The Art of the Steal
How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime
Written by Frank W. Abagnale

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0684-5 (0-7679-0684-5)

"I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning the mechanics of forgery, check swindling, counterfeiting, and other similar crimes. Ever since I'd been released from prison, I'd often felt that if I directed this knowledge into the right channels, I could help people a great deal. Every time I... Read more >

The Truth About the Drug Companies
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Written by Marcia Angell

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76094-5 (0-375-76094-6)

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Currently, Americans spend a staggering $200 billion each year on prescription drugs. In The Truth About Drug Companies, Dr Marcia Angell argues that this is both unnecessary and unethical.

A former editor in chief of The New England Journal Of Medicine, a current member of Harvard's Medical School's Department of... Read more >

Meditations

Written by Marcus Aurelius
Translated by Gregory Hays

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64260-2 (0-679-64260-9)

Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161–180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s... Read more >

The Book of Hard Choices
How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
Written by James A. Autry and Peter Roy

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2258-6 (0-7679-2258-1)

THE BOOK OF HARD CHOICES examines the notion of integrity in the workplace. James Autry and Peter Roy, experienced executives themselves, interviewed numerous leaders about the tough decisions they’ve made on the job. They spoke with people including former Starbucks president Howard Behar, Iowa Cubs owner Michael Gartner, and Governor Tom... Read more >

The Servant Leader
How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance
Written by James A. Autry

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: November 30, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5473-2 (1-4000-5473-7)

In The Servant Leader, Former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry argues that a mangement style he dubs "servant leadership" offers a set of skills and ideals that will help leaders nurture the needs and goals of those who look to them for leadership. The result, he maintains, is a more... Read more >

Powerful Medicines
The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
Written by Jerry Avorn, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3078-1 (1-4000-3078-1)

If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than... Read more >

Critical Condition
How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine
Written by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1075-0 (0-7679-1075-3)

In Critical Condition, award-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele examine the current, and problematic, state of health care in America.

Barlett and Steele profile patients and doctors seemingly trapped by the system, in the process illuminating what's wrong with the system overall. For instance, doctors recount instances of... Read more >

What Made jack welch JACK WELCH
How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders
Written by Stephen H. Baum and Dave Conti

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-33720-7 (0-307-33720-0)

Surprisingly, it’s not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of us are like jack welch, who started life as a lowercase guy, the son of a railroad conductor, but went on to become the most celebrated and successful executive of recent years. Sure, Jack Welch—and lots of other... Read more >

In Praise of Nepotism
A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
Written by Adam Bellow

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49389-5 (0-385-49389-4)

Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families... Read more >

Basic Black
The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life)
Written by Cathie Black

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-35110-4 (0-307-35110-6)

Cathie Black is the wise, funny mentor that every woman dreams of having. She was a pioneer in advertising sales at a time when women didn’t sell; served as president and publisher of the fledgling USA Today; and, in her current position as the president of Hearst Magazines, persuaded Oprah to... Read more >

Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)

Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008
A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008
One of the Christian... Read more >

Hot Property
The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization
Written by Pat Choate

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40212-8 (0-375-40212-8)

The problem of pirating and counterfeiting has grown from small-scale imitations of Levi’s jeans and Zippo lighters to a phenomenon that costs the United States an estimated $200 billion dollars per year. Pirated DVDs, computer software, designer clothes, and machinery flood global markets, inflicting heavy losses on U.S. businesses, while counterfeit... Read more >

Ponzi
The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons
Written by Donald Dunn

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1499-4 (0-7679-1499-6)

Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars in his pocket. Six months later, he was... Read more >

Meadowlark Economics
Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality
Written by James Eggert

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-767-0 (1-55643-767-6)

Alarmed by the disappearance of meadowlarks from the fields near his home, James Eggert embarked on a close study of the economic and ecological factors behind the loss. His inquiry led him to conclude that the meadowlark's survival is a metaphor for ours—that our future is intimately linked to the same... Read more >

Conspiracy of Fools
A True Story
Written by Kurt Eichenwald

Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1179-5 (0-7679-1179-2)

One of BusinessWeek's Top 10 Business Books of 2005

In late 2001, the Enron Corporation imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years. But for all that has been written about the Enron debacle, no one has yet to a full... Read more >

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Written by Benjamin M. Friedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9571-1 (1-4000-9571-9)

From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that broadly distributed economic growth provides benefits far beyond the material, creating and strengthening democratic institutions, establishing political stability, fostering tolerance, and... Read more >

Ecological Intelligence
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Written by Daniel Goleman

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52782-8 (0-385-52782-9)

Virginia Tech has selected Ecological Intelligence for its 2009-2010 Common Book Project.

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence) draws on cutting edge research into psychology, neuroeconomics and the science of the environment to show us a fresh way out of the largest crisis of our time—the environmental crisis that looms over us... Read more >

Faith and Fortune
How Compassionate Capitalism Is Transforming American Business
Written by Marc Gunther

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4894-6 (1-4000-4894-X)

Lately the headlines have delivered dispiriting news about wrongdoing and scandal in business. But behind the headlines lies a surprising, untold story: Corporate America is changing for the better. Faith and Fortune tells the stories of the extraordinary people who are leading the way and the admirable companies they have built... Read more >

Faith and Fortune
The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business
Written by Marc Gunther

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4893-9 (1-4000-4893-1)

Faith and Fortune argues that a new model of conducting business is taking hold, not only in small, socially responsible companies like Ben & Jerry’s but inside such bulwarks of the Fortune 500 as Ford, Citigroup, and DuPont. This new model is replacing a century-old approach that was rooted in the... Read more >

Kinds of Power

Written by James Hillman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: January 1, 1997
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48967-6 (0-385-48967-6)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Soul’s Code explains how a broad experience of power is rooted in the body, the mind, and the emotions, rather than the customary narrow interpretation that equated power with strength. His “anatomy” of power explores two dozen expressions of power every artful leader... Read more >

Pigs at the Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Written by Arianna Huffington

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5126-7 (1-4000-5126-6)

Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington "yanks back the curtain" on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in the office cubicles and on the factory floors. As she puts it: “The economic game is not supposed to be rigged... Read more >

So Damn Much Money
The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
Written by Robert G. Kaiser

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26654-5 (0-307-26654-0)

“The startling story of the monumental growth of lobbying in Washington, D.C., and how it undermines effective government and pollutes our politics.

A true insider, Robert G. Kaiser has monitored American politics for The Washington Post for nearly half a century. In this sometimes shocking and always riveting book, he explains how... Read more >

The Selling of the American Economy
How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
Written by Micheline Maynard

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52052-2 (0-385-52052-2)

As unemployment rises, the American auto industry crumbles, and more and more jobs continue to be outsourced to India, China, Mexico, and the like, the fate of the American worker has never looked quite so grim. As a result, many Americans, deeply protective of the few jobs that still exist, increasingly... Read more >

The Teapot Dome Scandal
How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Written by Laton McCartney

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7337-2 (0-8129-7337-2)

Laton McCartney tells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his “oil cabinet” made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid... Read more >

Not Turning Away
The Practice of Engaged Buddhism
Written by Susan Moon

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-103-6 (1-59030-103-X)

"...compelling, often captivating accounts of individuals collectively trying to affect the world." —Publishers Weekly
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