Icons of the American Marketplace
Consumer Brand Excellence
Written by American Benchmark Press

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: American Benchmark Press
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38345-7 (0-307-38345-8)

From Ace Hardware to Ziploc, the products and logos featured in this lavishly illustrated, story-filled reference have captured the hearts and minds of American consumers. Each brand began with a spark of genius: Earle Dickinson invented the Band-Aid for his accident-prone wife, Josephine. Hector Boiardi's pasta sauce was so good that... 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 >

How We Compete
What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy
Written by Suzanne Berger

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-385-51359-3 (0-385-51359-3)

Based on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center, How We Compete goes into the trenches of over 500 international companies to discover which practices are succeeding in today’s global economy, which are failing –and why.
There is a rising fear in America that no job is safe. In industry... 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 >

Dangerous Business
The Risks of Globalization for America
Written by Pat Choate

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26684-2 (0-307-26684-2)

From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks... 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 >

The Change Monster
The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change
Written by Jeanie Daniel Duck

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-80881-8 (0-609-80881-8)

“[One of the] best business books of 2001 . . . [a] useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life).” —Miami Herald

“Provocative imagery . . . useful questions for managers to ask themselves.” —Harvard Business Review

“The Change Monster not only talks intelligently about the social... Read more >

The 21st Century Economy--A Beginner's Guide

Written by Randy Charles Epping

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38790-5 (0-307-38790-9)

A comprehensive guide to understanding today's global economy from the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy.

While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream media alike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumer may find baffling. In his latest book, Randy Charles Epping... Read more >

The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Understanding Globalization
Written by Thomas L. Friedman

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 2, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49934-7 (0-385-49934-5)

From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today.

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled the... Read more >

Shift
Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
Written by Carlos Ghosn

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-51290-9 (0-385-51290-2)

In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds in automotive—and corporate—history.

When Carlos Ghosn (pronounced like “phone”) was named COO of Nissan in 1999, the company... Read more >

McMafia
A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Written by Misha Glenny

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4411-5 (1-4000-4411-1)

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events... Read more >

The Nature of Economies

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70243-3 (0-375-70243-1)

Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant economy. The lessons she discloses come from fields as diverse as... Read more >

Biography of the Dollar
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-33986-7 (0-307-33986-6)

"For decades the dollar has reigned supreme, so much so that many take it as part of the natural order. But we're in an era of rapid change and the dollar is not immune. Craig Karmin's Biography of the Dollar is an indispensable guide to understanding the way both the U.S... Read more >

The Second World
How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Parag Khanna

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7984-8 (0-8129-7984-2)

In The Second World, scholar Parag Khanna, chosen as one of Esquire’s 75 Most Influential People of the Twenty-First Century, reveals how America’s future depends on its ability to compete with the European Union and China to forge relationships with the Second World, the pivotal regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia... Read more >

Land of Desire
Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
Written by William R. Leach

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 1994
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75411-4 (0-679-75411-3)

Nominated for the National Book Award

Land of Desire tells the story of a fundamental transformation in the culture and economy of America--the rise of mass-market consumerism and the attendant shift to a society preoccupied with consumption, well-being, luxury, and acquisition.  Tracing the ascendancy of mass-market culture from its beginnings in the 1890s... Read more >

The Future of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72644-6 (0-375-72644-6)

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating... Read more >

In Spite of the Gods
The Rise of Modern India
Written by Edward Luce

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7977-3 (1-4000-7977-2)

As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues.

Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South... Read more >

Crude World
The Violent Twilight of Oil
Written by Peter Maass

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4169-5 (1-4000-4169-4)

A stunning and revealing examination of oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.

Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones. In Crude... 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 >

A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6680-0 (0-8129-6680-5)

A Future Perfect is a comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change world economies, governments, and individual's lives.

Addressing questions posed by globalization's critics and proponents, Micklethwait and Wooldridge examine topics such as: Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all... Read more >

An Age of New Possibilities
How Humane Values and an Entrepreneurial Spirit Will Lead Us into the Future
Written by Reinhard Mohn

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5344-5 (1-4000-5344-7)

Reinhard Mohn, the innovative entrepreneur who built Bertelsmann into a global powerhouse, draws on his more than fifty years of experience in the private sector, to explain how entrepreneurial leaders have a unique ability to lead businesses into the future by adapting to new socioeconomic realities.

He shows how private businesses have... Read more >

The Case Against Free Trade
GATT, NAFTA and the Globalization of Corporate Power An Earth Island Press Book
Contribution by Ralph Nader and Jerry Brown

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: September 22, 1993
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-169-2 (1-55643-169-4)

This book examines the notion of "free trade" and the issues raised by adopting the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Essays by Ralph Nader, Jerry Brown, William Greider, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ritchie, Wendell Berry, Pat Choate, and others.

Excerpts from Case Against Free... Read more >

Illicit
How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Written by Moises Naim

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7884-4 (1-4000-7884-9)

Pick up a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will find reports of illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, and laundered money or counterfeit goods. Illicit trades are booming and so are the traffickers’ revenues—and their political influence. Hamstrung bureaucracies in rich and poor countries alike are losing the battles against... Read more >

Boeing versus Airbus
The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business
Written by John Newhouse

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7872-1 (1-4000-7872-5)

From the author of the classic study of the aviation industry, The Sporty Game, a new book that chronicles the high-stakes rivalry between the world’s two largest aircraft manufacturers—companies that will bet the house on a single airplane.

Long one of America’s most successful and admired corporations—and its biggest exporter—Boeing struggled to... Read more >

Hoodwinked
An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded--and What We Need to Do to Remake Them
Written by John Perkins

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-58992-7 (0-307-58992-7)

John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man... Read more >