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Accountability after Economic Crisis reconstructs the captivating story of how different nations responded to the 2008 economic crisis, one of the most challenging economic downturns in modern history. The book focuses on puzzling cross-country variations in policies of accountability.

From two former White House officials who shaped America’s AI strategy and now work with leading AI companies, an urgent case for why democracies must achieve preeminence in AI—and a bracing warning about what victory will require. “Essential reading for understanding how AI will impact...

Reading built the modern world. It helped create democracy, science and reason. Now, books are dying, and people everywhere are losing the ability to read deeply or think rationally. The golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through history is breaking. The screen has replaced the...

Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest...

Truer now than when it was written—the prophetic classic is back. Twenty-six years after its original publication, Borsook’s “smart, funny and irreverent” (The New York Times) critique of high-tech has proved a prescient assessment of a toxic ethos which has seeped...

President Donald J. Trump’s second term in office will be the most consequential administration in history because of the people and the policies that are markedly different than his first term. While the Left and their conspirators in the media thought they had vanquished Trump after the 2020 election, the leader of the Make America Great Again movement didn’t disappear as they had hoped. During President Biden’s administration, Trump was assembling the people and building the policies that will forever change the direction of this country.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE SAVING YOUR LIFE ARE DYING INSIDE? After seventeen years of training to become a vascular surgeon, Dr. Lily Johnston had everything she worked for: prestigious degrees, a respected title, the dream job. There was just one little problem. She was miserable. In...

Verden er i opbrud. Der er krig i Europa, retsordenen er under pres og ny teknologi ændrer magtforhold. Samtidig vokser uligheden herhjemme, færre organiserer sig og flere oplever, at beslutninger om deres arbejde og hverdag bliver truffet længere væk fra dem selv. Det er baggrunden for...

La guía más completa de Social Security y Medicare para maximizar tus ingresos de jubilación (edición actualizada con las últimas reglas, novedades fiscales y cambios en Medicare) Una inversión de menos de $20 que puede ayudarte a proteger decenas de miles de dólares en ingresos durante...

This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm...

"Healthcare is not working for the people who need it." As the author states in the Introduction, it is vital to forge a new path for American healthcare, starting with the physician-patient relationship as the fundamental building block for reform. By combining elements of memoir and patient...

A powerful, deeply personal examination of the hidden toll of emotional cancer endured by those who serve as societys safety netand a blueprint for treating it. Drawing on firsthand experience of more than four decades as a paramedic, law enforcement officer, emergency physician, and healthcare...

An unsparing history of the AIDS denialism movement and the historical conditions that have led us to a modern day global crisis of authority. Where does science denialism come from, and how does it grow? Experts have placed the blame on social media, AI, right-wing media, the 24-hour news cycle...

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. In We Will Not Cancel Us, movement mediator adrienne maree brown reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond this impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes even from from its targets. However, brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us?

Die globale Geschichte des 21. Jahrhunderts ist eine Geschichte der Knappheit, ganz gleich, ob es um Wohnungen geht, um Arbeitskräfte, um Technologien oder um saubere Energie. Dabei hat sich die gegenwärtige Krise in den Industriestaaten seit Jahren angebahnt - weil wir eine Politik des Verzichts geübt haben und nicht innovativ genug waren. Ezra Klein und Derek Thompson zeigen, wie wir die politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Hindernisse für den Fortschritt überwinden, wie wir Systeme und Institutionen für den Aufbau schaffen und so zu einem neuen Wohlstand gelangen.

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’ taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Hundreds of books have been written about the financial crisis that engulfed the world after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. But what if the bigger financial crisis is ahead of us, not behind us?As John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper deftly illustrate in this controversial audio book, the crisis was more than a half-century in the making. The Great Financial Crisis, however, was merely Act I.

Bloomsbury presents Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools: Understand more deeply and better address inequalities in your school by Sean Harris and Katrina Morley read by George Potts Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schools The stark reality of...

Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists - when we work, save for the future, invest, pay taxes, and buy our groceries. Yet many of us feel lost when the subject arises. Award-winning professor Timothy Taylor here tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, so you can understand and discuss economics on a personal, national, and global level.

As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from top-performing education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths, and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan's journey around the world, weaving together her experiences with research on policy, history, psychology, and culture to offer extensive new insights into what we can learn from these countries.