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      <title>The Keys to the Kingdom by Jeff Shear</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307832207&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307832207&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307832207&quot;&gt;The Keys to the Kingdom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=27963&quot;&gt;Jeff Shear&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Doubleday | Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Business &amp; Economics - International; Business &amp; Economics - Accounting - International | &lt;b&gt;$17.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-83220-7 (0-307-83220-1)&lt;p&gt;The United States is in a  war. This war is not fought with missiles and bullets, but with  dollars, yen, and deutsche marks. This is a war for dominance in the  global marketplace, a war for economic supremacy. The United States is  losing this war. Year after year, tens of billions of dollars flow from  American bank accounts to Japanese pockets&amp;mdash;the stark meaning of the  oft-cited &quot;merchandise trade deficit&quot;&amp;mdash;half a trillion dollars worth in  the last decade. The United States is not losing because the Japanese  are devious, or mercenary, or &quot;unfair traders.&quot; We are losing because of  our own greed, myopia, and arrogance. &lt;i&gt;The Keys to the Kingdom&lt;/i&gt;, a  masterful account of bureaucratic ineptitude, political bloodshed,  high-level intrigue, and sometimes breathtaking stupidity, chronicles  the first major battle in this war. Aerospace and aviation products are  America's most lucrative exports, bringing in billions of dollars and  providing millions of high-wage jobs. The Japanese, having developed  world-class auto, steel, and electronics industries (in the process  devastating large segments of the American economy), make no secret of  the fact that aviation and aerospace are their next targets. Despite  these high stakes, the government of the United States, incredibly,  agreed to give the Japanese some of the most sensitive, state-of-the-art  aviation technology and design information America possesses&amp;mdash;to build  a plane called the FS-X. How this astonishing event transpired is the  subject of &lt;i&gt;The Keys to the Kingdom&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-04-24T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Land Grabbers by Fred Pearce</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003411&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807003411&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003411&quot;&gt;The Land Grabbers&lt;/a&gt; The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=122649&quot;&gt;Fred Pearce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt; | Beacon Press | Social Science - Third World Development; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Nature - Environmental Conservation &amp; Protection | &lt;b&gt;$17.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8070-0341-1 (0-8070-0341-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Raises complex and urgent issues.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Booklist&lt;/i&gt;, starred review&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world&amp;rsquo;s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Land Grabbers&lt;/i&gt; is a first-of-its-kind expos&amp;eacute; that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce&amp;rsquo;s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Pearce&amp;rsquo;s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly &amp;ldquo;empty&amp;rdquo; land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet&amp;rsquo;s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Future by Al Gore</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812992946&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780812992946&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812992946&quot;&gt;The Future&lt;/a&gt; Six Drivers of Global Change&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35400&quot;&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 592 pages | Random House | Political Science - Globalization; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Social Science - Sociology | &lt;b&gt;$30.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8129-9294-6 (0-8129-9294-6)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the former vice president and #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author comes &lt;i&gt;An Inconvenient Truth&lt;/i&gt; for everything&amp;mdash;a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet&amp;rsquo;s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Future Shock&lt;/i&gt; and John Naisbitt&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Megatrends&lt;/i&gt;. In &lt;i&gt;The Future,&lt;/i&gt; Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels &amp;ldquo;Earth Inc.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of &amp;ldquo;the Global Mind,&amp;rdquo; which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years&amp;mdash;from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet&amp;rsquo;s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science&amp;mdash;and are putting control of evolution in human hands.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth&amp;rsquo;s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths&amp;mdash;no matter how &amp;ldquo;inconvenient&amp;rdquo; they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bloomberg&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;In &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Historically grounded . . . Gore&amp;rsquo;s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-01-29T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Future by Al Gore</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679644309&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780679644309&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679644309&quot;&gt;The Future&lt;/a&gt; Six Drivers of Global Change&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35400&quot;&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 592 pages | Random House | Political Science - Globalization; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Social Science - Sociology | &lt;b&gt;$15.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-679-64430-9 (0-679-64430-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the former vice president and #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author comes &lt;i&gt;An Inconvenient Truth&lt;/i&gt; for everything&amp;mdash;a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet&amp;rsquo;s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Future Shock&lt;/i&gt; and John Naisbitt&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Megatrends&lt;/i&gt;. In &lt;i&gt;The Future,&lt;/i&gt; Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels &amp;ldquo;Earth Inc.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of &amp;ldquo;the Global Mind,&amp;rdquo; which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years&amp;mdash;from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet&amp;rsquo;s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science&amp;mdash;and are putting control of evolution in human hands.