This didn’t just happen.In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant
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The creator of the Web site theamateurgourmet.com offers an entertaining course in food appreciation that furnishes practical tips on everything from how to shop the food market like an expert and how
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In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World'
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive acc
“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict’s loved ones has been to let the addict “hit bottom” bef
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Master Chang, known as the “scholar-boxer,” lived and practiced in Henan province, at the center of Chinese culture and martial arts near the Shaolin Temple and legendary Luoyang. His extensive writin
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its
Alex Berenson's The Number provides a comprehensive overview of how Wall Street and corporate America lost their way during the great bull market that began in 1982. With wit and a broad historical p
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Ken thinks he and Becky are just having fun together. Becky is already picking out bridesmaid dresses.Melissa has decided to break up with Tony. Tony thinks Melissa is “the one.”Are miscommunications
For over a decade now, the reigning consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associ
A unique comparative study of colonial encounters between the Spanish in New Mexico and the Dutch in New York.Nan A. Rothschild examines the process of colonialism in two separate areas of 17th-centur
A renowned physical therapist helps you get rid of your pain in just 10 seconds.In this one-of-a-kind book, Peggy Brill, acclaimed author of The Core Program, shows you how to find relief from chronic
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Exploring the human side of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and change, this business management handbook discusses the human issues linked to the five stages of change--stagnation, anticipation, imp
The Cooking Club Cookbook is the story of how six friends learned to cook, the meals they created, and the fun they had along the way. Filled with tales of broken broccoli Christmas trees and seduce-m
A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones“This is the best book on relationships I have ever read. . . . John Gottman has decoded the subtle secret
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First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends
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