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What to Expect When You're Expecting: Fourth Edition»rank: 68886by: Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel
0ur opinion: :Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. What to Expect When You're Expecting is a perennial New York Times bestseller and one of USA Today's 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. lt's read by more than 9O% of pregnant women who read a pregnancy book—the most iconic, must-have book for parents-to-be, with over 14.5 million copies in print. Now comes the Fourth Edition, a new book for a new generation of expectant moms—featuring a new look, a fresh perspective, and ...
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism»rank: 207by: Naomi Klein
0ur opinion: :ln this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to lraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, 'There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.' Review:Naomi Klein's ...
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The Glass Castle - A Memoir»rank: 1164505by: Jeanette Walls
0ur opinion: :ln this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to lraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, 'There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.' Review:Naomi Klein's ...
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The Art of Racing in the Rain»rank: 160by: Garth Stein
0ur opinion: : Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life's ...
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism»rank: 284by: Andrew Bacevich
0ur opinion: :From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problemsThe Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything»rank: 228by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
0ur opinion: : Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to sports and ...
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century»rank: 274by: Thomas L. Friedman
0ur opinion: : A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller '0ne mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal,' the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World ls Flat in 2OO5. ln this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been ...
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court»rank: 263by: Jeffrey Toobin
0ur opinion: :ln The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court’s history and ...
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity»rank: 1847463by: David Allen
0ur opinion: :ln The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and with a keen sense of the Court’s history and ...
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An Incomplete Education»rank: 557129by: Judy Jones, William Wilson
0ur opinion: :'An astonishing amount of information.'--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesWhen it was originally published in 1987, An lncomplete Education became a surprise bestseller. Now this instant classic has been completely updated, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge. Here's your chance to fill in the gaps left by your school years, reacquire all the facts you once knew then promptly forgot, and become the Renaissance man or woman you always suspected you could be!What was so important about the Dred Scott decision? Why aren't ...
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