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth&amp;rsquo;s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths&amp;mdash;no matter how &amp;ldquo;inconvenient&amp;rdquo; they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bloomberg&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;In &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Historically grounded . . . Gore&amp;rsquo;s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-01-29T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Future by Al Gore</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449015469&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780449015469&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449015469&quot;&gt;The Future&lt;/a&gt; Six Drivers of Global Change&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35400&quot;&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35400&quot;&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Compact Disc&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Political Science - Globalization; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Social Science - Sociology | &lt;b&gt;$50.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-449-01546-9 (0-449-01546-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the former vice president and #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author comes &lt;i&gt;An Inconvenient Truth&lt;/i&gt; for everything&amp;mdash;a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet&amp;rsquo;s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Future Shock&lt;/i&gt; and John Naisbitt&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Megatrends&lt;/i&gt;. In &lt;i&gt;The Future,&lt;/i&gt; Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels &amp;ldquo;Earth Inc.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of &amp;ldquo;the Global Mind,&amp;rdquo; which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years&amp;mdash;from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet&amp;rsquo;s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science&amp;mdash;and are putting control of evolution in human hands.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth&amp;rsquo;s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths&amp;mdash;no matter how &amp;ldquo;inconvenient&amp;rdquo; they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bloomberg&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;In &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Historically grounded . . . Gore&amp;rsquo;s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-01-29T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Future by Al Gore</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449015476&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780449015476&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449015476&quot;&gt;The Future&lt;/a&gt; Six Drivers of Global Change&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35400&quot;&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35400&quot;&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Political Science - Globalization; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Social Science - Sociology | &lt;b&gt;$25.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-449-01547-6 (0-449-01547-5)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the former vice president and #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author comes &lt;i&gt;An Inconvenient Truth&lt;/i&gt; for everything&amp;mdash;a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet&amp;rsquo;s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Future Shock&lt;/i&gt; and John Naisbitt&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Megatrends&lt;/i&gt;. In &lt;i&gt;The Future,&lt;/i&gt; Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels &amp;ldquo;Earth Inc.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of &amp;ldquo;the Global Mind,&amp;rdquo; which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years&amp;mdash;from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet&amp;rsquo;s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science&amp;mdash;and are putting control of evolution in human hands.&lt;br&gt; &amp;bull; There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth&amp;rsquo;s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths&amp;mdash;no matter how &amp;ldquo;inconvenient&amp;rdquo; they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Praise for &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bloomberg&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;In &lt;i&gt;The Future&lt;/i&gt; . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Historically grounded . . . Gore&amp;rsquo;s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-01-29T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Land Grabbers by Fred Pearce</title>
      <author>
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      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003244&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807003244&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807003244&quot;&gt;The Land Grabbers&lt;/a&gt; The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=122649&quot;&gt;Fred Pearce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Beacon Press | Social Science - Third World Development; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth; Nature - Environmental Conservation &amp; Protection | &lt;b&gt;$27.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8070-0324-4 (0-8070-0324-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Raises complex and urgent issues.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Booklist&lt;/i&gt;, starred review&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world&amp;rsquo;s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Land Grabbers&lt;/i&gt; is a first-of-its-kind expos&amp;eacute; that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce&amp;rsquo;s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Pearce&amp;rsquo;s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly &amp;ldquo;empty&amp;rdquo; land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet&amp;rsquo;s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-05-29T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Land Grabbers by Fred Pearce</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2012-05-29T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Social Animal by David Brooks</title>
      <author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979374&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780812979374&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979374&quot;&gt;The Social Animal&lt;/a&gt; The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3375&quot;&gt;David Brooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 448 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Social Science - Sociology; Self-Help - Personal Growth; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8129-7937-4 (0-8129-7937-0)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#1 &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With unequaled insight and brio, &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain&amp;rsquo;s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made&amp;mdash;the natural habitat of &lt;i&gt;The Social Animal&lt;/i&gt;. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. &lt;i&gt;The Social Animal&lt;/i&gt; is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time&amp;mdash;one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-01-03T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Innovator's Manifesto by Michael Raynor</title>
