and their colleagues at Corporate
Executive Board to investigate the skills,
behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes that matter
most for high performance. And what they
discovered may be the biggest shock to
The Challenger Sale Matthew Dixon and Brentconventional
Adamson sales wisdom in decades. http://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Sale-Control-Customer-Conversation/dp/1591844355/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444211331&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Challenger+Sale
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Retracing his own spiritual journey from
atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal
editor of the Chicago Tribune, cross-
examines a dozen experts with doctorates
who are specialists in the areas of old
manuscripts, textual criticism, and biblical
studies. Strobel challenges them with
questions like; How reliable is the New
Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist
The Case For Christ Lee Strobel outside the Bible? http://www.amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Investigation/dp/0310339308/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444211476&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Case+For+Christ
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The first edition of Crucial Conversations
exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the
way millions of people communicate when
Crucial Conversations Kerry Patterson stakes are high. http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-Second/dp/0071771328/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444211704&sr=1-1&keywords=Crucial+Conversations
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Every once in awhile, there is a book with a
message so timeless, so universal, that it
transcends generations. The Unwritten Laws of
Business is such a book. Originally published
over 60 years ago as The Unwritten Laws of
Engineering, it has sold over 100,000 copies,
despite the fact that it has never been available
The Unwritten Laws Of Business W. J. King before to general readers http://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Business-W-J-King-ebook/dp/B000SEGIIQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444211921&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Unwritten+Laws+Of+Business
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Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing. It’
s about courage. In a world where “never
enough” dominates and feeling afraid has
become second nature, vulnerability is
Daring Greatly Brene Brown subversive http://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Transforms/dp/1592408419/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444212119&sr=1-1&keywords=Daring+Greatly
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When Mae Holland is hired to work for the
Circle, the world’s most powerful internet
company, she feels she’s been given the
opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out
of a sprawling California campus, links
users’ personal emails, social media,
banking, and purchasing with their
universal operating system, resulting in
one online identity and a new age of civility
The Circle Dave Eggers and transparency http://www.amazon.com/Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0345807294/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444212274&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Circle
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Deemed "the best history of oil ever
written" by Business Week and with more
than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’
s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the
global pursuit of oil, money, and power has
been extensively updated to address the
The Prize Daniel Yergin current energy crisis http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444212525&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Prize+daniel
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The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door
identifies seven common traits that show
up again and again among those who have
accumulated wealth. Most of the truly
wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly
Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next
door. This new edition, the first since 1998,
includes a new foreword for the twenty-first
The Millionaire Next Door Thomas Stanley century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Americas/dp/1589795474/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444212598&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Millionaire+Next+Door
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Do those who succeed work harder than
those who only dream about success? Are
they smarter, luckier, more ruthless? And
does financial success bring happiness?
These perennial questions are perhaps
more timely than ever. The Instant
Millionaire answers them in the
unforgettable voice of a very wise and
wealthy old man. Known as the “Instant
Millionaire” because he grasped the true
secret of making a fortune overnight, this
sage mentors a young man with frustrated
dreams and nine-to-five disappointments.
In practical, ready-to-implement lessons,
he reveals the ideas and actions that can
give anyone the mentality of a millionaire.
This simple yet powerful mental shift paves
the way not only for financial success but
also for profound personal fulfillment and
The Instant Millionare Mark Fisher well-being http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Millionaire-Tale-Wisdom-Wealth/dp/1577319346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444212680&sr=1-1&keywords=the+instant+millionaire
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"Are you a strategist?" That's the first
question Cynthia Montgomery asks the
business owners and senior executives
from all over the world who participate in
her highly regarded executive education
course. It's not a question they anticipate
or care much about on opening day. But by
the time the program ends, they cannot
imagine leading their companies to
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This is the essay that started it all.
Powerful, poetic and practical. The Servant
as Leaderdescribes some of the
characteristics and activities of servant-
leaders, providing examples which show
that individual efforts, inspired by vision
and a servant ethic, can make a
substantial difference in the quality of
society. Greenleaf discusses the skills
necessary to be a servant-leader; the
importance of awareness, foresight and
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coercive, manipulative, and persuasive
The Servant As Leader (essay) Robert Greenleaf power. A must-read. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982201222?keywords=The%20Servant%20As%20Leader%20(essay)&qid=1444213872&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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24 Steps to Success! Disciplined
Entrepreneurship will change the way
youthink about starting a company. Many
believe that entrepreneurshipcannot be
taught, but great entrepreneurs aren t born
withsomething special they simply make
great products. Thisbook will show you
how to create a successful startup
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breaks down the necessaryprocesses into
an integrated, comprehensive, and proven
disciplined 24-stepframework that any industrious
Entrepreneurship Bill Aulet person can learn andapply. http://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Entrepreneurship-Steps-Successful-Startup/dp/1118692284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214013&sr=8-1&keywords=%22disciplined+Entrepreneurship%22
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In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling
book, The Five Temptations of a CEO,
Patrick Lencioni offers up another
leadership fable that's every bit as
compelling and illuminating as its
predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is
on a leader's crucial role in building a
healthy organization-an often overlooked
but essential element of business life that
The Four Obesessions Of An Extraordinay
Patrick Lencioni
Executive is the linchpin of sustained success. http://www.amazon.com/Four-Obsessions-Extraordinary-Executive-Leadership/dp/0787954039/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214211&sr=8-1&keywords=the+four+obsessions+of+an+extraordinary+executive
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In The Fifth Discipline, Senge describes
how companies can rid themselves of the
learning “disabilities” that threaten their
productivity and success by adopting the
strategies of learning organizations—ones
in which new and expansive patterns of
thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration
is set free, and people are continually
learning how to create results they truly
The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge desire. http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Organization/dp/0385517254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214327&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Fifth+Discipline
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The Great Game of Business started a
business revolution by introducing the world to
open-book management, a new way of running
a business that created unprecedented profit
and employee engagement.The revised and
updated edition of The Great Game of
Business lays out an entirely different way of
The Great Game Of Business Jack StackandBo Burlingham
running a company. http://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Business-Expanded-Updated/dp/0385348339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214499&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Great+Game+Of+Business
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The Go-Giver tells the story of an
ambitious young man named Joe who
yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter,
though sometimes he feels as if the harder
and faster he works, the further away his
goals seem to be. Desperate to land a key
sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks
advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a
legendary consultant referred to by his
The Go-giver Bob Burgand John Davidmany
Manndevotees sim-ply as the Chairman. http://www.amazon.com/Go-Giver-Expanded-Little-Powerful-Business/dp/1591848288/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214633&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Go-giver
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This great time capsule of a book captures
the abundant popular history of the United
States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses
politics, military history, economics, the
arts, science, fashion, fads, social change,
sexual mores, communications, graffiti -
everything and anything indigenous that
The Glory And The Dream William Manchester can be captured in print. http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Dream-Narrative-History-1932-1972/dp/0553345893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214775&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Glory+And+The+Dream
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Most people believe that the best way to
motivate is with rewards like money—the
carrot-and-stick approach. That's a
mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To
Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About
Motivating Others). In this provocative and
persuasive new book, he asserts that the
secret to high performance and
satisfaction-at work, at school, and at
home—is the deeply human need to direct
our own lives, to learn and create new
things, and to do better by ourselves and
Drive Daniel Pink our world. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444214937&sr=8-1&keywords=Drive
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Herb Cohen believes the world is a giant
negotiating table and, like it or not, you're a
negotiator. Whether you're dealing with
your spouse, boss, department store, bank
manager, children, solicitor, or best friend -
in every encounter with other people,
negotiating is always taking place. And
how well you handle those encounters
determines whether you prosper happily or
suffer frustration and loss. With his helpful
and sensible approach Cohen shows that
negotiating is a process you can
understand and predict - and most
importantly, that it's a practical skill you can
You Can Negotiate Anyhing Herb Cohen learn and improve upon. http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Negotiate-Anything-Negotiator/dp/0553281097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215055&sr=8-1&keywords=you+can+negotiate+anything
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EntreLeadership provides the practical,
step-by-step guidance to grow your
Entreleadership Dave Ramsey business where you want it to go. http://www.amazon.com/EntreLeadership-Practical-Business-Wisdom-Trenches/dp/1451617852/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215125&sr=8-1&keywords=Entreleadership
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Let David McNally lead you on an
extraordinary journey of discovery that
takes you from motivation to inspiration to
action. Be prepared to work! In this book,
you write the ending. Read fascinating
anecdotes, stories, personal revelations;
practice the meditations, self-assessment
exercises, affirmations, and keep track in
your journal as you discover the power of
Even Eagles Need A Push David McNally your potential and begin to soar. http://www.amazon.com/Even-Eagles-Need-Push-Learning/dp/0440506115/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215367&sr=8-1&keywords=Even+Eagles+Need+A+Push
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Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access
to current and former Amazon employees
and Bezos family members, and his book
is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account
of life at Amazon. The Everything Store is
the book that the business world can't stop
talking about, the revealing, definitive
biography of the company that placed one
of the first and largest bets on the Internet
and forever changed the way we shop and
The Everything Store Brad Stone read. http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon/dp/0316219282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215466&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Everything+Store
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In just 200 pages Childress presents the
rationale for effective strategy execution,
the reasons why most organizations fail,
and a step-by-step approach, complete
with templates, to building your own
strategy execution roadmap and process.
The book also filled with case studies from
the likes of Ford, Continental Airlines,
Fastbreak John Childress Lycoming Engines, and others. http://www.amazon.com/FASTBREAK-CEOs-Guide-Strategy-Execution-ebook/dp/B00BL3YZ4W/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215561&sr=8-10&keywords=Fastbreak
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The greatest managers in the world seem
to have little in common. They differ in sex,
age, and race. They employ vastly different
styles and focus on different goals. Yet
despite their differences, great managers
share one common trait: They do not
hesitate to break virtually every rule held
sacred by conventional wisdom. They do
not believe that, with enough training, a
person can achieve anything he sets his
mind to. They do not try to help people
overcome their weaknesses. They
consistently disregard the golden rule.
And, yes, they even play favorites. This
First, Break All The Rules Marcus Buckingham andamazing
Curt Coffman
book explains why. http://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-The-Rules/dp/0743510119
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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's
famous investigations of "optimal
experience" have revealed that what
makes an experience genuinely satisfying
is a state of consciousness called flow.
During flow, people typically experience
deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total
involvement with life. In this new edition of
his groundbreaking classic work,
Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways
this positive state can be controlled, not
just left to chance. Flow: The Psychology
of Optimal Experience teaches how, by
ordering the information that enters our
consciousness, we can discover true
happiness and greatly improve the quality
Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of our lives. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061339202?keywords=Flow&qid=1444215749&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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In Focus, psychologist and journalist
Daniel Goleman delves into the science of
attention in all its varieties, presenting a
long-overdue discussion of this little-
noticed and underrated mental asset that
matters enormously for how we navigate
Focus Daniel Goleman life. http://www.amazon.com/Focus-Hidden-Excellence-Daniel-Goleman/dp/0062114964/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215782&sr=8-2&keywords=Focus
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Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were
frustrated. After years of profitable,
predictable growth, Swan Services was in
a rut. Meetings were called and
discussions held, but few decisions were
made and even less got done. People
were pointing fingers and assigning blame,
but nothing happened to solve Swan’s
mounting problems. It felt as though they
were working harder than ever but with
less impact. The company Eileen and Vic
had founded and built for 10 years was a
Get A Grip Geno Wickman different place. http://www.amazon.com/Get-Grip-Everything-Entrepreneurial-Business/dp/1939529824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215811&sr=8-1&keywords=Get+A+Grip
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Evangelism Gets More Real, Less
Awkward Instead of an awkward
experience, sharing your faith can be a
simple, everyday part of life. As you grow
in your love for Jesus, sharing him with
others will overflow into every
conversation. Casual interactions will turn
into significant moments that bring the
Get Real Stephen McGee gospel into all your relationships. http://www.amazon.com/Get-Real-Sharing-Everyday-Faith/dp/1939946239/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215836&sr=8-2&keywords=Get+Real
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In a world inundated with sales books on
getting to yes, this book recommends just
the opposite, focusing on how increasing
your failure rate can greatly accelerate
your movement toward ultimate success.
Go for No! chronicles four days in the life
of fictional character Eric Bratton, a call
reluctant copier salesman who wakes up
one morning to find himself in a strange
house with no idea of how he got there.
But this house doesn t belong to just
anyone! It belongs to him... a wildly
successful, ten years in the future version
of the person he could become if he learns
to overcome his self-limiting beliefs and
overcome his fear of failure. Through the
dialogue of the two main characters the
authors have fashioned an entertaining
story to present the key concepts essential
to sales success. Readers learn... ...What
it takes to outperform 92% of the world s
salespeople ...That failing and failure are
two very different things ... Why it s
important to celebrate success and failure
... How to get past failures quickly and
move on ...That the most empowering
word in the world is not yes... it s NO!
Written to be intentionally short and to the
point, Go for No! is a quick, fun read with
valuable lessons that can change the way
Go For No Richard Fenton and Andrea
you Waltz
think, sell, and live! http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Destination-How-You-There/dp/0966398130/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215866&sr=8-1&keywords=Go+For+No
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Ev told Jack he had to “chill out” with the
deluge of media he was doing. “It’s bad for
the company,” Ev said. “It’s sending the
wrong message.” Biz sat between them,
watching like a spectator at a tennis match.
“But I invented Twitter,” Jack said. “No, you
didn’t invent Twitter,” Ev replied. “I didn’t
invent Twitter either. Neither did Biz.
People don’t invent things on the Internet.
They simply expand on an idea that
Hatching Twitter Nick Bilton already exists.” http://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444215908&sr=8-1&keywords=Hatching+Twitter
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Felix Dennis is an expert at proving people
wrong. Starting as a college dropout with
no family money, he created a publishing
empire, founded Maxim magazine, made
himself one of the richest people in the UK,
How To Get Rich Felix Dennis and had a blast in the process. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842719?keywords=How%20To%20Get%20Rich&qid=1444216095&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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Through Dale Carnegie’s six-million-copy
bestseller recently revised, millions of
people have been helped to overcome the
worry habit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of
practical formulas you can put to work
today. In our fast-paced world—formulas
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
Dale Carnegie that will last a lifetime! http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671733354/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444216122&sr=8-1&keywords=How+To+Stop+Worrying+And+Start+Living
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The lives of an intensely-driven basketball
coach, an ultra-successful CEO, and an
unassuming janitor all intersect in this
captivating parable about leadership,
relationships, and the pursuit of success.
An unforgettable story packed with
profound truths, LEAD . . . for God’s Sake!
will challenge you to think deeply about
who you are as a leader, what success
means to you, and why you do what you
do. Whether you’re leading a business, a
team, or your own family, this book is the
first and most important step to becoming
Lead For God’s Sake Todd Gongwer the leader you were meant to be. http://www.amazon.com/LEAD-Gods-Sake-Parable-Leadership/dp/1414370563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444216155&sr=8-1&keywords=Lead+For+God%E2%80%99s+Sake
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The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost,
300-year-old book of wisdom on how to
live successfully yet responsibly in a
society governed by self-interest -- as
acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and
The Art Of Worldly Wisdom Balthasar Gracian scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius. http://www.amazon.com/Art-Worldly-Wisdom-Baltasar-Gracian/dp/0385421311/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444216182&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Art+Of+Worldly+Wisdom
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There is a competitive advantage out
there, arguably more powerful than any
other. Is it superior strategy? Faster
innovation? Smarter employees? No, New
York Times best-selling author, Patrick
Lencioni, argues that the seminal
difference between successful companies
and mediocre ones has little to do with
what they know and how smart they are
and more to do with how healthy they are.
In this book, Lencioni brings together his
vast experience and many of the themes
cultivated in his other best-selling books
and delivers a first: a cohesive and
comprehensive exploration of the unique
The Advantage Patrick Lencioni advantage organizational health provides. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470941529?keywords=The%20Advantage&qid=1444216196&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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In his inspiring new book, You Don’t Need
a Title to Be a Leader, Mark Sanborn, the
author of the national bestseller The Fred
Factor, shows how each of us can be a
leader in our daily lives and make a
positive difference, whatever our title or
You Don’t Need A Title To Be A Leader
Mark Sanborn position. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385517475?keywords=You%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20A%20Title%20To%20Be%20A%20Leader&qid=1444216341&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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Leadership 101 John Maxwell http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-101-Maxwell-published-Hardcover/dp/B00ES294LW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444216453&sr=8-2&keywords=Leadership+101
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Summary of the ideas in Hyrum W. Smith’s
book “The 10 Natural Laws of Successful
Time & Life Management” explains that the
real measure of a successful life is whether
or not inner peace is achieved. This
summary points out that in order to
achieve an effective time and life
management one must make sure daily
The 10 Natural Laws Of Successful
Joseph
Time Ellis
And Life Management
activities reflect its deepest core values. http://www.amazon.com/Summary-Successful-Management-Strategies-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00OHV7Y1Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444216465&sr=1-1&keywords=The+10+Natural+Laws+Of+Successful+Time+And+Life+Management
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For more than 25 years, The Leadership
Challenge has been the most trusted
source on becoming a better leader, selling
more than 2 million copies in over 20
Leadership Challenge James Kouzes and Barrylanguages
Posner since its first publication. http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Challenge-Extraordinary-Things-Organizations-ebook/dp/B008DM2MK8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444216647&sr=1-1&keywords=Leadership+Challenge
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Thank God It’s Monday! is about loving
what you’re doing and creating massive
results. Roxanne Emmerich introduces you
to two CEOs: one desperately struggling to
stay afloat and another who’s discovered a
better route to growth and profitability. As
you join them both on their journey, you’ll
gain valuable insights for jumpstarting
positive change from anywhere in the
organization, replacing dysfunctional
organizational behaviors with passion and
creativity, overcoming setbacks and
Thank God Its Monday Tim Hoerr making vision and values actually work! http://www.amazon.com/Thank-God-Its-Monday-Workplace-ebook/dp/B001XT60XS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444216660&sr=8-1&keywords=Thank+God+Its+Monday
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LEADERSHIP IS AN ART has long been a
must-read not only within the business
community but also in professions ranging
leadership Is An from academia to medical practices, to the
Art M. De Pree political arena. http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Art-Max-Depree-ebook/dp/B0053CT29A/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444216776&sr=1-1&keywords=%22leadership+Is+An+Art%22
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If you thought leadership meant "being the
boss," Leading at Mach 2 gives you ample
Leading At Mach 2 Steve Sullivan reason to think again. http://www.amazon.com/Leading-at-Mach-Steve-Sullivan/dp/0964105314/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444216838&sr=8-1&keywords=Leading+At+Mach+2
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Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those
heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-
scenes look at a unique and turbulent time
in American business. From the frat-boy
camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading
room to the killer instinct that made
ambitious young men gamble everything
on a high-stakes game of bluffing and
deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing
and hilarious insider’s account of an
unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and
Liar’s Poker Michael Lewis outrageous fortune. http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Norton-Paperback-Michael-ebook/dp/B003E20ZRY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444217018&sr=1-1&keywords=Liar%E2%80%99s+Poker
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this book is a compilation of best practices
adapted from some of the best-run firms
on the planet. Included is an instructive
chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff,
revealing winning tactics to get banks to
finance your business. Lastly, there are
case studies demonstrating the validity of
Mastering The Rockefeller Habits Verne Harnish Harnish's practical approaches. http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Rockefeller-Habits-Increase-Growing/dp/1590790154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444217029&sr=8-1&keywords=Mastering+The+Rockefeller+Habits
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Dweck explains why it’s not just our
abilities and talent that bring us success—
but whether we approach them with a fixed
or growth mindset. She makes clear why
praising intelligence and ability doesn’t
foster self-esteem and lead to
accomplishment, but may actually
jeopardize success. With the right mindset,
we can motivate our kids and help them to
raise their grades, as well as reach our
Mindset Carol Dweck own goals—personal and professional. http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck-ebook/dp/B000FCKPHG/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444217178&sr=1-1&keywords=Mindset
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For decades they assumed that people
who face adversity—a difficult childhood,
career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad
luck—will succumb to their circumstances.
Yet over and over again they found a
significant percentage are able to
overcome their life circumstances and
Succeeding When You’re Supposed
John
ToShook
Fail achieve spectacular success. http://www.amazon.com/Succeeding-When-Youre-Supposed-Fail/dp/0307887693/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444217193&sr=8-1&keywords=Succeeding+When+You%E2%80%99re+Supposed+To+Fail
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Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff began
Honest Tea fifteen years ago with little
more than a tea leaf of an idea and a
passion to offer organic, freshly brewed,
lightly sweetened bottled tea. Today
Honest Tea is a rapidly expanding national
brand sold in more than 100,0000 grocery
stores, restaurants, convenience stores
and drugstores across the country. The
brand has flourished as American
mission In A consumers move toward healthier and
Bottle Seth Goldman greener lifestyles. http://www.amazon.com/Mission-Bottle-Business-Differently---Succeeding/dp/0770437494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444217659&sr=8-1&keywords=%22mission+In+A+Bottle%22
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When do you get your best ideas? You
probably answer "At night," or "In the
shower," or "Stuck in traffic." You get a
flash of insight. Things come together in
your mind. You connect the dots. You say
to yourself, "Aha! I see what to do." Brain
science now reveals how these flashes of
insight happen. It's a special form of
intuition. We call it strategic intuition,
because it gives you an idea for action-a
Strategic Intuition William Duggan strategy. http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Intuition-Creative-Achievement-Publishing/dp/0231142692
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Amazon’s business model is deceptively
simple: Make online shopping so easy and
convenient that customers won’t think
twice. It almost can be summed up by the
button on every page: “Buy now with one
One Click Richard Brandy click.” http://www.amazon.com/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com/dp/1591845858/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444217777&sr=8-2&keywords=One+Click
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of
Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in
language of great simplicity and power, it is
the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down
on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a
relentless, agonizing battle with a giant
marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here
Hemingway recasts, in strikingly
contemporary style, the classic theme of
courage in the face of defeat, of personal
triumph won from loss. Written in 1952,
this hugely successful novella confirmed
his power and presence in the literary
world and played a large part in his
winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for
Old Man And The Sea Ernest Hemmingway Literature. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684801221?keywords=Old%20Man%20And%20The%20Sea&qid=1444215093&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
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Hope Solo is the face of the modern
female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken,
and the best in the world at what she does:
protecting the goal of the U.S. women's
soccer team. Her outsized talent has led
her to the pinnacle of her sport—the
Olympics and the World Cup—and made
her into an international celebrity who is
just as likely to appear on ABC's Dancing
with the Stars as she is on the covers of
Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine,
Solo Hope Solo and Vogue. http://www.amazon.com/Solo-Memoir-Hope-ebook/dp/B00CKOV8Y6/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444218745&sr=1-3&keywords=Solo
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Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow
(Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker,
and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the
lives of people and companies that do
Smart Cuts Shane Snow incredible things in implausibly short time. http://www.amazon.com/Smartcuts-Hackers-Innovators-Accelerate-Success/dp/0062302450/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444218677&sr=8-1&keywords=Smart+Cuts
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A foundational book for all adults to help
you discover the skill of listening in three
different areas of your life and #151;
helping your relationships, helping others,
Can You Hear Me Now Dallas Demmit and helping yourself. http://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Hear-Me-Now/dp/0781438969
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This book asks the fundamental question,
how do we as individuals (and
organizations), not only survive but thrive
amid tremendous change? More, why are
our efforts to improve continuing to fail
despite the millions of dollars we spend in
time, capital, and human effort every year?
How do we combat all of this by
unleashing the full measure of our
creativity, talent, and energy in the midst of
this pressure? Is it realistic to believe that
we can find balance in our personal life,
Principle Centered Leadership Stephen R. Covey family life, and professional life? http://www.amazon.com/Principle-Centered-Leadership-Stephen-R-Covey-ebook/dp/B0068SVE9E/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444218549&sr=1-1&keywords=Principle+Centered+Leadership
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There has never been a sales book that
gives you one-on-one, personal help to
catapult your sales career and your
personal income to a level that will surprise
Selling To Vito Anthony Parinello you and shock your sales manager! http://www.amazon.com/Selling-VITO-Very-Important-Officer-ebook/dp/B003VYC9GA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444218377&sr=1-1&keywords=Selling+To+Vito
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Selling At Mach 1 Steve Sullivan http://www.amazon.com/Selling-Mach-Motivational-Steve-Sullivan/dp/0964105330/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444218366&sr=8-1&keywords=Selling+At+Mach+1
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Using exemplars of clear thinking and
attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how
our thoughts are influenced, why we make
misjudgments and tools to improve our
thinking. Bevelin tackles such eternal
questions as: Why do we behave like we
do? What do we want out of life? What
interferes with our goals? Read and study
this wonderful multidisciplinary exploration
of wisdom. It may change the way you
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin ToPeter
Munger
Bevelin think and act in business and in life. http://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Wisdom-Darwin-Munger-3rd/dp/1578644283/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444218070&sr=8-1&keywords=Seeking+Wisdom%3A+From+Darwin+To+Munger
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Harvey Mackay is the author of two New
York Times #1 bestsellers, Swim with the
Sharks without Being Eaten Alive and
Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You
His Shirt. Both these books were recently
listed by the New York Times among the
top fifteen inspirational business books of
all time. Harvey's most recent book, Dig
Your Well Before You're Thirsty was also a
New York Times bestseller. His books
have sold more than eight million copies
worldwide, have been translated into thirty-
five languages, and have sold in eighty
Pushing The Envelope Harvey Mackay countries. http://www.amazon.com/Pushing-Envelope-All-Way-Top-ebook/dp/B0012D1DJQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444218058&sr=1-3&keywords=Pushing+The+Envelope
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n Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we
dramatically undervalue introverts and
shows how much we lose in doing so. She
charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal
throughout the twentieth century and
explores how deeply it has come to
permeate our culture. She also introduces
us to successful introverts—from a witty,
high-octane public speaker who recharges
in solitude after his talks, to a record-
breaking salesman who quietly taps into
Quiet Susan Cain the power of questions. http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking-ebook/dp/B004J4WNL2/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1444217884&sr=1-1&keywords=Quiet
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Roger Dawson's Secrets of Power
Negotiating has changed the way
American business thinks about
negotiating. Thinking "win-win"--looking for
that magical third solution in which
everyone wins but nobody loses--can be a
naive and ultimately unsuccessful
approach in today's tough business
environment. Power Negotiating teaches
that the way you negotiate can get you
everything you want and still convince the
Secrets Of Power Negotiating Roger Dawson other side that they won also. http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-15th-Anniversary/dp/1601631391/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444217865&sr=8-1&keywords=Secrets+Of+Power+Negotiating
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Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s
chilling prophecy about the future. And
while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s
narrative is timelier than ever.1984
presents a startling and haunting vision of
the world, so powerful that it is completely
convincing from start to finish. No one can
deny the power of this novel, its hold on
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Spanning disciplines from biology to
cosmology, chemistry to psychology to
physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures
the excitement of scientific discovery.
Science’s best-kept secret is this: even
today, thereare experimental results that
the most brilliant scientists cannot explain.
In the past, similar “anomalies” have
revolutionized our world. If history is any
precedent, we should look to today’s
inexplicable results to forecast the future of
science. Michael Brooks heads to the
scientific frontier to confront thirteen
modern-day anomalies and what they
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As well as outlining and explaining such
historic breakthroughs in human
understanding of the physical world as
Kepler’s law of planetary motion and
Newton’s law of gravitation, Joanne Baker
unravels the sometimes baffling
complexities of modern scientific theory –
from Planck’s law to Pauli’s exclusion
principle and from Schrondinger’s cat to
string theory. The essays are accompanied
by a range of useful editorial features,
including biographies of iconic physicists,
timelines of related ideas, explanatory
diagrams and display quotations. http:
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Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest
tennis player ever, a man whose hard-
nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented
number one world ranking for 286 weeks,
and whose prodigious talent made
possible a record-setting fourteen Grand
Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals
sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete
always preferred to let his racket do the
talking. Until now.
In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great

who so often exhibited visible discomfort
with letting people “inside his head” finally
opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete
resolved from his earliest playing days
never to let anything get in the way of his
love for the game. But while this single-
minded determination led to tennis
domination, success didn’t come without a
price. The constant pressure of competing
on the world’s biggest stage—in the
unblinking eye of a media machine hungry
for more than mere athletic greatness—
took its toll.
Here for the first time Pete speaks freely

about what it was like to possess what he
calls “the Gift.” He writes about the
personal trials he faced—including the
death of a longtime coach and confidant—
and the struggles he gutted his way
through while being seemingly on top of
the world. Among the book’s most riveting
scenes are an early devastating loss to
Stefan Edberg that led Pete to make a
monastic commitment to delivering on his
natural talent; a grueling, four-hour-plus
match against Alex Corretja during which
Pete became seriously ill; fierce on-court
battles with rival and friend Andre Agassi;
and the triumphant last match of Pete’s
career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open.
In A Champion’s Mind, one of the most

revered, successful, and intensely private
players in the history of tennis offers an
intimate look at the life of an elite athlete.
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Newly updated throughout, and now
covering 118 elements, this crystal-clear
guide to the periodic table illuminates the
basic concepts of chemistry as it traces the
history and development of our knowledge
of the material world.
In this fascinating volume, Albert Stwertka

makes complex ideas and terms easily
understandable, drawing upon engaging
historical anecdotes and everyday
examples to clarify the text, which is
complemented by numerous illustrations,
many in full color. Since the second
edition, many new elements have been
named and discovered, including
Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, and
Copernicium, and the elements currently
called Ununtrium, Ununpentium,
Ununhexium, Ununseptium, and
Ununoctium. The third edition provides
thorough coverage of all these new
discoveries. In addition to the new
elements, Stwertka has brought the
information about the elements in the
second edition up-to-date, based on the
latest research. He discusses a cylindrical
molecule of carbon known as a
"nanotube," which has become a do-all
wonder substance, touted for use in
everything from X-ray machines to paint. A
new form of the element boron has been
found that is nearly as hard as diamond. Its
superior heat resistance could make it
attractive for certain industrial uses. And a
new particle detector using ultra-pure liquid
xenon has been constructed beneath
5,000 feet of rock in Italy to detect dark
matter. Stwertka also covers the 2010
Nobel-winning work on graphene, an
ultrathin form of carbon that is vital for
future generations of computers and touch
screens, the discovery of new
superconductors, and the development of
new uses for the rare earth elements.
Bringing the periodic table into the 21st

century, this engrossing guide to the
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about the basic building blocks of the
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A one-voume reference to the history of
ideas that is a compendium of everything
that humankind has thought, invented,
created, considered, and perfected from
the beginning of civilization into the twenty-
first century. Massive in its scope, and yet
totally accessible, A HISTORY OF
KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great
theories and discoveries of the human
race, but also explores the social
conditions, political climates, and individual
men and women of genius that brought
ideas to fruition throughout history.
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humankind got to know what it knows."
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Of all the scientific achievements of the
past century, perhaps none can match the
deciphering of the human genetic code,
both for its technical brilliance and for its
implications for our future. In A Life
Decoded, J. Craig Venter traces his rise
from an uninspired student to one of the
most fascinating and controversial figures
in science today. Here, Venter relates the
unparalleled drama of the quest to decode
the human genome?a goal he predicted he
could achieve years earlier and more
cheaply than the government-sponsored
Human Genome Project, and one that he
fulfilled in 2001. A thrilling story of
detection, A Life Decoded is also a
revealing, and often troubling, look at how
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Rendell has seen job security become the
primary consideration of any person with
power in America—their own job security!
Most politicians and bureaucrats can see
no further ahead than the next election,
sometimes no further than the next press
conference. Americans are rarely afraid of
sacrifice and hard work when they mean
building a better future, but when was the
last time you heard of a leader of anything
making a sacrifice for the greater good?
The people can only win when they make it
clear to the powers that be that making the
right choices, even the hard ones, is the
key to winning the next election.
Explains in rollicking stories ranging from

the profane to the profound that most hard
choices are only ""hard"" because the polls
conflict with your principles
Ed Rendell rose to the top of Philadelphia,
then Pennsylvania, then national politics,
by doing what he thought was right, and
there were plenty of times that looked like
it would be his downfall as well
This book revisits the high points of Ed
Rendell's career and current landscape to
define the political fights his peers seem
just as afraid of winning as losing
Rendell is a former head of the Democratic
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PERFECT CRIME may be anchored in
Chinese society, but its existential crisis is
universal.—The Wall Street JournalOn a
normal day in provincial China, a bored
high school student goes about his regular
business. But he’s planning the brutal
murder of his only friend, a talented
violinist. He strangles her, stuffs her body
into a washing machine and flees town. On
the run, he is initially anxious, but soon he
alerts the police to his whereabouts,
surrenders to undercover agents in a pool
bar, and sabotages all efforts by China’s
judiciary system, a steady stream of
psychologists and his family to overturn the
death penalty, all without ever showing a
shred of remorse.A Perfect Crime is both a
vision of China’s heart of darkness — the
despair that traps the rural poor and the
rage lurking behind their phlegmatic front
— and a technically brilliant excursion into
the claustrophobic realm of classic
suspense. With exceptional tonal control, A
Yi steadily reveals the psychological
backstory that enables us to make sense
of the story’s dramatic violence and
provides chillingly apt insights into the
psychology behind a murder committed
Yi, A and Anna simply as an intellectual challenge to
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doomed to remember a boy with a
wrecked voice—not because of his voice,
or because he was the smallest person I
ever knew, or even because he was the
instrument of my mother's death, but
because he is the reason I believe in God;
I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-
old boys—best friends—are playing in a
Little League baseball game in Gravesend,
New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a
foul ball that kills the other boy's mother.
The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in
accidents; Owen Meany believes he is
God's instrument. What happens to Owen
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Princess of Mars is a work by Edgar Rice
Burroughs now brought to you in this new
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popular demand -- and newly updated by
the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual
guide in which Marianne Williamson
shares her reflections on A Course in
Miracles and her insights on the
application of love in the search for inner
peace.Williamson reveals how we each
can become a miracle worker by accepting
God and by the expression of love in our
daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the
area of relationships, career, or health, she
shows us how love is a potent force, the
key to inner peace, and how by practicing
love we can make our own lives more
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An American classic and great bestseller
for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is
timeless in its description of adolescence
during a period when the entire country
was losing its innocence to the second
world war.
Set at a boys’ boarding school in New

