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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
8 critic reviews | 1 user reviews | Published: March 12, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In her Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that they love, and to remain passionately engaged with it at the highest levels throughout their lives. Lean In--Sheryl Sandberg's provocative, inspiring book about women and power--grew out of an electrifying TED talk Sandberg gave in 2010, ...
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The Soundtrack of My Life
5 critic reviews | 22 user reviews | Published: February 19, 2013
In this star-studded autobiography, Clive Davis shares a personal, candid look into his remarkable life and the last fifty years of popular music as only a true insider can. In the history of popular music, no one looms as large as Clive Davis. His career has spanned more than forty years, and he has discovered, signed, or worked with a staggering array of artists: Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Dionne Warwick, Carlos Santana, The Grateful Dead, Alicia Keyes, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer...
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The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take
5 critic reviews | 68 user reviews | Published: January 29, 2013
A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time. The United States Tax Code has not been seriously reformed since 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its inequity, and frustrated our ability to govern ourselves. At its core, any tax system is in place to raise the revenue needed to pay the government...
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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
7 critic reviews | 2 user reviews | Published: January 24, 2013
One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and to think his way through to a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwa...
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Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
9 critic reviews | 45 user reviews | Published: January 15, 2013
There’s a new business revolution brewing…don’t let your organization miss out. Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, Costco, The Container Store. You shop there not only for the products they sell, but for the business philosophy these market leaders are pioneering. InConscious Capitalism, iconic CEO John Mackey and professor Raj Sisodia show how such companies are creating a movement that’s transforming business. The authors present the fundamental principles and practices of their bold new vision of conscious capitalism: businesses operatin...
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My Share of the Task: A Memoir
4 critic reviews | 105 user reviews | Published: January 7, 2013
A candid memoir by the influential and controversial four-star general discusses his early service years, contributions as a commander in Afghanistan and relationships with heads of state and unpredictable enemies, outlining his views about how leadership matters more than strategy and resources on the battlefield. 200,000 first printing.
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The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy’s Only Hope
7 critic reviews | 77 user reviews | Published: January 6, 2013
The #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the entire financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? The answer is NO. “Required reading. . . . Shows how our economic crisis was a failure, not of the free market, but of government.” —Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO, Koch Industries, Inc. “The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure is a sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the causes and solutions to America’s financ...
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Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
6 critic reviews | 22 user reviews | Published: December 27, 2012
Describes how a financial column assignment revealed to the author the unethical machinations of the multi-billion-dollar personal finance industry and its false promises of quick and easy wealth, explaining how everyday investors are routinely misled by self-proclaimed money experts who exploit clients to increase their own wealth.
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
17 critic reviews | 146 user reviews | Published: November 27, 2012
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb s...
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
5 critic reviews | 88 user reviews | Published: November 21, 2012
A retrospective collection of top-selected Fortune articles on Warren Buffett from the past half century places them in context and provides fresh commentary to offer insight into the influential investor's views on such topics as management, philanthropy and public policy. 100,000 first printing.
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