PublicAffairs
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
$22.99 Add to cartThe meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world — for contemporary art — is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break care… [more below]
- Author: Shnayerson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1541758722
- Language: English
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Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy
$32.00 Read moreThe full-scale assault on public education threatens not just public education but American democracy itself.
Public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black, a legal scholar and tenacious… [more below]- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1541788443
- Language: English
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Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being
$19.99 Add to cartHow does your personality shape your life and what, if anything, can you do about it?
Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think you’re in charge of your future, or do you surf t- Author: Little, Brian R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396383
- Language: English
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The Future of War: A History
$46.67 Read moreAn award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this u… [more below]
- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1610393058
- Language: English
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The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud’s Talking Cure
$32.00 Read moreThe story of a patient who changed the world, and the mystery of her illness.
In 1880, young Bertha Pappenheim got strangely ill–she lost her ability to control her voice and her body. She was treat- Author: Brownstein, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774647
- Language: English
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Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
$19.99 Add to cartInsights — like Darwin’s understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick’s breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA — can change the world. We also need insights i… [more below]
- Author: Klein, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1610393821
- Language: English
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The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America
$19.99 Add to cartAmerica was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line — the first American railroad — in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the spee… [more below]
- Author: Wolmar, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1610393473
- Language: English
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A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health, and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity
$16.99 Add to cartThe twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to chang… [more below]
- Author: Carstensen, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390571
- Language: English
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
$42.00 Add to cartThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to pr… [more below]
- Author: Zuboff, Shoshana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1610395697
- Language: English
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
$28.00 Read more* One of Inc.com’s “6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)”* Adam Grant’s # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spri… [more below]
- Author: Varol, Ozan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541762592
- Language: English
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
$19.99 Add to cart* One of Inc.com’s “6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)”* Adam Grant’s # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spri… [more below]
- Author: Varol, Ozan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1541762606
- Language: English
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A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
$21.99 Read moreAn acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.
Global demand for power is doubling e… [more below]- Author: Bryce, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1541736052
- Language: English
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Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company
$29.00 Read moreA manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organization
As business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewilde- Author: Foss, Nicolai J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541751043
- Language: English
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
$18.99 Add to cartThrough the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the “disease model” of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to rec… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397126
- Language: English
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
$19.99 Add to cartOne of Financial Times’ Books of the Year, 2015
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging- Author: Burgis, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397118
- Language: English
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The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses.
In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, a- Author: Shin, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541763025
- Language: English
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Branding That Means Business: How to Build Enduring Bonds Between Brands, Consumers and Markets
$27.00 Read moreA revelatory guide on how to build, sustain and grow a brand.
A brand is either beloved, or it’s noise. We live in a fast-paced world of immediate gratification where consumers can listen to any song- Author: Johnson, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701674
- Language: English
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Super Founders: What Data Reveals about Billion-Dollar Startups
$30.00 Add to cartSuper Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest–revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false
Ali- Author: Tamaseb, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1541768426
- Language: English
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
$45.50 Read moreThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.
The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite dif- Author: Gruber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762487
- Language: English
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
$19.99 Add to cartIn the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus’ groundbreaking sequel to Banker… [more below]
- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 1586486675
- Language: English
