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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A thought-provoking presentation about already discernible global trends."
Business consultant Charan (
The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers, 2011, etc.) offers his view of where the world economy is headed in the next 20 years, along with his prescriptions for success.
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Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A depressing yet enlightening account that mostly overcomes its academic jargon."
The chronicle of MacLeish's (Medicine, Health and Society/Vanderbilt Univ.) immersion in the culture of Fort Hood, Texas, to understand daily life on military bases.
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Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"An important book for readers interested in what has been done, and what remains to be done, when it comes to safeguarding financial institutions."
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Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A mostly intriguing analysis of how "to understand philanthropy is to understand something about the American psyche and its fidelity to promoting enterprise and opportunity.""
Acs (Entrepreneurship and Public Policy/George Mason Univ.;
Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth, 2006, etc.) argues that philanthropy's contribution to American capitalism is unique.
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Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A convincing case against media hype and a premature rush to judgment."
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Released: Feb. 19, 2013
""What can't these SEALs do?" To hear Denver tell it, when it comes to special operations, hardly anything at all. Good reading for military buffs."
A 14-year veteran of more than 200 combat missions reflects on a career training and leading the Navy's elite warriors.
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Released: Feb. 18, 2013
"To ask and answer the question "What would Socrates do?" may not cure the pathologies of poverty, but Shorris insists it's a necessary exercise for the poor to begin to free themselves."
A prolific author and founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free program designed to teach reflective thinking to the disadvantaged, tells stories about the students and teachers touched by the experience.
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Released: Feb. 15, 2013
"May serve as a useful handbook for digital media strategists and marketers, but this dense tome will take a major effort for nonspecialists to fully understand."
A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content.
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Released: Feb. 14, 2013
"Dense with information and studded with numerous graphs and charts, this book provides a deeper understanding of what principles need to change in order to create local food environments."
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Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"A persuasive call for updating educational standards to meet the challenge of globalization."
Hobert, a Boston educator, proposes grading America's schools on how well curricula are training students in areas such as conflict-resolution skills and foreign languages, and encouraging travel abroad and service-related activities.
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Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Stimulating accounts of what is being accomplished by an ambitious generation."
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Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Just the thing to give your black helicopter–fearing uncle--or maybe not. An interesting exercise in geopolitical wonkiness."
A manifesto for multilateralism, one-worldism, social justice and all the other things that haunt tea party nightmares.
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