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How Creativity Works
An examination of the new science of creativity explains how it involves distinct thought processes that can be tapped by anyone, revealing the practices of successful companies and creative individuals while considering how to use scientific principles to increase creativity.NPR Bestseller
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The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that economic inequality is achieved through stifling of true capitalism, then offers analysis and solutions.NPR Bestseller
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Attention All Passengers
The Airlines' Dangerous Descent — And How to Reclaim Our Skies
An examination of the airline industry reveals how airline executives are cutting costs and exposes how the U.S. government has conspired to place corporate interests above the interests of consumers, workers, the nation's economy, and the environment.
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Confidence Men
Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and in-depth research to relate the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown, from the trading floors of Lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway.NPR Bestseller
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Macrowikinomics
New Solutions for a Connected Planet
The authors show in more than a dozen fields, that we have reached a historic turning point: cling to the old industrial era paradigms or use collaborative innovation to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern and care for one another.
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves
From Washington to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, author and behavior economist Dan Ariely explores the question of dishonesty to help us understand why cheating is so prevalent and what we can do about it.
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Soccernomics
Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey—and Even Iraq—are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game of soccer works, "Soccernomics" reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about the world's most popular game. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup.
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The Mark Inside
A Perfect Swindle, A Cunning Revenge, And A Small History Of The Big Con
A narrative history of con artistry in America documents the early twentieth-century efforts of J. Frank Norfleet to track down a gang of confidence men who swindled him out of everything he had.
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China Airborne
In 2011, China announced its 12th Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents the extraordinary scale of China's project, making clear how it stands to catalyze the nation's hypergrowth and hyperurbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America's transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.
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The Wizard of Lies
Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Examines the life, career, and notorious multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme of the formerly prominent New York financier, as well as the tragic consequences of his criminal activity.
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How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents
The best-selling author of Debt-Free U offers an entertaining finance guide for twentysomethings, which covers everything from buying a car to job hunting to saving for retirement.
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Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
An investigation into the secretive corporation traces the period between the Exxon Valdez accident and the Deepwater Horizion spill to profile chief executives Lee Raymond and Rex Tillerson as well as the company's role in violent international incidents.
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Top of the Rock
Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
An oral history of a definitive era in television pays tribute to the producers, actors, and programs that established new understandings of broadcast networking, sharing insider perspectives on how NBC subsequently lost its dominant standing.
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The Art Of The Sale
Learning From The Masters About The Business Of Life
An analysis of the role of persuasion in everyday life and the qualities of effective salespeople traces the author's international travels to learn the art and science of selling, providing coverage of such topics as the importance of a good narrative, the cultural influence of sales and role of sales as social discourse.
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White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
The author of the best-selling 13 Bankers present a sobering account of America's debt crisis that argues for specific measures to prevent a loss of the nation's superpower status, identifying the role of the national debt in the lives of everyday citizens while analyzing the government practices that are preventing debt reductions. 75,000 first printing.
