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Truth
How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
"In a time when truth is under assault, Hector Macdonald is here to defend it. He offers clear-eyed, compelling guidelines for becoming a more accurate consumer and producer of information."--Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg
For fans...
Those Guys Have All the Fun
Inside the World of ESPN
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The inside story of one of the most successful networks in modern television history: ESPN.
In 1979 it began as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events, and now spans eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. Drawing upon over 500 interviews with the...
Presence
Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
New York Times bestseller
Wall Street Journal bestseller
USA Today bestseller
Publishers Weekly bestseller
Forbes "15 Best Business Books of the Year"
People "Book of the Week"
**AARP Editor's Pick
Translated into 34 languages and counting
"Presence...
The Formula
The Universal Laws of Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
"This is not just an important but an imperative project: to approach the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have. Barabasi is the person."
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the New York Times bestselling The Black Swan and Distinguished...
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions. Learn the importance of creative thinking, how to get a leg up on the competition, what your Facebook page says about you, and much more.
You are shrunk to...
Wealth Secrets of the One Percent
A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!)
From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters,...
Do What You Are
Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The bestselling guide to finding career success and satisfaction through Personality Type is now thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated.
Do What You Are -- the time-honored classic that has already helped more than a million people find truly satisfying work -- is now updated to include...
Truth and Consequences
Life Inside the Madoff Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims-including friends and family-out of billions of dollars in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff went to jail;...
Kids These Days
Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
"The first major accounting of the millennial generation written by someone who belongs to it." -- Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
"The best, most comprehensive work of social and economic analysis about our benighted generation." --Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens
"The...
Foolproof
Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
How the very things we create to protect ourselves, like money market funds or anti-lock brakes, end up being the biggest threats to our safety and wellbeing.
We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises....
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of...
The Sky's the Limit
Passion and Property in Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
From the author of the bestselling Philistines at the Hedgerow, a mesmerizing inside account of the high-stakes world of Manhattan residential real estate Steven Gaines takes us from New York's most expensive condominiums and co-ops to the offices of its most powerful real estate brokers to reveal...
The Rush
America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.
In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!"...
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.
Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic...