A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots" - artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who'...

Dark Pools

In this gripping narrative history, the beloved NBC weather personality vividly brings to life the Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900: the deadliest natural disaster in American history.  On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 1...

The Storm of the Century

By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development - for both rich and poor - in the 21st century.  Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of ...

Development as Freedom

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Present at the Creation

From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at mathematics that reveals a hidden world in some of its most fundamental concepts.  In his latest foray into mathematics, David Berlinski t...

One, Two, Three

July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad Nina Laramie heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest. The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped a...

Hole in the Woods

Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.  It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge of global meltdown.

Interaction with people we desire to influence presents us with a painful choice: instant gratification vs. lasting impact. Most of us go for the first, but doing so greatly limits our ability to achieve the second. This is due mostly to "gratificati...

You're Not Moving Slow Enough

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.  ...

Free Ride

The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.  In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Alb...

Brave Genius

The Patient Organization - Seven keys for making systems like Traction, EOS®, Scaling Up, 4DX work. Why do Traction, EOS®, and Scaling Up work? The Patient Organization is a companion book to be used alongside today’s popular Organizational Operating...

The Patient Organization

Where do journalists find the guts to keep telling the truth in places where truth-telling will get them murdered? Organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters sans frontières bring us the death toll from around the world,...

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