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Confucius Lives Next Door
What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives...
Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Reports from China
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic,...
When Work Disappears
The World of the New Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson...
Creating Freedom
The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The ideal of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are?
In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez brings together a torrent of...
A Consumers' Republic
The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.
Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption...
Tailspin
The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy...
Borrow
The American Way of Debt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In this lively history of consumer debt in America, economic historian Louis Hyman demonstrates that today’s problems are not as new as we think.
Borrow examines how the rise of consumer borrowing—virtually unknown before the twentieth century—has altered our culture and economy. Starting...
1898
The Birth of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In 1898: The Birth of the American Century, David Traxel tells the story of a watershed year, a year of foreign conflict, extravagant adventure, and breakneck social change that forged a new America—a sudden empire with many far-flung possessions, a dynamic new player upon the global stage.
At...
The Circle of Innovation
You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Tom Peters--brilliant, original, and perhaps the most inspiring and listened-to business thinker of our time--has a lot on his mind these days. And he wants to share it in The Circle of Innovation.
The world of business is in a permanent state of flux, he argues, a state of chaos in which constant...
A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these...
by Randy Charles Epping
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A comprehensive, accessible guide to understanding today's global economy, from the author of the bestselling A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy.
While reporting on today's world, business and mainstream media alike use terms and mention trends that even the savviest consumer may find...
Money
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind’s greatest inventions.
What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural...
The Contest of the Century
The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and the United States that will dominate twenty-first-century world affairs—an inside account of Beijing’s quest for influence and an explanation of how America can...
White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the...