Author: Tim Harford
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: poor, rich, used, car, decent, economist, undercover, exposing
Published: 2006-03
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1419392808
ISBN-13: 9781419392801

An economist’s version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who’s wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can’t seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. This book offers the hidden story behind these and other questions, as economist Tim Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United

Author: Peter Navarro
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: scholar, modern, investing, picture
Published: 2003-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1402547803
ISBN-13: 9781402547805

Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: world, changed, week, mao, nixon
Number of Pages: 9
Published: 2007-02
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1419316664
ISBN-13: 9781419316661

With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most significant moments in modern history. In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: improbable, highly, impact, swan, black
Published: 2007-08
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1428166556
ISBN-13: 9781428166554

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: David Callahan
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: wrong, ahead, doing, americans, culture, cheating
Number of Pages: 10
Published: 2004-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1402579268
ISBN-13: 9781402579264

You’re standing at an ATM. It can’t access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level-from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud-has risen dramatically in the last two decades. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan pins the blame on the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the past two decades. An unfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality have corroded our values, he arg

Authors:John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge,
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: idea, revolutionary, history, short, company
Published: 2003
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1402544480
ISBN-13: 9781402544484

Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: audiobook, underground, cat
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0788754912
ISBN-13: 9780788754913

Jim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats for a sun-and-fun summer at his log cabin in Moose County. Their vacation starts off ominously with the disappearance of a handyman hired to patch up Qwilleran’s cabins. But the felines really start throwing catfits when they come across a couple of dead bodies! HC: Putnam.