NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A data-packed, intriguing analysis that is not entirely convincing."
Former
Foreign Policy editor-in-chief Naím (
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hi-Jacking the Global Economy, 2006, etc.) argues that global institutions of power are losing their ability to command respect.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2013
"A great introduction to the functioning of central banking for general readers."
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke (
Essays on the Great Depression, 2000, etc.) presents his views on the Federal Reserve System, central banking and the financial crisis in four lectures given to students during the course of 2012.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 28, 2013
"A solid work of intellectual criticism."
A close look at Israeli society yields a sense of disorientating psychosis rather than clarity.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A trove of useful insider wisdom."
The former CEO of National Public Radio exposes the shortcomings of tax-deductible, not-for-profit organizations.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A thought-provoking presentation about already discernible global trends."
Business consultant Charan (
The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers, 2011, etc.) offers his view of where the world economy is headed in the next 20 years, along with his prescriptions for success.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"An important book for readers interested in what has been done, and what remains to be done, when it comes to safeguarding financial institutions."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A vivid, highly informed portrayal of the personalities, politics and policies dominating "the most important international gathering since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.""
The director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations revisits the 1944 conference that created "the new global monetary architecture" for the postwar world.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A mostly intriguing analysis of how "to understand philanthropy is to understand something about the American psyche and its fidelity to promoting enterprise and opportunity.""
Acs (Entrepreneurship and Public Policy/George Mason Univ.;
Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth, 2006, etc.) argues that philanthropy's contribution to American capitalism is unique.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A few helpful kernels amid a monotonous, repetitive text."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 18, 2013
"To ask and answer the question "What would Socrates do?" may not cure the pathologies of poverty, but Shorris insists it's a necessary exercise for the poor to begin to free themselves."
A prolific author and founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free program designed to teach reflective thinking to the disadvantaged, tells stories about the students and teachers touched by the experience.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness."
Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski in this gritty downer of a Rust Belt portrait.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 6, 2013
"A useful contribution to the ongoing shaping of the story of the recent financial crisis."
Greenberg collaborates with Cunningham (Law/George Washington Univ.;
Contracts in the Real World, 2012) to tell his side of the story of the incredible rise, and even more precipitous fall, of AIG, once the world's largest insurance company and the epicenter of one of the biggest bailouts ever.
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