England during the early years of World
War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing
and luminous parable of the dark side of
adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted
intellectual. Phineas is a handsome,
taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens
between the two friends one summer, like
the war itself, banishes the innocence of
these boys and their world.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A

Separate Peace is John Knowles’s
crowning achievement and an undisputed
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From the author of Blessings and Still Life
with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen’s
classic reflection on a meaningful life is the
perfect gift for graduation, or any occasion.
“Life is made of moments, small pieces of

silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It
would be wonderful if they came to us
unsummoned, but particularly in lives as
busy as the ones most of us lead now, that
won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves
now to live, really live . . . to love the
journey, not the destination.”
In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen,

the bestselling novelist and columnist,
reflects on what it takes to “get a life”—to
live deeply every day and from your own
unique self, rather than merely to exist
through your days. “Knowledge of our own
mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives
us,” Quindlen writes, “because unless you
know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to
waste our days, our lives.” Her mother died
when Quindlen was nineteen: “It was the
dividing line between seeing the world in
black and white, and in Technicolor. The
lights came on for the darkest possible
reason. . . . I learned something enduring,
in a very short period of time, about life.
And that was that it was glorious, and that
you had no business taking it for granted.”
But how to live from that perspective, to
fully engage in our days? In A Short Guide
to a Happy Life, Quindlen guides us with
an understanding that comes from knowing
how to see the view, the richness in living.
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In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most
of it. In A Sunburned Country, he
confronted some of the most lethal wildlife
Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest
book, he confronts his greatest challenge:
to understand—and, if possible, answer—
the oldest, biggest questions we have
posed about the universe and ourselves.
Taking as territory everything from the Big
Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson
seeks to understand how we got from
there being nothing at all to there being us.
To that end, he has attached himself to a
host of the world’s most advanced (and
often obsessed) archaeologists,
anthropologists, and mathematicians,
travelling to their offices, laboratories, and
field camps. He has read (or tried to read)
their books, pestered them with questions,
apprenticed himself to their powerful
minds. A Short History of Nearly
Everything is the record of this quest, and
it is a sometimes profound, sometimes
funny, and always supremely clear and
entertaining adventure in the realms of
human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can
render it. Science has never been more
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future belongs to a different kind of person
with a different kind of mind: artists,
inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic
"right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark
the fault line between who gets ahead and
who doesn't.Drawing on research from
around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is
Human: The Surprising Truth About
Motivating Others) outlines the six
fundamentally human abilities that are
absolute essentials for professional
success and personal fulfillment--and
reveals how to master them. A Whole New
Mind takes readers to a daring new place,
and a provocative and necessary new way
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In the 20th century, the United States was
the world leader in education the first
country to achieve universal secondary
education and the first to expand higher
education beyond the elite class. Now
other countries are catching up and
leaping ahead in high school graduation
rates, in the quality and equity of their K 12
education systems, and in the proportion of
students graduating from college. It is not
that American education has gotten worse
so much that education in other parts of
the world has gotten so much better, so
fast.
Designed to promote conversation about

how to educate students for a rapidly
changing and increasingly borderless and
innovation-based world, this
comprehensive and illuminating book from
international education expert Vivien
Stewart is not about casting blame; it is
about understanding what the best school
systems in the world are doing right for the
purpose of identifying what U.S. schools at
the national, state, and local level might do
differently and better. Here, you ll consider
* How the U.S. education system fares

against emerging international standards
of excellence.
* The policies, practices, and priorities of
the world s best-performing systems, along
with specific ideas for adapting these
approaches for U.S. schools.
* The common factors characteristic of
high-performing and rapidly improving
systems.
* New models of 21st century teaching and
leadership and ways to modernize
curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
* How technology and international
exchange can help the United States close
performance gaps and reach new levels of
excellence and equity.
Learning goes both ways, Stewart writes.

Other countries have learned a great deal
from the United States, and now it is time
for American educators to open their eyes
to other nations globally-minded and
future-focused practices, leverage existing
assets, and create a truly world-class
education system for this generation of
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In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and
more students go to college every year. A
bachelor's degree is now required for entry
into a growing number of professions. And
some parents begin planning for the
expense of sending their kids to college
when they're born.
Almost everyone strives to go, but almost

no one asks the fundamental question
posed by Academically Adrift: are
undergraduates really learning anything
once they get there? For a large proportion
of students, Richard Arum and Josipa
Roksa's answer to that question is a
definitive "no."
Their extensive research draws on survey

responses, transcript data, and, for the first
time, the state-of-the-art Collegiate
Learning Assessment, a standardized test
administered to students in their first
semester and then again at the end of their
second year. According to their analysis of
more than 2,300 undergraduates at
twenty-four institutions, forty-five percent of
these students demonstrate no significant
improvement in a range of skills - including
critical thinking, complex reasoning, and
writing - during their first two years of
college. As troubling as their findings are,
Arum and Roksa argue that for many
faculty and administrators they will come
as no surprise - instead, they are the
expected result of a student body
distracted by socializing or working and an
institutional culture that puts
undergraduate learning close to the bottom
of the priority list.
Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons

for students, faculty, administrators, policy
makers, and parents - all of whom are
implicated in promoting or at least ignoring
contemporary campus culture. Higher
education faces crises on a number of
fronts, but Arum and Roksa's report that
colleges are failing at their most basic
mission will demand the attention of us all.
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an effective IT manager presents a host of
challenges--from anticipating emerging
technology to managing relationships with
vendors, employees, and other managers.
A good IT manager must also be a strong
business leader.This book invites you to
accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better
understand the role of IT in your
organization. You'll see Jim struggle
through a challenging first year, handling
(and fumbling) situations that, although
fictional, are based on true events.You can
read this book from beginning to end, or
treat is as a series of cases. You can also
skip around to address your most pressing
needs. For example, need to learn about
crisis management and security? Read
chapters 10-12. You can formulate your
own responses to a CIO's obstacles by
reading the authors' regular "Reflection"
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times as you face IT-related issues in your
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Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came
to North America from Haiti stem from
underlying attitudes of racism and
ethnocentrism in the United States rather
than from hard evidence? Anthropologist-
physician Paul Farmer answers in the
affirmative with this, the first full-length
ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor
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Review Notable BookAn NPR "Great
Reads" BookAll That Is explores a life
unfolding in a world on the brink of change.
Philip Bowman returns to America from the
battlefields of Okinawa and finds success
in the competetive world of publishing in
postwar New York—yet what he most
desires, and what eludes him, is love. Here
is PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter's
dazzling, sometimes devastating portrait of
love and ambition, a fiercely intimate
account of the great shocks and grand
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landmark of Enlightenment thought,
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding is accompanied here by
two shorter works that shed light on it: A
Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in
Edinburgh, Hume's response to those
accusing him of atheism, of advocating
extreme skepticism, and of undermining
the foundations of morality; and his
Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature,
which anticipates discussions developed in
the Enquiry.In his concise Introduction,
Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that
led Hume to write the Enquiry and the
An Enquiry concerning Human work's important relationship to Book I of
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Inconvenient Truth--Gore's
groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to
the bestselling Earth in the Balance--is
being published to tie in with a
documentary film of the same name. Both
the book and film were inspired by a series
of multimedia presentations on global
warming that Gore created and delivers to
groups around the world. With this book,
Gore, who is one of our environmental
heroes--and a leading expert--brings
together leading-edge research from top
scientists around the world; photographs,
charts, and other illustrations; and personal
anecdotes and observations to document
the fast pace and wide scope of global
warming. He presents, with alarming clarity
and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--
that the fact of global warming is not in
question and that its consequences for the
An Inconvenient Truth: The world we live in will be disastrous if left
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Described by William Faulkner as the best
novel ever written and by Fyodor
Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina
tells of the doomed love affair between the
sensuous and rebellious Anna and the
dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy
unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless
marriage and thereby exposes herself to
the hypocrisies of society. Set against a
vast and richly textured canvas of
nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's
seven major characters create a dynamic
imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city
and country life and all the variations on
love and family happiness.
While previous versions have softened the

robust and sometimes shocking qualities of
Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky
have produced a translation true to his
powerful voice. This authoritative edition,
which received the PEN Translation Prize
and was an Oprah Book Club™ selection,
also includes an illuminating introduction
and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous,
and eminently readable, this Anna
Karenina will be the definitive text for fans
of the film and generations to come. This
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also
features French flaps and deckle-edged
paper.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin

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One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied
fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch
Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's
harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It
saw Lincoln's assassination just five days
later and a near-successful plot to
decapitate the Union government, followed
by chaos and coup fears in the North,
collapsed negotiations and continued
bloodshed in the South, and finally, the
start of national reconciliation.
In the end, April 1865 emerged as not just

the tale of the war's denouement, but the
story of the making of our nation.
Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the

Civil War's final days that will forever
change the way we see the war's end and
the nation's new beginning. Uniquely set
within the larger sweep of history and filled
with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh
iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping
narrative, this is a masterful account of the
April 1865: The Month That thirty most pivotal days in the life of the
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Artful Making offers the first proven,
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Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a
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Blessed with enormous talents and the
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Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor,
printer, and scientist. He helped draft the
Declaration of Independence and later was
involved in negotiating the peace treaty
with Britain that ended the Revolutionary
War. He also invented bifocals, a stove
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harmonica, and the lightning rod.
Franklin's extraordinary range of interests
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representative of the Pennsylvania
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Awakening Joy is more than just another
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Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer
Prize in Biography for this work. It contains
the most extensive collection of Benjamin
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of which was long out-of-print. Also
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Source http://amzn.to/1QjA3V3 In this
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founders helped define our national
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adventures of the runaway apprentice who
became, over the course of his eighty-four-
year life, America’s best writer, inventor,
media baron, scientist, diplomat, and
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compromises that created a near-perfect
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between Mexico and the United States is
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North American integration. This process
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of the North American Free Trade
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to the movement of goods, capital,
services, and information. But rather than
include labor in this new regime, the United
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the labor markets of the two countries.
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labor, the United States has militarized its
border and adopted restrictive new policies
of immigrant disenfrachisement. Beyond
Smoke and Mirrors examines the
devastating impact of these immigration
policies on the social and economic fabric
of the Mexico and the United States, and
calls for a sweeping reform of the current
system. The costs of the U.S. policy have
been high. The book documents how the
massive expansion of border enforcement
has wasted billions of dollars and hundreds
of lives, yet has not deterred increasing
numbers of undocumented immigrants
from heading north. The authors also
show how the new policies unleashed a
host of unintended consequences: a shift
away from seasonal, circular migration
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of a black market for Mexican labor; the
transformation of Mexican immigration
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the country; and even the lowering of
wages for legal U.S. residents. What had
been a relatively open and benign labor
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an exploitative underground system of
labor coercion, one that lowered wages
and working conditions of undocumented
migrants, legal immigrants, and American
citizens alike. Rather than denying the
reality of labor migration, the authors
recommend regularizing it and working to
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international financial crisis that has held
our global economy in its grip for too long
still seems to be in full stride. Former
British Prime Minister and Chancellor of
the Exchequer Gordon Brown believes the
crisis can be reversed, but that the world’s
leaders must work together if we are to
avoid a decade of lost jobs and low growth.
Brown speaks both as someone who was
in the room driving discussions that led to
some crucial decisions and as an expert
renowned for his remarkable financial
acumen. No one who had Brown’s access
has written about the crisis yet, and no one
has written so convincingly about what the
global community must do next in order to
climb out of this abyss. Brown outlines the
shocking recklessness and irresponsibility
of the banks that he believes contributed to
the depth and breadth of the crisis. As he
sees it, the crisis was brought on not
simply by technical failings, but by ethical
failings too. Brown argues that markets
need morals and suggests that the only
way to truly ensure that the world economy
does not flounder so badly again is to
institute a banking constitution and a global
growth plan for jobs and justice. Beyond
the Crash puts forth not just an explanation
for what happened, but a directive for how
to prevent future financial disasters. Long
admired for his grasp of economic issues,
Brown describes the individual events that
he believes led to the crisis unfolding as it
did. He synthesizes the many historical
precedents leading to the current status,
from the 1933 London conference of world
leaders that failed to resolve the Great
Depression to the more recent crash in the
Asian housing market. Brown’s analysis is
of paramount importance during these
uncertain financial times. As Brown himself
said of his ideas for the future, “We now
live in a world of global trade, global
financial flows, global movements of
people, and instant global
communications. Our economies are
connected as never before, and I believe
that global economic problems require
global solutions and global institutions. In
writing my analysis of the financial crisis, I
wanted to help explain how we got here,
but more important, to offer some
recommendations as to how the next stage
of globalization can be managed so that
the economy works for people and not the
other way around.”## ***The crisis
exposed the contradiction of globalization
itself: as economies have become more
interconnected, regulators and
governments have failed to keep pace and
increase coordination. It is a failure intrinsic
to unregulated global markets, an
instability that resulted from the manner in
which increasing flows of capital around
the world happened and impacted the
economy. And it is a failure of collective
action at an international level to respond
quickly enough to the structural
imbalances and inequities that arose. At its
simplest, then, this is the first true crisis of
globalization. For the first time everybody,
from the richest person in the richest city to
the poorest person in the poorest slum,
was affected by the same crisis. Although
its roots are global, its impact is local,
directly felt on nearly every main street, on
nearly every shop floor, around nearly
every kitchen table. Billions of people
around the world are in need of and are
demanding a better globalization. It is the
nature of power that you always leave
tasks unfinished when you leave office. It
is the nature of politics that the argument
must continue. This book is my warning of
a decade of lost growth and my answer to
that fear with a call for a better
globalization. It is an explanation of a
pattern in the numbers that points to an
enormous opportunity to alleviate poverty,
create jobs, and grow. A future of low
growth, high unemployment, decline, and
decay is not inevitable; it’s about the
change we choose. -- From Beyond the
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entire societies the chance to reveal
aspects of their characters they could not
normally afford to indulge. Icelanders
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turn their country into a pinata stuffed with
cash and allow as many citizens as
possible to take a whack at it. The
Germans wanted to be even more
German; the Irish wanted to stop being
Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of
bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly,
sadly hilarious that it leads the American
reader to a comfortable complacency: oh,
those foolish foreigners. But when he turns
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A multitalented comedian takes a wry look
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Most of us have no idea what’s really going
on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists
have uncovered details every business
leader, parent, and teacher should know—
like the need for physical activity to get
your brain working its best. How do we
learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do
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Why is it so easy to forget—and so
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We are living in a world in which cows
send texts to farmers when they're in heat,
where the most valuable real estate in New
York City houses computers, not people,
and some of humanity's greatest works are
created by crowds, not individuals.
We are in the midst of a networking
revolution--set to transform the way we
access the world's information and the way
we connect with one another. Studying
biological systems is perhaps the best way
to understand such networks, and nature
has a lesson for us if we care to listen:
bigger is rarely better in the long run. The
deadliest creature is the mosquito, not the
lion. It is the quality of a network that is
important for survival, not the size, and all
networks--the human brain, Facebook,
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allowing a network to substitute quality for
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In Breakpoint, brain scientist and
entrepreneur Jeff Stibel takes readers to
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technology. He shows how exceptional
companies are using their understanding
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computing, engaging social media,
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collective consciousness. Indeed, the
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How far would you go to help a close
friend? Is there a place where you might
draw the line and simply have to say no?
Eight women. Four decades of friendship.

One unimaginable request.
Where can you find a story about

friendship, laughter and the good things in
life that also touches on alcoholism,
infidelity, porn addiction, illness and grief?
For many women, it's often within their own
circle of friends. Whether your BFFs are in
their twenties or are seniors, everyone has
a story.
The Bridge Club reminds us of the

complexities of women’s friendships
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tale of eight women whose lives intersect
once a month initially to play the game of
bridge. What began as one night turns into
four decades that span the segments of a
woman's journey from youthful optimism to
embracing the challenges and
opportunities presented in life's later years.
Based loosely on the author’s own bridge

club, the story weaves the reader through
a maze of life's inevitable scenarios.
This is a novel for anyone who values

friendship. Not simply the "Hi, how are
you?" type of friendship but rather the kind
that weathers all sorts of storms,
unselfishly celebrates triumphs, and hums
along year after year with never an unkind
word. It does exist.
If you have such a friendship in your life

you will relate to the women in The Bridge
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inspire you to search for it.
Throughout the story each of the

characters faces challenges and change in
her life. The Bridge Club emphasizes how
honest and loyal friendship helped to
enable these changes and how these
women empowered and learned from each
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Through laughter, tears, and everything in

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When William Shockley invented the
transistor, the world was changed forever
and he was awarded the Nobel Prize. But
today Shockley is often remembered only
for his incendiary campaigning about race,
intelligence, and genetics. His dubious
research led him to donate to the Nobel
Prize sperm bank and preach his
inflammatory ideas widely, making
shocking pronouncements on the
uselessness of remedial education and the
sterilization of individuals with IQs below
100. Ultimately his crusade destroyed his
reputation and saw him vilified on national
television, yet he died proclaiming his work
on race as his greatest accomplishment.
Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel
N. Shurkin offers the first biography of this
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"A truly gripping and important book of
contemporary history."—Robert Skidelsky.
A leading British political and social
commentator offers the definitive account
of Gordon Brown's premiership, his
troubled era and legacy, and his
relationship with Barack Obama. It relates,
for the first time, the full extraordinary tale
of the pivotal role played by Brown in
persuading the world’s leaders to address
the global banking crisis head-on,
revealing how Brown shared Obama’s
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words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted
Turner's remarkable life, but they only
begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and
unique style that has made Ted into one of
the most amazing business executives of
our time. Along the way - among his
numerous accomplishments -- Ted
became one of the richest men in the
world, the largest land owner in the United
States, revolutionized the television
business with the creation of TBS and
CNN, became a champion sailor and
winner of the America's Cup, and took
home a World Series championship trophy
in 1995 as owner of the Atlanta Braves.
An innovative entrepreneur, outspoken
nonconformist, and groundbreaking
philanthropist, Ted Turner is truly a living
legend, and now, for the first time, he
reveals his personal story. From his
difficult childhood to the successful launch
of his media empire to the catastrophic
AOL/Time Warner deal, Turner spares no
details or feelings and takes the reader
along on a wild and sometimes bumpy
ride.
You'll also hear Ted's personal take on
how we can save the world...share his
experiences in the dugout on the day when
he appointed himself as manager of the
Atlanta Braves....learn how he almost lost
his life in the 1979 Fastnet sailing race (but
came out the winner)...and discover
surprising details about his dealings with
Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy
Carter, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Warren
Buffett, and many more of the most
influential people of the past half century.
Ted also doesn't shrink from the darker
and more intimate details of his life. With
his usual frankness, he discusses a
childhood of loneliness (he was left at a
boarding school by his parents at the
tender age of four), and the emotional
impact of devastating losses (Ted's
beloved sister died at seventeen and his
hard-charging father committed suicide
when Ted was still in his early twenties).
Turner is also forthcoming about his
marriages, including the one to Oscar-
winning actress, Jane Fonda.
Along the way, Ted's friends, colleagues,
and family are equally revealing in their
unique "Ted Stories" which are peppered
throughout the book. Jane Fonda,
especially, provides intriguing insights into
Ted's inner drive and character.
In CALL ME TED, you'll hear Ted Turner's
distinctive voice on every page. Always
forthright, he tells you what makes him tick
and what ticks him off, and delivers an
honest account of what he's all about.
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the
accumulation and distribution of capital?
Questions about the long-term evolution of
inequality, the concentration of wealth, and
the prospects for economic growth lie at
the heart of political economy. But
satisfactory answers have been hard to
find for lack of adequate data and clear
guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-
First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a
unique collection of data from twenty
countries, ranging as far back as the
eighteenth century, to uncover key
economic and social patterns. His findings
will transform debate and set the agenda
for the next generation of thought about
wealth and inequality.
Piketty shows that modern economic

growth and the diffusion of knowledge
have allowed us to avoid inequalities on
the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl
Marx. But we have not modified the deep
structures of capital and inequality as
much as we thought in the optimistic
decades following World War II. The main
driver of inequality―the tendency of
returns on capital to exceed the rate of
economic growth―today threatens to
generate extreme inequalities that stir
discontent and undermine democratic
values. But economic trends are not acts
of God. Political action has curbed
dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty
says, and may do so again.
A work of extraordinary ambition,

originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-
First Century reorients our understanding
of economic history and confronts us with
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While low-income students can’t find a
spot in their local community colleges for
lack of funding, public four-year
universities are spending staggering sums
on luxurious residence halls, ever-bigger
football stadiums, and obscure research
institutes. We have cosseted our most
advantaged students even as we deny
access to the working adults who urgently
need higher education to advance their
careers and our economy. In Change.edu:
Rebooting for the new talent economy
Andrew S. Rosen clearly and entertainingly
details how far the American higher
education system has strayed from the
goals of access, quality, affordability, and
accountability that should characterize our
system, and offers a prescription to restore
American educational pre-eminence.
To change, our system will have to end its

reflexive opposition to anything new and
different. Rosen describes how each new
wave of innovation and expansion of
educational access— starting with the
founding of Harvard in 1636, and
continuing with the advent of land-grant
colleges in the 19th century, community
colleges in the 20th century and private
sector colleges over the last two
decades—has been met with
misunderstanding and ridicule. When
colleges like the University of California,
Cornell and Purdue were founded, they
were scorned as “pretenders to the title of
university” – language that tracks later
criticisms of community colleges and most
recently for-profit colleges.
Avoiding that condescension is just one of

the reasons colleges have come under the
sway of “Harvard Envy” – schools that
were founded to expand access feel an
inexorable tug to become more prestigious
and exclusive. Even worse, the
competition for the best students has led
universities to turn themselves into full-
fledged resorts; they’ve built climbing
walls, French bistros and 20-person hot-
tubs to entice students to their campuses.
How can America address an incentive

system in higher education that is
mismatched to the challenges of the years
ahead? In Change.edu, Rosen outlines
“seven certainties” of education in the
coming 25 years, and presents an
imperative for how our system must
prepare for the coming changes. He
proposes a new “playbook” for dealing with
the change ahead, one that will enable
American higher education to regain its
global primacy and be a catalyst for
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In a reporting tour de force, award-winning
journalist Steven Brill takes an
uncompromising look at the adults who are
fighting over America’s failure to educate
its children—and points the way to
reversing that failure.
Brill not only takes us inside their roller-

coaster battles, he also concludes with a
surprising prescription for what it will take
from both sides to put the American dream
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For more than thirty years, Stephan
Schiffman, America's #1 corporate sales
trainer, has shown millions of salespeople
how to close a deal. In this newest edition
of Cold Calling Techniques (That Really
Work!), he'll show you why cold calling is
still a central element of the sales cycle
and where to find the best leads. Updated
with new information on e-mail selling,
refining voice-mail messages, and online
networking, his time-tested advice includes
valuable discussion points that you'll need
to cover in order to effectively present your
product or service and arrange a meeting.
Schiffman teaches you how to use his
proven strategies to:
Turn leads into prospects

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Convey the ability to meet the client's
demands
Overcome common objections
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the
Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and
Steel, the author explores how climate
change, the population explosion and
political discord create the conditions for
the collapse of civilization
Environmental damage, climate change,

globalization, rapid population growth, and
unwise political choices were all factors in
the demise of societies around the world,
but some found solutions and persisted. As
in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond
traces the fundamental pattern of
catastrophe, and weaves an all-
encompassing global thesis through a
series of fascinating historical-cultural
narratives. Collapse moves from the
Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the
flourishing American civilizations of the
Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the
doomed Viking colony on Greenland.
Similar problems face us today and have
already brought disaster to Rwanda and
Haiti, even as China and Australia are
trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite
our own society’s apparently inexhaustible
wealth and unrivaled political power,
ominous warning signs have begun to
emerge even in ecologically robust areas
like Montana.
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely

absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its
place as one of the essential books of our
Collapse: How Societies time, raising the urgent question: How can
Choose to Fail or Succeed: our world best avoid committing ecological
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In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one
of the world's most respected economists
and the author ofThe 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. Through crystalline
examination of hard facts, Sachs predicts
the cascade of crises that awaits this
crowded planet-and presents a program of
sustainable development and international
cooperation that will correct this dangerous
course. Few luminaries anywhere on the
planet are as schooled in this daunting
subject as Sachs, and this is the vital
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Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English
and translated into nineteen languages,
Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy
has transformed the theory, practice, and
teaching of business strategy throughout
the world.
Electrifying in its simplicity—like all great

breakthroughs—Porter’s analysis of
industries captures the complexity of
industry competition in five underlying
forces. Porter introduces one of the most
powerful competitive tools yet developed:
his three generic strategies—lowest cost,
differentiation, and focus—which bring
structure to the task of strategic
positioning. He shows how competitive
advantage can be defined in terms of
relative cost and relative prices, thus
linking it directly to profitability, and
presents a whole new perspective on how
profit is created and divided. In the almost
two decades since publication, Porter's
framework for predicting competitor
behavior has transformed the way in which
companies look at their rivals and has
given rise to the new discipline of
competitor assessment.
More than a million managers in both large

and small companies, investment analysts,
consultants, students, and scholars
throughout the world have internalized
Porter's ideas and applied them to assess
industries, understand competitors, and
choose competitive positions. The ideas in
the book address the underlying
fundamentals of competition in a way that
is independent of the specifics of the ways
companies go about competing.
Competitive Strategy has filled a void in

management thinking. It provides an
enduring foundation and grounding point
on which all subsequent work can be built.
By bringing a disciplined structure to the
question of how firms achieve superior
profitability, Porter’s rich frameworks and
Competitive Strategy: deep insights comprise a sophisticated
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Why did the stock market crash more than
500 points on a single Monday in 1987?
Why do ancient species often remain
stable in the fossil record for millions of
years and then suddenly disappear? In a
world where nice guys often finish last,
why do humans value trust and
cooperation? At first glance these
questions don't appear to have anything in
common, but in fact every one of these
statements refers to a complex system.
The science of complexity studies how
single elements, such as a species or a
stock, spontaneously organize into
complicated structures like ecosystems
and economies; stars become galaxies,
and snowflakes avalanches almost as if
these systems were obeying a hidden
yearning for order.
Drawing from diverse fields, scientific
luminaries such as Nobel Laureates
Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow are
studying complexity at a think tank called
The Santa Fe Institute. The revolutionary
new discoveries researchers have made
there could change the face of every
science from biology to cosmology to
economics. M. Mitchell Waldrop's
groundbreaking bestseller takes readers
into the hearts and minds of these
Complexity: The Emerging scientists to tell the story behind this
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**Winner of the 2009 Nautilus Gold Award.
**
Consciousness is the main source of

organizational greatness. Conscious
business, explains Fred Kofman, means
finding your passion and expressing your
essential values through your work. A
conscious business seeks to promote the
intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its
stakeholders. It produces sustainable,
exceptional performance through the
solidarity of its community and the dignity
of each member.
Conscious Business presents

breakthrough techniques to help you
achieve:
Unconditional responsibility--how to
become the main character of your life
Unflinching integrity--how to succeed
beyond success
Authentic communication--how to speak
your truth, and elicit others' truths
Impeccable commitments--how to
coordinate actions with accountability
Right leadership--how being, rather than
doing, is the ultimate source of excellence
A conscious business fosters personal
fulfillment in the individuals, mutual respect
in the community, and success in the
organization, teaches Fred Kofman.
Conscious Business is the definitive
resource for achieving what really matters
in the workplace and beyond.
Contents
Chapter 1 Conscious Business
Chapter 2: Unconditional Responsibility
Chapter 3 Essential Integrity
Chapter 4: Ontological Humanity
Chapter 5: Authentic Communication
Chapter 6 Constructive Negotiation
Chapter 7 Impeccable Coordination
Chapter 8: Emotional Mastery
Chapter 9 Entering the Market with Helping
Hands
Excerpt:
Consciousness is the ability to experience

reality, to be aware of our inner and outer
worlds It allows us to adapt to our
environment and act to promote our lives
All living beings possess consciousness,
but human beings have a unique kind
Unlike plants and other animals, we can
think and act beyond instinctual drives and
conditioning We can be autonomous (from
the Greek, "self-governing") While this
autonomy is a possibility, it is not a given
We must develop it through conscious
choices.
To be conscious means to be awake,

mindful To live consciously means to be
open to perceiving the world around us, to
understand our circumstances, and to
decide how to respond to them in ways
that honor our needs, values, and goals To
be unconscious is to be asleep, mindless
To live unconsciously means to be driven
by instincts and habitual patterns.
Have you ever driven down the highway on

cruise control, engaged in a conversation
or daydreaming, only to realize you missed
your exit? You didn't literally lose
consciousness, but you dimmed your
awareness Relevant details, such as your
location and the actions needed to reach
your goal, receded from the forefront of
your mind Your eyes were open, but you
didn't see This is a poor way to drive--and
an even poorer way to live.
Praise
"Consciousness has a real and deep

business impact. Learning how to work in
full congruence with our values has
inspired every person in my tem to be a
better professional--and a better human
being."
--Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating
Officer, Facebook
"Fred has been a true partner in our efforts

to build a conscious organization, helping
us move from aspiration to implementation
His advice is never easy, but always
worthwhile."
--Eugenio Beaufrand, Vice President,
Microsoft Latin America
"Conscious Business translates the tools of

organizational learning into day-to-day
business applications Both at Chrysler and
DTE Energy, Fred's work has allowed us to
shift our culture faster, but with much
greater sustainability than any other effort."
Conscious Business: How to -- David Meador, Senior Vice President of
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From an award-winning New York Times
reporter comes the full, mind-boggling
story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude
behind the spectacular scandal that
imperiled a presidency, destroyed a
marketplace, and changed Washington
Conspiracy of Fools: A True and Wall Street forever. http://amzn.
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The period between 1867 and 1914
remains the greatest watershed in human
history since the emergence of settled
agricultural societies: the time when an
expansive civilization based on synergy of
fuels, science, and technical innovation
was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s
were dynamite, the telephone,
photographic film, and the first light bulbs.
Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s -
brought electricity - generating plants,
electric motors, steam turbines, the
gramophone, cars, aluminum production,
air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed
concrete. And its post-1900 period saw the
first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and
plastics, neon lights and assembly line
production. This book is a systematic
interdisciplinary account of the history of
this outpouring of European and American
intellect and of its truly epochal
consequences. It takes a close look at four
fundamental classes of these epoch-
making innovations: formation, diffusion,
and standardization of electric systems;
invention and rapid adoption of internal
combustion engines; the unprecedented
pace of new chemical syntheses and
material substitutions; and the birth of a
new information age. These chapters are
followed by an evaluation of the lasting
impact these advances had on the 20th
century, that is, the creation of high-energy
societies engaged in mass production
aimed at improving standards of living.
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Mankind now has within its grasp the
power to synthesize true artificial life,
playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in
both cyberspace and the real world. In this
book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of
artificial life, provides the first authoritative
and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of
this burgeoning new creation. He surveys
what has been achieved so far and looks
at future possibilities for generating
autonomous, intelligent, even conscious
living things. The fundamental questions
he tackles range widely: what is life? What
should the minds, brains and bodies of
these new life forms be like? What
philosophical guidelines and computational
frameworks are necessary? At the heart of
this brilliantly accessible and thought-
provoking book is the author's unique
imaginative vision - a vision based on his
experience of making some of the most
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The two years before he wrote Crime and
Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for
Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had
died; the magazine he and his brother had
started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of
debt; and he was threatened with debtor's
prison. With an advance that he managed
to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to
Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the
roulette table to get himself out of debt.
Instead, he lost all his money; he had to
pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans
to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia.
One of his begging letters went to a
magazine editor, asking for an advance on
yet another unwritten novel — which he
described as Crime and Punishment.
One of the supreme masterpieces of world
literature, Crime and Punishment
catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of
Russian writers and into the ranks of the
world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon
experiences from his own prison days, the
author recounts in feverish, compelling
tones the story of Raskolnikov, an
impoverished student tormented by his
own nihilism, and the struggle between
good and evil. Believing that he is above
the law, and convinced that humanitarian
ends justify vile means, he brutally
murders an old woman — a pawnbroker
whom he regards as "stupid, ailing,
greedy…good for nothing." Overwhelmed
afterwards by feelings of guilt and terror,
Raskolnikov confesses to the crime and
goes to prison. There he realizes that
happiness and redemption can only be
achieved through suffering. Infused with
forceful religious, social, and philosophical
elements, the novel was an immediate
success. This extraordinary, unforgettable
work is reprinted here in the authoritative
Constance Garnett translation.
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Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini
electrified the financial community by
predicting the current crisis before others
in his field saw it coming. This myth-
shattering book reveals the methods he
used to foretell the current crisis and
shows how those methods can help us
make sense of the present and prepare for
the future. Using an unconventional blend
of historical analysis with masterful
knowledge of global economics, Nouriel
Roubini and Stephen Mihm, a journalist
and professor of economic history, present
a vital and timeless book that proves
calamities to be not only predictable but
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Do you have a hobby you wish you could
do all day? An obsession that keeps you
up at night? Now is the perfect time to take
those passions and make a living doing
what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is
The Time To Cash In On Your Passion,
Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use
the power of the Internet to turn your real
interests into real businesses. Gary spent
years building his family business from a
local wine shop into a national industry
leader. Then one day he turned on a video
camera, and by using the secrets revealed
in this book, transformed his entire life and
earning potential by building his personal
brand. By the end of this book, any reader
will have learned how to harness the
power of the Internet to make their
entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by
step, CRUSH IT! is the ultimate driver′s
manual for modern business.
Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention

with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach
to personal branding and business. After
primarily utilizing traditional advertising
techniques to build his family′s local retail
wine business into a national industry
leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social
media tools such as Twitter and Facebook
to promote Wine Library TV, http://tv.
winelibrary.com, his video blog about wine.
Gary has always had an early-to-market
approach, launching Wine Library′s retail
website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in
February of 2006. His lessons on social
media, passion, transparency, and
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In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan
meditation master Chögyam Trungpa
highlights the commonest pitfall to which
every aspirant on the spiritual path falls
prey: what he calls spiritual materialism.
The universal tendency, he shows, is to
see spirituality as a process of self-
improvement—the impulse to develop and
refine the ego when the ego is, by nature,
essentially empty. "The problem is that ego
can convert anything to its own use," he
said, "even spirituality." His incisive,
compassionate teachings serve to wake us
up from this trick we all play on ourselves,
and to offer us a far brighter reality: the
true and joyous liberation that inevitably
involves letting go of the self rather than
working to improve it. It is a message that
has resonated with students for nearly
thirty years, and remains fresh as ever
today.
This new edition includes a foreword by

