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Building Social Business
PublicAffairs 2010; US$ 15.99The Nobel Peace Prize-winner shows how the social business model can harness the entrepreneurial spirit to address poverty, hunger, and disease more...
The Great Deformation
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 35.00A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington?s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American state?especially the Federal Reserve?has fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and... more...
1913
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 30.00Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features?last summers in grand aristocratic residences?or its... more...
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 26.99Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about base¬ball when he risked his life?s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important?and funniest?figures in the game?s history. Von der Ahe picked up the team for one reason?to sell more beer. Then... more...
Comeback
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 9.99Charles R. Morris?s The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback , Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more. The great economic boom times in American history have... more...
Perilous Question
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 29.99Antonia Fraser?s Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain?s history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller. The era, beginning with the accession of William IV, is evoked in the novels of Trollope and Thackeray, and described... more...
Radical Abundance
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 28.99K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology?the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance , he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result... more...
The Last Hunger Season
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 15.99The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa?s agriculture sector more...
I'm Dying Up Here
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 14.95In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson?s Tonight Show . There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams... more...
The Match King
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 15.95At 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... more...









