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  The Imperfectionists

  by Tom Rachman

  Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it — and themselves — afloat. Spirited, moving and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured literary talents.
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  Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis

  by Daniel J. Carlat

  IN THIS STIRRING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WAKE-UP CALL, psychiatrist Daniel Carlat exposes deeply disturbing problems plaguing his profession, revealing the ways it has abandoned its essential purpose: to understand the mind, so that psychiatrists can heal mental illness and not just treat symptoms. As he did in his hard-hitting and widely read New York Times Magazine article "Dr. Drug Rep," and as he continues... (more)
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  The Logic of Failure

  by Dietrich Dörner

  our modern world, even though it was appropriate to older, simpler times. Working with imagination and often hilarious computer simulations, Dietrich Dorner provides a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers and policy-makers everywhere.
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  How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

  by Debbie Millman

  In a series of illuminating and entertaining conversations, twenty-one of today's most influential and revered designers discuss, celebrate, and analyze their craft. Adeptly interviewed by brand consultant and talk show host Debbie Millman, these designers reveal their early influences, day-to-day rituals, enthusiasms, aspirations, and failures. For pop-culture enthusiasts as well as longtime designers, students... (more)
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  Toward sustainable communities: resources for citizens and their governments.: An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research

  This book reviews and assesses environmental policy over the past three decades--primarily in the United States but with implications for other nations. The editors place U.S. environmental policy within the framework of the transition from 1970s-era policies that emphasized federally controlled regulation, through a period of criticism and efficiency-based reform efforts, to an emerging era of sustainability in... (more)
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  Legacy of Ashes

  The History of the CIA

  by Tim Weiner

  For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.” Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive... (more)
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  Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years

  by Paul Carroll

  Welcome to Business Failure 101 In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. Watson asked the man if he knew why he’d been called in. The man said he assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.” In Billion-Dollar Lessons , Paul Carroll and Chunka... (more)
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  The knockout entrepreneur : a champion's secrets to success, happiness, and significance

  by George Foreman

  Boxing great and business success George Foreman shares his knockout business secrets for entrepreneurs. Readers remember George Foreman as the Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and the spokesman for the popular George Foreman Grill.  What they may not know is that he is also a successful entrepreneur whose portfolio today boasts the George Foreman Grill, George Foreman's Knockout Cleaner, a line of clothing... (more)
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  Software development failures : anatomy of abandoned projects

  by Kweku Ewusi-Mensah

  Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the U.S. economy alone billions of dollars a year. In Software Development Failures , Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided. Case studies analyzed include the well-known Confirm travel industry reservation program, FoxMeyer's Delta, the IRS's Tax System Modernization, the... (more)