Harper Perennial, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics--the long awaited follow-up to their New York Times Notable blockbuster. Based on... More
Crown, January 2018. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment." --The Washington Post Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel... More
Melville House, January 2018. Paper Back. "If you want to understand not only what happened in 2016, but what's going to happen tomorrow, this book is essential reading. Susan Bordo brings a scholar's rigor and a lioness' heart to this important work." --Paul Begala "Among the best books I've read... More
Pantheon, February 2008. Hardcover. Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual... More
Penguin Books, April 2018. Paper Back. New York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. The U.S. tax code is a.... More
Anchor, April 2018. Paper Back. Today's working class is a sleeping giant. And as Tamara Draut makes abundantly clear, it is just now waking up to its untapped political power. Sleeping Giant is the first major examination of the new working class and the role it will play in our... More
McGraw-Hill, November 2014. Hardcover. DRAMATICALLY IMPACT YOUR BOTTOM LINE WITH A POWERFUL WOMM CAMPAIGN ""Word of mouth marketing has always existed. We've just found a better and more efficient way to do it."" -- Ted Wright It may not be the oldest profession, but word of mouth is the oldest... More
Cambridge University Press, September 1994. Trade Paperback. In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning States and Social Revolutions (CUP, 1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some... More
Norton, January 1971. Hardcover. 2nd printing in dust jacket. Inscribed to Manuel Maloof, the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia and owner of Manuel's Tavern. Inscribed: 'For Manuel a good Democrat, Ted Lippman.' Includes note, laid in 'Manuel -- Anybody who sells India Pale ale can't... More
Metropolitan Books, February 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the failures of liberal politics, a book that helps explain the shocking outcome... More
Metropolitan Books, March 2004. Hardcover. One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he... More
The Franklin Library, January 1979. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. Limited edition. More
Riverhead Books, August 2017. Hardcover. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZON A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the... More
Trentham Books, January 2017. Trade Paperback. Politics affect everything we do. Every citizen needs to understand how the system works and to learn the skills required to influence decisions. The world's most urgent problems are political; for democracy to work, everyone needs the ability to do politics as a basic... More
The Overlook Press, January 2018. Hardcover. Ready to be your own boss? If cash flow forecasts, tax returns, and P&Ls sound horrifying, fear not: help is at hand. Journalist Tom Hogkinson has spent his career advocating for laid-back living, and in Business for Bohemians, he combines practical advice with hilarious... More
Liberty Fund Inc. September 1990. Paper Back. The Rationale of Central Banking was first published in England in 1936. Vera Smith spent her professional career in a variety of research positions. She wrote articles and books on money, banking, economic development, and the labor market and translated into English books... More
Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Financial Times Business Book of the Year Finalist "Illuminating and very timely . . . a fascinating -- and sometimes alarming -- survey of big data's growing effect on just about everything: business, government, science and medicine, privacy, and even on the way... More
PM Press, June 2015. Paper Back. Wielding Words Like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill's essays on indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995-2005. Beginning with a foreword by Seneca historian Barbara Alice Mann describing sustained efforts by police and intelligence agencies... More
Consortium Book Sales & Dist, July 2002. Trade Paperback. The original memos reproduced in this work expose the FBI's secret, systematic and often savage sabotage of progressive political activity. The authors examine the treatment of the left from the 1950s through to the 1980s. Good condition, moderate shelf wear. More
PM Press, February 2017. Paper Back. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay Pacifism as Pathology was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing--and deliberately self-neutralizing---hegemony of nonviolence- on the North American left. The essay's publication unleashed a raging debate among activists... More
New Press, The, February 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Over the past decade a new and controversial energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has rocketed to the forefront of U.S. energy production. With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure... More
Lid Publishing, June 2016. Hardcover. Peter Drucker is known worldwide as The Father of Modern Management. But he was also the world s most famous and successful independent consultant. The methods developed by Drucker remain highly relevant and continue to be used in today s organizations. This book, written by... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1989. Trade Paperback. William Greider s groundbreaking bestseller reveals how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates and manipulates and the world s economy. This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates and how it manipulated and transformed... More
Hill and Wang, January 2011. Trade Paperback. Prada stores carry a few obscenely expensive items in order to boost sales for everything else (which look like bargains in comparison). People used to download music for free, then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay. How? By charging 99 cents. That price... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2017. Hardcover. A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic... More
