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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figuri...

You've read the classic on win-win negotiating, Getting to Yes but so have they, the folks you are now negotiating with. How can you get a leg up ...

Despite its good intentions, mismanagement and corruption plagued the UN's Oil-for-Food Program: More than 2,200 companies paid 1.8 billion in ille...

An earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was publis...

Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fenc...

A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corn...

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, hoped that ten thousand years from now, when archaeologists came upon the four si...

The former deputy mayor of New York City tells the story of the city's comeback after 9/11, offering lessons in resiliency under the most trying of...

Growth is a clear goal for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders. It's often a short hand for business - and wider economic - success. But it's not w...

In today's volatile, complex and fast-moving business world, it can be difficult to gauge how sound a company really is. An apparently strong balan...

Country risk explains the things that can go wrong when business is conducted across borders. It's not just multinational companies, with factories...

A practical and accessible overview of the fundamentals of business finance -- now in its third edition. Managers are constantly expected to make d...

The revised and updated 7th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments,...

Intellectual Property (IP) is often a company's single most valuable asset. And yet IP is hard to value, widely misunderstood and frequently under-...

Now in its fourth edition, this classic guide to investment strategy has been revised to give up-to-date ideas on pensions, investments of passion ...

Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17,043 businesses w...

A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, ra...

A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, ra...

"Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times "The book's greatest strength lie...

From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of th...

From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of th...

We all get angry at the built-in frustrations and humiliations of everyday life. But few of us ever experience the intense and perverse hatred that...