      <author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385531672&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385531672&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385531672&quot;&gt;The Innovator's Manifesto&lt;/a&gt; Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=67576&quot;&gt;Michael Raynor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Management; Business &amp; Economics - Planning &amp; Forecasting; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth | &lt;b&gt;$12.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-53167-2 (0-385-53167-2)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;In this compelling new book, Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the national bestseller &lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Solution&lt;/i&gt;, shows that Disruption, Clayton M. Christensen&amp;rsquo;s landmark theory that explains how fringe ideas come to redefine entire markets, not only explains why new businesses emerge and mature companies fall &amp;ndash; it actually helps to predict the future success of new ventures more accurately.&amp;nbsp; Raynor&amp;rsquo;s groundbreaking research, and deeper understanding of the mechanisms and drivers of Disruption make this approach to innovation more powerful and more useful than ever. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Despite the groaning shelves of books offering advice on innovation, most managers continue to struggle to create the profitable growth their companies need.&amp;nbsp; The reason?&amp;nbsp; The vast majority of management theories base their prescriptions on explanations of the past.&amp;nbsp; When it comes to &lt;i&gt;predicting&lt;/i&gt; successful innovation, a willingness to apply the empirical and theoretical rigor of the scientific method to prove what will work in the real world has been notable by its absence.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Until now.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;In the &lt;i&gt;Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Manifesto&lt;/i&gt;, Michael E. Raynor, a director at Deloitte Consulting, LLP., coauthor of &lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Solution&lt;/i&gt;, and author of &lt;i&gt;The Strategy Paradox&lt;/i&gt;, shows how Disruption theory can help managers more accurately predict which businesses will survive &amp;ndash; and which will die.&amp;nbsp; In fact, Raynor argues that Disruption theory is the only theory which has been statistically &lt;i&gt;proven&lt;/i&gt; to be an effective predictive tool.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;The book draws on the research of the New Business Initiatives (NBI) group at Intel, analyzing forty-eight new ventures that NBI researched, scrutinized, and ultimately funded.&amp;nbsp; The group&amp;rsquo;s success rate was comparable to venture capitalists throughout the industry &amp;ndash; roughly 10 percent.&amp;nbsp; However, when the principles of Disruption theory were applied to these forty-eight funded ventures in controlled experiments, the subjects&amp;rsquo; accuracy rates improved significantly &amp;ndash; by almost 40 percent.&amp;nbsp; Raynor replicated these experiments with over 300 MBA students at schools in the United States and Canada, including Harvard, with even more impressive results:&amp;nbsp; systematic improvements in predictive accuracy of up to 50 percent.&amp;nbsp; In other words, not only is disruption effective, it can be readily and successfully taught and applied.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Manifesto&lt;/i&gt; is the most significant advance in our understanding of the mechanisms and implications of Disruption theory since Christensen&amp;rsquo;s seminal 1997 work, &lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Dilemma&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp; For the first time disruption theory has been shown to give managers and investors effective tools they can use in their efforts to create the success they seek.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2011-08-09T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Innovator's Manifesto by Michael Raynor</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385531665&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385531665&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385531665&quot;&gt;The Innovator's Manifesto&lt;/a&gt; Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=67576&quot;&gt;Michael Raynor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 256 pages | Crown Business | Business &amp; Economics - Management; Business &amp; Economics - Planning &amp; Forecasting; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth | &lt;b&gt;$23.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-53166-5 (0-385-53166-4)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;In this compelling new book, Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the national bestseller &lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Solution&lt;/i&gt;, shows that Disruption, Clayton M. Christensen&amp;rsquo;s landmark theory that explains how fringe ideas come to redefine entire markets, not only explains why new businesses emerge and mature companies fall &amp;ndash; it actually helps to predict the future success of new ventures more accurately.&amp;nbsp; Raynor&amp;rsquo;s groundbreaking research, and deeper understanding of the mechanisms and drivers of Disruption make this approach to innovation more powerful and more useful than ever. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Despite the groaning shelves of books offering advice on innovation, most managers continue to struggle to create the profitable growth their companies need.&amp;nbsp; The reason?&amp;nbsp; The vast majority of management theories base their prescriptions on explanations of the past.&amp;nbsp; When it comes to &lt;i&gt;predicting&lt;/i&gt; successful innovation, a willingness to apply the empirical and theoretical rigor of the scientific method to prove what will work in the real world has been notable by its absence.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Until now.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;In the &lt;i&gt;Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Manifesto&lt;/i&gt;, Michael E. Raynor, a director at Deloitte Consulting, LLP., coauthor of &lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Solution&lt;/i&gt;, and author of &lt;i&gt;The Strategy Paradox&lt;/i&gt;, shows how Disruption theory can help managers more accurately predict which businesses will survive &amp;ndash; and which will die.