A capitalism for the people

recapturing the lost genius of american prosperity

A rising star in economics takes a forceful and sometimes personal look at how pro-business forces overwhelmed the pro-market principles that made American capitalism great, and how to get it back on track. Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the ...

The rise of the creative class

Ten years after its first publication, the theory of the Creative Class is more relevant than ever. Now for the first time, this original book is revised and updated for a new generation. First published in 2002, "The Rise of the Creative Class" weaved storytelling ...

Strategic vision

America and the crisis of global power

In this title, one of the wise men of US foreign policy explains America's vital role in achieving global stability and provides a long-term strategic vision. By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the ...

Neanderthal man

in search of lost genomes

What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? "Neanderthal Man" tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins. Beginning ...

Armies of Heaven

the First Crusade and the quest for Apocalypse

At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders-- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads--indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time ...

Pricing the future

finance, physics, and the 300-year journey to the black-scholes equation: a story of genius and discovery

Options have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities in Antwerp and Amsterdam - but for centuries nobody knew what their true value really was. They were traded at prices determined by ...

The folly of fools

the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life

Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive--but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can ...

The end of influence

what happens when other countries have the money

This is a provocative argument about the future of American power now that the US is not the world's biggest banker. At the end of World War II, America had all the money-and all the power. Now, after the Great Crash of 2008, America ...

Freedom for the thought that we hate

a biography of the first amendment

From one of America's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment comes an eloquent essay on the importance of expression and the need for 'activist judges' More than virtually any other nation on earth, Americans enjoy the freedom to say and write what they ...

The futures

the rise of the speculator and the origins of the world's biggest markets

Forbes magazine's Emily Lambert take us behind the scenes of the biggest markets in the world and into the oversize personalities of the men who make them happen. Commodities exchanges have become some of the largest financial markets in our global economic system, yet ...

The haves and the have-nots

a brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality

One of the world's leading experts on global inequality tells the fascinating story of wealth and poverty through the ages in a series of short, quirky vignettes. Inequality is a surprisingly slippery issue because it involves not just straight comparisons of, say, two individuals ...

A wicked company

the forgotten radicalism of the european enlightenment

The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbachs Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbachs house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot ...

Rich brother, rich sister

two different paths to God, money and happiness

Two lives, together, then apart, then together again, as a brother and a sister discover the riches of life. Rich Brother, Rich Sister combines the inspirational true life stories of Robert Kiyosaki and his sister Emi into one book that will reaffirm your belief in ...

A land so strange

the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca: the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked spaniard who walked across America in the Sixteenth Century

In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane, knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, and ultimately doomed by a disastrous decision to separate the men from their ships, the ...

Who's your city?

how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life

From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" comes a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place, with advice on how to find the right place for you. It's a mantra of the age of globalization that where we ...

The housing boom and bust

The inimitable Thomas Sowell casts a critical eye at the bubble that shattered the world economy - a cautionary tale that will be sure to spark controversy. Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decades ...

The Cluetrain Manifiesto

Auts. Rick Levine...[et.al]."The Cluetrain Manifesto" is as potent and relevant now as it was when came out ten years ago. "The Cluetrain Manifesto" began as a Web site in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the ...

The laws of disruption

harnessing the new forces that govern life and business in the digital age

The author of "Unleashing the Killer App" takes you on a guided tour of the gap between the outer edge of innovation and our ability to keep up with it. Ten years into the Internet revolution, it is painfully clear that one key element of ...

The enemy at the gate

Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the #Golden Apple,# as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled ...

The China strategy

Harnessing the Power of the World´s Fastest-Growing Economy

Tse, chairman of Booz & Co., Greater China, offers a comprehensive and worthwhile roadmap for doing business in China, a burgeoning market that can't be ignored. Tse argues convincingly that even companies that are already successfully doing business there will find themselves inadequately prepared for ...