NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"Comaford has experienced undeniable success in the business world, but she fails to adequately translate her methods into a compelling narrative."
Standard techniques from the fields of self-help and salesmanship, repackaged as neuroscience and presented as a method to build effective teams.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"A major contribution to the literature of business success."
NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A useful guidebook for those desiring success through shrewd networking."
NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A fast-paced memoir of the easy-money hypercapitalist dream-turned-nightmare."
NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Wonkish at times, but a real eye-opener."
Searching, provocative history of the most secretive--and globally influential--of Swiss banks, "the most important bank in the world and predates both the IMF and the World Bank."
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A well-crafted investigation for nonspecialists about an obscure, needlessly arcane corner of Wall Street."
A Wall Street insider–turned–investigative journalist explains the collapse of the high-risk hedge fund Amaranth LLC and how it affected small businesses, pension funds and the price of natural gas across North America.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Creativity emerges from behind a number of guises, and Boyd and Goldenberg's structured approach fits the bill with so many familiar examples that many readers will wonder, "why didn't I think of that?""
Thinking outside the box is hardly the only spur to innovation, write marketing professors Boyd (Univ. of Cincinnati) and Goldenberg (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) in this bouncy yet grounded nod to the creative impulse.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Thought-provoking new views on transforming our relationships with currency."
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Compelling in its specificity and intriguing in its portrayal of leading financial institutions and their malfeasance."
Financial journalist Raghavan debuts with this account of the international web of insider trading at Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon hedge fund.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"The authors' tone is less alarmist than, say, David Stockman's, but there's not much room for good news here, either. "We might be wrong," they write. "History has yet to be written, after all." But if they're right, then there's plenty of cause for worry."
The enemy is at the wall--but no worry, since the city inside is pretty well destroyed already.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"An alarming, not-incorrect diagnosis, but an argument too one-sided and a solution so lofty as to be of little use."
Collaborating once more (
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, 2010), Nichols, the
Nation's Washington, D.C., correspondent, and academic McChesney (Communications/Univ. of Illinois) decry the pernicious influence of Big Money on our elections.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A relaxed yet disturbing look at an alternative lifestyle, its heady profits and its hidden costs. "
Straightforward overview of Northern California's "Emerald Triangle," the rural region renowned for producing America's best cannabis.
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