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The Idealist

Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

by Nina Munk ...

A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty—disagrees. In his view, poverty is a problem that can be solved. With single-minded ... Read more

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A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller The End of Poverty—disagrees. In his view, poverty is a problem that can be solved. With single-minded
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Fools Rush In

Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner

by Nina Munk ...

"Eminently enjoyable, Fools Rush In is a gossipy, in-depth look at a deal doomed from the start . . . Grade: A." — Entertainment WeeklyEvery era has its merger; every era has its story. For the New Media Age it was an even bigger disaster: the AOL-Time Warner deal.At the time AOL and Time Warner were considered a matchless combination of old media content and new media distribution. But very soon ... Read more

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"Eminently enjoyable, Fools Rush In is a gossipy, in-depth look at a deal doomed from the start . . . Grade: A." — Entertainment WeeklyEvery era has its merger; every era has its story. For the New Media Age it was an even bigger disaster: the AOL-Time Warner deal.At the time AOL and Time Warner were considered a matchless combination of old media content and new media distribution. But very soon
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The Idealist

Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

by Nina Munk ...

Narrated by Susan Nezami ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYBloomberg • Forbes • The SpectatorRecipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the ... Read more

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**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYBloomberg • Forbes • The SpectatorRecipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the
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How It Happened

Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry

by Ernő Munkácsi ...

Translated by Péter Lengyel ...

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community.Writing immediately after the war ... Read more

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A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community.Writing immediately after the war
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How It Happened

Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry

by Ernő Munkácsi ...

Translated by Péter Lengyel ...

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community.Writing immediately after the war ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community.Writing immediately after the war
... Read more

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Seven Bad Ideas

How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

by Jeff Madrick ...

Narrated by Adam Grupper ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories - why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve them. Jeff Madrick, a former columnist for The New York Times, is an economics columnist for Harper's, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and editor of Challenge ... Read more

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The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories - why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve them. Jeff Madrick, a former columnist for The New York Times, is an economics columnist for Harper's, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and editor of Challenge
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War! What Is It Good For?

Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

by Ian Morris ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

16 hours 56 min

"War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond ... Read more

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"War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond
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Cloud

by Eric McCormack ...

Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

Unabridged

13 hours 11 min

"Why, when we take such care to disguise our true selves from others, would we expect them to be an open book to us?" Harry Steen, a businessman travelling in Mexico, ducks into an old bookstore to escape a frightening deluge. Inside, he makes a serendipitous discovery: a mid-nineteenth-century account of a sinister storm cloud that plagued an isolated Scottish village and caused many gruesome and ... Read more

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"Why, when we take such care to disguise our true selves from others, would we expect them to be an open book to us?" Harry Steen, a businessman travelling in Mexico, ducks into an old bookstore to escape a frightening deluge. Inside, he makes a serendipitous discovery: a mid-nineteenth-century account of a sinister storm cloud that plagued an isolated Scottish village and caused many gruesome and
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Ten Billion

Facing Our Future

by Stephen Emmott ...

Earth is home to millions of species. Yet just one dominates it. Us.Our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities have modified almost every part of our planet, impacting it profoundly. Indeed, our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as we continue to grow towards a global population of ten ... Read more

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Earth is home to millions of species. Yet just one dominates it. Us.Our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities have modified almost every part of our planet, impacting it profoundly. Indeed, our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as we continue to grow towards a global population of ten
... Read more
No Place to Hide

Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald ...

GLENN GREENWALD is the author of several best sellers, including How Would a Patriot Act? and With Liberty and Justice for Some. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy for 2013, Greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights attorney. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October, ... Read more

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GLENN GREENWALD is the author of several best sellers, including How Would a Patriot Act? and With Liberty and Justice for Some. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy for 2013, Greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights attorney. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October,
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Scatter Adapt and Remember

How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction

by Annalee Newitz ...

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, 95 percent of the species on Earth perished. Sixty-five million years ago, a meteor strike destroyed the dinosaurs and pretty much every other organism bigger than about fifteen pounds. Now another mass extinction is coming. This book is about how our species can survive it.Scatter, Adapt, and Remember makes a powerful argument about humans' ability to ... Read more

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Two hundred and fifty million years ago, 95 percent of the species on Earth perished. Sixty-five million years ago, a meteor strike destroyed the dinosaurs and pretty much every other organism bigger than about fifteen pounds. Now another mass extinction is coming. This book is about how our species can survive it.Scatter, Adapt, and Remember makes a powerful argument about humans' ability to
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Pay Any Price

Greed, Power, and Endless War

by James Risen ...

A New York Times Notable Book: A look at the hidden costs of America's war on terror from "the finest national security reporter of this generation" ( Newsweek).Since 9/11, the United States has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: ... Read more

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A New York Times Notable Book: A look at the hidden costs of America's war on terror from "the finest national security reporter of this generation" ( Newsweek).Since 9/11, the United States has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war:
... Read more

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