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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Thomas L Friedman
In THE WORLD IS FLAT, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution- ...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim N Taleb
Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it.
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
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Dr. Francis S Collins, M.D., PH.D.
Does science necessarily undermine faith in God? Or could it actually support faith? Beyond the flashpoint debates over the teaching of evolution, or stem-cell research, most of us struggle with contradictions concerning life's ultimate question. We know that accidents happen, but we believe we are on earth for a reason. Until now, most scientists ...
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Emotional Intelligence
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Prof. Daniel Goleman
Author Daniel Goleman uses vivid examples of emotional intelligence in order to delineate the critical role it plays in relationships, work, even our physical well-being. What emerges is a crucial new way to talk about being smart--one that accounts for the other forces at work when a person of high IQ appears to be stymied, while someone of ...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Neil Postman
A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
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How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques and Technologies for Uncertain Things
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James Wesley Rawles
The ultimate guide to total preparedness and self-reliance, this work, written by one of the best-known survival experts, contains everything people need to know in order to prepare and protect themselves.
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
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Tucker Max
The creator and protagonist of the infamous TuckerMax.com Web site is back with a whole new collection of hilarious stories of male debauchery, deviance, and occasional delinquency.
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Jonathan Kozol
A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Thomas S Kuhn
Thomas S. Kuhn's work explaining the process of scientific discovery. This text is the third edition and incorporates a new index.
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
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Daniel P Goleman, Ph.D.
"Emotional Intelligence" was an international phenomenon, appearing on the "New York Times" bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, which reveals that we are "wired to connect" and ...
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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Peter L Bernstein
The story of the group of scientists who pioneered the modern techniques of risk management.
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Then We Came to the End
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Joshua Ferris
Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is a family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
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Zeitoun
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Dave Eggers
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on ...
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Carl Sagan
Scientist Dr Carl Sagan argues that modern tales of the paranormal, such as alien abduction stories, are in fact simply a modern version of fairy tales and only exist in the mind, and asserts that these accounts come from a potentially hazardous lack of scientific thought and knowledge, a situation which he feels should be remedied.
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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
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The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipovic (Foreword by)
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students-whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse-Gruwell was the first person to treat them with ...
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Holographic Universe
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Michael Talbot
What if all the separate images we see virtually every moment of our waking lives were actually part of the same whole? What if every mind was connected and inseparable from every other mind? And what if the universe were a projection of our consciousness? Synchronicities and previously inexplicable phenomena would be easier to understand, the ...
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald A Norman
How and why some products are satisfying to use while others are maddening.
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Business & society : ethics and stakeholder management
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Archie B. Carroll
Written for vocational accounting students, this text covers the principles of the relationship between business and society. The topics covered include: corporate social responsibility; business ethics; personal ethics; and business's influence on government and public policy.
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
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Muhammad Yunus, Dr. Karl Weber
The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world - and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for ...
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The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Renowned sociologist Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between 50 and 75--the third chapter--may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in a person's life.
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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Ray Kurzweil, PhD
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, the author of THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES, provocatively argues that we are rapidly approaching the Singularity, a point in history in which advances in artificial intelligence, brain scanning, and nanotechnology will blur the division between humans and machines. When we are no longer limited by our current ...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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Neil Postman
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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John Taylor Gatto
This radical treatise on public education has been a best-seller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year ...
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Other End of the Leash
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Patricia B McConnell, PH.D.
Noted dog expert McConnell meditates on the intricacies of the human-dog relationship, offering tips on communication, true stories, a little science, and a wealth of photographs--of dogs and their owners, naturally.
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
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Richard Florida
The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new ...
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