NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2012
"A highly useful companion to making financial decisions, though not for the innumerate or the casual investor."
Densely structured handbook, full of subheads and tables and big numbers, on how to structure a portfolio.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"What would Howard Roark do? Maybe find a more persuasive apology for Randian money-grubbism."
"Capitalism is the system of selfishness--of
rational selfishness." Ayn Rand acolytes Brook (
Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, 2010) and Watkins sing the same old hymn, with a slightly different chorus, to the same old choir.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"Investigative journalism at its best, as Johnston seeks to comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable."
Veteran investigative reporter Johnston reveals how businesses, with the consent of government agencies, rip off consumers in plain sight.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"A winning story for fans of Friday Night Lights and believers in the American dream."
The story of a successful CEO who left his position to pursue a long-deferred dream of becoming a college football coach.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"A smart, savvy guide for working women looking to climb the professional ladder and maintain positions of power."
In this follow-up to her bestseller
Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead…but Gutsy Girls Do (1996), former
Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief White (
The Sixes, 2011, etc.) offers straight-shooting career advice to women at all stages of their professional lives.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Strictly for graduate school seminars."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"An occasionally intriguing look into political grappling at the highest level but mostly an exercise in excruciating detail, most of which boils down to trivial political gossip."
A reconstruction of how Republican brinkmanship threatened to bring down the global economy by forcing a U.S. debt default.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 5, 2012
"A fascinating historical narrative, even if Nelson occasionally confuses cause and effect with correlation or even coincidence in some of his case studies."
A revisionist history of financial collapses in the United States radiating to other parts of the globe, with implications for what really caused the ongoing economic meltdown.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"An informative, optimistic look at how a partnership between private capital and government can unleash America's innovative capabilities."
Two consultants associated with Clean Edge, a clean-tech advisory firm, review potential areas for investment in clean energy and technology.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Although not the first biography of Volcker, Silber's book is the most up-to-date and blessedly free of jargon."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"A refreshingly different view of manufacturing that clearly identifies what is necessary to compete globally."
With the assistance of Cox (
Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862, 2005, etc.), automotive industry veteran Dauch (
Passion for Manufacturing, 1993) provides a unique view of manufacturing and its role in the future of the United States.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Short and lively, this is a timely contribution to making the ongoing discussion more productive."
Reich (Public Policy/Univ. of California, Berkeley;
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, 2011, etc.) spells out what he thinks citizens need to do to ensure Washington acts on behalf of the public good, not special interests.
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