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The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy

The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy

by Daniel Yergin

The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for understanding the struggle over the "new rules of the... (more)

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner

Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at... (more)

Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

by James Howard Kunstler

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a symptom of a troubled culture, but one of the primary causes of our discontent. In Home from Nowhere Kunstler not only shows that the original American Dream --... (more)

Tommy and Me: The Making of a Dad

by Ben Stein

Ben Stein has proved himself a jack-of-all-trades in a series of jobs: author, magazine columnist, lawyer, film and TV actor, presidential speechwriter, professor, and television game show host, to name a few. But the career he has loved the most is that of raising his son, Tommy. In Tommy and Me, Ben Stein gives us an intimate look at life with his "angel boy." Adopting a son in his forties challenged Stein... (more)

The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time

The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time

by Phyllis Rose

A brilliant and original memoir of midlife-a writing life, a reading life, a woman's life-by the distinguished author of Parallel Lives Phyllis Rose, a biographer, essayist, and literary critic, finally got around to reading Proust in middle age. As Rose learned, you don't have to live through an unhappy childhood or celebrity adulthood to write an autobiography. You just need patience, candor, and a ... (more)

Made in China

by Kuhn

MADE IN CHINA: VOICES FROM THE NEW REVOLUTION by author and business consultant Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents a candid, and complex portrait of China today, capturing the nation in change as no other chronicle has. To understand this rapid economic transformation, Kuhn devoted the past ten years of his life to interviewing new Chinese entrepreneurs, private business leaders, government officials and... (more)

The State of the U.S.A. Atlas

by Doug Henwood

A visual presentation of current national issues highlights the areas of such social concerns as ethnic composition, abortion, AIDS, capital punishment, health care, education, and the environment. 30,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

THE DRAGON SYNDICATES- THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON OF THE TRIADS

THE DRAGON SYNDICATES- THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON OF THE TRIADS

by Martin Booth

With unflinching candor, Martin Booth -- Booker Prize nominee and author of the critically acclaimed Opium: A History -- here unfolds the full story of the Chinese Triads, which, according to UN sources, now pose the greatest potential criminal threat the world has ever known. From San Francisco to Amsterdam to Bangkok to Johannesburg, everywhere, everyday, the Triads are turning crimes like extortion, gambling,... (more)

Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia

Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia

by Murray L. Weidenbaum

The Bamboo Network shows how a remarkable group of ethnic Chinese families has been the driving force behind China's transition from communism to capitalism: the economic miracle" that took the Western business world by surprise. Murray Weidenbaum, a leading international economist, and Samuel Hughes trace the history of these enterprising leaders, who fled the mainland after the Communist takeover in 1948 and... (more)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting the Job You Want

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting the Job You Want

by Marc A. Dorio

The State of Health Atlas

by Judith MacKay

In irresistible graphics, with facts-at-the-fingertips appeal, this fascinating and informative survey of health and health care throughout the world brings the "vital statistics"--from birth rates to death rates and everything in between--into clear focus. Maps. Line drawings.

Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today

Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today

by Anne Matthews

The author of "Where the Buffalo Roam" provides an unprecedented portrait of today's college experience as the world of academe goes about reinventing itself, seeking to reconcile new economic realities with our vision of the campus as the gateway to knowledge.

The DIVERSITY MACHINE: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"

The DIVERSITY MACHINE: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"

by Frederick R. Lynch

Tracks the development and impact of various diversity policies through consultant gatherings, business and professional literature, and case studies. Lynch profiles author consultants, analyzes benefits and drawbacks of a range of approaches, and offers samples of seminars and conferences.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Smart Moving (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

Complete Idiot's Guide to Smart Moving (The Complete Idiot's Guide)

by Dan Ramsey

For the 41 million Americans who move every year, this clearly written guide helps prepare for the big day with valuable tips on getting organized, budgeting, choosing a mover, packing valuables, handling children and pets, setting up the new house, and more .

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