When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there was a lot of merit in creating a privately funded, clean energy source for energy-s
On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a hal
Power is shifting?from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, be
“When Dave Garroway welcomed viewers to Today on that day in 1952, he ushered in a new era in broadcasting. . . . It was a place where viewers could turn to each morning to satisfy their appetite for
The point of departure for this book is an antique saying: life is incomplete unless love, poverty, and war have been experienced. In his introduction, Hitchens, one of the most controversial intelle
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women p
As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line on Marathon Monday in Boston in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change. She had no idea that in a matter of minutes she wo
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany.This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic G
Smick’s The World is Curved (2008) was a reply to Thomas Friedman and one of the first books to argue that globalization had unleashed dangerous and damaging economic forces. In An Economy for Everyon
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in France.With this guide, you’ll explore sleepy villages, romantic hill towns, and cosmopolitan cities, including
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Ireland.With this guide, you can explore lively Dublin, quaint Kilkenny, and the moss-draped ruins of the Ring o
?How did we miss that?” is perhaps the scariest question for a business leader to face: it's the one that they have to ask themselves when one day they wake up to discover that a competitor or startup
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when visiting the island city of Venice.Following the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore Venice’s most important landm
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the City of LightParis.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore the grand Champs-Elysees, the eye
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Florence and Tuscany.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll discover the geographic heart of Italy
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Spain.In this guide, you’ll find an inviting mix of exciting cities and cozy towns. Explore the lively cities of
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in London.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore historic Big Ben, bustling Trafalgar Square, and
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the Eternal City of Rome.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll walk the same streets as the Caesars an
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when planning a Grand Tour of Europe. In this guide, Rick covers the best of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany
On August 21, 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded the 15:17 train in Brussels, bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate e
What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is something much more fundamental to being human, and it affect
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling to Croatia and Slovenia.With this guide, you’ll explore charming towns and undiscovered natural wonders. Stroll ato
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Great Britain.With this guide, you’ll explore the misty isle of Great Britain, from lively London to the lush gr
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in England.In this guide, you’ll find a mix of splendid cities, ever-so-quaint villages, historic ports, and seasid
More Human is a scintillating manifesto that ranges across many aspects of lifefrom food to government, the economy to health careto argue that we need to redesign, reorganize, and reconsider our worl
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Scotland.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll saunter the Royal Mile of Edinburgh and explore the cit
To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travelfull of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engi
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.” Maya AngelouWe’ve all seen the ads on TV and in magazines50 is the new 30!” or 60 is the new 40!” A nice sentiment to be sure, but J
From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Germany.This guidebook takes you from fairy-tale castles, alpine forests, and quaint villages to the energetic G
"The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must." ThucydidesThe fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to dest
Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar that blocks access to the shore, the town has been plagued by o
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in France.With this guide, you’ll explore sleepy villages, romantic hill towns, and cosmopolitan cities, including
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Ireland.With this guide, you can explore lively Dublin, quaint Kilkenny, and the moss-draped ruins of the Ring o
Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Provence and the French Riviera.In this guide, you’ll find a dazzling mix of enjoyable cities, warm stone villag
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when planning a Grand Tour of Europe. In this guide, Rick covers the best of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ita
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Eastern Europeincluding the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia.Explore Eastern Eur
The college marketplace today is bewildering. Many of the new developments mirror what has happened in healthcare: costs continue to rise with prices all over the map depending where you go, a barrage
In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world’s persisten
