Business & Economics:

King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
Written by David Carey and John E. Morris

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $16.00

Strippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . .
 
The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street. David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone... Read more >

My Vast Fortune
The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist
Written by Andrew Tobias

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $11.99

"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit... Read more >

Life Inc
How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back
Written by Douglas Rushkoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.00

Now includes “The Life Inc. Guide to Reclaiming the Value You Create”

In Life Inc, award-winning writer Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. The resulting ideology, corporatism, has infiltrated all aspects of civics, commerce, and culture—from the founding of... Read more >

The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Price: $18.00

By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.

The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either... Read more >

The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Price: $11.99

By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.

The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either... Read more >

King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
Written by David Carey and John E. Morris

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $13.99

Strippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . .
 
The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street. David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone... Read more >

Comeback America
Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Written by David Walker

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $15.00

He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.

As comptroller general of the United States... Read more >

The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $17.00

 
A black 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... Read more >

The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $13.99

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >

Comeback America
Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Written by David Walker

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $11.99

He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.

As comptroller general of the United States and head... Read more >

Comeback America
Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Written by David Walker
Read by Bob Walter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $20.00

He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.

As comptroller general of the United States... Read more >

Life Inc.
How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Written by Douglas Rushkoff

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $11.99

Now includes “The Life Inc. Guide to Reclaiming the Value You Create”

In Life Inc, award-winning writer Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. The resulting ideology, corporatism, has infiltrated all aspects of civics, commerce, and culture—from the founding of the first... Read more >

The Logic of Life
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Written by Tim Harford

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.00

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is... Read more >

The Logic of Life
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Written by Tim Harford

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $11.99

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is... Read more >

The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
Written by Jonathan A. Knee

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $16.00

Investment bankers used to be known as respectful of their clients, loyal to their firms, and chary of the financial system that allowed them to prosper. What happened? From his prestigious Wall Street perches at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Jonathan A. Knee witnessed firsthand the lavish deal-making of the freewheeling... Read more >

The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $30.00

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >

Managing at the Speed of Change
How Resilient Managers Succeed and Prosper Where Others Fail
Written by Daryl R. Conner

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Price: $16.99

This classic, newly updated, is an indispensable source for anyone–from mid-level managers to CEOs–who must execute key business initiatives quickly and effectively. Once groundbreaking and now time-honored, Managing at the Speed of Change has helped countless business leaders learn how to orchestrate transitions vital to their organizations’ success. Rather than focusing... Read more >

Adventure Capitalist
The Ultimate Road Trip
Written by Jim Rogers

Format: Trade Paperback, 392 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.00

Drive . . . and grow rich!

The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance”... Read more >

The Number
How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
Written by Alex Berenson
Foreword by Mark Cuban

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.00

With a new Afterword by the author and a new Foreword by Mark Cuban

In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong in corporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, examines the common thread connecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco, and other recent... Read more >