Blending whip-smart analysis with colorful reportage and humor, Conley distinguishes what is true and useful about branding as a business strategy, from what is distracting and destructive.  More Info

Addresses the need for the United States to restructure the banking and financial system, anticipates the globalization of the crisis, and calls for international action.  More Info

Looks at the history of famines, including those in Ireland, India, and Ethiopia, and discusses the political, social, and religious ideologies that worsen the effects of famine.  More Info

A century-old manufacturing company is taking a radically innovative approach to management—no layoffs—with provocative implications for every business  More Info

From the award-winning founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT: A transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires, and frustrations  More Info

Nobel Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.  More Info

The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families.  More Info

"[The author] leads readers ... through the landscape, history, literature and politics of the North, from the wrongheaded theories of the ancients to diplomatic intrigues on the Arctic's borderlands, the brutality of the Soviet gulag archipelago, and the region's emergence as a strategically... More Info