&amp;nbsp; In fact, Raynor argues that Disruption theory is the only theory which has been statistically &lt;i&gt;proven&lt;/i&gt; to be an effective predictive tool.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;The book draws on the research of the New Business Initiatives (NBI) group at Intel, analyzing forty-eight new ventures that NBI researched, scrutinized, and ultimately funded.&amp;nbsp; The group&amp;rsquo;s success rate was comparable to venture capitalists throughout the industry &amp;ndash; roughly 10 percent.&amp;nbsp; However, when the principles of Disruption theory were applied to these forty-eight funded ventures in controlled experiments, the subjects&amp;rsquo; accuracy rates improved significantly &amp;ndash; by almost 40 percent.&amp;nbsp; Raynor replicated these experiments with over 300 MBA students at schools in the United States and Canada, including Harvard, with even more impressive results:&amp;nbsp; systematic improvements in predictive accuracy of up to 50 percent.&amp;nbsp; In other words, not only is disruption effective, it can be readily and successfully taught and applied.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Manifesto&lt;/i&gt; is the most significant advance in our understanding of the mechanisms and implications of Disruption theory since Christensen&amp;rsquo;s seminal 1997 work, &lt;i&gt;The Innovator&amp;rsquo;s Dilemma&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp; For the first time disruption theory has been shown to give managers and investors effective tools they can use in their efforts to create the success they seek.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2011-08-09T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <updated>2011-05-25T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Social Animal by Arthur Morey</title>
      <author>
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      <updated>2011-03-22T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Social Animal by David Brooks</title>
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      <updated>2011-03-08T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Social Animal by Arthur Morey</title>
      <author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307739018&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307739018&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307739018&quot;&gt;The Social Animal&lt;/a&gt; The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3375&quot;&gt;David Brooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=69113&quot;&gt;Arthur Morey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Social Science - Sociology; Self-Help - Personal Growth; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth | &lt;b&gt;$25.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-73901-8 (0-307-73901-5)&lt;p&gt;With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; columnist and bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Bobos in Paradise, &lt;/i&gt;has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica&amp;mdash;how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature. A scientific revolution has occurred&amp;mdash;we have learned more about the human brain in the last thirty years than we had in the previous three thousand. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind&amp;mdash;not a dark, vestigial place but a creative and enchanted one, where most of the brain&amp;rsquo;s work gets done. This is the realm of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality traits, and social norms: the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made. The natural habitat of&lt;i&gt; The Social Animal.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to school; from the &amp;ldquo;odyssey years&amp;rdquo; that have come to define young adulthood to the high walls of poverty; from the nature of attachment, love, and commitment, to the nature of effective leadership. He reveals the deeply social aspect of our very minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. Along the way, he demolishes conventional definitions of success while looking toward a culture based on trust and humility.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Social Animal&lt;/i&gt; is a moving and nuanced intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. Impossible to put down, it is an essential book for our time, one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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    <entry>
      <title>The Last Empty Places by Peter Stark</title>
      <author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345521903&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345521903&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345521903&quot;&gt;The Last Empty Places&lt;/a&gt; A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29540&quot;&gt;Peter Stark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 256 pages | Ballantine Books | Nature; History; Business &amp; Economics - Development &amp; Growth | &lt;b&gt;$14.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-345-52190-3 (0-345-52190-0)&lt;p&gt;Americans have shaped the idea of wilderness, and it has shaped us.&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Last Empty Places&lt;/b&gt; is one man&amp;rsquo;s love letter to the enduring American wild, where our country&amp;rsquo;s character was forged and its destiny set in motion.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Memories of growing up in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods inspired writer Peter Stark to seek out untouched tracts of the American wilderness. What he discovered in these &amp;ldquo;blank spots&amp;rdquo; on the U.S. map is that these places are actually teeming with the rich history of our nation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Stark journeys into the great wild to four of the emptiest expanses he can find&amp;mdash;northern Maine, central Pennsylvania, the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, and southeast Oregon&amp;mdash;and in so doing weaves together a majestic and dramatic tale of frontiersmen and fighters, naturalists and philosophers, &amp;eacute;migr&amp;eacute;s and natives. But he also goes beyond that, acknowledging to some of the great minds that first framed our relationship to the wilderness that would become our home&amp;mdash;passionate thinkers and writers including Thoreau, Emerson, and John Muir.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The result is a narrative that blends nature and history in a vivid new way, a tale that provides an unforgettable window into our country&amp;rsquo;s past and present.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2010-05-25T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Switch by Dan Heath</title>
      <author>
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      <updated>2010-02-16T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Switch by Dan Heath</title>
      <author>
      	<name>www.randomhouse.com</name>
      </author>
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      <updated>2010-02-16T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Switch by Charles Kahlenberg</title>
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