Chögyam Trungpa's son and lineage
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NAMED BEST MARKETING BOOK OF
2011 BY THE AMERICAN
MARKETINGASSOCIATION
How organizations can deliver significant
performance gainsthrough strategic
investment in marketing
In the new era of tight marketing budgets,

no organization cancontinue to spend on
marketing without knowing what's working
andwhat's wasted. Data-driven marketing
improves efficiency andeffectiveness of
marketing expenditures across the
spectrum ofmarketing activities from
branding and awareness, trail andloyalty,
to new product launch and Internet
marketing. Based on newresearch from the
Kellogg School of Management, this book
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return onmarketing investment (ROMI) in
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the fifteen key metrics every
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by experience teaching ROMI toexecutives
at Microsoft, DuPont, Nisan, Philips, Sony
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rigorous survey on strategic
marketingperformance management of
252 Fortune 1000 firms, capturing
$53billion of annual marketing spending *
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This is the story of a political miracle—the
perfect match of man and moment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in

March of 1933 as America touched bottom.
Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of
people lost everything. The Great
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Facing the gravest crisis since the Civil
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when it felt so hopeless took an
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“Old Doc Roosevelt” had learned at Warm

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Originally published in Portuguese, this
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Source http://amzn.to/1O7P6Sz Imagine if
a school were to spend more per pupil on
ceramics electives than core science
classes. What if a district were to push
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon
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In order to develop a secure defense
against a hostile alien race's next attack,
government agencies breed child geniuses
and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young
boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his
kind but distant parents, his sadistic
brother Peter, and the person he loves
more than anyone else, his sister
Valentine. Peter and Valentine were
candidates for the soldier-training program
but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the
Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School
for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school

and respected in the Battle Room, where
children play at mock battles in zero
gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial
community of young soldiers, Ender
suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from
his peers, pressure from the adult
teachers, and an unsettling fear of the
alien invaders. His psychological battles
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fanning the flames of devotion to his
beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But

Ender is not the only result of the genetic
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Energy is the only universal currency. One
of its many forms must be transformed into
another in order for stars to shine, planets
to rotate, living things to grow, and
civilizations to evolve. Recognition of this
universality was one of the great
achievements of nineteenth-century
science, yet even today there is little
literature that tries to view the world
broadly through the prism of energy.In this
highly original book, ecologist Vaclav Smil
takes the principle of universality seriously,
presenting a comprehensive and
integrated survey of all the forms of energy
that shape our world, from the sun to the
human body, from bread to microchips.
Written in a scientifically sophisticated yet
accessible style, Energies consists of
eighty-two short essays organized under
six headings: Sun and Earth, Plants and
Animals, People and Food, Preindustrial
Societies, Fossil-Fueled Civilization, and
Motion and Information. Each essay
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of the universe, life, or human society.
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In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil
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of any imminent resource shortages but
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biosphere and presents increasing
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and Middle Eastern crude oil.
Smil begins with an overview of the

twentieth century's long-term trends and
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predictions and showing that unexpected
events can disprove complex models. And
he examines the pros and cons not only of
fossil fuels but also of alternative fuels
such as hydroenergy, biomass energy,
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Energy transitions are fundamental
processes behind the evolution of human
societies: they both drive and are driven by
technical, economic, and social changes.
In a bold and provocative argument,
Energy Transitions: History, Requirements,
Prospects describes the history of modern
society's dependence on fossil fuels and
the prospects for the transition to a
nonfossil world. Vaclav Smil, who has
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accomplished within the timetables
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In this user-friendly and informative book,
prolific author and academic Vaclav Smil
provides an introduction to this far-
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greater understanding of energy's place in
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an explanation of the concept, he goes on
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There are many misconceptions about the
future of global energy often presented as
fact by the media, politicians, business
leaders, activists, and even scientists―
wasting time and money and hampering
the development of progressive energy
policies. Energy Myths and Realities:
Bringing Science to the Energy Policy
Debate debunks the most common
fallacies to make way for a constructive,
scientific approach to the global energy
challenge.
When will the world run out of oil? Should

nuclear energy be adopted on a larger
scale? Are ethanol and wind power viable
sources of energy for the future? Vaclav
Smil advises the public to be wary of
exaggerated claims and impossible
promises. The global energy transition will
be prolonged and expensive―and hinges
on the development of an extensive new
infrastructure. Established technologies
and traditional energy sources are
persistent and adaptable enough to see
the world through that transition.
Energy Myths and Realities brings a

scientific perspective to an issue often
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Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and
one of today’s most renowned historians,
now provides a new and unique look at
how World War II was won. Engineers of
Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts
account of the strategic factors that led to
Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the
leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by
the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers,
and businessmen responsible for realizing
their commanders’ visions of success.
In January 1943, FDR and Churchill

convened in Casablanca and established
the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat
the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic
sea lanes and the air over western and
central Europe; to take the fight to the
European mainland; and to end Japan’s
imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a
year later, these ambitious goals had
nearly all been accomplished. With
riveting, tactical detail, Engineers of Victory
reveals how.
Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the

invention of the cavity magnetron, a
miniature radar “as small as a soup plate,”
and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed
grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to
overcome the threat to their convoys
crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision
by engineers to install a super-charged
Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang,
creating a fighter plane more powerful than
the Luftwaffe’s; and the innovative use of
pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung
together) to help Russian troops cross
rivers and elude the Nazi blitzkrieg. He
takes readers behind the scenes, unveiling
exactly how thousands of individual Allied
planes and fighting ships were
choreographed to collectively pull off the
invasion of Normandy, and illuminating
how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying
and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that
would drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
The story of World War II is often told as a

grand narrative, as if it were fought by
supermen or decided by fate. Here
Kennedy uncovers the real heroes of the
war, highlighting for the first time the
creative strategies, tactics, and
organizational decisions that made the
lofty Allied objectives into a successful
reality. In an even more significant way,
Engineers of Victory has another claim to
our attention, for it restores “the middle
level of war” to its rightful place in history.
Praise for Engineers of Victory
“Superbly written and carefully

documented . . . indispensable reading for
anyone who seeks to understand how and
why the Allies won.”—The Christian
Science Monitor
“An important contribution to our

understanding of World War II . . . Like an
engineer who pries open a pocket watch to
reveal its inner mechanics, [Paul] Kennedy
tells how little-known men and women at
lower levels helped win the war.”—Michael
Beschloss, The New York Times Book
Review
“Histories of World War II tend to

concentrate on the leaders and generals at
the top who make the big strategic
decisions and on the lowly grunts at the
bottom. . . . [Engineers of Victory] seeks to
fill this gap in the historiography of World
War II and does so triumphantly. . . . This
book is a fine tribute.”—The Wall Street
Journal
“[Kennedy] colorfully and convincingly

illustrates the ingenuity and persistence of
a few men who made all the difference.”—
The Washington Post
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The industrial synthesis of ammonia from
nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater
fundamental importance to the modern
world than the invention of the airplane,
nuclear energy, space flight, or television.
The expansion of the world's population
from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's
six billion would not have been possible
without the synthesis of ammonia.
In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins

with a discussion of nitrogen's unique
status in the biosphere, its role in crop
production, and traditional means of
supplying the nutrient. He then looks at
various attempts to expand natural
nitrogen flows through mineral and
synthetic fertilizers. The core of the book is
a detailed narrative of the discovery of
ammonia synthesis by Fritz Haber -- a
discovery scientists had sought for over
one hundred years -- and its
commercialization by Carl Bosch and the
chemical company BASF. Smil also
examines the emergence of the large-
scale nitrogen fertilizer industry and
analyzes the extent of global dependence
on the Haber-Bosch process and its
biospheric consequences. Finally, it looks
at the role of nitrogen in civilization and, in
a sad coda, describes the lives of Fritz
Haber and Carl Bosch after the discovery
of ammonia synthesis. http://amzn.
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celebrates escapes from the flatlands of
both paper and computer screen, showing
superb displays of high-dimensional
complex data. The most design-oriented of
Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning
Information shows maps, charts, scientific
presentations, diagrams, computer
interfaces, statistical graphics and tables,
stereo photographs, guidebooks,
courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of
color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful
displays of information. The book provides
practical advice about how to explain
complex material by visual means, with
extraordinary examples to illustrate the
fundamental principles of information
displays. Topics include escaping flatland,
color and information, micro/macro
designs, layering and separation, small
multiples, and narratives. Winner of 17
awards for design and content. 400
illustrations with exquisite 6- to 12-color
printing throughout. Highest quality design
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Great pandemics have resulted in
significant death tolls and major social
disruption. Other "virgin soil" epidemics
have struck down large percentages of
populations that had no previous contact
with newly introduced microbes. Written by
a specialist in the history of science and
medicine, the essays in this volume
discuss pandemics and epidemics
affecting Europe, the Americas, Africa, and
Asia, covering diseases in ancient times to
the present. Each entry combines
biological and social information to form a
picture of the significance of epidemics that
have shaped world history.
The essays cover the areas of major

pandemics, virgin soil epidemics,
disruptive shocks, and epidemics of
symbolic interest. Included are facts about
what an epidemic was, where and when it
occurred, how contemporaries reacted,
and the unresolved historical issues
remaining. This fascinating material is
written at a level suitable for scholars and
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Source http://amzn.to/1O7PekY In 1800,
the per capita income of the United States
was twice that of Mexico and roughly the
same as Brazil’s. By 1913, it was four
times greater than Mexico’s and seven
times greater than Brazil’s. This volume
seeks to explain the nineteenth-century lag
in Latin American economic development.
The essays break with longstanding
dependency traditions in Latin American
historiography that focus on foreign
influences to explain Latin American
underdevelopment. Instead, they apply the
approaches and methods of the New
Economic History—which encompasses a
wide arsenal of analytic tools and
quantitative techniques informed by neo-
classical economic theory—arguing that
the causes for Latin America's laggard
economic growth in the nineteenth century
had far more to do with internal political
and legal structures than putative external
dependency.The volume is marked by
geographical and topical diversity. Four
essays deal with Mexico, two with Brazil,
and two compare the two countries.
Topically, two essays present overviews of
nineteenth-century economic performance,
two deal with the impact of independence,
two deal with capital markets, and the
remaining three address regional growth,
the impact of railroads, and the economic
effects of "culture." The editor's
introductory essay surveys the history of
economic growth theories and Latin
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The book that shows how to get the job
done and deliver results . . . whether you’re
running an entire company or in your first
management job.
Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most

acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers
who has a track record for delivering
results. Ram Charan is a legendary
advisor to senior executives and boards of
directors, a man with unparalleled insight
into why some companies are successful
and others are not. Together they’ve
pooled their knowledge and experience
into the one book on how to close the gap
between results promised and results
delivered that people in business need
today.
After a long, stellar career with General

Electric, Larry Bossidy transformed
AlliedSignal into one of the world’s most
admired companies and was named CEO
of the year in 1998 by Chief Executive
magazine. Accomplishments such as 31
consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share
growth of 13 percent or more didn’t just
happen; they resulted from the consistent
practice of the discipline of execution:
understanding how to link together people,
strategy, and operations, the three core
processes of every business.
Leading these processes is the real job of

running a business, not formulating a
“vision” and leaving the work of carrying it
out to others. Bossidy and Charan show
the importance of being deeply and
passionately engaged in an organization
and why robust dialogues about people,
strategy, and operations result in a
business based on intellectual honesty and
realism.
The leader’s most important job—selecting

and appraising people—is one that should
never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry
Bossidy personally makes the calls to
check references for key hires. Why? With
the right people in the right jobs, there’s a
leadership gene pool that conceives and
selects strategies that can be executed.
People then work together to create a
strategy building block by building block, a
strategy in sync with the realities of the
marketplace, the economy, and the
competition. Once the right people and
strategy are in place, they are then linked
to an operating process that results in the
implementation of specific programs and
actions and that assigns accountability.
This kind of effective operating process
goes way beyond the typical budget
exercise that looks into a rearview mirror to
set its goals. It puts reality behind the
numbers and is where the rubber meets
the road.
Putting an execution culture in place is

hard, but losing it is easy. In July 2001
Larry Bossidy was asked by the board of
directors of Honeywell International (it had
merged with AlliedSignal) to return and get
the company back on track. He’s been
putting the ideas he writes about in
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Safran Foer emerged as one of the most
original writers of his generation with his
best-selling debut novel, Everything Is
Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness,
and awe, he confronts the traumas of our
recent history.Nine-year-old Oskar Schell
has embarked on an urgent, secret
mission that will take him through the five
boroughs of New York. His goal is to find
the lock that matches a mysterious key
that belonged to his father, who died in the
World Trade Center on the morning of
September 11. This seemingly impossible
task will bring Oskar into contact with
survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating,
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One of today’s premier biographers has
written a modern, comprehensive, indeed
ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative
volume, Jean Edward Smith combines
contemporary scholarship and a broad
range of primary source material to provide
an engrossing narrative of one of America’
s greatest presidents.
This is a portrait painted in broad strokes

and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’s
restless energy, fierce intellect, personal
magnetism, and ability to project effortless
grace permitted him to master countless
challenges throughout his life. Smith
recounts FDR’s battles with polio and
physical disability, and how these
experiences helped forge the resolve that
FDR used to surmount the economic
turmoil of the Great Depression and the
wartime threat of totalitarianism. Here also
is FDR’s private life depicted with
unprecedented candor and nuance, with
close attention paid to the four women who
molded his personality and helped to
inform his worldview: His mother, Sara
Delano Roosevelt, formidable yet ever
supportive and tender; his wife, Eleanor,
whose counsel and affection were
instrumental to FDR’s public and individual
achievements; Lucy Mercer, the great
romantic love of FDR’s life; and Missy
LeHand, FDR’s longtime secretary,
companion, and confidante, whose
adoration of her boss was practically
limitless.
Smith also tackles head-on and in-depth

the numerous failures and miscues of
Roosevelt’s public career, including his
disastrous attempt to reconstruct the
Judiciary; the shameful internment of
Japanese-Americans; and Roosevelt’s
occasionally self-defeating Executive
overreach. Additionally, Smith offers a
sensitive and balanced assessment of
Roosevelt’s response to the Holocaust,
noting its breakthroughs and shortcomings.
Summing up Roosevelt’s legacy, Jean

Smith declares that FDR, more than any
other individual, changed the relationship
between the American people and their
government. It was Roosevelt who
revolutionized the art of campaigning and
used the burgeoning mass media to garner
public support and allay fears. But more
important, Smith gives us the clearest
picture yet of how this quintessential
Knickerbocker aristocrat, a man who never
had to depend on a paycheck, became the
common man’s president. The result is a
powerful account that adds fresh
perspectives and draws profound
conclusions about a man whose story is
widely known but far less well understood.
Written for the general reader and scholars
alike, FDR is a stunning biography in every
way worthy of its subject.
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Source http://amzn.to/1LT52FL FIASCO is
the shocking story of one man's education
in the jungles of Wall Street. As a young
derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley,
Frank Partnoy learned to buy and sell
billions of dollars worth of securities that
were so complex many traders themselves
didn't understand them. In his behind-the-
scenes look at the trading floor and the
offices of one of the world's top investment
firms, Partnoy recounts the macho
attitudes and fiercely competitive ploys of
his office mates. And he takes us to the
annual drunken skeet-shooting
competition, FIASCO, where he and his
colleagues sharpen the killer instincts they
are encouraged to use against their
competitiors, their clients, and each other.
FIASCO is the first book to take on the
derivatves trading industry?the most highly
charged and risky sector of the stock
market. More importantly, it is a blistering
indictment of the largely unregulated
market in derivatives and serves as a
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a warning to unwary investors about real
Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy fiascos, which have cost billions of dollars. http://amzn.to/1LT52FLhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81-HmC08KOL.jpg
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The reputation of the financial industry
could hardly be worse than it is today in
the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial
crisis. New York Times best-selling
economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for
the sins of finance--he is probably the only
person to have predicted both the stock
market bubble of 2000 and the real estate
bubble that led up to the subprime
mortgage meltdown. But in this important
and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather
than condemning finance, we need to
reclaim it for the common good. He makes
a powerful case for recognizing that
finance, far from being a parasite on
society, is one of the most powerful tools
we have for solving our common problems
and increasing the general well-being. We
need more financial innovation--not less--
and finance should play a larger role in
helping society achieve its goals.
Challenging the public and its leaders to

rethink finance and its role in society,
Shiller argues that finance should be
defined not merely as the manipulation of
money or the management of risk but as
the stewardship of society's assets. He
explains how people in financial careers--
from CEO, investment manager, and
banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator--
can and do manage, protect, and increase
these assets. He describes how finance
has historically contributed to the good of
society through inventions such as
insurance, mortgages, savings accounts,
and pensions, and argues that we need to
envision new ways to rechannel financial
creativity to benefit society as a whole.
Ultimately, Shiller shows how society can

once again harness the power of finance
for the greater good. http://amzn.
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Randomness is a standalone book in
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto
series, an investigation of opacity, luck,
uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,
and decision-making in a world we don’t
understand. The other books in the series
are The Black Swan, Antifragile, and The
Bed of Procrustes. “[Taleb is] Wall Street’s
principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By
Randomness] is to conventional Wall
Street wisdom approximately what Martin
Luther’s ninety-nine theses were to the
Catholic Church.” –Malcolm Gladwell, The
New Yorker Finally in paperback, the
word-of-mouth sensation that will change
the way you think about the markets and
the world.This book is about luck: more
precisely how we perceive luck in our
personal and professional experiences.
Set against the backdrop of the most
conspicuous forum in which luck is
mistaken for skill–the world of business–
Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent,
iconoclastic, eye-opening, and endlessly
Fooled by Randomness: The entertaining exploration of one of the
Hidden Role of Chance N. N. Taleb least understood forces in all of our lives. http://amzn.to/1VIsCK7http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AEX42XTQL.jpg
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In For the Love of Physics, beloved MIT
professor Walter Lewin, whose riveting
physics lectures made him a YouTube
super-star, takes readers on a remarkably
fun, inventive, and often wacky journey
that brings the joys of physics to life.
“For the Love of Physics captures Walter

Lewin’s extraordinary intellect, passion for
physics, and brilliance as a teacher”—Bill
Gates.
For more than thirty years as a renowned

professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Lewin’s lectures made
physics not only accessible but fun,
whether putting his head in the path of a
wrecking ball, supercharging himself with
three hundred thousand volts of electricity,
or demonstrating why the sky is blue and
clouds are white. In For the Love of
Physics, Lewin takes readers on a
marvelous journey, opening our eyes as
never before to the wonders of physics and
its amazing ability to reveal the beauty and
power embedded in our world.
Could it be true that we are shorter

standing up than lying down? Why can we
snorkel no deeper than about one foot
below the surface? Why are the colors of a
rainbow always in the same order, can we
stretch a hand out and touch one?
Using superbly clear and simple

explanations of phenomena we’ve always
wondered about, such as what the big
bang would have sounded like had anyone
existed to hear it, Lewin surprises and
delights with physics-based answers to
even the most elusive questions.
Whether showing us that a flea is strong

enough to pull a heavy book across a
table, or describing the coolest, weirdest
facts about the tiniest bits of matter, Lewin
always entertains as he edifies. “For me,”
Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—
the spectacular and the mundane, the
immense and the minute—as a beautiful,
thrillingly interwoven whole.” For the Love
of Physics is a rare gem that will change
the way readers see the world. http://amzn.
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In this landmark work of history, the
National Book Award—winning author of
American Sphinx explores how a group of
greatly gifted but deeply flawed
individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson,
Franklin, Washington, Adams, and
Madison–confronted the overwhelming
challenges before them to set the course
for our nation.
The United States was more a fragile hope

than a reality in 1790. During the decade
that followed, the Founding Fathers–re-
examined here as Founding Brothers–
combined the ideals of the Declaration of
Independence with the content of the
Constitution to create the practical
workings of our government. Through an
analysis of six fascinating episodes–
Hamilton and Burr’s deadly duel,
Washington’s precedent-setting Farewell
Address, Adams’ administration and
political partnership with his wife, the
debate about where to place the capital,
Franklin’s attempt to force Congress to
confront the issue of slavery and Madison’
s attempts to block him, and Jefferson and
Adams’ famous correspondence–Founding
Brothers brings to life the vital issues and
personalities from the most important
Founding Brothers: The decade in our nation’s history. http://amzn.
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Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award
A National Book Critics Circle Award

Finalist
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
In his first novel since The Corrections,

Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of
contemporary love and marriage. Freedom
comically and tragically captures the
temptations and burdens of liberty: the
thrills of teenage lust, the shaken
compromises of middle age, the wages of
suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of
empire. In charting the mistakes and joys
of Walter and Patty Berglund as they
struggle to learn how to live in an ever
more confusing world, Franzen has
produced an indelible and deeply moving
portrait of our time. http://amzn.
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When first-year graduate student Sudhir
Venkatesh walked into an abandoned
building in one of Chicago’s most notorious
housing projects, he hoped to find a few
people willing to take a multiple-choice
survey on urban poverty--and impress his
professors with his boldness. He never
imagined that as a result of this
assignment he would befriend a gang
leader named JT and spend the better part
of a decade embedded inside the projects
under JT’s protection. From a privileged
position of unprecedented access,
Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his
gang as they operated their crack-selling
business, made peace with their
neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or
fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex
hierarchical structure. Examining the
morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and
often corrupt struggle to survive in an
urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day
also tells the story of the complicated
friendship that develops between
Gang Leader for a Day: A Venkatesh and JT--two young and
Rogue Sociologist Takes to the ambitious men a universe apart. http:
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As the income gap between developed
and developing nations grows, so grows
the cacophony of voices claiming that the
quest to find a simple recipe for economic
growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp
contrast, reports the good news about
global progress. Economist Charles Kenny
argues against development naysayers by
pointing to the evidence of widespread
improvements in health, education, peace,
liberty--and even happiness.
Kenny shows how the spread of cheap
technologies, such as vaccines and bed
nets, and ideas, such as political rights,
has transformed the world. He also shows
that by understanding this transformation,
we can make the world an even better
place to live.
That's not to say that life is grand for

everyone, or that we don't have a long way
to go. But improvements have spread far,
and, according to Kenny, they can spread
Getting Better Charles Kenny even further. http://amzn.to/1KRWWP4
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Getting Real details the business, design,
programming, and marketing principles of
37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-
simple insights, contrarian points of view,
and unconventional approaches to
software design. This is not a technical
book or a design tutorial, it's a book of
ideas. Anyone working on a web app -
including entrepreneurs, designers,
programmers, executives, or marketers -
will find value and inspiration in this book.
37signals used the Getting Real process to
launch five successful web-based
applications (Basecamp, Campfire,
Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and
Ruby on Rails, an open-source web
application framework, in just two years
with no outside funding, no debt, and only
7 people (distributed across 7 time zones).
Over 500,000 people around the world use
these applications to get things done. Now
you can find out how they did it and how
Getting Real: The smarter, Jason Fried and you can do it too. It's not as hard as you
faster, easier way to build a Heinemeier David think if you Get Real. http://amzn.
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With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve
Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize
winner, but also the expert on the rise of
the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden,
Ghost Wars: The Secret History and the secret efforts by CIA officers and
of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin their agents to capture or kill Bin Laden in
Laden, from the Soviet Invasion Afghanistan after 1998. http://amzn.
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This book describes the basic facts,
concepts and ideas of polymer physics in
simple, yet scientifically accurate, terms. In
both scientific and historic contexts, the
book shows how the subject of polymers is
fascinating, as it is behind most of the
wonders of living cell machinery as well as
most of the newly developed materials. No
mathematics is used in the book beyond
modest high school algebra and a bit of
freshman calculus, yet very sophisticated
concepts are introduced and explained,
ranging from scaling and reptations to
protein folding and evolution. The new
edition includes an extended section on
polymer preparation methods, discusses
knots formed by molecular filaments, and
presents new and updated materials on
such contemporary topics as single
molecule experiments with DNA or
Alexander Y. Grosberg polymer properties of proteins and their
and Alexei R. roles in biological evolution. http://amzn.
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Twenty-four years after her first novel,
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
returns with an intimate tale of three
generations from the Civil War to the
twentieth century: a story about fathers
and sons and the spiritual battles that still
rage at America's heart. Writing in the
tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt
Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful,
spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the
faithless reader to feel the possibility of
transcendent order" (Slate). In the
luminous and unforgettable voice of
Congregationalist minister John Ames,
Gilead reveals the human condition and
the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary
life.
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A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain
& Company to cofound The Bridgespan
Group, a nonprofit focused on helping
donors and nonprofit leaders to develop
and execute strategies to accelerate social
change. In Give Smart, Tierney pools his
hands-on knowledge with Duke professor
Joel L. Fleishman’s expertise to create a
much-needed primer for philanthropists
and the nonprofit organizations they
support. Drawing from personal
experiences, research spanning twentieth-
and twenty-first-century philanthropy,
contemporary interviews, and Bridgespan’s
extensive field work, Give Smart presents
Give Smart: Philanthropy That Thomas J. Tierney and the definitive guide to engaged
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“Margaret Leary's carefully researched
book illuminates a complex man who
marked his university in a truly enduring
way."
---Francis X. Blouin Jr., Director, Bentley
Historical Library, and Professor, School of
Information and Department of History,
University of Michigan
“Generations of Michigan Law grads have

passed on myths about their generous but
eccentric benefactor. . . . Now Margaret
Leary has given us the real story, and it
reads like a gripping whodunit."
---Theodore J. St. Antoine, James E. and
Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law
and Past Dean, University of Michigan Law
School
“In an absorbing book, Margaret Leary

unstintingly investigates unpublished,
archival material to unravel enigmas
surrounding William Wilson Cook. She
brings to life Cook's brilliant interactions
with powerful moguls of the early twentieth
century as she traces his lofty,
philanthropic mission to elevate the legal
profession."
---Ilene H. Forsyth, Arthur F. Thurnau
Professor of the History of Art, emerita,
University of Michigan
William W. Cook, born in 1858 and a

graduate of the University of Michigan and
of its law school, made his fortune by
investing in the burgeoning telegraph and
communications industry, as well as in
representing the Mackay Company in their
frequent tumultuous battles with Western
Union and the U.S. government. Though
Cook entered New York society and never
returned to Michigan after receiving his law
degree, he decided not just to give his
alma mater the finest physical facility of
any existing law school, but to donate
permanent resources that would permit the
law school to engage in groundbreaking
legal research. However, his generosity
proved controversial and eventually very
litigious. Margaret A. Leary places Cook's
story in the rich social and cultural context
of his time and paints a fascinating portrait
of a complex figure whose legacy
continues to shape the University of
Michigan.
Cover photographs: (left) Gregory Fox

