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A whole new mind : moving from the information age to the conceptual age
Daniel H. Pink
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Exploring the benefits of "right-brained" thinking, this groundbreaking guide reveals how to survive and thrive in a world turned upside down by rising affluence, the outsourcing of good jobs abroad, and the computerization of our lives.
2005; 260 p.; isbn:1573223085 More Information |
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Outliers : the story of success
Malcolm Gladwell
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The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned ...
2008; 309 p.; isbn:9780316017923 More Information |
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The tipping point how little things can make a big difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Unabridged - The New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. These are social epidemics, and the moment they take off, they reach their critical mass, or, the Tipping Point. ...
2000; 279 p.; isbn:0316316962 More Information |
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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies
Jared Diamond
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This work was first published in 1997, and it won the Pulitzer Prize. The current edition includes a new chapter on Japan. In this historical, archaeological, and linguistic investigation, Diamond (geography, U. of California at Los Angeles) seeks the root answers to why European societies (and their American offspring) became the dominant powers on ...
1997; 480 p.; isbn:0393038912 More Information |
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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
Thomas L. Friedman.
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"The World Is Flat is a timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, illuminated by one of our most respected journalists."--BOOK JACKET.
2005; 488 p.; isbn:0374292884 More Information |
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
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2001; 221 p.; isbn:0805063889 More Information |
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The man in the white sharkskin suit : my family's exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Lucette Lagnado
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The daughter of a once-successful Jewish boulevardier traces her youth in post-World War II Cairo before and after Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, an event that caused her family to lose everything and forced them to flee to America
2007; 340 p.; isbn:0060822120 More Information |
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Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. ...
2005; 242 p.; isbn:006073132X More Information |
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Hurry down sunshine
Michael Greenberg
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Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg's daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, inthe out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city's most sweltering months
2008; 234 p.; isbn:1590511913 More Information |
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Running with scissors : a memoir
Augusten Burroughs
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"Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre ...
2002; 304 p.; isbn:0312283709 More Information |
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In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Truman Capote
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1992; 410 p.; isbn:067960023X More Information |
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The gatekeepers : inside the admissions process of a premier college
Jacques Steinberg
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In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. ...
2002; 292 p.; isbn:0670031356 More Information |
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