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The Tetris Effect
The Game that Hypnotized the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop it
Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But how did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product which has now earned nearly 1 billion...
The Resilience Dividend
Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Building resilience-the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively-is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance,...
A Chance to Make History
What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income communities during those years. A Chance...
A Crowd of One
The Future of Individual Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar leaps forward in how we understand ourselves. Now, the new hybrid disciplines of evolutionary biology and social physics are making the next leap possible-and fundamentally altering our notions of individual...
Prescription for the Future
The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How can America's healthcare system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in healthcare matters more.
Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost...
by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Future of Power examines what it means to be forceful and effective in a world in which the traditional ideas of state power have been upended by technology, and rogue actors.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a longtime analyst of power and a hands-on practitioner in government, delivers a new power...
Soft Power
The Means To Success In World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently-and often incorrectly-by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is soft power? Soft power lies in the ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power-the ability...
Never Ran, Never Will
Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.
Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of...
by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps...
The Tragedy of the European Union
Disintegration or Revival?
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The European Union could soon be a thing of the past. Xenophobia is rampant and commonly reflected in elections across the continent. Great Britain may hold a referendum on whether to abandon the union altogether. Spurred by anti-EU sentiments due to the euro crisis, national interests conflict with...
Why Growth Matters
How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral...
Japan Rising
The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions...
by Paul Blustein
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations. Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn its back on arrivistes and cast them out....
by Joel L. Fleishman, J. Scott Kohler, Steven Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century.
In this companion volume to The Foundation: A Great American Secret, Joel Fleishman, Scott Kohler, and Steven Schindler explore 100 of the highest-achieving foundation initiatives...