Photography; (right) Ann B. Cook
collection, photo by Russell R. Serbay.
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This volume is a single up-to-date source
on the entire global epidemiology of
diseases, injuries and risk factors with a
comprehensivestatement of methods and
a complete presentation of results. It
includesrefined methods to assess data,
ensure epidemiological consistency,
andsummarize the disease burden. 'Global
Burden of Disease and Risk Factors'
examines the comparative importance of
diseases, injuries, and risk factors; it
incorporates a range of new data sources
to develop consistent estimates of
incidence, prevalence, severity and
duration, and mortality for 136 major
diseases and injuries. Drawing from more
than 8,500 data sources that include
epidemiological studies, disease registers,
and notifications systems, 'Global Burden
of Disease and Risk Factors' incorporates
informationfrom more than 10,000 datasets
relating to population health and mortality,
representing one of the largest syntheses
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Fundamental change occurs most often in
one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity,"
a sudden catastrophic event that is
potentially world changing, or as a
persistent, gradual trend. Global
catastrophes include volcanic eruptions,
viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale
terrorist attacks; trends are demographic,
environmental, economic, and political
shifts that unfold over time. In this
provocative book, scientist Vaclav Smil
takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look
at the catastrophes and trends the next
fifty years may bring. Smil first looks at rare
but cataclysmic events, both natural and
human-produced, then at trends of global
importance, including the transition from
fossil fuels to other energy sources and
growing economic and social inequality.
He also considers environmental change --
in some ways an amalgam of sudden
discontinuities and gradual change -- and
assesses the often misunderstood
complexities of global warming. Global
Catastrophes and Trends does not come
down on the side of either doom-and-
gloom scenarios or techno-euphoria.
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Global Health 101, Second Edition
(formerly titled Essentials of Global Health)
is a clear, concise, and user-friendly
introduction to the most critical issues in
global health. It illustrates key themes with
an extensive set of case studies,
examples, and the latest evidence. While
the book offers a global perspective,
particular attention is given to the health-
development link, to developing countries,
and to the health needs of poor and
disadvantaged people. Global Health 101
builds on the success of an introductory
global health course taught by the author
at the George Washington School of Public
Health and Health Services and is ideally
suited for the the Association of American
Colleges and Universities recommended
course by the same name. The text is
accompanied by a wealth of instructor’s
resources, as well as a robust companion
website with videos, presentations, and
references intended to help both teachers
and students. Richard Skolnik is the winner
of numerous honors for teaching, has
taught global health for 8 years, and has
more than 30 years of experience as a
global health practitioner in multilateral,
university, and NGO settings. He has been
actively involved in dealing with critical
issues in global health at country level and
at the highest levels of international health
policy making. Learn more about the
author. “Richard Skolnik's Essentials of
Global Health is so comprehensive that it
will be key reading in international health.
In accessible language, he explains why
good health is crucial to economic
development, what indicators help track
changes in global health, and requirements
for good health systems. Approaches to
solving world health problems must be
under pinned by good ethics and human
rights guidelines, he says, and local
practices and cultures must not be ignored.
Skolnik looks in detail at children's and
women's health, and at the different
challenges of tackling communicative and
non-communicative disease in developing
countries. He also maps out the key
players in global health and looks ahead to
future challenges.” ―The Lancet, October
2007 The book is organized in four parts: -
Principles, Measurements, and the Health-
Development Link: The principles of Global
Health; Health Determinants,
Measurements, and Trends; and Health,
Education, Poverty, and the Economy. -
Cross-Cutting Global Health Themes:
Human Rights, Ethics, and Global Health;
An Introduction to Health Systems; and
Culture and Health. - The Burden of
Disease: The Environment and Health;
Nutrition and Health; Women’s Health;
Child Health; Infectious Diseases; Non-
Communicable Diseases; and
Unintentional Injuries. - Working Together
to Improve Global Health: Conflicts,
Natural Disasters, and Other Emergencies;
Cooperating to Improve Global Health;
and, Science Technology, and the Public’s
Health.” Updates to the Second Edition:
Updated tables and charts to include the
most recent data on the burden of disease
and risk factors - An expanded section on
health disparities and health equity - A
greatly expanded section on Neglected
Tropical Diseases - An expanded section
on the financing of global health and
innovative financing mechanisms -
Additional information on drug resistance
and emerging and re-emerging infectious
diseases - Additional information on
innovative mechanisms for program
implementation in areas related to key
chapter topics, such as performance based
financing in maternal health, TB, and
health systems development - An
expanded section on public-private
partnerships and product development
partnerships for health - Additional
examples and mini-case studies in all of
the core chapters - A new chapter on
“Careers in Global Health”, with
information on careers, which would be
illustrated with profiles of global health
leaders from around the world, who model
those careers Looking for more real-life
evidence? Check out Cases 1, 3, 6, 7, &
13 in Essential Case Studies in Public
Health, Putting Public Health into Practice.
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In this volume, leading scholars and
practitioners examine the impact of various
types of violence (political -- such as war
and genocide -- as well as the everyday
structural violence of extreme poverty and
racism) on health, psychosocial well-being,
and health care delivery. Through case
studies that put a human face on violence,
they challenge modern notions that
violence is somehow a normal, inevitable
part of human existence. Using the power
of ethnographic narrative they make the
case that it is important to see violence
that happens to others, no matter how
distant from us they may seem. By
exploring violence through the prism of
health and healthcare, the authors show
how locally-situated suffering and
inequality is shaped by larger political and
economic forces, while also demonstrating
the potential of health care for creating,
even in the worst scenarios, opportunities
for hope and change. By investigating the
fields of violence that define our modern
world, the authors provide alternative
global health paradigms that can be used
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Prophecy experts Tim LaHaye, author of
the mega–bestselling Left Behind series,
and Ed Hindson team up in Global
Warning —now in trade paper—to write
this powerful report on the earth’s final
hour.
For ages people have speculated about

how the world will end. How can we
discern the real clues from the many false
alarms? LaHaye and Hindson examine
ancient Bible prophecies in light of today’s
news headlines and provide a panoramic
survey of the final signs that will serve as
God’s global warning to the people of all
nations. Jesus promised He would
someday return to Earth to bring judgment
and set up His kingdom. He even reveals
specific details about what will happen.
What are those details? What can we

expect? Will terrorism, nuclear threats, and
the Middle East crisis have a part? Are
there other clues we may have missed?
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original publication in 1936, Gone With the
Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one
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The Great American Novel.Widely
considered The Great American Novel,
and often remembered for its epic film
version, Gone With the Wind explores the
depth of human passions with an intensity
as bold as its setting in the red hills of
Georgia. A superb piece of storytelling, it
vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War
and Reconstruction. This is the tale of
Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative
daughter of a wealthy plantation owner,
who arrives at young womanhood just in
time to see the Civil War forever change
her way of life. A sweeping story of tangled
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Chances are you know a person between
the ages of 11 and 30. You've seen them
doing five things at once: texting friends,
downloading music, uploading videos,
watching a movie on a two-inch screen,
and doing who-knows-what on Facebook
or MySpace. They're the first generation to
have literally grown up digital--and they're
part of a global cultural phenomenon that's
here to stay. The bottom line is this: If you
understand the Net Generation, you will
understand the future. If you're a Baby
Boomer or Gen-Xer: This is your field
guide. A fascinating inside look at the Net
Generation, Grown Up Digital is inspired
by a $4 million private research study. New
York Times bestselling author Don
Tapscott has surveyed more than 11,000
young people. Instead of a bunch of
spoiled “screenagers” with short attention
spans and zero social skills, he discovered
a remarkably bright community which has
developed revolutionary new ways of
thinking, interacting, working, and
socializing. Grown Up Digital reveals:
How the brain of the Net Generation

processes information
Seven ways to attract and engage young
talent in the workforce
Seven guidelines for educators to tap the
Net Gen potential
Parenting 2.0: There's no place like the
new home
Citizen Net: How young people and the
Internet are transforming democracy
Today's young people are using
technology in ways you could never
imagine. Instead of passively watching
television, the “Net Geners” are actively
participating in the distribution of
entertainment and information. For the first
time in history, youth are the authorities on
something really important. And they're
changing every aspect of our society-from
the workplace to the marketplace, from the
classroom to the living room, from the
voting booth to the Oval Office.
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"The computer world is like an intellectual
Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone
you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to
risk the consequences. " --from Hackers &
Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer
Age, by Paul Graham
We are living in the computer age, in a

world increasingly designed and
engineered by computer programmers and
software designers, by people who call
themselves hackers. Who are these
people, what motivates them, and why
should you care?
Consider these facts: Everything around us

is turning into computers. Your typewriter
is gone, replaced by a computer. Your
phone has turned into a computer. So has
your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car
was not only designed on computers, but
has more processing power in it than a
room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters,
encyclopedias, newspapers, and even
your local store are being replaced by the
Internet.
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the

Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains
this world and the motivations of the
people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful
prose that draws on illuminating historical
examples, Graham takes readers on an
unflinching exploration into what he calls
"an intellectual Wild West."
The ideas discussed in this book will have

a powerful and lasting impact on how we
think, how we work, how we develop
technology, and how we live. Topics
include the importance of beauty in
software design, how to make wealth,
heresy and free speech, the programming
language renaissance, the open-source
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The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of
life -- dates from nearly four billion years
ago, when the first simple organisms
appeared. Many species have exerted
enormous influence on the biosphere's
character and productivity, but none has
transformed the Earth in so many ways
and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In
Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil
offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative
account of human claims on the
biosphere's stores of living matter, from
prehistory to the present day. Smil
examines all harvests -- from prehistoric
man's hunting of megafauna to modern
crop production -- and all uses of
harvested biomass, including energy, food,
and raw materials. Without harvesting of
the biomass, Smil points out, there would
be no story of human evolution and
advancing civilization; but at the same
time, the increasing extent and intensity of
present-day biomass harvests are
changing the very foundations of
civilization's well-being.
In his detailed and comprehensive

account, Smil presents the best possible
quantifications of past and current global
losses in order to assess the evolution and
extent of biomass harvests. Drawing on
the latest work in disciplines ranging from
anthropology to environmental science,
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Health care reform is within our reach.
According to George Halvorson, CEO of
the nation's largest private health care
plan, only by improving the intent, quality,
and reach of services will we achieve a
health system that is economically feasible
into the future.
This year, Americans will spend 2.5 trillion

for health services that are poorly
coordinated, inconsistent, and most
typically focused on the belated care of
chronic conditions. What we have to show
for that expenditure is a nation that
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No mushy tribute to the joys of fatherhood,
Lewis’ book addresses the good, the bad,
and the merely baffling about having kids.”
―Boston Globe
When Michael Lewis became a father, he
decided to keep a written record of what
actually happened immediately after the
birth of each of his three children. This
book is that record. But it is also something
else: maybe the funniest, most unsparing
account of ordinary daily household life
ever recorded, from the point of view of the
man inside. The remarkable thing about
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A story of courage and risk-taking, House
on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that
killed, blinded, and scarred millions over
centuries of human history, was completely
eradicated in a spectacular triumph of
medicine and public health. Part
autobiography, part mystery, the story is
told by a man who was one of the
architects of a radical vaccination scheme
that became a key strategy in ending the
horrible disease when it was finally
contained in India. In House on Fire,
William H. Foege describes his own
experiences in public health and details the
remarkable program that involved people
from countries around the world in pursuit
of a single objective—eliminating smallpox
forever. Rich with the details of everyday
life, as well as a few adventures, House on
Fire gives an intimate sense of what it is
like to work on the ground in some of the
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In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West
came to believe in the myth of an East-
Asian economic miracle, with countries
seen as not just development prodigies but
as a unified bloc, culturally and
economically similar, and inexorably on the
rise. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell
distills extensive research into the
economics of nine countries—Japan,
South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and
China—into an accessible, readable
narrative that debunks Western
misconceptions, shows what really
happened in Asia and why, and for once
makes clear why some countries have
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Over Half a Million Copies Sold--an
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special interests to the ravages of the war
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stalemates of business versus
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free markets versus state capitalism.
Written by the most esteemed and
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resembles the Middle Ages, with Asian
empires, Western militaries, Middle
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wealthy multinational corporations, elite
clans, religious zealots, tribal hordes, and
potent media seething in an ever more
unpredictable and dangerous storm. But
just as that initial “dark age” ended with the
Renaissance, Khanna believes that our
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influential executives, super-
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the talent, pool the money, and deploy the
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deliver food, water, health care, and
education to those in need, and prevent
environmental collapse. With examples
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shooting businessman who brought
Chrysler back from the brink and in the
process became a media celebrity,
newsmaker, and a man many had urged to
run for president.
The son of Italian immigrants, Lee Iacocca

rose spectacularly through the ranks of
Ford Motor Company to become its
president, only to be toppled eight years
later in a power play that should have
shattered him. But Lee Iacocca didn’t get
mad, he got even. He led a battle for
Chrysler’s survival that made his name a
symbol of integrity, know-how, and guts for
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Ignition!: An informal history of
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takes”That was Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial
panic in more than fifty years gripped the
world and he struggled to avoid the once
unthinkable: a repeat of the Great
Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally
cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote
about the causes of the Depression during
his career as an academic. Then when
thrust into a role as one of the most
important people in the world, he was
compelled to boldness by circumstances
he never anticipated.The president of the
United States can respond instantly to a
missile attack with America’s military
might, but he cannot respond to a financial
crisis with real money unless Congress
acts. The Fed chairman can. Bernanke did.
Under his leadership the Fed spearheaded
the biggest government intervention in
more than half a century and effectively
became the fourth branch of government,
with no direct accountability to the nation’s
voters.Believing that the economic
catastrophe of the 1930s was largely the
fault of a sluggish and wrongheaded
Federal Reserve, Bernanke was
determined not to repeat that epic mistake.
In this penetrating look inside the most
powerful economic institution in the world,
David Wessel illuminates its opaque and
undemocratic inner workings, while
revealing how the Bernanke Fed led the
desperate effort to prevent the world’s
financial engine from grinding to a halt.In
piecing together the fullest, most
authoritative, and alarming picture yet of
this decisive moment in our nation’s
history, In Fed We Trust answers the most
critical questions. Among them:• What did
Bernanke and his team at the Fed know–
and what took them by surprise? Which of
their actions stretched–or even ripped
through–the Fed’s legal authority? Which
chilling numbers and indicators made them
feel they had no choice?• What were they
thinking at pivotal moments during the race
to sell Bear Stearns, the unsuccessful
quest to save Lehman Brothers, and the
virtual nationalization of AIG, Fannie Mae,
and Freddie Mac? What were they saying
to one another when, as Bernanke put it to
Wessel: “We came very close to
Depression 2.0”?• How well did Bernanke,
former treasury secretary Hank Paulson,
and then New York Fed president Tim
Geithner perform under intense pressure?
• How did the crisis prompt a reappraisal of
the once-impregnable reputation of Alan
Greenspan? In Fed We Trust is a
breathtaking and singularly perceptive look
at a historic episode in American and
global economic history.From the
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reflects intersection between the lives,
commitments, and strategies of two highly
respected figures Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr.
Gustavo Gutierrez joined in their option for
the poor, their defense of life, and their
commitment to liberation. Farmer has
credited liberation theology as the
inspiration for his effort to do social justice
medicine, while Gutierrez has recognized
Farmer's work as particularly compelling
example of the option for the poor, and the
impact that theology can have outside the
church. Draws on their respective writings,
major addresses by both at Notre Dame,
and a transcript of a dialogue between
In The Company of The Poor Paul Farmer them. http://amzn.to/1UBRMrj http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mTq0Ra09L._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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book grills up an enjoyable read for both
avid foodies and novice diners alike!
Perman’s sneak peek into the fascinating
history of In-N-Out is as good as the
delicious burgers themselves.”—Mario
Batali, celebrity chef and author of Molto
Italiano A behind-the-counter look at the
fast-food chain that breaks all the rules,
Stacy Perman’s In-N-Out Burger is the
New York Times bestselling inside story of
the family behind the California-based
hamburger chain with a cult following large
enough to rival the Grateful Dead’s. A juicy
unauthorized history of a small business-
turned-big business titan, In-N-Out Burger
was named one of Fast Company
magazine’s Best Business Books of 2009,
and Fortune Small Business insists that it
“should be required reading for family
In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the- business owners, alongside Rich Cohen’s
Counter Look at the Fast-Food Sweet and Low and Thomas Mann’s
Chain That Breaks All the Rules Stacy Perman Buddenbrooks.” http://amzn.to/1EM5WUG http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GWSgKRsfL.jpg
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"Fascinating and insightful. . . . I cannot
recall a book that has made me think more
about the nature of thinking." -- Richard C.
Lewontin
Harvard University
Everyone knows that optical illusions trick

us because of the way we see. Now
scientists have discovered that cognitive
illusions, a set of biases deeply embedded
in the human mind, can actually distort the
way we think.
In Inevitable Illusions, distinguished

cognitive researcher Massimo Piattelli-
Palmarini takes us on a provocative,
challenging, and thoroughly entertaining
exploration of the games our minds play.
He opens the doors onto the newly charted
realm of the cognitive unconscious to
reveal the full range of illusions, showing
how they inhibit our ability to reason--no
matter what our educational background or
Inevitable Illusions: How IQ. Inevitable Illusions is stimulating, eye-
Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Massimo Piattelli- opening food for thought. http://amzn.
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Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and
deadly strains of drug-resistant
tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A
physician-anthropologist with more than
fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes
from the front lines of the war against
these modern plagues and shows why,
even more than those of history, they
target the poor. This "peculiarly modern
inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB,
malaria, and typhoid in the modern world,
and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging)
infectious diseases such as Ebola and
cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing
stories of sickness and suffering.
Challenging the accepted methodologies
of epidemiology and international health,
he points out that most current explanatory
strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to
patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to
blaming the victims. In reality, larger
forces, global as well as local, determine
why some people are sick and others are
shielded from risk. Yet this moving account
is far from a hopeless inventory of
insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what
can be done in the face of seemingly
overwhelming odds, by physicians
determined to treat those in need.
Infections and Inequalities weds
meticulous scholarship with a passion for
solutions—remedies for the plagues of the
poor and the social maladies that have
Infections and Inequalities Paul Farmer sustained them. http://amzn.to/1KVCyN5http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ROfPaglpL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Source http://amzn.to/1hPie4e Influence:
Science and Practice is an examination of
the psychology of compliance (i.e.
uncovering which factors cause a person
to say “yes” to another's request).
Written in a narrative style combined with
scholarly research, Cialdini combines
evidence from experimental work with the
techniques and strategies he gathered
while working as a salesperson, fundraiser,
advertiser, and in other positions inside
organizations that commonly use
compliance tactics to get us to say “yes.”
Widely used in classes, as well as sold to
people operating successfully in the
business world, the eagerly awaited
revision of Influence reminds the reader of
the power of persuasion. Cialdini
organizes compliance techniques into six
categories based on psychological
principles that direct human behavior:
reciprocation, consistency, social proof,
Influence: Science and Practice Robert B. Cialdini liking, authority, and scarcity. http://amzn.to/1hPie4ehttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IOhEJZvoL.jpg
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Information Rules, authors Shapiro and
Varian reveal that many classic economic
concepts can provide the insight and
understanding necessary to succeed in the
information age. They argue that if
managers seriously want to develop
effective strategies for competing in the
new economy, they must understand the
fundamental economics of information
technology. Whether information takes the
form of software code or recorded music,
is published in a book or magazine, or
even posted on a website, managers must
know how to evaluate the consequences of
pricing, protecting, and planning new
versions of information products, services,
and systems. The first book to distill the
economics of information and networks
into practical business strategies,
Information Rules is a guide to the winning
moves that can help business leaders
Information Rules: A Strategic Carl Shapiro and Hal navigate successfully through the tough
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This sequel to Moore's masterwork
Crossing the Chasm provides a road map
for marketers who want to help innovators
Inside the Tornado Geoffrey A. Moore reach customers. http://amzn.to/1KlHb2hhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514-WV%2BwQjL.jpg
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courageous, and unsparing memoir” (The
New York Review of Books) of post–Cold
War politics and global statecraftWritten
with eloquence and unprecedented
candor, Interventions is the story of Kofi
Annan’s remarkable time at the center of
the world stage. After forty years of service
at the United Nations, Annan—who
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001—
shares his unique experiences during the
terrorist attacks of September 11; the
American invasions of Iraq and
Afghanistan; the war between Israel,
Hizbollah, and Lebanon; the brutal conflicts
of Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia; and the
geopolitical transformations following the
end of the Cold War. A personal biography
of global statecraft, Interventions is as
much a memoir as a guide to world
Interventions Kofi Annan and Nader Mousavizadeh
order—past, present, and future. http://amzn.to/1Fsm4prhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410e6ycyfML.jpg
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Man is a milestone in American literature,
a book that has continued to engage
readers since its appearance in 1952. A
first novel by an unknown writer, it
remained on the bestseller list for sixteen
weeks, won the National Book Award for
fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as
one of the key writers of the century. The
nameless narrator of the novel describes
growing up in a black community in the
South, attending a Negro college from
which he is expelled, moving to New York
and becoming the chief spokesman of the
Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and
retreating amid violence and confusion to
the basement lair of the Invisible Man he
imagines himself to be. The book is a
passionate and witty tour de force of style,
strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky. http://amzn.to/1LSVgU2
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was a visionary leader on a global scale.
As Executive Director of UNICEF, the
United Nations Children's Fund, from 1980
to 1995, he launched a world wide child
survival and development revolution. The
practical result was that by 1995, 25 million
children were alive who would otherwise
have died. Millions more were living with
better health and nutrition. The eight
pieces in this volume, all by Jim Grant's
close colleagues, celebrate this
achievement. But much more, they draw
out the lessons of Grant's vision and
leadership-lessons relevant in many other
Jim Grant: UNICEF Visionary United Nations contexts. http://amzn.to/1QjBfaRhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519KZZVPGXL._SX340_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling
biography of America’s founding father and
second president that was the basis for the
acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by
master historian David McCullough.In this
powerful, epic biography, David
McCullough unfolds the adventurous life
journey of John Adams, the brilliant,
fiercely independent, often irascible,
always honest Yankee patriot who spared
nothing in his zeal for the American
Revolution; who rose to become the
second president of the United States and
saved the country from blundering into an
unnecessary war; who was learned
beyond all but a few and regarded by
some as “out of his senses”; and whose
marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail
Adams is one of the moving love stories in
American history. This is history on a
grand scale—a book about politics and war
and social issues, but also about human
nature, love, religious faith, virtue,
ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the
far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.
Above all, John Adams is an enthralling,
often surprising story of one of the most
important and fascinating Americans who
John Adams David McCullough ever lived. http://amzn.to/1M4Y5V8
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In the second part, the authors describe in
detail how managers in a wide range of
companies and industries - small, medium
and large, North American, European, and
Japanese - transformed their business by
applying the principlesof lean thinking.
Chapters are devoted to Pratt & Whitney,
Wiremold and Lantech in North America,
Porsche in Germany, and Showa
Manufacturing in Japan.
Based on these cases and many others as

well, the authors summarize in the last part
of Lean Thinking the necessary steps in
the necessary sequence to apply lean
thinking successfully in your business.
They pay special attention to the need to
map product-family value streams at the
outset in order to identify the most
important areas for improvement and to
avoid wasted effort on activities that may
be technically challenging but which are of
little importance to your business.
Lean Thinking has sold more than 300,000

copies in the English language hardcover
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story version alone because it's an
of Greed, Terror, and Heroism indispensable companion for every
in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild manager making the lean journey. http://amzn.to/1UC4NBa
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The authors begin by summarizing the five
inherent principles in any lean system:
Correctly specify value so you are

providing what the customer actually wants
Identify the value stream for each product
family and remove the wasted steps that
don't create value but do create muda
(waste)
Make the remaining value-creating steps
flow continuously to drastically shorten
throughput times
Allow the customer to pull value from your
rapid-response value streams as needed
(rather than pushing products toward the
customer on the basis of forecasts)
Never relax until you reach perfection,
which is the delivery of pure value
instantaneously with zero muda. (The first
part of Lean Thinking devotes a chapter to
each of these principles.)
In the second part, the authors describe in
detail how managers in a wide range of
companies and industries - small, medium
and large, North American, European, and
Japanese - transformed their business by
applying the principlesof lean thinking.
Chapters are devoted to Pratt & Whitney,
Wiremold and Lantech in North America,
Porsche in Germany, and Showa
Manufacturing in Japan.
Based on these cases and many others as

well, the authors summarize in the last part
of Lean Thinking the necessary steps in
the necessary sequence to apply lean
thinking successfully in your business.
They pay special attention to the need to
map product-family value streams at the
outset in order to identify the most
important areas for improvement and to
avoid wasted effort on activities that may
be technically challenging but which are of
little importance to your business.
Lean Thinking has sold more than 300,000

copies in the English language hardcover
version alone because it's an
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste indispensable companion for every
and Create Wealth in Your manager making the lean journey. http:
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John Wood discovered his passion, his
greatest success, and his life's work not at
business school or helping lead Microsoft's
charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a
soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He
made the difficult decision to walk away
from his lucrative career to create Room to
Read, a nonprofit organization that
promotes education across the developing
world. By the end of 2007, the organization
will have established over 5,000 libraries
and 400 schools, and awarded long-term
scholarships to more than 3,000 girls,
giving more than one million children the
lifelong gift of education.
If you have ever pondered abandoning

your desk job for an adventure and an
opportunity to give back, Wood's story will
inspire you. He offers a vivid, emotional,
and absorbing tale of how to take the
Leaving Microsoft to Change the lessons learned at a hard-charging
World (An Entrepreneur’s company like Microsoft and apply them to
Odyssey to Educate the World’s the world's most pressing social problems.
Childen) John Wood http://amzn.to/1K9vxq4 http://amzn.to/1K9vxq4http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PGLkvM4kL.jpg
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compelling portrait of a man once serenely
confident, searching decades later for self-
understanding."--Richard Holbrooke, The
New York Times Book ReviewI had a part
in a great failure. I made mistakes of
perception, recommendation and
execution. If I have learned anything I
should share it."These are not words that
Americans ever expected to hear from
McGeorge Bundy, the national security
adviser to presidents John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson. But in the last years of
his life, Bundy--the only principal architect
of Vietnam strategy to have maintained his
public silence--decided to revisit the
decisions that had led to war and to look
anew at the role he played. In this original
and provocative work of presidential
history, Gordon M. Goldstein distills the
essential lessons of America's involvement
in Vietnam, drawing on his prodigious
research as well as interviews and analysis
he conducted with Bundy before his death
in 1996. Lessons in Disaster is a historical
tour de force on the uses and misuses of
American power, and offers instructive
guidance that we must heed if we are not
Lessons in Disaster Gordon M. Goldstein to repeat the mistakes of the past. http://amzn.to/1NXbD5c
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For several years of his turbulent life,
Seneca was the guiding hand of the
Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning
derived mainly from the Stoic principles,
which had originally been developed some
centuries earlier in Athens. This selection
of Seneca's letters shows him upholding
the austere ethical ideals of Stoicism—the
wisdom of the self-possessed person
immune to overmastering emotions and
life’s setbacks—while valuing friendship
and the courage of ordinary men, and
criticizing the harsh treatment of slaves
and the cruelties in the gladiatorial arena.
The humanity and wit revealed in Seneca’s
interpretation of Stoicism is a moving and
inspiring declaration of the dignity of the
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can revolutionize schools ??? if we let it
Imagine a cyber-school in an old steel mill
where students from distant cities log in to
learn. Or a Midwest charter school with
state-of-the-art learning labs, where kids
use laptops to manage their work. Here,
learning happens across time zones,
teachers are entrepreneurs, and innovation
is commonplace. But for the majority of
schools, this reality is blocked by politics-
as-usual and untouchables such as
teachers' unions. The authors challenge us
to make much-needed changes--or be left
in the dust of the global economy. Terry M.
Moe (Stanford, CA) is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, and professor of
political science at Stanford University.
John E. Chubb (Short Hills, NJ), formerly
senior fellow at The Brookings Institution,
is now Managing Director of ???The
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The long-awaited autobiography of the
guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding
member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and
gentlemen: Keith Richards.
With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards

created the songs that roused the world,
and he lived the original rock and roll life.
Now, at last, the man himself tells his story
of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening
obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy
Waters records, learning guitar and
forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian
Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and
the notorious drug busts that led to his
enduring image as an outlaw folk hero.
Creating immortal riffs like the ones in
"Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk
Women." His relationship with Anita
Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones.
Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.
S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love
with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from
Jagger and subsequent reconciliation.
Marriage, family, solo albums and
Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on
forever.
With his trademark disarming honesty,

Keith Richard brings us the story of a life
we have all longed to know more of,
unfettered, fearless, and true. http://amzn.
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From composer, musician, and
philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm,
wise, and inspirational book that asks,
Which will you choose: the path of least
resistance or the path of potentially
greatest satisfaction?
You may think that with a last name like

his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless
privilege. But the son of billionaire investor
Warren Buffett says that the only real
inheritance handed down from his parents
was a philosophy: Forge your own path in
life. It is a creed that has allowed him to
follow his own passions, establish his own
identity, and reap his own successes.
In Life Is What You Make It, Buffett

expounds on the strong set of values given
to him by his trusting and broadminded
mother, his industrious and talented father,
and the many life teachers he has met
along the way.
Today’s society, Buffett posits, has begun

to replace a work ethic, relishing what you
do, with a wealth ethic, honoring the payoff
instead of the process. We confuse
privilege with material accumulation,
character with external validation. Yet, by
focusing more on substance and less on
reward, we can open doors of opportunity
and strive toward a greater sense of
fulfillment. In clear and concise terms,
Buffett reveals a great truth: Life is
random, neither fair nor unfair.
From there it becomes easy to recognize

the equal dignity and value of every human
life—our circumstances may vary but our
essences do not. We see that our journey
in life rarely follows a straight line but is
often met with false starts, crises, and
blunders. How we push through and
persevere in these challenging moments is
where we begin to create the life of our
dreams—from discovering our vocations to
living out our bliss to giving back to others.
Personal and revealing, instructive and

intuitive, Life Is What You Make It is about
transcending your circumstances, taking
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Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of
our time. He has been reviewing films for
the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and
was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer
Prize. He has appeared on television for
four decades, including twenty-three years
as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies.
In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer

treatment resulted in the loss of his ability
to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of
his voice, Ebert has only become a more
prolific and influential writer. And now, for
the first time, he tells the full, dramatic
story of his life and career.
Roger Ebert's journalism carried him on a

path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in
Urbana, Illinois. It is a journey that began
as a reporter for his local daily, and took
him to Chicago, where he was
unexpectedly given the job of film critic for
the Sun-Times, launching a lifetime's
adventures.
In this candid, personal history, Ebert

chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and
obsessions; his struggle and recovery from
alcoholism; his marriage; his politics; and
his spiritual beliefs. He writes about his
years at the Sun-Times, his colorful
newspaper friends, and his life-changing
collaboration with Gene Siskel. He
remembers his friendships with Studs
Terkel, Mike Royko, Oprah Winfrey, and
Russ Meyer (for whom he wrote Beyond
the Valley of the Dolls and an ill-fated Sex
Pistols movie). He shares his insights into
movie stars and directors like John Wayne,
Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese.
This is a story that only Roger Ebert could

tell. Filled with the same deep insight, dry
wit, and sharp observations that his
readers have long cherished, this is more
than a memoir-it is a singular, warm-
hearted, inspiring look at life itself.
"I believe that if, at the end, according to

our abilities, we have done something to
make others a little happier, and something
to make ourselves a little happier, that is
about the best we can do. To make others
less happy is a crime. To make ourselves
unhappy is where all crime starts. We must
try to contribute joy to the world. That is
true no matter what our problems, our
health, our circumstances. We must try. I
didn't always know this, and am happy I
lived long enough to find it out."
-from LIFE ITSELF http://amzn.
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In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how
Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of
Independence to write the greatest speech
in the nation’s history.
The power of words has rarely been given

a more compelling demonstration than in
the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was
asked to memorialize the gruesome battle.
Instead he gave the whole nation “a new
birth of freedom” in the space of a mere
272 words. His entire life and previous
training and his deep political experience
went into this, his revolutionary
masterpiece.
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in their historical moment and cultural
frame, Wills breathes new life into words
we thought we knew, and reveals much
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often misunderstood. Wills shows how
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to become essential to our understanding
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own views evolved, to express his
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"We fail to mandate economic sanity,"
writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains
are addled by...compassion." With such
startling assertions, Hardin has cut a
swathe through the field of ecology for
decades, winning a reputation as a
fearless and original thinker. A prominent
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not everyone can be saved. The old idea
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point that the earth (and each part of it)
has a limited carrying capacity;
sentimentality should not cloud our ability
to take necessary steps to limit population.
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and voluntary restraints will be enough.
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growing must suffer the consequences
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the faulty principle of shared costs
matched with private profits. In Hardin's
famous essay, "The Tragedy of the
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common pasture suffers from overgrazing
because each villager puts as many cattle
on it as possible--since the costs of grazing
are shared by everyone, but the profits go
to the individual. The metaphor applies to
global ecology, he argues, making a
powerful case for closed borders and an
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rich ones. "The production of human
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Globalizing the 'population problem' would
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implications of his argument, as he
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overpopulated regions and asserts that
coercion in population control is inevitable.
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information across boundaries, to allow
each state to help itself.
"The time-honored practice of pollute and
move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin
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Mandela is one of the great moral and
political leaders of our time: an
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oppression in South Africa won him the
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1990 from more than a quarter-century of
imprisonment, Mandela has been at the
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political drama in the world. As president of
the African National Congress and head of
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--The New York Times Book Review It is
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Depression that began in 1929 resulted
from a confluence of events beyond any
one person's or government's control. In
fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the
decisions made by a small number of
central bankers that were the primary
cause of that economic meltdown, the
effects of which set the stage for World
War II and reverberated for decades. As
yet another period of economic turmoil
makes headlines today, Lords of Finance
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much further should the affluent world
push its material consumption? Does
relative dematerialization lead to absolute
decline in demand for materials? These
and many other questions are discussed
and answered in Making the Modern
World: Materials and Dematerialization.
Over the course of time, the modern world
has become dependent on unprecedented
flows of materials. Now even the most
efficient production processes and the
highest practical rates of recycling may not
be enough to result in dematerialization
rates that would be high enough to negate
the rising demand for materials generated
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standards of living. This book explores the
costs of this dependence and the potential
for substantial dematerialization of modern
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evolving productivities of material
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environmental impact of rising material
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future, discussing the prospects for
dematerialization and potential constrains
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and with virtually everyone outside China
who had significant dealings with him. It is
full of startling revelations, exploding the
myth of the Long March, and showing a
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back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him
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One of the world's most famous and
influential books, Meditations, by the
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D.
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he used to cope with his life as a warrior
and administrator of an empire. Ascending
to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Aurelius
found his reign beset by natural disasters
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he set down a series of private reflections,
outlining a philosophy of commitment to
virtue above pleasure and tranquility above
happiness.
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loss, and death — the suffering at the core
of life — Aurelius counsels stoic
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own will and perception.
Presented here in a specially modernized
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“Ace Greenberg did almost everything
better than I do—bridge, magic tricks, dog
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CHAIRMAN comprise a unique—and
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Make decisions based on common sense.
Avoid the herd mentality. Control expenses
with unrelenting vigil. Run your business at
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chrome? What is the bitterest substance
on earth? What is the worst smelling one?
In this entertaining tour of chemistry, John
Emsley answers these and many other
questions as he illuminates the materials
that make up our world. Dozens of lively
articles explore such well-known molecules
as water, oxygen, and glass; versatile
plastics like polypropylene, polystyrene,
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Moneyball is a quest for the secret of
success in baseball. Following the low-
budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-
life general manger, Billy Beane, and the
strange brotherhood of amateur baseball
enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not
only "the single most influential baseball
book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also
what "may be the best book ever written on
business" (Weekly Standard).
"I wrote this book because I fell in love with

