Reset
How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Written by Kurt Andersen
Read by Kurt Andersen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $7.50
“This
is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in
Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host of public...
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A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $16.95
A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture? What will happen to individual careers? Gathering evidence...
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Irrational Exuberance
Written by Robert J. Shiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $16.00
As Robert Shiller’s new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets “has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” As we all, ordinary Americans and...
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How Walmart Is Destroying America (And the World)
And What You Can Do about It
Written by Bill Quinn
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $10.95
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world'¬?s largest private employer. In this third edition of
How Wal-Mart Is Destroying...
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A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Written by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $16.95
A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture? What will happen to individual careers? Gathering evidence...
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The Nature of Economies
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $13.95
Nearly forty years after
The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs--one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations--brings us a modern classic on economies and ecology. Original and eloquent, this new book looks at the...
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The Nature of Economies
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
From the revered author of the classic
The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.
Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused...
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