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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
10 critic reviews | 3 user reviews | Published: March 5, 2013
In the very near future, smart” technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency? What if some such problems are simply vice...
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Behind The Beautiful Forevers
40 critic reviews | 620 user reviews | Published: February 19, 2013
An instant, critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller. In the tradition of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family, Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo's landmark work of narrative nonfiction about families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great global cities: Mumbai, India. As India begins to prosper, the residents of Annawadi, a makeshift settlement near the Mumbai airport, are electric with hope. Abdul, a teenager who sorts and sells garbage, is on the verg...
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It's The Middle Class, Stupid!
6 critic reviews | 62 user reviews | Published: January 30, 2013
In It's the Middle Class, Stupid!, political guru James Carville and pollster extraordinaire Stan Greenberg lay out a "very timelyâ¦impressive" "recipe for President Barack Obama's re-election" and relate some inconvenient truths--that America's voters are not as dumb as elected officials think they are and that a little bit of backbone could avert a total Election Day turnover of our government. (Associated Press) “A wonderful takedown of how the middle class has been left feeling betrayed and screwed over by both political parties.” —Huff...
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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
10 critic reviews | 21 user reviews | Published: January 29, 2013
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visi...
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Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
11 critic reviews | Published: January 29, 2013
Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success. In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablan...
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Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for the New Healthcare Law
6 critic reviews | 31 user reviews | Published: January 14, 2013
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a political football for years now, but as its provisions start going into effect, there's still precious little information available on how it will impact you, your family, and your pocketbook. This 2,572 page document, nearly unreadable, will change your health care, your family budget, and innumerable aspects of your life. But what does this law actually say? Surviving Obamacare by Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D. is the straightforward, practical guide to navigating Obamacare that every indi...
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
21 critic reviews | 9 user reviews | Published: December 27, 2012
The award-winning author of Just My Type examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history in an account that also shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
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Threat Vector
4 critic reviews | 401 user reviews | Published: December 4, 2012
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy is back and the stakes have never been higher. Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Qiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China’s ambitions, but the stakes are d...
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Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
4 critic reviews | 5 user reviews | Published: November 15, 2012
Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA's large stable of Soviet intelligence officers working for the United States against their homeland. Aldrich Ames, a long-time acquaintance and co-worker of the authors in the Soviet-East European Division and Counterintelligence Center of CIA, turned out to be that mole. In April 1985 Ames walke...
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
24 critic reviews | 417 user reviews | Published: November 13, 2012
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion presents a richly detailed portrait of the third President that considers his early life, roles as a Founding Father and considerable achievements as a master politician. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) 250,000 first printing.
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