a story. The story concerned a small group
of undervalued professional baseball
players and executives, many of whom
had been rejected as unfit for the big
leagues, who had turned themselves into
one of the most successful franchises in
Major League Baseball. But the idea for
the book came well before I had good
reason to write it—before I had a story to
fall in love with. It began, really, with an
innocent question: how did one of the
poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland
Athletics, win so many games?"
With these words Michael Lewis launches

us into the funniest, smartest, and most
contrarian book since, well, since Liar's
Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something
as elusive as the Holy Grail, something
that money apparently can't buy: the secret
of success in baseball. The logical places
to look would be the front offices of major
league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps
even in the minds of the players
themselves. Lewis mines all these
possibilities—his intimate and original
portraits of big league ballplayers are alone
worth the price of admission—but the real
jackpot is a cache of numbers—numbers!
—collected over the years by a strange
brotherhood of amateur baseball
enthusiasts: software engineers,
statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers
and physics professors.
What these geek numbers show—no,

prove—is that the traditional yardsticks of
success for players and teams are fatally
flawed. Even the box score misleads us by
ignoring the crucial importance of the
humble base-on-balls. This information has
been around for years, and nobody inside
Major League Baseball paid it any mind.
And then came Billy Beane, General
Manager of the Oakland Athletics.
Billy paid attention to those numbers —

with the second lowest payroll in baseball
at his disposal he had to—and this book
records his astonishing experiment in
finding and fielding a team that nobody
else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster
ride: before the 2002 season opens,
Oakland must relinquish its three most
prominent (and expensive) players, is
written off by just about everyone, and then
comes roaring back to challenge the
American League record for consecutive
wins.
In a narrative full of fabulous characters

and brilliant excursions into the
unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how
and why the new baseball knowledge
works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious
morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is
always supposed to win...how can we not
cheer for David?
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The blockbuster phenomenon that charts
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From America's most inventive novelist,
Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling
and compulsive riff on the classic detective
novel.
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-

appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan
whose Tourettic impulses drive him to
bark, count, and rip apart our language in
startling and original ways. Together with
three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home
for Boys, he works for small-time mobster
Frank Minna's limo service cum detective
agency. Life without Frank Minna, the
charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be
unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he
sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But
when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of
Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other
two vie for his position, and the victim's
widow skips town. Lionel's world is
suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who
has trouble even conversing attempts to
untangle the threads of the case while
trying to keep the words straight in his
head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly
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novel by one of the most acclaimed writers
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deluxe paperback edition, shows how one
person can work wonders. In Mountains
Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize—winning
author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a
gifted man who loves the world and has
set out to do all he can to cure it.In medical
school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling:
to cure infectious diseases and to bring the
lifesaving tools of modern medicine to
those who need them most. Kidder’s
magnificent account takes us from Harvard
to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer
changes minds and practices through his
dedication to the philosophy that “the only
real nation is humanity.” At the heart of this
book is the example of a life based on
hope and on an understanding of the truth
of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains
there are mountains”–as you solve one
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and so you go on and try to solve that one
too.“Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds
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Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-
1943) was a revolutionary scientist who
forever changed the scientific fields of
electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest
invention, A/C current, powers almost all of
the technological wonders in the world
today, from home heating to computers to
high-tech robotics. His discoveries gave
mankind the television. And his dream of
wireless communication came to pass in
both the radio and eventually the cell
phone. Yet his story remains widely
unknown. History buffs, science
enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and
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Year In a New York City made
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and left alone after his English wife and
son return to London, Hans van den Broek
stumbles upon the vibrant New York
subculture of cricket, where he revisits his
lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship
with a charismatic and charming
Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon,
begins to reconnect with his life and his
adopted country. As the two men share
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Communication partners practical skills
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peacefully. In this internationally acclaimed
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In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert
Wright applied the principles of
evolutionary biology to the study of the
human mind. Now Wright attempts
something even more ambitious:
explaining the direction of evolution and
human history–and discerning where
history will lead us next.
In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny,

Wright asserts that, ever since the
primordial ooze, life has followed a basic
pattern. Organisms and human societies
alike have grown more complex by
mastering the challenges of internal
cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from
fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from
stone-age villages to the World Trade
Organization, uncovering such surprises
as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the
useful stability of feudalism. Here is history
endowed with moral significance–a way of
looking at our biological and cultural
evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that
human morality has improved over time,
and that our instinct to discover meaning
may itself serve a higher purpose.
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Where most business books tell you to
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compelling theory of intelligence, brain
function, and the future of intelligent
machinesJeff Hawkins, the man who
created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone,
and other handheld devices, has reshaped
our relationship to computers. Now he
stands ready to revolutionize both
neuroscience and computing in one stroke,
with a new understanding of intelligence
itself.Hawkins develops a powerful theory
of how the human brain works, explaining
why computers are not intelligent and how,
based on this new theory, we can finally
build intelligent machines.The brain is not
a computer, but a memory system that
stores experiences in a way that reflects
the true structure of the world,
remembering sequences of events and
their nested relationships and making
predictions based on those memories. It is
this memory-prediction system that forms
the basis of intelligence, perception,
creativity, and even consciousness.In an
engaging style that will captivate
audiences from the merely curious to the
professional scientist, Hawkins shows how
a clear understanding of how the brain
works will make it possible for us to build
intelligent machines, in silicon, that will
exceed our human ability in surprising
ways.Written with acclaimed science writer
Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence
promises to completely transfigure the
possibilities of the technology age. It is a
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a daily reality for a billion people. More
than six decades after the technological
discoveries that led to the Green
Revolution aimed at ending world hunger,
regular food shortages, malnutrition, and
poverty still plague vast swaths of the
world. And with increasing food prices,
climate change, resource inequality, and
an ever-increasing global population, the
future holds further challenges.In One
Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of
the world's foremost experts on global food
needs, explains the many interrelated
issues critical to our global food supply
from the science of agricultural advances
to the politics of food security. He expands
the discussion begun in his influential The
Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in
the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the
essential combination of increased food
production, environmental stability, and
poverty reduction necessary to end
endemic hunger on our planet. Conway
addresses a series of urgent questions
about global hunger: • How we will feed a
growing global population in the face of a
wide range of adverse factors, including
climate change? • What contributions can
the social and natural sciences make in
finding solutions?• And how can we
engage both government and the private
sector to apply these solutions and achieve
significant impact in the lives of the poor?
Conway succeeds in sharing his informed
optimism about our collective ability to
address these fundamental challenges if
we use technology paired with sustainable
practices and strategic planning.Beginning
with a definition of hunger and how it is
calculated, and moving through issues
topically both detailed and comprehensive,
each chapter focuses on specific
challenges and solutions, ranging in scope
from the farmer's daily life to the global
movement of food, money, and ideas.
Drawing on the latest scientific research
and the results of projects around the
world, Conway addresses the concepts
and realities of our global food needs: the
legacy of the Green Revolution; the impact
of market forces on food availability; the
promise and perils of genetically modified
foods; agricultural innovation in regard to
crops, livestock, pest control, soil, and
water; and the need to both adapt to and
slow the rate of climate change. One
Billion Hungry will be welcomed by all
readers seeking a multifaceted
understanding of our global food supply,
food security, international agricultural
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One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the
story of the rise and fall, birth and death of
the mythical town of Macondo through the
history of the Buendía family.
Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and
alive with unforgettable men and women --
brimming with truth, compassion, and a
lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this
Gabriel Garcia novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
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Source http://amzn.to/1NcUsLB In October
1962, at the height of the Cold War, the
United States and the Soviet Union came
to the brink of nuclear conflict over the
placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In
this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense
days, veteran Washington Post reporter
Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we
came to Armageddon.Here, for the first
time, are gripping accounts of
Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S.
naval base at Guantánamo; the handling of
Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the
extraordinary story of a U-2 spy plane that
got lost over Russia at the peak of the
crisis.Written like a thriller, One Minute to
Midnight is an exhaustively researched
account of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
called “the most dangerous moment in
human history,” and the definitive book on
One Minute to Midnight Michael Dobbs the Cuban missile crisis. http://amzn.to/1NcUsLBhttp://bit.ly/1i7dFTG 1 1
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
The summer of 1927 began with Charles

Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on
the home run record. In Newark, New
Jersey, Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a
flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago,
the gangster Al Capone was tightening his
grip on bootlegging. The first true “talking
picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was
filmed, forever changing the motion picture
industry.
All this and much, much more
transpired in the year Americans attempted
and accomplished outsized things—and
when the twentieth century truly became
the American century. One Summer
transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFar more than a
superb memoir about the highest levels of
professional tennis, Open is the
engrossing story of a remarkable
life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out
for him before he left the crib. Groomed to
be a tennis champion by his moody and
demanding father, by the age of twenty-
two Agassi had won the first of his eight
grand slams and achieved wealth,
celebrity, and the game’s highest honors.
But as he reveals in this searching
autobiography, off the court he was often
unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his
great achievements in a sport he had
come to resent. Agassi writes candidly
about his early success and his
uncomfortable relationship with fame, his
marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing
interest in philanthropy, and—described in
haunting, point-by-point detail—the highs
Open: an Autobiography Andre Agassi and lows of his celebrated career. http://amzn.to/1NkIjFShttp://bit.ly/1hPjGn9 1 1
Peter Huber scanned all of George
Orwell's writings into a computer, using the
machine to rewrite 1984 completely, using
Orwell's Revenge Peter Huber Orwell's own language. http://amzn.to/1UQQkS3http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51g7NA3v26L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Source http://amzn.to/1XAhikX In volume
one of his America in the King Years,
Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a
masterly account of the American civil
rights movement.Hailed as the most
masterful story ever told of the American
civil rights movement, Parting the Waters
is destined to endure for generations.
Moving from the fiery political baptism of
Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of
Camelot where the Kennedy brothers
weighed demands for justice against the
deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a
vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally
transformed by a revolutionary struggle
unequaled since the Civil War. Taylor
Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of
King's rise to greatness and illuminates the
stunning courage and private conflict, the
deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries
that determined history behind closed
doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody
freedom rides, and through siege and
murder. Epic in scope and impact,
Branch's chronicle definitively captures one
Parting The Water Taylor Branch of the nation's most crucial passages. http://amzn.to/1XAhikXhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KZAc0yQUL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Source http://amzn.to/1EM8fHB For nearly
thirty years, anthropologist and physician
Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the
most impoverished places on earth to bring
comfort and the best possible medical care
to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his
stated intent to "make human rights
substantial," Farmer has treated patients—
and worked to address the root causes of
their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru,
Rwanda, and elsewhere in the developing
world. In 1987, with several colleagues, he
founded Partners In Health to provide a
preferential option for the poor in health
care. Throughout his career, Farmer has
written eloquently and extensively on these
efforts. Partner to the Poor collects his
writings from 1988 to 2009 on
anthropology, epidemiology, health care
for the global poor, and international public
health policy, providing a broad overview
of his work. It illuminates the depth and
impact of Farmer’s contributions and
demonstrates how, over time, this
unassuming and dedicated doctor has
fundamentally changed the way we think
about health, international aid, and social
justice.A portion of the proceeds from the
sale of this book will be donated to
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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing
stories of life—and death—in extreme
situations to interrogate our understanding
of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician
and anthropologist with twenty years of
experience working in Haiti, Peru, and
Russia, argues that promoting the social
and economic rights of the world’s poor is
the most important human rights struggle
of our times. With passionate eyewitness
accounts from the prisons of Russia and
the beleaguered villages of Haiti and
Chiapas, this book links the lived
experiences of individual victims to a
broader analysis of structural violence.
Farmer challenges conventional thinking
within human rights circles and exposes
the relationships between political and
economic injustice, on one hand, and the
suffering and illness of the powerless, on
the other.Farmer shows that the same
social forces that give rise to epidemic
diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis
also sculpt risk for human rights violations.
He illustrates the ways that racism and
gender inequality in the United States are
embodied as disease and death. Yet this
book is far from a hopeless inventory of
abuse. Farmer’s disturbing examples are
linked to a guarded optimism that new
medical and social technologies will
develop in tandem with a more informed
sense of social justice. Otherwise, he
concludes, we will be guilty of managing
social inequality rather than addressing
structural violence. Farmer’s urgent plea to
think about human rights in the context of
global public health and to consider critical
issues of quality and access for the world’s
poor should be of fundamental concern to
a world characterized by the bizarre
Pathologies of Power Paul Farmer proximity of surfeit and suffering. http://amzn.to/1UBThFT
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After fifteen years of rising to the pinnacle
of the hospitality industry, Chip Conley's
company was suddenly undercapitalized
and overexposed in the post-dot.com,
post-9/11 economy. For relief and
inspiration, Conley, the CEO and founder
of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to
psychologist Abraham Maslow's iconic
Hierarchy of Needs. This book explores
how Conley's company "the second largest
boutique hotelier in the world" overcame
the storm that hit the travel industry by
applying Maslow's theory to what Conley
identifies as the key Relationship Truths in
business with Employees, Customers and
Investors. Part memoir, part theory, and
part application, the book tells of Joie de
Vivre's remarkable transformation while
providing real world examples from other
companies and showing how readers can
bring about similar changes in their work
and personal lives. Conley explains how to
understand the motivations of employees,
customers, bosses, and investors, and use
that understanding to foster better
relationships and build an enduring and
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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of
the United States and was the top general
in the Union Army during the American
Civil War. Grant wrote a biography which
focused mainly on his experience in the
Civil War. The Personal Memoirs of
Ulysses S. Grant was published by Mark
Twain after Grant died and was very
popular immediately. http://amzn.
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exploring central issues in the philosophy
of literature, illustrated by a wide range of
novels, poems, and plays, Philosophy of
Literature gets to the heart of why
literature matters to us and sheds new light
on the nature and interpretation of literary
works. Provides a comprehensive study,
along with original insights, into the
philosophy of literature Develops a unique
point of view - from one of the field's
leading exponents Offers examples of key
issues using excerpts from well-known
novels, poems, and plays from different
Philosophy & Literature Peter Lamarque historical periods http://amzn.to/1QjBYsN
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Source http://amzn.to/1EJYqdt The fun
and easy way to get up to speed on the
basic concepts of physics For high school
and undergraduate students alike, physics
classes are recommended or required
courses for a wide variety of majors, and
continue to be a challenging and often
confusing course. Physics I For Dummies
tracks specifically to an introductory course
and, keeping with the traditionally easy-to-
follow Dummies style, teaches you the
basic principles and formulas in a clear
and concise manner, proving that you don't
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Explains the basic principles in a simple,
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includes updated examples and
explanations, as well as the newest
discoveries in the field Contains the
newest teaching techniques If just thinking
about the laws of physics makes your head
spin, this hands-on, friendly guide gets you
out of the black hole and sheds light on
Physics for Dummies Steven Holzner this often-intimidating subject. http://amzn.to/1EJYqdthttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J%2BGQMEtsL._SX397_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Kaku interviews some of the world's best
Physics of the Future: How and brightest scientists to find out what
Science Will Shape Human they're working on. What he unveils is a
Destiny and Our Daily Lives by future of sci-fi-like innovations and
the Year 2100 Michio Kaku breakthroughs worth sticking around for. http://amzn.to/1KNIwRv
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"Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent
Haruf reveals a whole community as he
interweaves the stories of a pregnant high
school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys
abandoned by their mother, and a couple
of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple
elements, Haruf achieves a novel of
wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds
in strength and feeling until, as in a choral
chant, the voices in the book surround,
transport, and lift the reader off the
ground."-FROM THE CITATION FOR THE
Plainsong Kent Haruf NATIONAL BOOK AWARD http://amzn.to/1NcUEdB
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a
magnificent treasury of the best short
works of Richard P. Feynman—from
interviews and speeches to lectures and
printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging
collection, it presents an intimate and
fascinating view of a life in science-a life
like no other. From his ruminations on
science in our culture to his Nobel Prize
acceptance speech, this book will fascinate
anyone interested in the world of ideas.
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Source http://amzn.to/1UwodfY Here David
Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the
polio terror and of the intense effort to find
a cure, from the March of Dimes to the
discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--
and beyond. Drawing on newly available
papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and
other key players, Oshinsky paints a
suspenseful portrait of the race for the
cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on
the furious rivalry between Salk and Sabin.
He also tells the story of Isabel Morgan,
perhaps the most talented of all polio
researchers, who might have beaten Salk
to the prize if she had not retired to raise a
family.Oshinsky offers an insightful look at
the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, which was founded in the 1930s
by FDR and Basil O'Connor, it
revolutionized fundraising and the
perception of disease in America.
Oshinsky also shows how the polio
experience revolutionized the way in which
the government licensed and tested new
drugs before allowing them on the market,
and the way in which the legal system
dealt with manufacturers' liability for unsafe
products. Finally, and perhaps most
tellingly, Oshinsky reveals that polio was
never the raging epidemic portrayed by the
media, but in truth a relatively uncommon
disease. But in baby-booming America--
increasingly suburban, family-oriented, and
hygiene-obsessed--the specter of polio,
like the specter of the atomic bomb, soon
became a cloud of terror over daily life.
Both a gripping scientific suspense story
and a provocative social and cultural
history, Polio opens a fresh window onto
Polio: An American Story David M. Oshinsky postwar America. http://amzn.to/1UwodfY
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EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Charlie's 2007 USC Law School
Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Commencement address. Edited by Peter
Munger, Expanded Third Edition Peter D. Kaufman D. Kaufman. Brand New. http://amzn.to/1NkECA4
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Source http://amzn.to/1hPk3y4 Why do the
poor borrow to save? Why do they miss
out on free life-saving immunizations, but
pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor
Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther
Duflo, two practical visionaries working
toward ending world poverty, answer these
questions from the ground. In a book the
Wall Street Journal called “marvelous,
rewarding,” the authors tell how the stress
of living on less than 99 cents per day
encourages the poor to make questionable
decisions that feed—not fight—poverty.
The result is a radical rethinking of the
economics of poverty that offers a ringside
view of the lives of the world’s poorest, and
shows that creating a world without poverty
begins with understanding the daily
Poor Economics Abhijit Banerjee decisions facing the poor. http://amzn.to/1hPk3y4http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ekqm7oHQL.jpg
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Source http://amzn.to/1O7SzjV One of the
most urgent challenges in African
economic development is to devise a
strategy for improving statistical capacity.
Reliable statistics, including estimates of
economic growth rates and per-capita
income, are basic to the operation of
governments in developing countries and
vital to nongovernmental organizations and
other entities that provide financial aid to
them. Rich countries and international
financial institutions such as the World
Bank allocate their development resources
on the basis of such data. The paucity of
accurate statistics is not merely a technical
problem; it has a massive impact on the
welfare of citizens in developing countries.
Where do these statistics originate? How
accurate are they? Poor Numbers is the
first analysis of the production and use of
African economic development statistics.
Morten Jerven's research shows how the
statistical capacities of sub-Saharan
African economies have fallen into
disarray. The numbers substantially
misstate the actual state of affairs. As a
result, scarce resources are misapplied.
Development policy does not deliver the
benefits expected. Policymakers' attempts
to improve the lot of the citizenry are
frustrated. Donors have no accurate sense
of the impact of the aid they supply.
Jerven's findings from sub-Saharan Africa
have far-reaching implications for aid and
development policy. As Jerven notes, the
current catchphrase in the development
community is "evidence-based policy," and
scholars are applying increasingly
sophisticated econometric methods―but
no statistical techniques can substitute for
Poor Numbers Morten Jerven partial and unreliable data. http://amzn.to/1O7SzjVhttp://bit.ly/1VIgKrB 1 1
Source http://amzn.to/1JNYozZ Business
guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive
analysis of the major world transformation
taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to
the Knowledge Society, and examines the
radical affects it will have on society,
politics, and business now and in the
coming years. This searching and incisive
analysis of the major world transformation
now taking place shows how it will affect
society,economics, business, and politics
and explains how we are movingfrom a
society based on capital, land, and labor to
a society whoseprimary source is
knowIedge and whose key structure is
Post-Capitalist Society Peter F. Drucker theorganization. http://amzn.to/1JNYozZ
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Source http://amzn.to/1EJYwBD The many
books on globalization published over the
past few years range from claims
that the world is flat to an unlikely
rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as
a pioneer of global commerce. Missing
from these accounts is a consideration of
the technologies behind the
creation of the globalized economy. What
makes it possible for us to move
billions of tons of raw materials and
manufactured goods from
continent to continent? Why are we able to
fly almost anywhere on the planet within
twenty-four hours? In Prime Movers of
Globalization, Vaclav Smil offers
a history of two key technical
developments that have driven
globalization: the high-
compression non-sparking internal
combustion engines invented by Rudolf
Diesel in the 1890s and the gas turbines
designed by Frank Whittle and Hans-
Joachim Pabst von Ohain in the
1930s. The massive diesel engines that
power cargo ships and the gas
turbines that propel jet engines, Smil
argues, are more important to the
global economy than any corporate
structure or international trade agreement.
Smil compares the efficiency and
scale of these two technologies to prime
movers of the past, including the
sail and the steam engine. The lengthy
processes of development,
commercialization, and diffusion that the
diesel engine and the gas turbine went
through, he argues, provide perfect
examples of gradual technical advances
that receive little attention but
have resulted in epochal shifts in global
Prime Movers of Globalization Vaclav Smil affairs and the global economy. http://amzn.to/1EJYwBD
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Source http://amzn.to/1K0TG3b This
companion guide to 'Disease Control
Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd
edition' speeds the diffusion of life-saving
knowledge by distilling the contents of the
larger volume into an easily read format.
Policy makers, practitioners, academics,
and other interested readers will get an
overview of the messages and analysis in
'Disease Control Priorities in Developing
Countries, 2nd edition'; be alerted to the
scope of major diseases; learn strategies
to improve policies and choices to
implement cost-effective interventions; and
Priorities in Health Dean T. Jamison locate chapters of immediate interest. http://amzn.to/1K0TG3b
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A Washington Post Book World Best Book
of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from

her native Austria into France, fourteen-
year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out,
stripped naked before an entourage, and
dressed in French attire to please the court
of her new king. For a short while, the
young girl played the part.
But by the time she took the throne,

everything had changed. In Queen of
Fashion, Caroline Weber tells of the radical
restyling that transformed the young queen
into an icon and shaped the future of the
nation. With her riding gear, her white furs,
her pouf hairstyles, and her intricate
ballroom disguises, Marie Antoinette came
Queen of Fashion: What Marie to embody--gloriously and tragically--all the
Antoinette Wore to the extravagance of the monarchy. http:
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Chwe analyses a range of rituals across
history and cultures through the discerning
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Over the past decade, the Rotman School
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Simultaneous pressures to reduce costs
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the best way to catch a terrorist? Did TV
cause a rise in crime? What do
hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway
deaths have in common? Are people
hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?
Can eating kangaroo save the planet?
Which adds more value: a pimp or a
Realtor? Levitt and Dubner mix smart
thinking and great storytelling like no one
else, whether investigating a solution to
global warming or explaining why the price
of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By
examining how people respond to
incentives, they show the world for what it
really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final
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A New York Times bestseller
Superintelligence asks the questions: What

happens when machines surpass humans
in general intelligence? Will artificial agents
save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the
foundation for understanding the future of
humanity and intelligent life.
The human brain has some capabilities

that the brains of other animals lack. It is to
these distinctive capabilities that our
species owes its dominant position. If
machine brains surpassed human brains in
general intelligence, then this new
superintelligence could become extremely
powerful - possibly beyond our control. As
the fate of the gorillas now depends more
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would the fate of humankind depend on
the actions of the machine
superintelligence.
But we have one advantage: we get to

make the first move. Will it be possible to
construct a seed Artificial Intelligence, to
engineer initial conditions so as to make an
intelligence explosion survivable? How
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This profoundly ambitious and original

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intellectual terrain. After an utterly
engrossing journey that takes us to the
frontiers of thinking about the human
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Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in
an objective manner, this enlightening
book analyzes the relevant numbers and
organizes a plan for change on both a
personal level and an international scale—
for Europe, the United States, and the
world. In case study format, this
informative reference answers questions
surrounding nuclear energy, the potential
of sustainable fossil fuels, and the
possibilities of sharing renewable power
with foreign countries. While underlining
the difficulty of minimizing consumption,
the tone remains positive as it debunks
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calculations of expenditure per person to
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title in Arthur Ransome's classic series,
originally published in 1930: for children,
for grownups, for anyone captivated by the
world of adventure and imagination.
Swallows and Amazons introduces the
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Technological innovation is deeply woven
into the fabric of American culture, and is
no less a basic feature of American health
care. Medical technology saves lives and
relieves suffering, and is enormously
popular with the public, profitable for
doctors, and a source of great wealth for
industry. Yet its costs are rising at a
dangerously unsustainable rate. The
control of technology costs poses a terrible
ethical and policy dilemma. How can we
deny people what they may need to live
and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let
rising costs strangle our health care
system, eventually harming everyone?
In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed
medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts
this dilemma head-on. He argues that we
can't escape it by organizational changes
alone. Nothing less than a fundamental
transformation of our thinking about health
care is needed to achieve lasting and
economically sustainable reform. The
technology bubble, he contends, is
beginning to burst. Callahan weighs
the ethical arguments for and against
limiting the use of medical technologies,
and he argues that reining in health care
costs requires us to change entrenched
values about progress and technological
innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast
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that of the uninsured. Only a government-
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Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into
something remarkable—
and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a
front-row seat for it all.When Carol Loomis
first mentioned a little-known Omaha
hedge fund manager in a
1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that
Warren Buffett would one day be
considered the world’s greatest investor—
nor that she and Buffett would quickly
become close personal friends. As Buf-fett’
s fortune and reputation grew over time,
Loomis used her unique insight into Buffett’
s thinking to chronicle his work for Fortune,
writ-ing and proposing scores of stories
that tracked his many accomplishments—
and also his occa-sional mistakes.Now
Loomis has collected and updated the best
Buffett articles Fortune published between
1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover
stories and a dozen pieces authored by
Buffett himself. Loomis has provided
commentary about each major arti-cle that
supplies context and her own informed
point of view. Readers will gain fresh
insights into Buffett’s investment strategies
and his thinking on management,
philanthropy, public policy, and even
parenting. Some of the highlights include:
The 1966 A. W. Jones story in
which Fortune first mentioned Buffett.The
first piece Buffett wrote for the magazine,
1977’s “How Inf lation Swindles the Equity
Investor.”Andrew Tobias’s 1983 article
“Letters from Chairman Buffett,” the first
review of his Berk-shire Hathaway
shareholder letters.Buffett’s stunningly
prescient 2003 piece about derivatives,
“Avoiding a Mega-Catastrophe.”His
unconventional thoughts on inheritance
and philanthropy, including his intention to
leave his kids “enough money so they
would feel they could do anything, but not
so much that they could do nothing.”Bill
Gates’s 1996 article describing his early
impressions of Buffett as they struck up
their close friendship.Scores of Buffett
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Tesla was a major contributor to the
electrical revolution that transformed daily
life at the turn of the twentieth century. His
inventions, patents, and theoretical work
formed the basis of modern AC electricity,
and contributed to the development of
radio and television. Like his competitor
Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of
America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying
the company of New York high society and
dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his
electrical demonstrations. An astute self-
promoter and gifted showman, he
cultivated a public image of the eccentric
genius. Even at the end of his life when he
was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted
reporters to his annual birthday interview,
regaling them with claims that he had
invented a particle-beam weapon capable
of bringing down enemy aircraft.
Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and
his eccentricities, but until now none has
carefully examined what, how, and why he
invented. In this groundbreaking book, W.
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inventor, placing him within the cultural and
technological context of his time, and
focusing on his inventions themselves as
well as the creation and maintenance of
his celebrity. Drawing on original
documents from Tesla's private and public
life, Carlson shows how he was an
"idealist" inventor who sought the perfect
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Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four
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globalization, the revolution in information
technology, chronic deficits, and our
pattern of energy consumption---and spell
out what we need to do now to preserve
American power in the world. The end of
the Cold War blinded the nation to the
need to address these issues seriously,
and China's educational successes,
industrial might, and technological prowess
in many ways remind us of a time when
"that used to be us." But Friedman and
Mandelbaum show how America's history,
when properly understood, offers a five-
part formula for prosperity that will enable
us to cope successfully with the challenges
we face. That Used to Be Us is both a
searching exploration of the American
condition today and a rousing manifesto for
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There are laws of nature, so why shouldn't
there be laws of marketing?
As Al Ries and Jack Trout—the world-
renowned marketing consultants and
bestselling authors of Positioning—note,
you can build an impressive airplane, but it
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a sobering account of how pitched battles
over scarce resources will increasingly
define American politics in the coming
years—and how we might avoid, or at least
mitigate, the damage from these
ideological and economic battles. In a
matter of just three years, a bitter struggle
over limited resources has enveloped
political discourse at every level in the
United States. Fights between haves and
have-nots over health care, unemployment
benefits, funding for mortgage write-
downs, economic stimulus legislation—
and, at the local level, over cuts in police
protection, garbage collection, and in the
number of teachers—have dominated the
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to make zero-sum choices—or worse,
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to protect what it has at the expense of the
other. The major issues of the next few
years—long-term deficit reduction;
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The year is 1896, the place, New York
City. On a cold March night New York
Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is
summoned to the East River by his friend
and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo
Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On
the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they
view the horribly mutilated body of an
adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of
Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly
appointed police commissioner, Theodore
Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move,
enlists the two men in the murder
investigation, counting on the reserved
Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge
of New York's vast criminal underworld.
They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave
and determined woman who works as a
secretary in the police department.
Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the
emerging discipline of psychology, are
viewed by the public with skepticism at
best), the unlikely team embarks on what
is a revolutionary effort in criminology--
amassing a psychological profile of the
man they're looking for based on the
details of his crimes. Their dangerous
quest takes them into the tortured past and
twisted mind of a murderer who has killed
before. and will kill again before the hunt is
over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with
a historian's exactitude, The Alienist
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cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining
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Think you know the real Barack Obama?
You don’t—not until you’ve read The
Amateur
In this stunning exposé, bestselling author

Edward Klein—a contributing editor to
Vanity Fair, former foreign editor of
Newsweek, and former editor-in-chief of
the New York Times Magazine—pulls back
the curtain on one of the most secretive
White Houses in history. He reveals a
callow, thin-skinned, arrogant president
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The beloved, award-winning The Amazing

Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael
Chabon masterwork, is the American epic
of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier
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material by Michael Chabon.
A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a

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City in 1939. A young escape artist and
budding magician named Joe Kavalier
arrives on the doorstep of his cousin,
Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of
Hitler falls across Europe, America is
happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic
books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn,
Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on
the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the
aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together
they embark on an adventure that takes
them deep into the heart of Manhattan,
and the heart of old-fashioned American
ambition. From the shared fears, dreams,
and desires of two teenage boys, they spin
comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-
fighting Escapist and the beautiful,
mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly
mistress of the night. Climbing from the
streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire
State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out
lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and
magenta ink. Spanning continents and
eras, this superb book by one of America’s
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“The signs and instruments of power are
no longer armed legions or raw materials
or capital… The wealth we seek does not
lie in the earth or in numbers of men or in
machines, but in the human spirit. And
particularly in the ability of men to think
and to create.” -- Jean-Jacques Servan-
Schreiber in his international bestseller,
The American Challenge. The American
Challenge was 50 years ahead of its time
in its appraisal of Europe, industrialization,
the global economy and digital future, and
the sclerosis of French politics. The youth
of the world can now rediscover this
landmark book, and take measure of all
that still remains to be accomplished to
bring to fruition the dreams of post-war
generation. The world we live in is very
much the world Servan-Schreiber
imagined,” Professor Paul Krugman writes
in his preface to this ebook edition, further
adding that “JJSS was an incredibly
insightful prophet.” With its radically new
economic and political vision, The
American Challenge was a bestseller when
first published in 1967. Selling over 2
million copies in France and more than 10
million throughout the world, the book was
translated and published in 16 languages
and 26 countries. This first ebook edition
provides the original edition’s text in its
entirety. Available from all major online
retailers, it includes a new preface by New
York Times op-ed contributor and Nobel
Prize winner in Economics, Paul Krugman,
acclaiming a book that “marked a whole
generation.”
Praise for "The American Challenge":

