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Released: Oct. 15, 2012
"Not exactly the Communist Manifesto, but Freeland's book ought to make news of its own as she makes the rounds--well worth reading."
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Released: Oct. 15, 2012
"A welcome addition to business and financial history, illuminating little-known aspects of the early republic."
The U.S. financial system was a creation of aliens--i.e., immigrants, who are numbered among the founding lights of the country.
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Released: Oct. 11, 2012
"An impressive look at the infinite complexities and cutthroat competition driving the deceptively simple business of 21st-century movie delivery."
Chronicle of the multibillion-dollar bout between Netflix and former heavyweight home-video champ Blockbuster.
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Released: Oct. 9, 2012
"Will be appreciated most by specialists in economics and globalism."
Left-leaning intellectuals examine the exceptional role of the United States in the development of global capitalism.
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Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Will resonate most with those who have already sat through Stevenson's classes."
The man who essentially invented the concept of entrepreneurship discusses some of the lessons he's learned.
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Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A thoughtful contribution to the dialogue surrounding immigration."
There are plenty of talented engineers available to design a new economic revolution. However, argues tech tycoon and immigrant Wadhwa, they're all going to--or staying in--places like India and China.
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Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"The Great Helmsman fully fleshed, still complicated and ever provocative."
A comprehensive, authoritative new study that challenges the received wisdom regarding Mao's relationship with Stalin and the Soviet Union.
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Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Too scholarly for most general readers, but still a valuable study that helps flesh out the caricature of conservatives as only believing "greed is good.""
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Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"A welcome relief from business books filled with dog-eat-dog advice."
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Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"A stimulating approach that presents a compelling outline for further detailed review."
Gleeson-White (
Australian Classics: 50 Great Writers and Their Celebration Works, 2007, etc.) finds the origins of double-entry bookkeeping in Renaissance mathematics and art.
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Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"An unabashedly free-spirited celebration of the power of outside-the-box thinking."
The warmly inspiring account of how a journalist and an artist stumbled into business and founded Banana Republic, one of the most successful clothing chains in retail history.
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Released: Sept. 25, 2012
"A hopeful book that generally fails to close the gap between our current situation and what Speth envisions for future generations."
A longtime environmental policymaker and activist suggests a sweeping plan to save the United States by revamping the entire political-economic-societal paradigm.
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