Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: improbable, highly, impact, swan, black
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1400063515
ISBN-13: 9781400063512

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hard

Author: Jim Rogers
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: greatest, market, world, profitably, china, investing, bull
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-12-04
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1400066166
ISBN-13: 9781400066162

If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and exploding in potential.Rogers didn’t just wake up a Sinophile yesterday. He’s been tracking the Chinese econom

Authors:Chip Heath, Dan Heath,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: others, survive, ideas, made
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1400064287
ISBN-13: 9781400064281

Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.” Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on thes

Author: Jon Meacham
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: house, jackson, andrew, lion, american
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1400063256
ISBN-13: 9781400063253

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears

Author: Tim Harford
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: irrational, world, economics, rational, life, logic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1400066425
ISBN-13: 9781400066421

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions–and you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist. But Tim Harford, award-winning journalist and author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist, likes to spring surprises

Author: Jane Jacobs
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: ahead
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-05-04
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1400062322
ISBN-13: 9781400062324

A dark age is a culture’s dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this powerful and provocative book, renowned author Jane Jacobs argues convincingly that we face the coming of our own dark age.Throughout history, there have been many more dark ages than the one that occurred between the fall of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Renaissance. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors went from hunter-gatherers to farmers and, along the way, lost almost all memory of what existed before. Now we stand at another mo

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: money, making
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0385611013
ISBN-13: 9780385611015