“The American Challenge, was not only a
game changer for European–American
relations, it also provided a new and
innovative conception of national
competitiveness. The book was a true
catalyst in the creation of the World
Economic Forum.”- Klaus Schwab,
Founder and Chairman, The World
Economic Forum
“Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber first put

forth his bold vision of accelerating
American prosperity back in 1967. While
this outcome seemed inevitable at the
time, half a century later we have fallen far
short of that future. The reissue of his
landmark book serves as a clarion call for
our stagnant civilization to find a way back
to the optimistic future of the 1960s.” -
Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal,
Managing Partner of the Founders’ Fund
“Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber was a

true humanist. He understood the
importance of the sovereignty for the
people in the wake of European
colonialism, as well as the potential in
federating resources in an increasingly
multipolar world, exemplified by his support
of the European integration. He also
foresaw the possibilities and challenges of
modern technology.” - Nicolas Berggruen,
President, Berggruen Institute on
Governance
“The American Challenge is an excellent,

vigorous and modern book – that is to say,
one free of many of the usual
shortcomings and repetitiveness of
commonplace thinking.” - Valéry Giscard d’
Estaing, President of France, 1974-1981
“The American Challenge is at the top of

the best seller lists. For a tome rich in
statistics and dealing with the world of
economic and corporate development,
computers, satellites and the rivalries of
industrial power blocs, this is an
astonishing success. If Marx had done as
well with “Das Kapital”, we might all be
waving red flags and eating caviar.” - New
York Times, May 19, 1968
About the Author:

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924 –
2006) was a WWII fighter pilot, the founder
of the French newsweekly L’Express,
author of several bestsellers, and deputy
and President of the regional council of
Lorraine. He was also a professor and
chairman of the department of strategic
thinking at Carnegie-Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, where a fellowship in his name
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success principles from a billionaire
entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli
Broad's embrace of "unreasonable
thinking" has helped him build two Fortune
500 companies, amass personal billions,
and use his wealth to create a new
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the
human story behind the evolution of
finance, from its origins in ancient
Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on
what he calls Planet Finance.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre,

moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it
what you like, it matters. To Christians,
love of it is the root of all evil. To generals,
it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’
s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of
Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance
is in fact the foundation of human
progress. What’s more, he reveals
financial history as the essential backstory
behind all history.
Through Ferguson’s expert lens familiar

historical landmarks appear in a new and
sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the
civilization of the Renaissance looks very
different: a boom in the market for art and
architecture made possible when Italian
bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The
rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted
as the triumph of the world’s first modern
bond market over insolvent Habsburg
absolutism. And the origins of the French
Revolution are traced back to a stock
market bubble caused by a convicted Scot
murderer.
With the clarity and verve for which he is

known, Ferguson elucidates key financial
institutions and concepts by showing
where they came from. What is money?
What do banks do? What’s the difference
between a stock and a bond? Why buy
insurance or real estate? And what exactly
does a hedge fund do?
This is history for the present. Ferguson

travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask
why the free market can’t provide
adequate protection against catastrophe.
He delves into the origins of the subprime
mortgage crisis.
Perhaps most important, The Ascent of

Money documents how a new financial
revolution is propelling the world’s biggest
countries, India and China, from poverty to
wealth in the space of a single
generation—an economic transformation
unprecedented in human history.
Yet the central lesson of the financial

history is that sooner or later every bubble
bursts—sooner or later the bearish sellers
outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or
later greed flips into fear. And that’s why,
whether you’re scraping by or rolling in it,
there’s never been a better time to
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the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the Los
Angeles Times Book PrizeOn a desert
island in the heart of the Galapagos
archipelago, where Darwin received his
first inklings of the theory of evolution, two
scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant,
have spent twenty years proving that
Darwin did not know the strength of his
own theory. For among the finches of
Daphne Major, natural selection is neither
rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour,
and we can watch.In this dramatic story of
groundbreaking scientific research,
Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists
as they watch Darwin's finches and come
up with a new understanding of life itself.
The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly
written and compelling masterpiece of
theory and explication in the tradition of
The Beak of The Finch Jonathan Weiner Stephen Jay Gould.With a new preface. http://amzn.to/1JLKDzH
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Source http://amzn.to/1K0qGUJ In 1980,
the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon
challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich
to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of
five metals captured the public's
imagination as a test of coming prosperity
or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark
book The Population Bomb, predicted that
rising populations would cause
overconsumption, resource scarcity and
famine - with apocalyptic consequences for
humanity. Simon optimistically countered
that human welfare would flourish thanks
to flexible markets, technological change,
and our collective ingenuity. Simon and
Ehrlich's debate reflected a deepening
national conflict over the future of the
planet. The Bet weaves the two men's lives
and ideas together with the era's partisan
political clashes over the environment and
the role of government. In a lively narrative
leading from the dawning
environmentalism of the 1960s through the
pivotal presidential contest between Jimmy
Carter and Ronald Reagan and on into the
1990s, Paul Sabin shows how the fight
between Ehrlich and Simon - between
environmental fears and free-market
confidence - helped create the gulf
separating environmentalists and their
critics today. Drawing insights from both
sides, Sabin argues for using social
values, rather than economic or biological
absolutes, to guide society's crucial
choices relating to climate change, the
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Source http://amzn.to/1UBV3qu The real
story of the crash began in bizarre feeder
markets where the sun doesn't shine and
the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread:
the bond and real estate derivative
markets where geeks invent impenetrable
securities to profit from the misery of
lower--and middle--class Americans who
can't pay their debts. The smart people
who understood what was or might be
happening were paralyzed by hope and
fear; in any case, they weren't talking.
Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-
driven narrative brimming with indignation
and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1
bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of
unlikely--really unlikely--heroes, Lewis
fashions a story as compelling and unusual
as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving
yet again that he is the finest and funniest
chronicler of our time. The #1 New York
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried
fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark
to Houston. From that modest beginning,
container shipping developed into a huge
industry that made the boom in global
trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic
story of the container's creation, the
decade of struggle before it was widely
adopted, and the sweeping economic
consequences of the sharp fall in
transportation costs that containerization
brought about.
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the

first container voyage, this is the first
comprehensive history of the shipping
container. It recounts how the drive and
imagination of an iconoclastic
entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned
containerization from an impractical idea
into a massive industry that slashed the
cost of transporting goods around the
world and made the boom in global trade
possible.
But the container didn't just happen. Its

adoption required huge sums of money,
both from private investors and from ports
that aspired to be on the leading edge of a
new technology. It required years of high-
stakes bargaining with two of the titans of
organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy
Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations
on standards that made it possible for
almost any container to travel on any truck
or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's
success in supplying U.S. forces in
Vietnam to persuade the world of the
container's potential.
Drawing on previously neglected sources,

economist Marc Levinson shows how the
container transformed economic
geography, devastating traditional ports
such as New York and London and fueling
the growth of previously obscure ones,
such as Oakland. By making shipping so
cheap that industry could locate factories
far from its customers, the container paved
the way for Asia to become the world's
workshop and brought consumers a
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Things are finally looking up for defense
attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of
wrong turns, Haller is back in the
courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry
Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his
biggest case yet: the defense of Walter
Elliott, a prominent studio executive
accused of murdering his wife and her
lover. But as Haller prepares for the case
that could launch him into the big time, he
learns that Vincent's killer may be coming
for him next.
Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find

Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using
Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and
the stakes rise, these two loners realize
their only choice is to work together.
Bringing together Michael Connelly's two

most popular characters, The Brass
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation
on faith, meaning and morality, The
Brothers Karamazov is translated with an
introduction and notes by David McDuff in
Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner
Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives
of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya,
the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his
father immediately places him under
suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the
intellectual, whose mental tortures drive
him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha,
who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the
shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother
Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation
and trial reveal the true identity of the
murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece
evokes a world where the lines between
innocence and corruption, good and evil,
blur and everyone's faith in humanity is
tested. This powerful translation of The
Brothers Karamazov features and
introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's
recurrent themes of guilt and salvation,
with a new chronology and further reading.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-
1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54
he lived in a convict prison, and in later
years his passion for gambling led him
deeply into debt. His other works available
in Penguin Classics include Crime &
Punishment, The Idiot and Demons. If you
enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov you
might like Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, also
available in Penguin Classics. 'There is no
writer who better demonstrates the
contradictions and fluctuations of the
creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and
nowhere more astonishingly than in The
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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s
last and greatest novel, published just
before his death in 1881, chronicles the
bitter love-hate struggle between the
outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three
very different sons. It is above all the story
of a murder, told with hair-raising
intellectual clarity and a feeling for the
human condition unsurpassed in world
literature.
Dostoevsky’s towering reputation as one of

the handful of thinkers who forged the
modern sensibility has sometimes
obscured the purely novelistic virtues–
brilliant characterizations, flair for
suspense and melodrama, instinctive
theatricality–that made his work so
immensely popular in nineteenth-century
Russia.
This award-winning translation by Richard

Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky–the
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Best Books of the Year as chosen by The
New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Economist, Time, USA TODAY,
Christian Science Monitor, and more. “A
tale so gripping that one questions the
need for fiction when real life is so plump
with drama and intrigue” (Associated
Press).Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully
Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first
decade of the Progressive era, that
tumultuous time when the nation was
coming unseamed and reform was in the
air. The story is told through the intense
friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and
William Howard Taft—a close relationship
that strengthens both men before it
ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a
brutal fight for the presidential nomination
that divides their wives, their children, and
their closest friends, while crippling the
progressive wing of the Republican Party,
causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be
elected, and changing the country’s
history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of
the muckraking press, which arouses the
spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push
the government to shed its laissez-faire
attitude toward robber barons, corrupt
politicians, and corporate exploiters of our
natural resources. The muckrakers are
portrayed through the greatest group of
journalists ever assembled at one
magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard
Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen
White—teamed under the mercurial genius
of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s
narrative is founded upon a wealth of
primary materials. The correspondence of
more than four hundred letters between
Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early
thirties and ends only months before
Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and
Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers
wrote hundreds of letters to one another,
kept journals, and wrote their memoirs.
The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who
served as a personal aide to both
Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate
view of both men. The Bully Pulpit, like
Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil
War and World War II, exquisitely
demonstrates her distinctive ability to
combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It
is a major work of history—an examination
of leadership in a rare moment of activism
and reform that brought the country closer
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Natan Sharansky believes that the truest
expression of democracy is the ability to
stand in the middle of a town square and
express one's views without fear of
imprisonment. He should know. A dissident
in the USSR, Sharansky was jailed for nine
years for challenging Soviet policies.
During that time he reinforced his moral
conviction that democracy is essential to
both protecting human rights and
maintaining global peace and security.
Sharansky was catapulted onto the Israeli
political stage in 1996. In the last eight
years, he has served as a minister in four
different Israeli cabinets, including a stint
as Deputy Prime Minister, playing a key
role in government decision making from
the peace negotiations at Wye to the war
against Palestinian terror. In his views, he
has been as consistent as he has been
stubborn: Tyranny, whether in the Soviet
Union or the Middle East, must always be
made to bow before democracy.
Drawing on a lifetime of experience of

democracy and its absence, Sharansky
believes that only democracy can
safeguard the well-being of societies. For
Sharansky, when it comes to democracy,
politics is not a matter of left and right, but
right and wrong.
This is a passionately argued book from a

man who carries supreme moral authority
to make the case he does here: that the
spread of democracy everywhere is not
only possible, but also essential to the
survival of our civilization. His argument is
sure to stir controversy on all sides; this is
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Source http://amzn.to/1FsqNYf In the early
1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo
boards a ship bound for England. At
mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”
—as far from the Captain’s Table as can
be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant”
adults and two other boys, Cassius and
Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian
Ocean, the boys tumble from one
adventure to another, bursting all over the
place like freed mercury. But there are
other diversions as well: they are first
exposed to the magical worlds of jazz,
women, and literature by their eccentric
fellow travelers, and together they spy on a
shackled prisoner, his crime and fate a
galvanizing mystery that will haunt them
forever. By turns poignant and electrifying,
The Cat’s Table is a spellbinding story
about the magical, often forbidden,
discoveries of childhood, and a lifelong
journey that begins unexpectedly with a
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Source http://amzn.to/1FsqP2p Humans
have become much taller and heavier, and
experience healthier and longer lives than
ever before in human history. However it is
only recently that historians, economists,
human biologists and demographers have
linked the changing size, shape and
capability of the human body to economic
and demographic change. This fascinating
and groundbreaking book presents an
accessible introduction to the field of
anthropometric history, surveying the
causes and consequences of changes in
health and mortality, diet and the disease
environment in Europe and the United
States since 1700. It examines how we
define and measure health and nutrition as
well as key issues such as whether
increased longevity contributes to greater
productivity or, instead, imposes burdens
on society through the higher costs of
healthcare and pensions. The result is a
major contribution to economic and social
history with important implications for
today's developing world and the health
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Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-
loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of
adults are still obese and children are
being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes,
typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming
rate. If we’re obsessed with being thin
more so than ever before, why are
Americans stricken with heart disease as
much as we were 30 years ago?
In The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell

details the connection between nutrition
and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
The report also examines the source of
nutritional confusion produced by powerful
lobbies, government entities, and
opportunistic scientists. The New York
Times has recognized the study as the
“Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most
comprehensive large study ever
undertaken of the relationship between diet
and the risk of developing disease.”
The China Study is not a diet book. Dr.

The China Study: The Most Campbell cuts through the haze of
Comprehensive Study of misinformation and delivers an insightful
Nutrition Ever Conducted And message to anyone living with cancer,
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Source http://amzn.to/1VIizVd The forty-
percent drop in crime that occurred across
the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely
an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling
is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen
years in New York City. Twice as long and
twice as large, it is the largest crime
decline on record. In The City That
Became Safe, Franklin E. Zimring seeks
out the New York difference through a
comprehensive investigation into the city's
falling crime rates. The usual
understanding is that aggressive police
created a zero-tolerance law enforcement
regime that drove crime rates down. Is this
political sound bite true-are the official
statistics generated by the police
accurate? Though zero-tolerance policing
and quality-of-life were never a consistent
part of the Nypd's strategy, Zimring shows
the numbers are correct and argues that
some combination of more cops, new
tactics, and new management can take
some credit for the decline. That the police
can make a difference at all in preventing
crime overturns decades of conventional
wisdom from criminologists, but Zimring
also points out what most experts have
missed: the New York experience
challenges the basic assumptions driving
American crime- and drug-control policies.
New York has shown that crime rates can
be greatly reduced without increasing
prison populations. New York teaches that
targeted harm reduction strategies can
drastically cut down on drug related
violence even if illegal drug use remains
high. And New York has proven that
epidemic levels of violent crime are not
hard-wired into the populations or cultures
of urban America. This careful and
penetrating analysis of how the nation's
largest city became safe rewrites the
playbook on crime and its control for all big
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The classic study of post-Cold War
international relations, more relevant than
ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new
foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Since its initial publication, The Clash of

Civilizations and the Remaking of World
Order has become a classic work of
international relations and one of the most
influential books ever written about foreign
affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis
of the forces driving global politics, it is as
indispensable to our understanding of
American foreign policy today as the day it
was published. As former National Security
Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his
new foreword to the book, it “has earned a
place on the shelf of only about a dozen or
so truly enduring works that provide the
quintessential insights necessary for a
broad understanding of world affairs in our
time.”
Samuel Huntington explains how clashes

between civilizations are the greatest
threat to world peace but also how an
international order based on civilizations is
the best safeguard against war. Events
since the publication of the book have
proved the wisdom of that analysis. The
9/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan have demonstrated the threat
of civilizations but have also shown how
vital international cross-civilization
cooperation is to restoring peace. As
ideological distinctions among nations
have been replaced by cultural differences,
world politics has been reconfigured.
Across the globe, new conflicts—and new
cooperation—have replaced the old order
of the Cold War era.
The Clash of Civilizations and the

Remaking of World Order explains how the
population explosion in Muslim countries
and the economic rise of East Asia are
changing global politics. These
developments challenge Western
dominance, promote opposition to
supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and
intensify intercivilization conflict over such
issues as nuclear proliferation,
immigration, human rights, and
democracy. The Muslim population surge
has led to many small wars throughout
Eurasia, and the rise of China could lead to
a global war of civilizations. Huntington
offers a strategy for the West to preserve
its unique culture and emphasizes the
need for people everywhere to learn to
coexist in a complex, multipolar,
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Recommended Reading by Warren Buffet
in his March 2013 Letter to Shareholders
How speculation has come to dominate
investment a hard-hitting look from the
creator of the first index fund. Over the
course of his sixty-year career in the
mutual fund industry, Vanguard Group
founder John C. Bogle has witnessed a
massive shift in the culture of the financial
sector. The prudent, value-adding culture
of long-term investment has been crowded
out by an aggressive, value-destroying
culture of short-term speculation. Mr. Bogle
has not been merely an eye-witness to
these changes, but one of the financial
sector s most active participants. In The
Clash of the Cultures, he urges a return to
the common sense principles of long-term
investing. Provocative and refreshingly
candid, this book discusses Mr. Bogle's
views on the changing culture in the
mutual fund industry, how speculation has
invaded our national retirement system,
the failure of our institutional money
managers to effectively participate in
corporate governance, and the need for a
federal standard of fiduciary duty. Mr.
Bogle recounts the history of the index
mutual fund, how he created it, and how
exchange-traded index funds have altered
its original concept of long-term investing.
He also presents a first-hand history of
Wellington Fund, a real-world case study
on the success of investment and the
failure of speculation. The book concludes
with ten simple rules that will help investors
meet their financial goals. Here, he
presents a common sense strategy that
"may not be the best strategy ever
devised. But the number of strategies that
are worse is infinite." The Clash of the
Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation
completes the trilogy of best-selling books,
beginning with Bogle on Investing: The
First 50 Years (2001) and Don't Count on
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A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer
Prize-winning Collected Poems, edited and
with an introduction by Ted Hughes http:
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The Complete Story of Civilization by Will
Durant represents the most
comprehensive attempt in our times to
embrace the vast panorama of man’s
history and culture. This eleven volume set
includes: Volume One: Our Oriental
Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece;
Volume Three: Caesar and Christ; Volume
Four: The Age of Faith; Volume Five: The
Renaissance; Volume Six: The
Reformation; Volume Seven: The Age of
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classic work, one of the greatest
mathematicians of the twentieth century
explores the analogies between computing
machines and the living human brain. John
von Neumann, whose many contributions
to science, mathematics, and engineering
include the basic organizational framework
at the heart of today's computers,
concludes that the brain operates both
digitally and analogically, but also has its
own peculiar statistical language.In his
foreword to this new edition, Ray Kurzweil,
a futurist famous in part for his own
reflections on the relationship between
technology and intelligence, places von
Neumann’s work in a historical context and
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Packaged, filtered, controlled
conversations are out. Open, two-way,
authentic communications with your
customers and employees are in. We’re
entering a new age of corporate
communications, and blogs are a key
enabler of a better way of talking with
customers, employees, the media, and
other key constituencies. In The
Corporate Blogging Book Debbie Weil
provides a clear-eyed look at blogging as
a marketing communications strategy-what
works, what doesn’t, and why creating and
maintaining a good blog is worth the effort.
Weil demystifies corporate blogging by
stripping away the technical jargon and
showing you exactly what your customer
needs from your blog. She urges
managers and executives to confront their
fear of blogging. She explains how to
avoid legal pitfalls, who should be doing
the blogging, and how to keep readers
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After almost fifty years as a wife and
mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have
some fun. Unfortunately, her husband,
Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's
disease, and their children have long since
flown the family nest to the catastrophes of
their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-
stable portfolio manager and family man, is
trying to convince his wife and himself,
despite clear signs to the contrary, that he
is not clinically depressed. The middle
child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure
academic job and is failing spectacularly at
his new line of work. And Denise, the
youngest, has escaped a disastrous
marriage only to pour her youth and beauty
down the drain of an affair with a married
man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for
some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has
set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing
her family together for one last Christmas
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda
Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening,
and beautifully written memoir—a love
story of two unusual people, their complex
marriage and deep devotion, and finally,
Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.
When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda

Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating,
yet somehow irresistible Terence Bryan
Foley while on assignment in China, the
last thing she expects is to marry him.
They are so different—classic and
bohemian, bow ties and batik, quirky and
sensible. But Terence is persistent. “You
are going to be somebody,” he tells her.
“You’re going to need somebody to take
care of you.” Though initially as combative
as their courtship, their marriage brings
with it stormy passion, deep love and
respect, two beloved children, and a life
together over two decades. Then comes
illness, and the fight to win a longer life for
Terence.
The Cost of Hope chronicles the

extraordinary measures Amanda and
Terence take to preserve not only Terence’
s life but also the life of their family. After
his death, Bennett uses her skills as a
veteran investigative reporter to determine
the cost of their mission of hope. What she
discovers raises important questions many
people face, and vital issues about the
intricacies of America’s healthcare system.
Rich in humor, insight, and candor, The

Cost of Hope is an unforgettable memoir,
an inspiring personal story that sheds light
on one of the most important turning points
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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and
the culmination of a life's work, The Denial
of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and
impassioned answer to the "why" of human
existence. In bold contrast to the
predominant Freudian school of thought,
Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie --
man's refusal to acknowledge his own
mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light
on the nature of humanity and issues a call
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rogue donor, as some media pundits
suggest? Or is China helping the
developing world pave a pathway out of
poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last
few years, China's aid program has leapt
out of the shadows. Media reports about
huge aid packages, support for pariah
regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and
the ruthless exploitation of workers and
natural resources in some of the poorest
countries in the world sparked fierce
debates. These debates, however, took
place with very few hard facts. China's
tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled
rumors and speculation, making it difficult
to gauge the risks and opportunities
provided by China's growing embrace. This
well-timed book, by one of the world's
leading experts, provides the first
comprehensive account of China's aid and
economic cooperation overseas. Deborah
Brautigam tackles the myths and realities,
explaining what the Chinese are doing,
how they do it, how much aid they give,
and how it all fits into their "going global"
strategy. Drawing on three decades of
experience in China and Africa, and
hundreds of interviews in Africa, China,
Europe and the U.S., Brautigam shines
new light on a topic of great interest.China
has ended poverty for hundreds of millions
of its own citizens. Will Chinese
engagement benefit Africa? Using hard
data and a series of vivid stories ranging
across agriculture, industry, natural
resources, and governance, Brautigam's
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In the tradition of The Art of Living and
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations—a practical
book of timeless advice from one of the
most powerful individuals in history—
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Essayist Matthew Arnold described the

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Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The

Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming
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experience of her earlier years. In a red
one she records her political life, her
disillusionment with communism. In a
yellow one she writes a novel in which the
heroine relives part of her own experience.
And in a blue one she keeps a personal
diary. Finally, in love with an American
writer and threatened with insanity, Anna
resolves to bring the threads of all four
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Lessing's best-known and most influential
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"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale."―
Philadelphia Inquirer
They were American and British air force
officers in a German prison camp. With
only their bare hands and the crudest of
homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged
passports, faked weapons, and tailored
German uniforms and civilian clothes.
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The electrical grid goes everywhere -- it's
the largest and most complex machine
ever made. Yet the system is built in such
a way that the bigger it gets, the more
inevitable its collapse.
Named the greatest engineering

achievement of the 20th century by the
National Academy of Engineering, the
electrical grid is the largest industrial
investment in the history of humankind. It
reaches into your home, snakes its way to
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lamp next to your pillow. At times, it almost
seems alive, like some enormous
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cities and the most remote rural areas.
Constructed of intricately interdependent

components, the grid operates on a rapidly
shrinking margin for error. Things can --
and do -- go wrong in this system, no
matter how many preventive steps we
take. Just look at the colossal 2003
blackout, when 50 million Americans lost
power due to a simple error at a power
plant in Ohio; or the one a month later,
which blacked out 57 million Italians. And
these two combined don't even compare to
the 2001 outage in India, which affected
226 million people.
The Grid is the first history of the electrical

grid intended for general readers, and it
comes at a time when we badly need such
a guide. As we get more and more
dependent on electricity to perform even
the most mundane daily tasks, the grid's
inevitable shortcomings will take a toll on
populations around the globe. At a moment
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With two new chapters and a new preface,
the award-winning book The Halo Effect
continues to unmask the delusions found
in the corporate world and provides a
sharp understanding of what drives
business success and failure.
Too many of today’s most prominent

management gurus make steel-clad
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research, promising to reveal the secrets
of why one company fails and another
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solemn-faced hype and a wide range of
popular business delusions, statistical and
otherwise, these self-styled experts cloud
our ability to think critically about the
nature of success.
Central among these delusions is the Halo

Effect—the tendency to focus on the high
financial performance of a successful
company and then spread its golden glow
to all its attributes—clear strategy, strong
values, brilliant leadership, and
outstanding execution. But should the
same company’s sales head south, the
very same attributes are universally
derided—suddenly the strategy was
wrong, the culture was complacent, and
the leader became arrogant.
The Halo Effect not only identifies these

delusions that keep us from understanding
business performance, but also suggests a
more accurate way to think about leading a
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face.
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Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines two
genres-philosophical wisdom and scientific
research-delighting the reader with
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controlling ourselves and sticking to our
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Featuring George Smiley, The Honourable
Schoolboy is the second installment in the
renowned Karla Trilogy, the follow-up to
the New York Times bestselling Tinker,
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Tom Hardy.
As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy

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neither can afford to lose.
The mole has been eliminated, but the

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In the ruins of a place once known as
North America lies the nation of Panem, a
shining Capitol surrounded by twelve
outlying districts. Long ago the districts
waged war on the Capitol and were
defeated. As part of the surrender terms,
each district agreed to send one boy and
one girl to appear in an annual televised
event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight
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mother and younger sister, regards it as a
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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE
YEAR BY Bloomberg • Forbes • The
SpectatorRecipient of Foreign Policy's
2013 Albie AwardIn 2006, Jeffrey Sachs—
celebrated economist, special advisor to
the Secretary General of the United
Nations, and author of the influential
bestseller The End of Poverty— launched
the Millennium Villages Project, a daring,
$120-million experiment designed to test
his theories about ending poverty. For six
years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his
trips to Africa, listened in on conversations
with heads-of-state and humanitarian
organizations, and immersed herself in the
lives of people in two remote African
villages. Munk came to understand the
real-life issues that challenge Sachs’s
formula for ending global poverty. The
Idealist is the profound and moving story of
what happens when the abstract theories
of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities
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This classic of Christian devotional
literature has brought understanding and
comfort to millions for centuries. Both
Protestants and Catholics — as well as
mystics and historians of religious thought
— have studied these meditations on the
life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them
a path to prayer and spiritual guidance.
Written in a candid and conversational
style, The Imitation of Christ discusses
liberation from worldly inclinations,
recollection as a preparation for prayer, the
consolations of prayer, and the place of
eucharistic communion in a devout life.
With its simple, readable text, this
translation will appeal to new readers as
well as to those already familiar with this
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In this classic, the world's expert on
language and mind lucidly explains
everything you always wanted to know
about language: how it works, how children
learn it, how it changes, how the brain
computes it, and how it evolved. With deft
use of examples of humor and wordplay,
Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge
of language into a compelling story:
language is a human instinct, wired into
our brains by evolution. The Language
Instinct received the William James Book
Prize from the American Psychological
Association and the Public Interest Award
from the Linguistics Society of America.
This edition includes an update on
advances in the science of language since
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Investing is all about common sense.
Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and
holding it for the long term is a winner's
game. Trying to beat the stock market is
theoretically a zero-sum game (for every
winner, there must be a loser), but after the
substantial costs of investing are deducted,
it becomes a loser's game. Common sense
tells us-and history confirms-that the
simplest and most efficient investment
strategy is to buy and hold all of the
nation's publicly held businesses at very
low cost. The classic index fund that owns
this market portfolio is the only investment
that guarantees you with your fair share of
stock market returns. To learn how to
make index investing work for you, there's
no better mentor than legendary mutual
fund industry veteran John C. Bogle. Over
the course of his long career, Bogle-
founder of the Vanguard Group and
creator of the world's first index mutual
fund-has relied primarily on index investing
to help Vanguard's clients build substantial
wealth. Now, with The Little Book of
Common Sense Investing, he wants to
help you do the same. Filled with in-depth
insights and practical advice, The Little
Book of Common Sense Investing will
show you how to incorporate this proven
investment strategy into your portfolio. It
will also change the very way you think
about investing. Successful investing is not
easy. (It requires discipline and patience.)
But it is simple. For it's all about common
sense. With The Little Book of Common
Sense Investing as your guide, you'll
discover how to make investing a winner's
game:* Why business reality-dividend
yields and earnings growth-is more
important than market expectations* How
to overcome the powerful impact of
investment costs, taxes, and inflation* How
the magic of compounding returns is
overwhelmed by the tyranny of
compounding costs* What expert investors
and brilliant academics-from Warren
Buffett and Benjamin Graham to Paul
Samuelson and Burton Malkiel-have to say
about index investing* And much more
You'll also find warnings about investment
fads and fashions, including the recent
stampede into exchange traded funds and
the rise of indexing gimmickry. The real
formula for investment success is to own
the entire market, while significantly
minimizing the costs of financial
intermediation. That's what index investing
is all about. And that's what this book is all
about. JOHN C. BOGLE is founder of the
Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of its
Bogle Financial Markets Research Center.
He created Vanguard in 1974 and served
as chairman and chief executive officer
until 1996 and senior chairman until 2000.
In 1999, Fortune magazine named Mr.
Bogle as one of the four "Investment
Giants" of the twentieth century; in 2004,
Time named him one of the world's 100
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Institutional Investor presented him with its
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find
them, One Ring to bring them all and in the
darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were

crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron,
the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling
it with his own power so that he could rule
all others. But the One Ring was taken
from him, and though he sought it
throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to
him. After many ages it fell by chance into
the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower

of Mordor, his power spread far and wide.
Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to
him, but always he searched for the One
Ring that would complete his dominion.
When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first

birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to
his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring
and a perilous quest: to journey across
Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the
Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting
it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great

quest undertaken by Frodo and the
Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the
Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and
Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf;
Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious
stranger called Strider.
This new edition includes the fiftieth-

anniversary fully corrected text setting and,
for the first time, an extensive new index.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved

throughout the world as the creator of The
Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The
Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-
Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke
College, and a fellow of Merton College
until his retirement in 1959. His chief
interest was the linguistic aspects of the
early English written tradition, but while he
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Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and
the world’s most celebrated evolutionary
biologist, has spent his career elucidating
the many wonders of science. Here, he
takes a broader approach and uses his
unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate
the ways in which the world really works.
Filled with clever thought experiments and
jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality
explains a stunningly wide range of natural
phenomena: How old is the universe? Why
do the continents look like disconnected
pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? What causes
tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of
plants and animals? Who was the first
man, or woman? Starting with the magical,
mythical explanations for the wonders of
nature, Dawkins reveals the exhilarating
scientific truths behind these occurrences.
This is a page-turning detective story that
not only mines all the sciences for its clues
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Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of
people―and kills one to three million―
each year. Despite massive efforts to
eradicate the disease, it remains a major
public health problem in poorer tropical
regions. But malaria has not always been
concentrated in tropical areas. How did
other regions control malaria and why does
the disease still flourish in some parts of
the globe?
From Russia to Bengal to Palm Beach,

