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Polk
The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought...
Kingfish
The Reign of Huey P. Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will,...
The Three Lives of James Madison
Genius, Partisan, President
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president
“In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James...
The Translator
A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.
The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living...
Be Your Own Mentor
Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the...
Risk/Reward
Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are the Best Career Moves You Can Make
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A persuasive and eye-opening look at the importance of embracing risk in our working lives—and how to use it to achieve lifelong career success
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Some of us relish the chance to fly without a net, others . . . not so much. But no matter how adventurous we might be in our personal lives, most...
Made to Stick
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea’s chances—essential reading in the “fake news” era.
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots...
Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE**
Every year, the average...
Unfinished Business
Women Men Work Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Includes a new afterword by the author • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington
**NAMED ONE OF THE...
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.
“Invaluable.”—Deborah...
The Leader's Code
Mission, Character, Service, and Getting the Job Done
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
What does it take to be a great leader? In a word: character. This unique bookby decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran Donovan Campbell, the New York Times bestselling author of Joker One, draws on his years of training and combat experience to reveal the specific virtues that underpin effective leadership—and...
Vital Little Plans
The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist
No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global...
The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American Prospect
In this forceful and impassioned...