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Released: March 15, 2013
"An intriguing mixture of challenging ideas and Utopian solutions to the broader issues regarding social welfare currently under debate."
Former
BusinessWeek assistant managing editor Nussbaum (Innovation and Design/Parson School of Design;
Good Intentions: How Big Business and the Medical Establishment Are Corrupting the Fight Against Aids, 1990, etc.) makes the case that the future of American capitalism lies in unleashing creativity.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"A step-by-step grasping of the enormity of an impending biodiversity crisis."
NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"A concise and controversial statement of what needs to be overcome if the world economy is to return to the path of growth and stability."
Henry, dean of the NYU Stern School of Business, argues that the United States and other first-world countries should heed lessons from the developing sector.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"An in-depth and compelling disclosure of the changes needed to protect the world's travel sites while maintaining a good profit margin."
"In 2012 the world passed the 1 billion mark for international trips," writes former
New York Times correspondent Becker (
America's Vietnam War, 1992, etc.), who provides an extensive exposé on the benefits and detriments of tourism.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 2013
"A compelling case for reforms that support family values in the continuing "march toward true equality.""
Facebook COO Sandberg (ranked fifth in
Forbes' 2011 list of the most powerful women in the world) reveals how gender discrimination still operates against her and other less-fortunate women.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 7, 2013
"The main focus on baseball provides a starting point for much more."
A fun approach to developing the discipline necessary to separate reproducible skills from the disruptive effects of chance in baseball, finance and life.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A provocative shift in focus from the technology of online transmission to the human element and a bold claim to explain "how word of mouth and social influence work...[and] can [be used to] make any product or idea contagious.""
A marketing professor at the Wharton School explains how fads are generated and why certain products, ideas and behaviors gain social currency.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"In an engaging, fully transparent, upbeat narrative, with chockablock footnotes and resources, Harris presents the MFI case very persuasively."
The story of a well-meaning American journalist who travels the poorest regions of the world in search of the human stories behind microfinance loans.
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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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