Author: Frank Partnoy
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: financial, markets, corrupted, risk, greed, deceit, infectious
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0805075100
ISBN-13: 9780805075106

“Readers are unlikely to find a more readable explanation of how the financial system has changed since the 1980s and who came unstuck.” —Financial Times The still-unfolding financial story is terrifying. One by one, major corporations such as Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom are imploding all around us, prey to a greed-driven culture and dubious or illegal corporate finance and accounting. We have reached a perilous crossroads.In a compelling and disturbing narrative, Frank Partnoy brings to bear all of his skills and experience as a securities attorney, financial analyst, and law p

Author: David Weinberger
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: digital, disorder, new, power, miscellaneous, everything
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805088113
ISBN-13: 9780805088113

Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place--the physical world demanded it--but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Simply put, everything is suddenly miscellaneous. In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise

Author: Bill McKibbe
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: future, durable, communities, wealth, economy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0805087222
ISBN-13: 9780805087222

“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibbe

Author: Anna Politkovskaya
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: democracy, failing, life, russia, putin
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805082506
ISBN-13: 9780805082500

A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from “the bravest of journalists” (The New York Times) Hailed as “a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness” (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless reporting on the war in Chechnya. Now she turns her steely gaze on the multiple threats to Russian stability, among them President Putin himself.Putin’s Russia depicts a far-reaching state of decay. Politkovskaya describes an army in which soldiers die from malnutrition, parents must pay bribes to recover their dead sons’ bodies, an

Author: Philip Caputo
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: war, rumor
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1996-11-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 080504695X
ISBN-13: 9780805046953

When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man’s experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today’s students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate extremes men are forced to confront in any war. A platoon commander in the first combat unit sent to fight in Vietnam, Lieutenant Caputo landed at Danang on March 8, 1965, convinced

Author: John Pomfret
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: new, china, story, classmates, lessons, five, chinese
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805086641
ISBN-13: 9780805086645

A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmatesAs a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao’s rule—the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution—and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China’s future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his tim

Authors:Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee,
Publisher: Holt Paperback
Keywords: intelligence
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805078533
ISBN-13: 9780805078534

Jeff Hawkins, the high-tech success story behind PalmPilots and the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, does a lot of thinking about thinking. In On Intelligence Hawkins juxtaposes his two loves--computers and brains--to examine the real future of artificial intelligence. In doing so, he unites two fields of study that have been moving uneasily toward one another for at least two decades. Most people think that computers are getting smarter, and that maybe someday, they’ll be as smart as we humans are. But Hawkins explains why the way we build computers today won’t take us down that pa