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"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." -Jim Whittaker, first American to climb Mt. Everest

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.

"A maddening, essential study in misinformation, jingoism, bad intelligence, and other hallmarks of the recent American past."-Kirkus (starred review)

The Mathematical Corporation is the breakthrough book leaders have been waiting for, showing how the synergistic combination of human ingenuity and machine cognition takes the guesswork out of decision-making and leads to new products, services, and solutions that reshape business and society.

A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.

A neuroscientist and journalist takes us on a fascinating and weird journey though the science behind hypothermia.

Blending data analysis with compelling stories and exclusive interviews, Super Founders shows us that nearly everything we thought was true about successful, billion dollar companies is false.

The story of America's unlikeliest, least-known, yet greatest achievement this millennium: containing AIDS in Africa.

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.

Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" was originally written as a caustic rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," yet these songs that begin in conflict actually have much in common, tapping into a deep well of American song writing and patriotism that transcends race, politics, and class.

At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. In this gripping financial biography, Frank Partnoy recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

Now in paperback: Eva Hoffmans extraordinarily clear-eyed and unsentimental meditation on our relationship to the Holocaust (New York Times Book Review)

A real life version of THE DOGS OF WAR in which a band of mercenaries plots to over throw a venal government of the newly oil-rich nation of Equatorial Guinea

A young physician-reporter chronicles the experiences of doctors and nurses in a besieged city, illuminating the passions, challenges, tragedies, and agonizing moral qunadaries of practicing medicine in a war zone

In the tradition of Didion, Stegner, and McPhee, an intimate portrait of the American West by the best-selling author of The King of California that blends stellar writing with hard-hitting reporting.

“Going green is easy and profitable.” That’s the common refrain from sustainability gurus. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is brutally difficult. If we’re going to cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by midcentury, it will take more than a recycling program and some hemp shopping bags. We’ll only solve our problems if we’re realistic about the challenge of climate change. In this witty book, a sustainable business foot soldier with over a decade’s worth of experience illuminates the path.

The first comprehensive investigation into how the religious right came to dominate the child adoption'market', creating a system that legitimizes their social agenda globally and garners them hundreds of millions in revenues and government support, while marginalizing parents

A stark work of graphic journalism that combines first-hand reporting with in-depth research and artistry to depict the murderous rise of Joseph Kony

A century-old manufacturing company is taking a radically innovative approach to management--no layoffs--with provocative implications for every business

From vaudeville to the movies to television, the complete--and often hilarious--history of how Jewish comedians transformed American entertainment

"A great autobiography by one of the most intriguing Cold Warriors...[containing] extraordinary revelations about the inner world of espionage." --Miami Herald

Finally: the truth behind McVeigh's self-serving account of the Oklahoma City bombing

"Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and thoroughly engaging narrative that captures all of the entrepreneurial intrigue and spirit of the American circus." -Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove

Full of revealing portraits of many of the best-known comedic talents of the 1970s, "I'm Dying Up Here" is also a poignant tale of the price of success and the terrible cost of failure--professional and moral.

The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces who were on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State at the end of the war in Afghanistan.