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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
He has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing...
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
The antidote to Eats, Shoots and Leaves—an uproarious and very American language book for those who are tired of getting pulled over by the grammar police

What do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They’re all a heck of a lot more interesting than
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World.

About the Author

Neil Postman
(1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of
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The Portable Machiavelli
The Portable Machiavelli
Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For example, the famous 'the ends justifies the...
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s presentation of his landmark theory

According to Einstein himself, this book is intended "to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
The Works: Anatomy of a City

How much do you really know about the systems that keep a city alive? The Works: Anatomy of a City contains everything you ever wanted to know about what makes New York City run. When you flick on your light switch the light goes on--how? When you put out your garbage, where does it go? When you flush your toilet, what happens to the...

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

A landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits
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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when, sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...

A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Penguin Business)
A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Penguin Business)
The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds."—The Atlantic.
 
It is now three years since I did the main work on this small book. As I told in the Foreword to...
Business English Meetings Instant Agendas (Penguin English)
Business English Meetings Instant Agendas (Penguin English)
Business English Meetings has been written in response to the demand for more materials to develop professional communication skills in the classroom. Its aim is to give foreign students of Business English specific practice in the skills and language of meetings in order to develop fluency and effectiveness. The material addresses...
The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas
The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas

You may need The Art of War to defeat your enemies, but if you prefer to win them over, read The Art of Woo

G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa know what it takes to drive new ideas through complex organizations. They have advised thousands of executives from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and General
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Leadership @ Infosys
Leadership @ Infosys

Powered by intellect, driven by values Infosys has been at the forefront of a new India Inc. since 1981. Leadership @ Infosys is the first book to codify Infosys s unique history, values and leadership practices that account for the firm s stellar rise from US$ 200 seed capital to a multibillion dollar global enterprise. As an extension of...

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