Randall Packard’s far-ranging narrative
traces the natural and social forces that
help malaria spread and make it deadly.
He finds that war, land development,
crumbling health systems, and
globalization―coupled with climate change
and changes in the distribution and flow of
water―create conditions in which malaria's
carrier mosquitoes thrive. The combination
of these forces, Packard contends, makes
the tropical regions today a perfect home
for the disease.
Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-

opening, this short history of malaria
The Making of a Tropical concludes with policy recommendations for
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Dr. Norman Borlaug, one of the world's
greatest heroes, is the most highly-
decorated individual of our time. He is
credited with saving over a billion prople
from starvation. Dr. Borlaug is only one of
five people in history to win the Nobel
Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of
Freedom and the Congressional Gold
Medal. In addition, Dr. Borlaug received
the Padma Vibhushan, the higest civilian
award the government of India can present
to a non-citizen. The Man Who Fed the
World has won three nation book of the
year awards: USA Booknews best
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Bureau for Agriculture Best Book of the
Year award, and Florida Publishers
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The first collection ever of the writings and
insights of the original creators of the
atomic bomb, along with pieces by the
most important historians and interpreters
of the subject, is now in paperback.
Born out of a small research program

begun in 1939, the Manhattan Project
eventually employed more than 130,000
people, including our foremost scientists
and thinkers, and cost nearly $2 billion?
and it was operated under a shroud of
absolute secrecy. This groundbreaking
collection of documents, essays, articles,
and excerpts from histories, biographies,
plays, novels, letters, and the oral histories
of key eyewitnesses is the freshest, most
exhaustive exploration yet of the topic.
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Set in Moscow of the 1920's, this satirical
novel recounts the dealings a writer and
his mistress have with Satan. The Master
and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail
Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940
but unpublished in book form until 1967. It
is woven around a visit by the Devil to the
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In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen
master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle
anecdotes and practical exercise as a
means of learning the skills of
mindfulness--being awake and fully aware.
From washing the dishes to answering the
phone to peeling an orange, he reminds us
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An that each moment holds within it an
Introduction to the Practice of opportunity to work toward greater self-
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As a reviewer at Barron’s noted in 2011,
Oak Tree Capital Chairman Howard Marks
planned to wait until he retired to write this
book, but Mr. Buffett, a fan of Marks’
famous client memos, offered to contribute
a dust-jacket blurb if he would speed up
his publishing timetable. With that
inducement, Mr. Marks produced a tome
that explains the keys to successful
The Most Important Thing: investing and the pitfalls that can destroy
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Hardly a week passes without some high-
profile court case that features intellectual
property at its center. But how did the
belief that one could own an idea come
about? And how did that belief change the
way humankind lives and works?
William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea,

seeks to answer these questions and more
with The Most Powerful Idea in the World.
A lively and passionate study of the
engineering and scientific breakthroughs
that led to the steam engine, this book
argues that the very notion of intellectual
property drove not only the invention of the
steam engine but also the entire Industrial
Revolution: history’s first sustained era of
economic improvement. To do so, Rosen
conjures up an eccentric cast of
characters, including the legal
philosophers who enabled most the
inventive society in millennia, and the
scientists and inventors—Thomas
Newcomen, Robert Boyle, and James
Watt—who helped to create and perfect
the steam engine over the centuries. With
wit and wide-ranging curiosity, Rosen
explores the power of creativity, capital,
and collaboration in the brilliant
engineering of the steam engine and how
this power source, which fueled factories,
ships, and railroads, changed human
history.
Deeply informative and never dull, Rosen's

account of one of the most important
inventions made by humans is a rollicking
ride through history, with careful
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The Muqaddimah, also known as the
Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or Ibn
Khaldun's Prolegomena, is a book written
by the North African Muslim Arab historian
Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an
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The classic text on how to manage
complex software projects and, by
extension, any other large and complicated
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Once in a great while a book comes along
that changes the way we see the world
and helps to fuel a nationwide social
movement. The New Jim Crow is such a
book. Praised by Harvard Law professor
Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book
directly challenges the notion that the
election of Barack Obama signals a new
era of colorblindness. With dazzling
candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander
argues that "we have not ended racial
caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it." By targeting black men
through the War on Drugs and decimating
communities of color, the U.S. criminal
justice system functions as a contemporary
system of racial control—relegating
millions to a permanent second-class
status—even as it formally adheres to the
principle of colorblindness. In the words of
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and
CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to
action."
Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize–winning

historian David Levering Lewis,
"invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive"
by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by
the Miami Herald, this updated and revised
paperback edition of The New Jim Crow,
now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a
must-read for all people of conscience.
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This new edition of J. E. Gordon's classic
introduction to the properties of materials
used in engineering answers some
fundamental and fascinating questions
about how the material world around us
functions. In particular, Gordon focuses on
so-called strong materials, such as metals,
wood, ceramics, glass, and bone. For each
material in question, Gordon explains the
unique physical and chemical basis for its
inherent structural qualities in irrepressibly
fresh and simple terms. He also shows
how an in-depth understanding of these
materials' intrinsic strengths (and
weaknesses) guides our engineering
choices, allowing us to build the structures
that support our modern society. Philip
Ball's new introduction describes Gordon's
career and the impact of his innovations in
materials research, while also discussing
how the field has evolved since Gordon
wrote this enduring example of first-rate
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For more than thirty years, The Only
Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need has
been a favorite finance guide, earning the
allegiance of more than a million readers
across the United States. Now even more
indispensable, this completely revised and
updated edition will show readers how to
use money to their best advantage in the
wake of epochal change on Wall Street, no
matter how much or how little they may
have.
Using concise, witty, and truly

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Tobias delivers sensible advice and useful
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Do you want to lose fat and stay young, all
while avoiding cancer, diabetes, heart
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The National Book Award–winning epic
chronicle of the creation of the Panama
Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and
brilliant engineering feat that was filled with
both tragedy and triumph, told by master
historian David McCullough.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of

Truman, here is the national bestselling
epic chronicle of the creation of the
Panama Canal. In The Path Between the
Seas, acclaimed historian David
McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of
the sweeping human undertaking that led
to the creation of this grand enterprise.
The Path Between the Seas tells the story

of the men and women who fought against
all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of
constructing an aquatic passageway
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It
is a story of astonishing engineering feats,
tremendous medical accomplishments,
political power plays, heroic successes,
and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable
gift for writing lucid, lively exposition,
McCullough weaves the many strands of
the momentous event into a
comprehensive and captivating tale.
Winner of the National Book Award for

history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the
Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the
Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of
the year on international affairs), The Path
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When Bruno is invited to the lavish
birthday celebration of World War II flying
ace and national icon Marco “the Patriarch”
Desaix, it’s the fulfillment of a boyhood
dream. But when the party ends in the
death of Gilbert, Marco’s longtime friend, it’
s another day on the job for the chef de
police. All signs point to a tragic accident,
but Bruno isn’t so sure. There is more to
the Desaix family’s lives and loyalties than
meets the eye. There is Victor, the
Patriarch’s son, Gilbert’s old comrade-in-
arms and sometime rival; Victor’s
seductive wife, Madeleine, whose roving
eye intrigues Bruno even more than her
fierce political ambitions; Yevgeny, another
son, an artist whose paintings seem to
hold keys to the past; and the Patriarch
himself, whose postwar Soviet ties may
have intersected all too closely with Gilbert’
s career in Cold War intelligence.
Bruno is diverted by a dangerous conflict

between a local animal rights activist and
outraged hunters—as well as meals to
cook, wine to share, and an ever more
complicated romantic situation. But as his
entanglement with the Desaix family grows
and his suspicions heighten, Bruno’s
inquiries into Gilbert’s life become a deadly
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The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic
society - has thrown up many great Game
Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh.
Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of
Games. Master of every board, computer
and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh
travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and
incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous
game...a game so complex, so like life
itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered,
Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the
challenge of his life - and very possibly his
death.
Praise for Iain M. Banks:
"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy

-- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these
things and more" -- NME
"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the

imagination which writes its own rules
simply for the pleasure of breaking them."
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Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was
greeted as groundbreaking when it
appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril
Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross
Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize.
Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier
builds upon his renowned work on
developing countries and the world's
poorest populations to confront the global
mismanagement of natural resources.
Proper stewardship of natural assets and

liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency:
natural resources have the potential either
to transform the poorest countries or to
tear them apart, while the carbon
emissions and agricultural follies of the
developed world could further impoverish
them. The Plundered Planet charts a
course between unchecked profiteering on
the one hand and environmental
romanticism on the other to offer realistic
and sustainable solutions to dauntingly
complex issues.
Grounded in a belief in the power of

informed citizens, Collier proposes a series
of international standards that would help
poor countries rich in natural assets better
manage those resources, policy changes
that would raise world food supply, and a
clear-headed approach to climate change
that acknowledges the benefits of
industrialization while addressing the need
for alternatives to carbon trading.
Revealing how all of these forces
interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts
a way forward to avoid the
mismanagement of the natural world that
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“Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual
range and insights than any other public
thinker in the West.” ―Boston Sunday
Globe
In this international bestseller, Fareed
Zakaria describes "the rise of the rest"―
the political and economic ascendance of
countries such as China, India, Brazil,
Russia, South Africa, and Kenya. With his
customary lucidity, insight, and
imagination, Zakaria outlines the
contemporary diffusion of power, drawing
on lessons of history to help the United
States face the challenges―and
opportunities―of the post-American world.
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It's no wonder that The Power of Now has
sold over 2 million copies worldwide and
has been translated into over 30 foreign
languages. Much more than simple
principles and platitudes, the book takes
readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to
find their true and deepest self and reach
the ultimate in personal growth and
spirituality: the discovery of truth and light.
In the first chapter, Tolle introduces

readers to enlightenment and its natural
enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to
their role as a creator of pain and shows
them how to have a pain-free identity by
living fully in the present. The journey is
thrilling, and along the way, the author
shows how to connect to the indestructible
essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-
present One Life beyond the myriad forms
of life that are subject to birth and death."
Featuring a new preface by the author, this

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awareness of Being, liberated from Mind
and intensely in the Now, is there
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It's no wonder that The Power of Now has
sold over 2 million copies worldwide and
has been translated into over 30 foreign
languages. Much more than simple
principles and platitudes, the book takes
readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to
find their true and deepest self and reach
the ultimate in personal growth and
spirituality: the discovery of truth and light.
In the first chapter, Tolle introduces

readers to enlightenment and its natural
enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to
their role as a creator of pain and shows
them how to have a pain-free identity by
living fully in the present. The journey is
thrilling, and along the way, the author
shows how to connect to the indestructible
essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-
present One Life beyond the myriad forms
of life that are subject to birth and death."
Featuring a new preface by the author, this

paperback shows that only after regaining
awareness of Being, liberated from Mind
and intensely in the Now, is there
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As a young Florentine envoy to the courts
of France and the Italian principalities,
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able
to observe firsthand the lives of people
strongly united under one powerful ruler.
His fascination with that political rarity and
his intense desire to see the Medici family
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foundation for his "primer for princes." In
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used a rational approach to advise
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Once more the "unconventional" Peters
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A master storyteller as well as a leading
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"I never knew a man who had better
motives for all the trouble he caused,"
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Saigon, where the French Army struggles
against the Vietminh guerrillas.
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intervening are suspect, both to the police
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beautiful Vietnamese mistress.
Originally published in 1956 and twice

adapted to film, The Quiet American
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Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral
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The Remains of the Day is a profoundly
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Stevens embarks on a country drive,
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such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should
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The last lecture on leadership by the NFL's
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A New York Times Bestseller
A revolution is under way.
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FINALISTA major book about the future of
the world, blending intellectual and natural
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account of the mass extinction unfolding
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earth suddenly and dramatically
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predicted to be the most devastating
extinction event since the asteroid impact
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around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that
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beings have altered life on the planet in a
way no species has before. Interweaving
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In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin
Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last
agent is shot dead by East German
sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin
Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces
the prospect of retirement or worse—a
desk job—Control offers him a unique
opportunity for revenge. Assuming the
guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-
agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the
deputy director of the East German
Intelligence Service—with himself as the
bait. In the background is George Smiley,
ready to make the game play out just as
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A seminal text covering philosophy, history
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A collection of parables about computer
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dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten
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The New York Times bestseller and one of
the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In
the tradition of This Boy's Life and The
Liar's Club, a raucous, poignant,
luminously written memoir about a boy
striving to become a man, and his romance
with a bar.
J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a

voice. It was the voice of his father, a New
York City disc jockey who vanished before
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stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R.
would strain to hear in that plummy
baritone the secrets of masculinity and
identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his
world, his rock, he craved something more,
something faintly and hauntingly audible
only in The Voice.
At eight years old, suddenly unable to find

The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in
desperation to the bar on the corner,
where he found a rousing chorus of new
voices. The alphas along the bar--including
J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart
look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike;
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R. to the beach, to ballgames, and
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stirring example of his mother and the lurid
romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a
self somewhere in the center. But when it
was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar
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The Three Musketeers is a novel by
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it recounts the adventures of a young man
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travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of
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musketeers of the title; those being his
friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis,
inseparable friends who live by the motto
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before the French Revolution of 1848
violently established the second Republic.
The author's father, Thomas-Alexandre
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French revolutionary wars. Although
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the three musketeers as heroes, the novel
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Who we are, where we’ve been, and
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American dream
Now with a new Foreword by the author
“The best presentation of the challenges

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Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his

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reflections on how we can restore America’
s greatness.
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of generations past and of his South
Dakota upbringing, Brokaw weaves
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revitalize the promise of the American
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family, community, and civic engagement
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and ushered in the Civil Rights era,
Brokaw traces the exciting, unnerving
changes in modern life—in values,
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our society in the decades since the age of
thrift in which he was raised. In offering
ideas from Americans who are change
agents in their communities, Brokaw gives
us a nourishing vision of hopefulness in an
age of diminished expectations.
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of Haiti tells the truth about uncomfortable
matters—uncomfortable, that is, for the
structures of power and the doctrinal
framework that protects them from
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been happening in Haiti, and the US role in
its bitter fate.—Noam Chomsky, from the
introductionIn this third edition of the
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Why can’t we solve our problems
anymore? Why do threats such as the Gulf
oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism,
and global warming suddenly seem
unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds
of problems humans can solve?
Rebecca Costa confronts- and offers a

solution to-these questions in her highly
anticipated and game-changing book, The
Watchman’s Rattle.
Costa pulls headline for today’s news to

demonstrate how accelerating complexity
quickly outpaces that rate at which the
human brain can develop new capabilities.
With compelling evidenced based on
research in the rise and fall of Mayan,
Khmer, and Roman empires, Costa shows
how t ht tendency to find a quick solutions-
leads to frightening long term
consequence: Society’s ability to solve its
most challenging, intractable problems
becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and
collapse ensues.
A provocative new voice in the tradition of

thought leaders Thomas Friedman, Jared
Diamond and Malcolm Gladwell, Costa
reveals how we can reverse the downward
The Watchman's Rattle: spiral. Part history, part social science, part
Thinking Our Way Out of biology, The Watchman’s Rattle is sure to
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at-home wives old-fashioned and
outmoded (at best) or parasites (at worst)?
--Is daycare the natural habitat for babies
and toddlers? --Is family planning the only
responsible choice for married Christian
couples? --Are Christian children doomed
to rebel against their parents, and
ultimately abandon church? --Does the
Bible include examples of "working wives"?
--Can a lovely Christian home actually
affect the culture and the economy -- just
by being there? 25 years ago, The Way
Home was the first book to ask all these
questions -- and answer them. A bestseller
when it first came out, for decades The
Way Home has been a source of
inspiration and encouragement for married
Christian women. It shows how the life
plan set out in Titus 2:3-5 brings love and
creativity to home, church, and society,
and the deadly consequences to all three
when women reject it. We have a special
mission, and this book explains it step by
step. This 25th Anniversary Edition
preserves the original book's text, so you
can see for yourself how accurate its social
predictions were. You will also find a new
Preface and Afterthoughts dealing with
such topics as Home Business (what kind
NOT to start), TV and the Internet (the
latest research and some suggestions),
Fruitfulness (why "trusting God for your
family size" is not a "baby derby"), Modesty
(it's important, but it's not about skirt
lengths), and where the Patriarchy
movement has veered off-course (starting
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brings the Bible's message on family and
social roles to an entire new generation of
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"Ambitious.... The truth is that Fromkin's
outline is persuasively thought out and
presented."--The Washington Post Book
World
As the human race approaches the 21st

century, questions of our past trouble us as
much as those that concern our future.
How did we get here? Where--and how--
did Homo sapiens originate? How did we,
precariously bipedal, come to dominate the
animal kingdom, direct the flow of the
Euphrates, fly a rocket to the moon?
David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End

All Peace and finalist for both the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Critic Circle
Award, provides an arrestingly cogent
answer in The Way of the World. With
insight and sound scholarship, he reveals
how human culture has evolved according
to the principles of self-determination--from
the footsteps of the first hominids 3.5
million years ago to the efforts of
contemporary democracies' to establish a
global, lasting peace. Here is a world
history wherein early forms of Christianity
give way to rationalism, the tyranny of
kings crumbles to the merits of
representative government, and modern
science presents us with the master key to
the future. Refreshingly positive, David
Fromkin reminds us of the astounding
record of human achievement, and the
potential in each of us to improve the way
of our world.
"Mr. Fromkin recounts 'the greatest story

ever told' exceedingly well, aided by a
deep knowledge and an elegant prose
style."--The Wall Street Journal
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David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating
story of wealth and power throughout the
world: the creation of wealth, the paths of
winners and losers, the rise and fall of
nations. He studies history as a process,
attempting to understand how the world's
cultures lead to - or retard - economic and
military success and material achievement.
Countries of the West, Landes asserts,
prospered early through the interplay of a
vital, open society focused on work and
knowledge, which led to increased
productivity, the creation of new
technologies, and the pursuit of change.
Europe's key advantage lay in invention
and know-how, as applied in war,
transportation, generation of power, and
skill in metalwork. Even such now banal
inventions as eyeglasses and the clock
were, in their day, powerful levers that
tipped the balance of world economic
power. Today's new economic winners are
following much the same roads to power,
while the laggards have somehow failed to
duplicate this crucial formula for success.
The key to relieving much of the world's
poverty lies in understanding the lessons
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Representative of the exotic and erotic
east, enemy of Christianity, prophet of
hedonism, champion of free thinkers,
Omar Khayyam and his Ruba’iyyat have
been the stuff of legend for centuries.
Nourished by an admiration of Khayyam
that has been with him since childhood,
Aminrazavi’s comprehensive new
biography reintroduces the figure of
Khayyam, and his great achievements, to
the Western world. Blending a readable
and accessible narrative with scholarly
ambition and years of research,
Aminrazavi’s work covers not only
Khayyam’s well-known poetry, but also his
extraordinary life, his neglected
philosophical writings and the impact of his
work in the West. It features a variety of
supporting material, including original
translations and the full text of Fitzgerald’s
Rubaiyyat, and will prove an ideal
introduction not only for those who want to
know more about the poets inspired by
Rumi, but also for students on a variety of
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bestselling author of Collapse and Guns,
Germs and Steel surveys the history of
human societies to answer the question:
What can we learn from traditional
societies that can make the world a better
place for all of us?Most of us take for
granted the features of our modern society,
from air travel and telecommunications to
literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its
six million years of existence, human
society had none of these things. While the
gulf that divides us from our primitive
ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide,
we can glimpse much of our former
lifestyle in those largely traditional societies
still or recently in existence. Societies like
those of the New Guinea Highlanders
remind us that it was only yesterday—in
evolutionary time—when everything
changed and that we moderns still possess
bodies and social practices often better
adapted to traditional than to modern
conditions.The World Until Yesterday
provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of
the human past as it had been for millions
of years—a past that has mostly
vanished—and considers what the
differences between that past and our
present mean for our lives today.This is
Jared Diamond’s most personal book to
date, as he draws extensively from his
decades of field work in the Pacific islands,
as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian
Indians, Kalahari San people, and others.
Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional
societies—after all, we are shocked by
some of their practices—but he finds that
their solutions to universal human
problems such as child rearing, elder care,
dispute resolution, risk, and physical
fitness have much to teach us.
Provocative, enlightening, and
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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends
love and cruelty, and separates the big
people from the small of heart, without
ever losing sympathy for those
unfortunates who don’t know how to live
properly.” —Zadie Smith
One of the most important and enduring

books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes
Were Watching God brings to life a
Southern love story with the wit and pathos
found only in the writing of Zora Neale
Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty
years—due largely to initial audiences’
rejection of its strong black female
protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since
its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most
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history, rich and poor countries alike have
been lending, borrowing, crashing--and
recovering--their way through an
extraordinary range of financial crises.
Each time, the experts have chimed, "this
time is different"--claiming that the old rules
of valuation no longer apply and that the
new situation bears little similarity to past
disasters. With this breakthrough study,
leading economists Carmen Reinhart and
Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them
wrong. Covering sixty-six countries across
five continents, This Time Is Different
presents a comprehensive look at the
varieties of financial crises, and guides us
through eight astonishing centuries of
government defaults, banking panics, and
inflationary spikes--from medieval currency
debasements to today's subprime
catastrophe. Carmen Reinhart and
Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists
whose work has been influential in the
policy debate concerning the current
financial crisis, provocatively argue that
financial combustions are universal rites of
passage for emerging and established
market nations. The authors draw
important lessons from history to show us
how much--or how little--we have learned.
Using clear, sharp analysis and
comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff
document that financial fallouts occur in
clusters and strike with surprisingly
consistent frequency, duration, and
ferocity. They examine the patterns of
currency crashes, high and hyperinflation,
and government defaults on international
and domestic debts--as well as the cycles
in housing and equity prices, capital flows,
unemployment, and government revenues
around these crises. While countries do
weather their financial storms, Reinhart
and Rogoff prove that short memories
make it all too easy for crises to recur.
An important book that will affect policy
discussions for a long time to come, This
This Time is Different: Eight Time Is Different exposes centuries of
Centuries of Financial Folly Kenneth Rogoff financial missteps. http://amzn.to/1KVJXfphttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71u7QLtxWBL.jpg
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The man he knew as "Control" is dead,
and the young Turks who forced him out
now run the Circus. But George Smiley
isn't quite ready for retirement—especially
when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces
with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole
has penetrated the highest level of British
Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a
small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognizes the
hand of Karla—his Moscow Centre
nemesis—and sets a trap to catch the
traitor.
The Oscar-nominated feature film

adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is
directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right
One In) and features Gary Oldman as
Smiley, Academy Award winner Colin Firth
(The King's Speech), and Tom Hardy
(Inception).
With an introduction by the author. http:

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II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)
program was developed by the United
States military to bolster the size, strength,
and speed of the nation's strategic
weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s.
Each missile carried a single warhead—
the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid
fuel propellants, and was stored and
launched from hardened underground
silos. The missiles were deployed at
basing facilities in Arkansas, Arizona, and
Kansas and remained in active service for
over twenty years. Since military
deactivation in the early 1980s, the Titan II
has served as a reliable satellite launch
vehicle. This is the richly detailed story of
the Titan II missile and the men and
women who developed and operated the
system. David K. Stumpf uses a wide
range of sources, drawing upon interviews
with and memoirs by engineers and airmen
as well as recently declassified
government documents and other public
materials. Over 170 drawings and
photographs, most of which have never
been published, enhance the narrative.
The three major accidents of the program
are described in detail for the first time
using authoritative sources. Titan II will be
welcomed by librarians for its prodigious
reference detail, by technology history
professionals and laymen, and by the
many civilian and Air Force personnel who
were involved in the program—a deterrent
weapons system that proved to be
successful in defending America from
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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first
billionaire and the patriarch of America's
most famous dynasty--is an icon whose
true nature has eluded three generations
of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the
National Book Award-winning biographer
of the Morgan and Warburg banking
families, gives us a history of the mogul
"etched with uncommon objectivity and
literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced,
and psychologically insightful a portrait of
the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus
Reviews). Titan is the first full-length
biography based on unrestricted access to
Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of
papers. A landmark publication full of
startling revelations, the book will indelibly
alter our image of this most enigmatic
capitalist.
Born the son of a flamboyant,
bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious,
straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from
rustic origins to become the world's richest
man by creating America's most powerful
and feared monopoly, Standard Oil.
Branded "the Octopus" by legions of
muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed
nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in
America.
Rockefeller was likely the most
controversial businessman in our nation's
history. Critics charged that his empire was
built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale
collusion with the railroads, predatory
pricing, industrial espionage, and
wholesale bribery of political officials. The
titan spent more than thirty years dodging
investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and
his trustbusters embarked on a marathon
crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay.
While providing abundant new
evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds,
Chernow discards the stereotype of the
cold-blooded monster to sketch an
unforgettably human portrait of a quirky,
eccentric original. A devout Baptist and
temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave
money more generously--his chosen
philanthropies included the Rockefeller
Foundation, the University of Chicago, and
what is today Rockefeller University--than
anyone before him. Titan presents a finely
nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex
man, synthesizing his public and private
lives and disclosing numerous family
scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that
have never before come to light.
John D. Rockefeller's story captures a
pivotal moment in American history,
documenting the dramatic post-Civil War
shift from small business to the rise of
giant corporations that irrevocably
transformed the nation. With cameos by
Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst,
Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell,
Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont
Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick,
Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns
Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of
American society in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. It is Ron
Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates
this monumental saga with all the sweep,
drama, and insight that this giant subject
deserves.
Titan: The Life of John D.

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a
sleepy Southern town and the crisis of
conscience that rocked it, To Kill A
Mockingbird became both an instant
bestseller and a critical success when it
was first published in 1960. It went on to
win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later
made into an Academy Award-winning
film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply

moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes
readers to the roots of human behavior - to
innocence and experience, kindness and
cruelty, love and hatred, humor and
pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in
print and translated into forty languages,
this regional story by a young Alabama
woman claims universal appeal. Harper
Lee always considered her book to be a
simple love story. Today it is regarded as a
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the first time, is a collection of short
speeches by the charismatic doctor and
social activist Paul Farmer. One of the
most passionate and influential voices for
global health equity and social justice,
Farmer encourages young people to tackle
the greatest challenges of our times.
Engaging, often humorous, and always
inspiring, these speeches bring to light the
brilliance and force of Farmer’s vision in a
single, accessible volume.A must-read for
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to help bend the arc of history toward
justice, To Repair the World:•
Challenges readers to counter failures of
imagination that keep billions of people
without access to health care, safe drinking
water, decent schools, and other basic
human rights;• Champions the power of
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change, and other pressing problems
today;• Overturns common assumptions
about health disparities around the globe
by considering the large-scale social forces
that determine who gets sick and who has
access to health care;• Discusses how
hope, solidarity, faith, and hardbitten
analysis have animated Farmer’s service
to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia,
and elsewhere;• Leaves the reader with
an uplifting vision: that with creativity,
passion, teamwork, and determination, the
next generations can make the world a
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BOOK Just before his release from service
in the Israeli army, Ora’s son Ofer is sent
back to the front for a major offensive. In a
fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking,
so that no bad news can reach her, Ora
sets out on an epic hike in the Galilee. She
is joined by an unlikely companion—
Avram, a former friend and lover with a
troubled past—and as they sleep out in the
hills, Ora begins to conjure her son. Ofer’s
story, as told by Ora, becomes a surprising
balm both for her and for Avram—and a
mother’s powerful meditation on war and
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Award-winning and best-selling author
James Dickey returns with the heart-
stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail
gunner who parachutes from his burning
airplane into Tokyo in the final months of
World War II. Fleeing the chaotic, ruined
city, he instinctively travels north toward a
frozen, desolate sanctuary he is certain will
assure this survival--and freedom. Making
his way through enemy terrain, on the
lookout for both danger and opportunity,
Muldrow's journey becomes the flight of a
pure predator. Moving through the
darkness, bombarded by haunting visions
that consume his imagination, every step
in his violent odyssey brings him closer to
a harrowing climax that is pure James
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year 2050, Earth's population will double. If
we continue with current farming practices,
vast amounts of wilderness will be lost,
millions of birds and billions of insects will
die, and the public will lose billions of
dollars as a consequence of environmental
degradation. Clearly, there must be a
better way to meet the need for increased
food production. Written as part
memoir, part instruction, and part
contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues
that a judicious blend of two important
strands of agriculture--genetic engineering
and organic farming--is key to helping feed
the world's growing population in an
ecologically balanced manner. Pamela
Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband,
Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take
the reader inside their lives for roughly a
year, allowing us to look over their
shoulders so that we can see what
geneticists and organic farmers actually
do. The reader sees the problems that
farmers face, trying to provide larger yields
without resorting to expensive or
environmentally hazardous chemicals, a
problem that will loom larger and larger as
the century progresses. They learn how
organic farmers and geneticists address
these problems. This book is for
consumers, farmers, and policy decision
makers who want to make food choices
and policy that will support ecologically
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anyone who wants accurate information
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“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly
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me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”
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“An unusually nuanced view of high-

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—Inc.
Within each corporation are anywhere from

a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In
Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King,
and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate
how these tribes develop—and show you
how to assess them and lead them to
maximize productivity and growth. A
business management book like no other,
Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to
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Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles,
Pathogens and Practice, by Drs. Richard
L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, and Peter F.
Weller, delivers the expert, encyclopedic
guidance you need to overcome the
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From the bestselling author of Band of
Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on
Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the
Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous
expedition in American history and one of
the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson

selected his personal secretary, Captain
Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the
Missouri River to the Rockies, over the
mountains, down the Columbia River to the
Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his
partner, Captain William Clark, made the
first map of the trans-Mississippi West,
provided invaluable scientific data on the
flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase
territory, and established the American
claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Ambrose has pieced together previously

unknown information about weather,
terrain, and medical knowledge at the time
to provide a vivid backdrop for the
expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich
variety of colorful characters, first of all
Jefferson himself, whose interest in
exploring and acquiring the American West
went back thirty years. Next comes Clark,
a rugged frontiersman whose love for
Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are
numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea,
the Indian girl who accompanied the
expedition, along with the French-Indian
hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of
Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur
traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams,
and many more leading political, scientific,
and military figures of the turn of the
century.
High adventure, high politics, suspense,

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Undaunted Courage: romance and personal tragedy to make
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas this outstanding work of scholarship as
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vast swath of data spanning the past six
decades, Unequal Democracy debunks
many myths about politics in contemporary
America, using the widening gap between
the rich and the poor to shed disturbing
light on the workings of American
democracy. Larry Bartels shows the gap
between the rich and poor has increased
greatly under Republican administrations
and decreased slightly under Democrats,
leaving America grossly unequal. This is
not simply the result of economic forces,
but the product of broad-reaching policy
choices in a political system dominated by
partisan ideologies and the interests of the
wealthy. Bartels demonstrates that
elected officials respond to the views of
affluent constituents but ignore the views
of poor people. He shows that Republican
presidents in particular have consistently
produced much less income growth for
middle-class and working-poor families
than for affluent families, greatly increasing
inequality. He provides revealing case
studies of key policy shifts contributing to
inequality, including the massive Bush tax
cuts of 2001 and 2003 and the erosion of
the minimum wage. Finally, he challenges
conventional explanations for why many
voters seem to vote against their own
economic interests, contending that
working-class voters have not been lured
into the Republican camp by "values
issues" like abortion and gay marriage, as
commonly believed, but that Republican
presidents have been remarkably
successful in timing income growth to cater
to short-sighted voters.
Unequal Democracy is social science at its
very best. It provides a deep and searching
analysis of the political causes and
consequences of America's growing
Unequal Democracy: The income gap, and a sobering assessment of
Political Economy of the New the capacity of the American political
Gilded Age Larry M. Bartels system to live up to its democratic ideals. http://amzn.to/1KA0MOq
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innovation offers us our best chance to
solve the three urgent and
interrelated problems of climate change,
worldwide insecurity over energy supplies,
and rapidly growing energy demand. But if
we are to achieve a timely transition to
reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the
U.S. energy innovation system must be
radically overhauled. Unlocking Energy
Innovation outlines an up-to-the-minute
plan for remaking America's energy
innovation system by tapping the country's
entrepreneurial strengths and regional
diversity in both the public and private
spheres. "Business as usual" will
not fill the energy innovation gap. Only the
kind of systemic, transformative
changes to our energy innovation system
described in this provocative book will help
us avert the most dire scenarios and
achieve a sustainable and secure energy
Unlocking Energy Innovation Richard K. Lester future. http://amzn.to/1Nd00Wq
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past decade, a small revolution has taken
place at some of the world's leading
universities, as they have started to
provide free access to undergraduate
course materials--including syllabi,
assignments, and lectures--to anyone with
an Internet connection. Yale offers high-
quality audio and video recordings of a
careful selection of popular lectures, MIT
supplies digital materials for nearly all of its
courses, Carnegie Mellon boasts a
purpose-built interactive learning
environment, and some of the most
selective universities in India have created
a vast body of online content in order to
reach more of the country's exploding
student population. Although they don't
offer online credit or degrees, efforts like
these are beginning to open up elite
institutions--and may foreshadow
significant changes in the way all
universities approach teaching and
learning. Unlocking the Gates is one of the
first books to examine this important
development. Drawing on a wide
range of sources, including extensive
interviews with university leaders, Taylor
Walsh traces the evolution of these online
courseware projects and considers the
impact they may have, both inside elite
universities and beyond. As economic
constraints and concerns over access
demand more efficient and creative
teaching models, these early initiatives
may lead to more substantial innovations
in how education is delivered and
consumed--even at the best institutions.
Unlocking the Gates tells an important
story about this form of online learning--
and what it might mean for the future of
Unlocking The Gates Taylor Walsh higher education. http://amzn.to/1EMh9Vw
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Firsthand Account from a CDC Insider on
the Link between Vaccines and
AutismVaccine Whistleblower is a gripping
account of four legally recorded phone
conversations between Dr. Brian Hooker, a
scientist investigating autism and vaccine
research, and Dr. William Thompson, a
senior scientist in the vaccine safety
division at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC). Thompson, who is
still employed at the CDC under protection
of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act,
discloses a pattern of data manipulation,
fraud, and corruption at the highest levels
of the CDC, the federal agency in charge
of protecting the health of Americans.
Thompson states, “Senior people just do
completely unethical, vile things and no
one holds them accountable.”This book
nullifies the government’s claims that
“vaccines are safe and effective,” and
reveals that the government rigged
research to cover up the link between
vaccines and autism. Scientific truth and
the health of American children have been
compromised to protect the vaccine
program and the pharmaceutical industry.
The financial cost of the CDC’s corruption
is staggering. The human cost is
incalculable. Vaccine Whistleblower
provides context to the implications of
Thompson’s revelations and directs the
Vaccine Esq. Kevin Barry reader to political action. http://amzn.to/1JLQtAS
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Vagabonding is about taking time off from
your normal life—from six weeks to four
months to two years—to discover and
experience the world on your own terms.
Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts
shows how anyone armed with an
independent spirit can achieve the dream
of extended overseas travel. Potts gives
the necessary information on:
• financing your travel time

