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The Real Crash
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You might be thinking everything’s okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over.
You’d be wrong.
In The Real Crash,...
The Upcycle
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From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what’s next: The Upcycle
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most...
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How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses - and what a world without "big" will mean...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...
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“It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller.” —Harlan Coben
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful...
Mortal Sins
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An explosive, sweeping account of the scandal that has sent the Catholic Church into a tailspin -- and the brave few who fought for justiceIn the mid-1980s a...
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The first inside account to be published about Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, anchored by Ghattas's own perspective and her quest to understand...
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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans...
Justice
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“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard...
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A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society
Should we pay children to read books or to get good...
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of...
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"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey,...
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller
"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...
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Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis...
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One of Slate’s Twenty Overlooked Books of 2012
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned...
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The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick
First...
The Antidote
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Self-help books don’t seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealth—even if you can get...
Power Systems
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A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers
In this new collection of...
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The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America’s most violent biker gangs
Despite lacking any...
Bug Music
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In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle—the longest gestation period of any...
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A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history, Don Blankenship,...
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In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the...
