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
Examines factors, such as compatibility and conduct, with regard to knowing how to pick the right person to love while also learning how to give and receive love to improve the stability of a meaningf
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
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
?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
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
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
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
"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
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
Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall StreetThe Devil’s Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And i
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
While millions of consumers carry on unaware, powerful companies are racing to gain more knowledge and data than anyone, including any government, has ever had. The goal is to understand consumer beha
Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movemen
No sooner is a child walking and talking than the ABCs and 1-2-3s give way to the full-on alphabet soup: the ERBs, the OLSAT, the IQ, the NCLB for AYP, the IEP for ELLs, the CHAT and PDDST for ASD or
Are you winning the battle but losing the war?Every leader has to deliver the goods?make budget, meet deadlines, and deftly manage people?to provide the inspirational fuel that keeps their business ru
Culture is the key to success in a 21st century organization?not simply because it affects how we think and behave, but because it’s the set of agreements and behaviors that drive how we act in groups
"The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one of the most powerful in history, a
Today it seems we have the world at our fingertips. Thanks to smartphones and tools such as Google and Wikipedia, we’re able feed any aspect of our curiosity instantly. But does this mean we are actua
Christian Wolmar passionately and expertly chronicles the story of what is often called Siberia’s lifeline. From its improbable conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III to the northern ext
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
The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency brought the European Union close to
?Win-win” negotiation is an appealing idea on an intellectual level: Find the best way to convince the other side to accept a mutually beneficial outcome, and everyone gets their fair share. The rea
As a child in 1950s Brooklyn, Kenneth Turan often turned to television programs like ?Million Dollar Movie” on WOR-TV. Featuring a much-loved theme song from Gone with the Wind, ?Million Dollar Movie”
"In our nation's effort to improve health care quality, access and affordability, the doctor crisis is routinely overlooked. More than 80 percent of doctors say that the medical profession is "in decl
Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing Ne
The rapid rise in importance of the role of the chief financial officer—from back-office accountant to front-line executive—is unrivaled by that of any other corporate position. With access to every f
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers, the riveting story of one reinforced Marine regiment surrounded five-to-one by North Vietnamese troops and a heroic 12-week battle to defend t
?My daughter called me from school one day and said, Dad, what's a financial crisis?' And without trying to be funny, I said, It's something that happens every five to seven years.’”?Jamie Dimon, CEO
"In Mastering the Art of Quitting the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing
"Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of angry white American men--from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students--to try to determine why they are so angry.
Viewers may have thought they said good-bye to the sidesplitting Bluth family in 2006, but they’re returning on Netflix in May 2013 for another season of laughs and chaos. From adoption, to prison bre
" Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation,
" This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a tr
"The lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour goes undercover through various ghostbusting groups who do their best to gather information and evidence about the existence of spirits and shares his own b
A nutritionist and dermatologist team up to provide a revolutionary three-day detox plan to get the sugar out of your system and get you on the path to eating and living the healthiest way possible. 2
