NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Current affairs books always run the risk of going rather quickly from the New Releases shelf to the remainder bin, but Feldman's book carries enough insight to warrant serious attention from anyone interested in what may well be the defining relationship in global affairs for decades to come."
NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"A useful guidebook for those desiring success through shrewd networking."
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 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
"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: April 4, 2013
"The most complete and authoritative account to date of the response of the central bankers to the global financial crisis."
Holding that monetary policy is too subtle and complex to entrust to politicians beholden to the whims of an uninformed electorate,
Washington Post financial columnist Irwin convincingly argues that independent central banks are an essential element of responsible economic stewardship.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Thought-provoking new views on transforming our relationships with currency."
NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Intriguing findings that should play a transformative role, not only in the field of psychology, but also in corporate boardrooms."
Experimental psychologist Klein (
Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, 2009, etc.) examines the transformative role of creative insight.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Generally frank and well-meaning but also boosterish and not always tight in its arguments."
A mostly cleareyed look at how taking environmental concerns into account is good business.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"An interesting tale of how curiosity and entrepreneurship merged to transform TV and education."
A memoir from Hendricks, the founder and chairman of Discovery Communications, the world's leading educational communications and TV company, which boasts more than 400 million subscribers living in 215 countries.
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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: May 1, 2013
"Mele's anecdotes from the Dean campaign are a genuine, historic glimpse into real changes wrought by the Internet, but these are mostly lost in uninteresting, uninspired discussions of changes our networked future might bring."
An exploration of the idea that our densely networked online future will spell the end for big institutions.
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