• determining your destination
• adjusting to life on the road
• working and volunteering overseas
• handling travel adversity
• re-assimilating back into ordinary life
Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an

outlook on life that emphasizes creativity,
discovery, and the growth of the spirit.
Vagabonding (An Uncommon
Guide to the Art of Long-Term
World Travel) Rolf Potts From the Trade Paperback edition. http://amzn.to/1M6kQoG
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Added Measures in Education, economist
and education researcher Douglas N.
Harris takes on one of the most hotly
debated topics in education. Drawing on
his extensive work with schools and
districts, he sets out to help educators and
policy makers understand this innovative
approach to assessment. Written in
straightforward language and illustrated
with actual student achievement data, this
essential volume shows how value-added
measurement can help schools make
Value-added measures in better use of their data and discusses the
education Douglas N. Harris strengths and limitations of this approach. http://amzn.to/1g4OPlthttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tCAHAd9UL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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James Thomas Flexner's George
washinton is widely recognized as one of
the greatest biographies of all time. brief
and dramatic, yet detailed enough to
Washington: The Indispensable James Thomas convey all facets of George Washington.
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going on up there when the rain falls, when
the wind blows, when the clouds roll in and
the lightning flashes? How do hurricanes
arise and where to tornadoes come from?
Why do seasonal conditions sometimes
vary so much from one year to the next?
Our ways of life, our very existences
depend on knowing the answers to
questions like these. Economies have
been wiped out, civilizations have risen
and fallen, entire species have come into
being or gone extinct because of a
temperature shift of just a few degrees, or
a brief shortage or glut of rainfall. With so
much riding on the weather, it makes you
wonder how you've lived this long without
knowing more about it. Don't worry it's
never too late to find out about what makes
the weather tick. And there's never been
an easier or more enjoyable way to learn
than Weather For Dummies. In know time,
you'll know enough of weather basics to be
able to: * Identify cloud types * Make sense
of seasonal differences in the weather *
Understand what causes hurricanes,
tornadoes, and other extreme events *
Make your own weather forecasts * Avoid
danger during severe weather *
Understand the global warming debate *
Get a handle on smog, the greenhouse
effect, El Nino, and more Award-winning
science writer John D. Cox brings the
science of meteorology down to earth and,
with the help of dozens of cool maps and
charts and stunning photographs of
weather conditions, he covers a wide
range of fascinating subjects, including: *
What is weather and how it fits into the
entire global ecosystem * What goes into
making a professional daily weather
forecast * The basic elements of weather,
including air pressure, clouds, and
humidity * Storms, hurricanes, tornadoes,
monsoons, and other extreme forms of
weather * Seasonal weather effects and
why they vary * Lightening, rainbows,
sundogs, haloes, and other special effects
Featuring clear explanations, stunning
illustrations, and fun, easy experiments
and activities you can do at home ,
Weather For Dummies is your guide to
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The New York Times best-selling sequel to
"Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
One of the greatest physicists of the

twentieth century, Richard Feynman
possessed an unquenchable thirst for
adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell
the stories of his life. "What Do You Care
What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s
last literary legacy, prepared with his friend
and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.
Among its many tales―some funny, others
intensely moving―we meet Feynman’s
first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s
irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a
hospital bed while he worked nearby on
the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are
also given a fascinating narrative of the
investigation of the space shuttle
Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we
relive the moment when Feynman
revealed the disaster’s cause by an
elegant experiment: dropping a ring of
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invigorating book about the debates raging
within China. We all know about the fast
pace of change in this country. This book
brings us the ideas being fought over in the
country itself – from democracy to the idea
of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our
assumptions about China.We know
everything and nothing about China. We
know that China is changing so fast that
the maps in Shanghai need to be rewritten
every two weeks. We know that China has
brought 300 million people from
agricultural backwardness into modernity
in just 30 years (something that took 200
years in Europe). China’s voracious
appetite for resources is gobbling up 40%
of the world’s cement., 40% of its coal,
30% of its steel, and 12% of its energy. It
has become so integrated into the global
economy that its prospects have
immediate effects on our everyday lives:
simultaneously doubling the cost of the
London Olympics while halving the cost of
our computers; keeping the US economy
afloat but sinking the Italian footwear
industry. We have an image of China as a
dictatorship; a nationalist empire that
threatens its neighbours and global peace.
But how many people know about the
debates raging within China? What do we
really know about the kind of society China
wants to become? What ideas are
motivating its citizens? We can name
America’s Neo-Cons and the religious
right, but cannot name Chinese writers,
thinkers or journalists – what is the future
they dream of for their country, or the world
it is shaping? Because China’s rise – like
the fall of Rome or the British Raj – will
echo down generations to come, these are
the questions we increasingly need to ask.
Mark Leonard asks us to forget everything
we thought we knew about China and start
again. He introduces us to the thinkers that
are shaping China’s wide open future and
opens up a hidden world of intellectual
debate that is driving a new Chinese
revolution and changing the face of the
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creator of the wildly popular webcomic
xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to
important questions you probably never
thought to ask. Millions of people visit
xkcd.com each week to read Randall
Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure
drawings about science, technology,
language, and love have a large and
passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask
Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if
you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90
percent the speed of light? How fast can
you hit a speed bump while driving and
live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how
long would humanity last? In pursuit of
answers, Munroe runs computer
simulations, pores over stacks of
declassified military research memos,
solves differential equations, and consults
with nuclear reactor operators. His
responses are masterpieces of clarity and
hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd
comics. They often predict the complete
annihilation of humankind, or at least a
really big explosion. The book features
new and never-before-answered
questions, along with updated and
expanded versions of the most popular
answers from the xkcd website. What If?
What If?: Serious Scientific will be required reading for xkcd fans and
Answers to Absurd Hypothetical anyone who loves to ponder the
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Times Notable Book New York Times
BestsellerWhat Is the What is the epic
novel based on the life of Valentino Achak
Deng who, along with thousands of other
children —the so-called Lost Boys—was
forced to leave his village in Sudan at the
age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by
foot, pursued by militias, government
bombers, and wild animals, crossing the
deserts of three countries to find freedom.
When he finally is resettled in the United
States, he finds a life full of promise, but
also heartache and myriad new
challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and
unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is
an astonishing novel that illuminates the
lives of millions through one extraordinary
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This is not a book about one thing. It's not
a 250-page dissertation on leadership,
teams or motivation. Instead, it's an
agenda for building organizations that can
flourish in a world of diminished hopes,
relentless change and ferocious
competition.
This is not a book about doing better. It's
not a manual for people who want to tinker
at the margins. Instead, it's an
impassioned plea to reinvent management
as we know it to rethink the fundamental
assumptions we have about capitalism,
organizational life, and the meaning of
work.
Leaders today confront a world where the

unprecedented is the norm. Wherever one
looks, one sees the exceptional and the
extraordinary: * Business newspapers
decrying the state of capitalism. * Once-
innovative companies struggling to save off
senescence. * Next gen employees
shunning blue chips for social start-ups. *
Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in
the blogosphere. * Entry barriers tumbling
in what were once oligopolistic
strongholds. * Hundred year-old business
models being rendered irrelevant
overnight. * Newbie organizations
crowdsourcing their most creative work. *
National governments lurching towards
bankruptcy. * Investors angrily confronting
greedy CEOs and complacent boards. *
Newly omnipotent customers eagerly
wielding their power. * Social media
dramatically transforming the way human
beings connect, learn and collaborate.
Obviously, there are lots of things that

matter now. But in a world of fractured
certainties and battered trust, some things
matter more than others. While the
challenges facing organizations are
limitless; leadership bandwidth isn't. That's
why you have to be clear about what really
matters now. What are the fundamental,
make-or-break issues that will determine
whether your organization thrives or dives
in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five
issues are that are paramount: values,
innovation, adaptability, passion and
ideology. In doing so he presents an
essential agenda for leaders everywhere
who are eager to...* move from defense to
offense * reverse the tide of
commoditization * defeat bureaucracy *
astonish their customers * foster
extraordinary contribution * capture the
moral high ground * outrun change * build
a company that's truly fit for the future
What Matters Now: How to Win
in a World of Relentless Concise and to the point, the book will
Change, Ferocious Competition, inspire you to rethink your business, your
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example of how to write a history of an
immense and technical subject ....a
winner."―New Scientist As technology
transforms our lives at an ever quickening
rate, Donald Cardwell reminds us that
technological innovation is not created in a
vacuum―rather, it is the product of the
successful interaction between social
change, scientific developments, and
political vision. In this wide-ranging,
"spirited" (Booklist) survey of the machines
and tools that humans have developed
throughout history, Cardwell not only
explains the mechanical technicalities but
also delves into the underlying trends that
have culminated in eras of great change.
In particular, he highlights the eighteenth
century as a watershed in the modern
history of technology, analyzing how
scientific developments in physics and
chemistry spurred the mechanical
innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
From the steam engine to electrical power
to nuclear energy to today's world of
electronics and computers, this book
opens a discussion of how science and
technology together change our lives.
Originally published as The Norton History
of Technology. 8 pages of black and white
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Once I picked it up I did not put it down
until I finished...What Schwed has done is
capture fully-in deceptively clean language
- the lunacy at the heart of the investment
business' - From the Foreword by Michael
Lewis, Bestselling author of "Liar's Poker".
'...one of the funniest books ever written
about Wall Street' - Jane Bryant Quinn,
"The Washington Post". 'How great to have
a reissue of a hilarious classic that proves
the more things change the more they stay
the same. Only the names have been
changed to protect the innocent' - Michael
Bloomberg. 'It's amazing how well
Schwed's book is holding up after fifty-five
years. About the only thing that's changed
on Wall Street is that computers have
replaced pencils and graph paper.
Otherwise, the basics are the same. The
investor's need to believe somebody is
matched by the financial advisor's need to
make a nice living. If one of them has to be
disappointed, it's bound to be the former' -
John Rothchild, Author, "A Fool and His
Money", Financial Columnist, "Time"
magazine. Humorous and entertaining, this
book exposes the folly and hypocrisy of
Wall Street. The title refers to a story about
a visitor to New York who admired the
yachts of the bankers and brokers.
Naively, he asked where all the customers'
yachts were? Of course, none of the
customers could afford yachts, even
though they dutifully followed the advice of
their bankers and brokers. Full of wise
contrarian advice and offering a true look
at the world of investing, in which brokers
get rich while their customers go broke,
this book continues to open the eyes of
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printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet,
the battery--these are all great ideas. But
where do they come from? What kind of
environment breeds them? What sparks
the flash of brilliance? How do we generate
the breakthrough technologies that push
forward our lives, our society, our culture?
Steven Johnson's answers are revelatory
as he identifies the seven key patterns
behind genuine innovation, and traces
them across time and disciplines. From
Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google
and Apple, Johnson investigates the
innovation hubs throughout modern time
and pulls out the approaches and
commonalities that seem to appear at
Where Good Ideas Come From Steven Johnson moments of originality. http://amzn.to/1Nd0BY8
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post--Cold War strategic dominance and
its pre-recession affluence
inspired pundits to make celebratory
comparisons to ancient Rome at its
most powerful. Now, with America no
longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged
in protracted fighting in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and suffering the worst
economic downturn since the
Great Depression, comparisons are to the
bloated, decadent, ineffectual
later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New
Rome, Vaclav Smil looks at
these comparisons in detail, going deeper
than the facile analogy-making of
talk shows and glossy magazine articles.
He finds profound differences.
Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of
Roman history, focuses on
several fundamental concerns: the very
meaning of empire; the actual
extent and nature of Roman and American
power; the role of knowledge and
innovation; and demographic and
economic basics--population dynamics,
illness, death, wealth, and
misery. America is not a latter-day Rome,
Smil finds, and we need to
understand this in order to look ahead
without the burden of counterproductive
analogies. Superficial similarities do not
Why America Is Not a New imply long-term political, demographic,
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the headlines of the past decade seems to
show that disasters are often part of
capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble,
the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme,
the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs,
and a widening income gap.
Disenchantment with the market economy
has reached the point that many even
question capitalism itself. Allan H. Meltzer
disagrees, passionately and persuasively.
Drawing on deep expertise as a financial
historian and authority on economic theory,
he provides a resounding answer to the
question, "why capitalism?" Only
capitalism, he writes, maximizes both
growth and individual freedom. Unlike
socialism, capitalism is adaptive, not rigid--
private ownership of the means of
production flourishes wherever it takes
root, regardless of culture. Laws intended
to tamper with its fundamental dynamics,
such as those that redistribute wealth, fail.
European countries boasting extensive
welfare programs have not surpassed the
more market-oriented United States.
Capitalism does require a strong legal
framework, Meltzer writes, and it does not
solve all problems efficiently. But he finds
that its problems stem from universal
human weaknesses--such as dishonesty,
venality, and expediency--which are not
specific to capitalism. Along the way, he
systematically analyzes the role of
government, positing that regulations are
static, but markets are dynamic, usually
seeking ways to skirt the rules. Regulation
is socially useful if it brings private costs
into line with social costs (for example, the
cost of taxes to hire policemen compared
to that of the impact of rampant crime); if it
doesn't, regulation simply invites
circumvention. Vigorously argued,
sweeping in scope, Why Capitalism?
reminds us of the fundamental vitality of
the one economic system that has
survived every challenge, and risen to
Why Capitalism? Allan H. Meltzer dominate the globe. http://amzn.to/1K14cHz
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what is written about colleges and
universities ties rapidly rising tuition to
dysfunctional behavior in the academy.
Common targets of dysfunction include
prestige games among universities, gold
plated amenities, and bloated
administration. This book offers a different
view. To explain rising college cost, the
authors place the higher education industry
firmly within the larger economic history of
the United States. The trajectory of college
cost is similar to cost behavior in many
other industries, and this is no coincidence.
Higher education is a personal service that
relies on highly educated labor. A
technological trio of broad economic forces
has come together in the last thirty years to
cause higher education costs, and costs in
many other industries, to rise much more
rapidly than the inflation rate. The main
culprit is economic growth itself.This
finding does not mean that all is well in
American higher education. A college
education has become less reachable to a
broad swathe of the American public at the
same time that the market demand for
highly educated people has soared. This
affordability problem has deep roots. The
authors explore how cost pressure, the
changing wage structure of the US
economy, and the complexity of financial
aid policy combine to reduce access to
higher education below what we need in
the 21st century labor market. This book is
a call to calm the rhetoric of blame and to
instead find policies that will increase
access to higher education while
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Source http://amzn.to/1JLRlWa Brilliant
and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail
answers the question that has stumped the
experts for centuries: Why are some
nations rich and others poor, divided by
wealth and poverty, health and sickness,
food and famine? Is it culture, the weather,
geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the
right policies are? Simply, no. None of
these factors is either definitive or destiny.
Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana
has become one of the fastest growing
countries in the world, while other African
nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo,
and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and
violence? Daron Acemoglu and James
Robinson conclusively show that it is man-
made political and economic institutions
that underlie economic success (or lack of
it). Korea, to take just one of their
fascinating examples, is a remarkably
homogeneous nation, yet the people of
North Korea are among the poorest on
earth while their brothers and sisters in
South Korea are among the richest. The
south forged a society that created
incentives, rewarded innovation, and
allowed everyone to participate in
economic opportunities. The economic
success thus spurred was sustained
because the government became
accountable and responsive to citizens and
the great mass of people. Sadly, the
people of the north have endured decades
of famine, political repression, and very
different economic institutions—with no
end in sight. The differences between the
Koreas is due to the politics that created
these completely different institutional
trajectories. Based on fifteen years of
original research Acemoglu and Robinson
marshall extraordinary historical evidence
from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-
states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union,
Latin America, England, Europe, the
United States, and Africa to build a new
theory of political economy with great
relevance for the big questions of today,
including: - China has built an
authoritarian growth machine. Will it
continue to grow at such high speed
and overwhelm the West? - Are America’
s best days behind it? Are we moving from
a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to
aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious
one that enriches and empowers a small
minority? - What is the most effective
way to help move billions of people from
the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of
the West? Or learning the hard-won
lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s
breakthrough ideas on the interplay
between inclusive political and economic
institutions? Why Nations Fail will change
the way you look at—and understand—the
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of three generations in twentieth-century
China that blends the intimacy of memoir
and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness
history—a bestselling classic in thirty
languages with more than ten million
copies sold around the world, now with a
new introduction from the author.An
engrossing record of Mao’s impact on
China, an unusual window on the female
experience in the modern world, and an
inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung
Chang describes the extraordinary lives
and experiences of her family members:
her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine;
her mother’s struggles as a young
idealistic Communist; and her parents’
experience as members of the Communist
elite and their ordeal during the Cultural
Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard
briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked
as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a
steelworker, and an electrician. As the
story of each generation unfolds, Chang
captures in gripping, moving—and
ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of
violent drama visited on her own family
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of and millions of others caught in the
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Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van
Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .
These characters are among the

unforgettable cast inhabiting a small
Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns
against its own when the Ku Klux Klan
moves in. No one is safe, especially the
two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an
African-American girl, and six-year-old
Esther, who is Jewish.
In this story of a community on the brink of
disaster, told through the haunting and
impassioned voices of its inhabitants,
Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes
readers into the hearts and minds of those
Witness Whittaker Chambers who bear witness. http://amzn.to/1QA42bm
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beyond a simple biomedical model, this
book compels us to view AIDS in women in
a wholly new way, as an inescapable even
in lives devalued by the forces of poverty,
racism and sexism. This extraordinary
multidisciplinary effort should serve as the
guidebook for those who want to
understand how AIDS has become a
leading killer of young women in a mere
decade.”—Deborah Cotton, M.D.This
second edition of the groundbreaking
Women, Poverty and AIDS reviews the
massive epidemic sweeping Sub-Saharan
Africa and many other parts of the Third
World. As Dr. Joia Mukherjee reveals, the
unfolding tragedy is a double one: drugs
could be saving lives but are made
Women Poverty and AIDS Paul Farmer unavailable while millions die. http://amzn.to/1UBYQnQ
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Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for
Teach for America right after college and
found themselves utter failures in the
classroom, they vowed to remake
themselves into superior educators. They
did that―and more. In their early twenties,
by sheer force of talent and determination
never to take no for an answer, they
created a wildly successful fifth-grade
experience that would grow into the
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP),
which today includes sixty-six schools in
nineteen states and the District of
Columbia. KIPP schools incorporate what
Feinberg and Levin learned from America's
best, most charismatic teachers: lessons
need to be lively; school days need to be
longer (the KIPP day is nine and a half
hours); the completion of homework has to
be sacrosanct (KIPP teachers are
available by telephone day and night).
Chants, songs, and slogans such as "Work
hard, be nice" energize the program.
Illuminating the ups and downs of the KIPP
founders and their students, Mathews
gives us something quite rare: a hopeful
Work Hard, Be Nice Jay Mathews book about education. http://amzn.to/1KVLp1c
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urgent time, World on the Edge calls out
the pivotal environmental issues and how
to solve them now. We are in a race
between political and natural tipping points.
Can we close coal-fired power plants fast
enough to save the Greenland ice sheet
and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can
we raise water productivity fast enough to
halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid
water-driven food shortages? Can we cope
with peak water and peak oil at the same
time? These are some of the issues Lester
R. Brown skillfully distills in World on the
Edge. Bringing decades of research and
analysis into play, he provides the
World On the Edge Lester R. Brown responses needed to reclaim our future. http://amzn.to/1Oq62S8
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Munroe describes xkcd as a webcomic of
romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
While it's practically required reading in the
geek community, xkcd fans are as varied
as the comic's subject matter. This book
creates laughs from science jokes on one
page to relationship humor on another.
xkcd: volume 0 is the first book from the
immensely popular webcomic with a
passionate readership (just Google "xkcd
meetup").The artist selected personal and
fan favorites from his first 600 comics. It
was lovingly assembled from high-
resolution original scans of the comics (the
mouseover text is discreetly included), and
features a lot of doodles, notes, and
puzzles in the margins.The book is
published by Breadpig, which donates all
of the publisher profits from this book to
Room to Read for promoting literacy in the
xkcd: volume 0 Randall Munroe developing world. http://amzn.to/1Let4Is http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61C56aPI17L.jpg
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New York Times bestselling introduction of
fifty scientifically proven techniques for
increasing your persuasive powers in
business and life. Small changes can
make a big difference in your powers of
persuasion What one word can you start
using today to increase your
persuasiveness by more than fifty percent?
Which item of stationery can dramatically
increase people's responses to your
requests? How can you win over your
rivals by inconveniencing them? Why does
knowing that so many dentists are named
Dennis improve your persuasive prowess?
Every day we face the challenge of
persuading others to do what we want. But
what makes people say yes to our
requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it
is also a science, and researchers who
study it have uncovered a series of hidden
rules for moving people in your direction.
Based on more than sixty years of
research into the psychology of
persuasion, Yes! reveals fifty simple but
remarkably effective strategies that will
make you much more persuasive at work
and in your personal life, too. Co-written by
the world's most quoted expert on
influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes!
presents dozens of surprising discoveries
from the science of persuasion in short,
enjoyable, and insightful chapters that you
can apply immediately to become a more
effective persuader. Why did a sign
pointing out the problem of vandalism in
the Petrified Forest National Park actually
increase the theft of pieces of petrified
wood? Why did sales of jam multiply
tenfold when consumers were offered
many fewer flavors? Why did people prefer
a Mercedes immediately after giving
reasons why they prefer a BMW? What
simple message on cards left in hotel
rooms greatly increased the number of
people who behaved in environmentally
friendly ways. Often counterintuitive, the
findings presented in Yes! will steer you
away from common pitfalls while
empowering you with little known but
proven wisdom. Whether you are in
advertising, marketing, management, on
sales, or just curious about how to be more
influential in everyday life, Yes! shows how
making small, scientifically proven changes
Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven to your approach can have a dramatic
Ways to Be Persuasive Noah Goldstein effect on your persuasive powers. http://amzn.to/1Ka8CL6
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guide to the stock market from a
successful fund manager—filled with case
studies, important background information,
and all the tools you’ll need to become a
stock market genius.
Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been

beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent
a year) for more than a decade. And now,
in this highly accessible guide, he’s going
to show you how to do it, too. You’re about
to discover investment opportunities that
portfolio managers, business-school
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Source http://amzn.to/1XAvvi3 Marketing is
always the primary force -- the catalyst, the
driver, the tsunami -- for propelling the
growth of a business. The problem is, the
art and science of marketing is often poorly
designed and terribly executed to the point
that it just plain sucks. It fails to achieve
the only legitimate goal for marketing: to
drive a company's growth. In this Tenth
Anniversary edition of Your Marketing
Sucks, renowned CEO Mark Stevens
guides the reader through the principles of
successful, business-building marketing,
expanding on and updating his global Best
Seller with fresh new content focused on
state of the art guidance for building a
wired brand designed to thrive in the viral
era. In this invaluable, time-tested book,
the bedrock principles of extreme
marketing are fused with the power of the
Internet/social media to deliver exponential
results. It is, in its totality, an idea whose
Your Marketing Sucks Mark Stevens time has come! http://amzn.to/1XAvvi3http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SpfesrdtL.jpg
1 1
Source http://amzn.to/1KVLGkJ "When
everybody zigs, zag," says Marty
Neumeier in this fresh view of brand
strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear
"whiteboard overview" style of the author’s
first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills
deeper into the question of how brands
can harness the power of differentiation.
The author argues that in an extremely
cluttered marketplace, traditional
differentiation is no longer enough—today
companies need “radical differentiation” to
create lasting value for their shareholders
and customers. In an entertaining 3-hour
read you’ll learn: - why me-too brands are
doomed to fail- how to "read" customer
feedback on new products and messages-
the 17 steps for designing “difference” into
your brand- how to turn your brand’s
“onliness” into a “trueline” to drive synergy-
the secrets of naming products, services,
and companies- the four deadly dangers
faced by brand portfolios- how to “stretch”
your brand without breaking it- how to
succeed at all three stages of the
competition cycle From the back cover:In
an age of me-too products and instant
communications, keeping up with the
competition is no longer a winning
strategy. Today you have to out-position,
out-maneuver, and out-design the
competition. The new rule? When
everybody zigs, zag. In his first book, THE
BRAND GAP, Neumeier showed
companies how to bridge the distance
between business strategy and design. In
ZAG, he illustrates the number-one
strategy of high-performance brands—
radical differentiation. ZAG is an AIGA
Design Press book, published under
Peachpit's New Riders imprint in
Zag: The Number One Strategy partnership with AIGA. For a quick peek
of High-Performance Brands Marty Neumeier inside ZAG, go to www.zagbook.com. http://amzn.to/1KVLGkJ
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In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New
York Times bestselling author Jeremy
Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet
of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly
free goods and services, precipitating the
meteoric rise of a global Collaborative
Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of

capitalism that has propelled it to
greatness but is now taking it to its death--
the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of
competitive markets that drives productivity
up and marginal costs down, enabling
businesses to reduce the price of their
goods and services in order to win over
consumers and market share. (Marginal
cost is the cost of producing additional
units of a good or service, if fixed costs are
not counted.) While economists have
always welcomed a reduction in marginal
cost, they never anticipated the possibility
of a technological revolution that might
bring marginal costs to near zero, making
goods and services priceless, nearly free,
and abundant, and no longer subject to
market forces.
Now, a formidable new technology

infrastructure--the Internet of things (IoT)--
is emerging with the potential of pushing
large segments of economic life to near
zero marginal cost in the years ahead.
Rifkin describes how the Communication
Internet is converging with a nascent
Energy Internet and Logistics Internet to
create a new technology platform that
connects everything and everyone. Billions
of sensors are being attached to natural
resources, production lines, the electricity
grid, logistics networks, recycling flows,
and implanted in homes, offices, stores,
vehicles, and even human beings, feeding
Big Data into an IoT global neural network.
Prosumers can connect to the network and
use Big Data, analytics, and algorithms to
accelerate efficiency, dramatically increase
productivity, and lower the marginal cost of
producing and sharing a wide range of
products and services to near zero, just
like they now do with information goods.
The plummeting of marginal costs is

spawning a hybrid economy--part capitalist
market and part Collaborative Commons--
with far reaching implications for society,
according to Rifkin. Hundreds of millions of
people are already transferring parts of
their economic lives to the global
Collaborative Commons. Prosumers are
plugging into the fledgling IoT and making
and sharing their own information,
entertainment, green energy, and 3D-
printed products at near zero marginal
cost. They are also sharing cars, homes,
clothes and other items via social media
sites, rentals, redistribution clubs, and
cooperatives at low or near zero marginal
cost. Students are enrolling in free massive
open online courses (MOOCs) that operate
at near zero marginal cost. Social
entrepreneurs are even bypassing the
banking establishment and using
crowdfunding to finance startup
businesses as well as creating alternative
currencies in the fledgling sharing
economy. In this new world, social capital
is as important as financial capital, access
trumps ownership, sustainability
supersedes consumerism, cooperation
ousts competition, and "exchange value" in
the capitalist marketplace is increasingly
replaced by "sharable value" on the
Collaborative Commons.
Rifkin concludes that capitalism will remain

with us, albeit in an increasingly
streamlined role, primarily as an
aggregator of network services and
solutions, allowing it to flourish as a
powerful niche player in the coming era.
We are, however, says Rifkin, entering a
world beyond markets where we are
Zero Marginal Cost Society: The learning how to live together in an
Internet of Things, the increasingly interdependent global
Collaborative Commons, and Collaborative Commons. http://amzn.
the Eclipse of Capitalism Jeremy Rifkin to/1UQBCKX http://amzn.to/1UQBCKX
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1 1
Source http://amzn.to/1XAvvi3 Marketing is
always the primary force -- the catalyst, the
driver, the tsunami -- for propelling the growth
of a business. The problem is, the art and
science of marketing is often poorly designed
and terribly executed to the point that it just
plain sucks. It fails to achieve the only
legitimate goal for marketing: to drive a
company's growth. In this Tenth Anniversary
edition of Your Marketing Sucks, renowned
CEO Mark Stevens guides the reader through
the principles of successful, business-building
marketing, expanding on and updating his
global Best Seller with fresh new content
focused on state of the art guidance for building
a wired brand designed to thrive in the viral era.
In this invaluable, time-tested book, the
bedrock principles of extreme marketing are
fused with the power of the Internet/social
media to deliver exponential results. It is, in its
Your Marketing Sucks Mark Stevens totality, an idea whose time has come! http://amzn.to/1XAvvi3 http://bit.ly/1g4PAuS 1 1
Source http://amzn.to/1KVLGkJ "When
everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in
this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows
the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of
the author’s first book, THE BRAND GAP, but
drills deeper into the question of how brands
can harness the power of differentiation. The
author argues that in an extremely cluttered
marketplace, traditional differentiation is no
longer enough—today companies need “radical
differentiation” to create lasting value for their
shareholders and customers. In an entertaining
3-hour read you’ll learn: - why me-too brands
are doomed to fail- how to "read" customer
feedback on new products and messages- the
17 steps for designing “difference” into your
brand- how to turn your brand’s “onliness” into
a “trueline” to drive synergy- the secrets of
naming products, services, and companies- the
four deadly dangers faced by brand portfolios-
how to “stretch” your brand without breaking it-
how to succeed at all three stages of the
competition cycle From the back cover:In an
age of me-too products and instant
communications, keeping up with the
competition is no longer a winning strategy.
Today you have to out-position, out-maneuver,
and out-design the competition. The new rule?
When everybody zigs, zag. In his first book,
THE BRAND GAP, Neumeier showed
companies how to bridge the distance between
business strategy and design. In ZAG, he
illustrates the number-one strategy of high-
performance brands—radical differentiation.
ZAG is an AIGA Design Press book, published
under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in
partnership with AIGA. For a quick peek inside
Zag: The Number One Strategy ofMarty
High-Performance
Neumeier Brands
ZAG, go to www.zagbook.com. http://amzn.to/1KVLGkJ http://bit.ly/1VInd5L 1 1
Rifkin poses that the plummeting costs of
doing business, brought on by dramatic
increases in productivity and the Internet,
are driving us toward a hybrid economy of
capitalist market and "collaborative
commons" — a place where shareable
Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet
Jeremy of
Rifkin
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value is as important
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York Times Bestseller, Anathem is
perhaps the most brilliant literary invention
to date from the incomparable Neal
Stephenson, who rocked the world with
Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The
Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an
alternate universe where scientists,
philosophers, and mathematicians live in
seclusion behind ancient monastery walls
until they are called back into the world to
deal with a crisis of astronomical
proportions. Anathem won the Locus
Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and
the reviews for have been dazzling:
“Brilliant” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel),
“Daring” (Boston Globe), “Immensely
entertaining” (New York Times Book
Review), “A tour de force” (St. Louis Post-
Dispatch), while Time magazine proclaims,
“The great novel of ideas…has morphed
into science fiction, and Neal Stephenson
Anathem Neal Stephenson is its foremost practitioner.” http://amzn.to/1KVzxfHhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Okzm3Aq6L.jpg
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