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A Life Too Short
The Tragedy of Robert Enke
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
WINNER OF THE 2011 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2012 FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR
Why does an international footballer with the world at his feet decide to take his own life?
On 10 November 2009 the German national goalkeeper, Robert...
by Joshua Prager
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
This is the untold story behind baseball's most legendary moment:The Shot Heard Round the World. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year.
At 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The ball sailed over the left field wall and into history. The Giants won...
A Path Appears
Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.
In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition
What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.
In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good...
Systems of Survival
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life.
In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores...
Beyond the Corporation
Humanity Working
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
* Beyond the Corporation is a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, it is the story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they work.
* The enterprises come in all sizes: from companies employing just a few dozen...
El Millonario Automático Dueño de Casa
Cómo acabar rico al comprar la casa de tus sueños
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2011
EL MÉTODO SENCILLO DE DAVID BACH PERMITIRÁ QUE TU PROPIA CASA TE HAGA RICO–AUTOMÁTICAMENTE.Por qué El Millonario Automático Dueño de Casa te es indispensable:No necesitas un pago inicial exorbitante para comprar una casa o un apartamento.No es necesario que tu crédito sea excelente.Debes...
Vayamos adelante
Las mujeres, el trabajo y la voluntad de liderar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A pesar de que las mujeres alcanzaron hace años niveles de educación similares a los de los hombres, ellos ostentan aún la gran mayoría de puestos directivos, tanto en las empresas como en los gobiernos. Por ello, las voces femeninas todavía no se escuchan por igual en las decisiones que más...
by Peter W. Bernstein, Annalyn Swan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on today richest Americans. Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the...
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened...
Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.
When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests...
Age of Greed
The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them.
As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast-paced, and incisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise...
by James Fallows
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011,...