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Winning the Long Game
How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Are you winning the battle but losing the war?
Every leader has to deliver the goods-make budget, meet deadlines, and deftly manage people-to provide the inspirational fuel that keeps their business running day-in and day-out.
But therein lies the danger of winning today's battle and...
A Man and his Mountain
The Everyman who Created Kendall-Jackson and Became America's Greatest Wine Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The story of self-made billionaire Jess Jackson, who put Chardonnay on America's tables as he built the KendallJackson wine empire from a few mountainous acres of grapes, and raced the Horse of the Year three years in a row, is a remarkable tale of romance, risk, and reinvention-perhaps the greatest...
Swim
Why We Love the Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It’s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A must-have anthology for political junkies, Best American Political Writing compiles the year's best political stories from a variety of publications and points of view, in a single, comprehensive volume. Culling from the most memorable reporting of what promises to be a thrilling political year,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The Best American Political Writing 2008 draws from a variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the year's most insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking pieces on the current political scene. This year's edition will include full coverage of the presidential candidates and...
What Stays in Vegas
The World of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Big Business-and the End of Privacy as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone.
In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many...
The Bone and Sinew of the Land
America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nation
When black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their frontier land in 1818, they couldn't know that they were part of the nation's earliest struggle for...
by Hirsh Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The question Can Israel survive?” has echoed loud for Israelis-and Jews, their supporters and adversaries worldwide-since the Holocaust. The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and beyond have raised it anew. Israeli journalist and security analyst Hirsh Goodman set out to answer it, through rigorous...
The Long Game
How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Authoritative and original, The Long Game is a controversial assessment of President Obama's foreign policy legacy. Too often, critical discussions concerning American foreign policy are divorced from the political reality in which leaders face choices and make decisions. Here, consummate White House...
Our Separate Ways
The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.Israel Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year....
Money Well Spent?
The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama's audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the ''American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009''-the largest...
Unleashing the Second American Century
Four Forces for Economic Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Political gridlock in Washington... the lingering effects of the financial crisis... structural problems such as unemployment and the skills gap of our work force... the mediocre K-12 educational system. Are our best days behind us?
Joel Kurtzman persuasively shows why all the talk about America's...
A Bigger Prize
How We Can Do Better than the Competition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Get into the best schools. Land your next big promotion. Dress for success. Run faster. Play tougher. Work harder. Keep score. And whatever you do-make sure you win.
Competition runs through every aspect of our lives today. From the cubicle to the race track, in business and love, religion...
Street Smart
The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. Gridlock Sam,” one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current...