Anchor imprint: 1481 books
Down the Up Escalator
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning...
Morning Miracle
Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize–nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.
What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington...
House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After...
The Richest Woman in America
Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.
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No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal...
Top of the Rock
Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all...
Future Crimes
Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015
One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even...
With Charity for All
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem...
Deadly Monopolies
The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.
Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes...
Heads in Beds
A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and Waiter Rant, a rollicking, eye-opening, fantastically indiscreet memoir of a life spent (and misspent) in the hotel industry.
Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree...
New Power
How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
**NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The definitive guide to spreading ideas, building movements, and leaping ahead in our chaotic, connected age. Get the book New York Times columnist David Brooks calls "the best window I’ve seen into this new world."**
Why do some leap ahead while...
by James Surowiecki
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With...
Inferno
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through...
Origin
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2017) from the author of The Da Vinci Code.
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s...
by Dan Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.
Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett,...