-Titulo Original : Poverty Safari Understanding The Anger Of Britains Underclass-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain . . . So he invites you to come on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. This book takes you inside the experience of poverty to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome. Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it is actually lived, McGarvey sets out what everybody-including himself-could do to change things. Razor-sharp, fearless and brutally honest, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain. Review Part memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-de-force. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left and right. It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book. -J.K. RowlingNothing less than an intellectual and spiritual rehab manual for the progressive left. -Irvine WelshAnother cry of anger from a working class that feels the pain of a rotten, failing system. Its value lies in the strength it will add to the movement for change. -Ken LoachBy his own account, Darren McGarvey’s first twenty-five years were a real-life version of Trainspotting . . . Poverty Safari [is] a painfully honest autobiographical study of deprivation and how society should deal with it . . . But what has made McGarvey such a particular figure of attention is his political message . . . [McGarvey] seems to offer an antidote to populist anger that transcends left and right . . . his urgently written, articulate and emotional book is a bracing contribution to the debate about how to fix our broken politics. -Financial TimesPoverty Safari is an important and powerful book. (Nicola Sturgeon)One of the best accounts of working-class life I have read. McGarvey is a rarity: a working-class writer who has fought to make the middle-class world hear what he has to say. -Guardian About the Author Darren McGarvey aka Loki is a writer, performer, columnist and former rapper-in-residence at Police Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit....

-Titulo Original : Untold Stories-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Alan Bennett has been one of Englands leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His work includes the Talking Heads television series, and the stage plays Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, and The Madness of King George III. His play, The History Boys (now a major motion picture), won six Tony Awards, including best play, in 2006. In the same year his memoir, Untold Stories, was a number-one bestseller in the United Kingdom. Untold Stories brings together some of the finest and funniest writing by Alan Bennett, one of Englands best-known literary figures.[Bennett] does what only the best writers can do make us look at ourselves in a way weve never done before. Michael PalinAlan Bennetts first major collection since Writing Home contains previously unpublished work including the title piece, a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds along with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996 to 2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews, and comic pieces. In this highly anticipated compendium, the Today Book Club author of The Clothes They Stood Up In reveals a great many untold secrets and stories with his inimitable humor and wry honesty his familys unspoken history, his memories of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and his response to the success of his most recent play, The History Boys.Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s, Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with writing that is, in his words, no less serious because it is funny. The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the Royal National Theatre in 2004, winning numerous awards, and is scheduled to open in New York City in April 2006. Review “Surprising, funny, and deeply affecting . . . [Alan Bennett] is a prose stylist of disarming grace and sly humor.” The New York Times Book Review“Untold Stories is intelligent, educated, engaging, humane, self-aware, cantankerous, and irresistibly funny. You want it to go on forever.” The Sunday Times (London)“Painfully intimate, stoically comic . . . Bennetts deadpan, self-deprecating humor translates perfectly.” David Gates, O, The Oprah Magazine“A great achievement and a book of lasting value.” The Guardian (U.K.)“A masterpiece of reminiscence. There is probably no other distinguished English man of letters more instantly likable than Bennett.” Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World“It is a glaring example of modern English frivolity that [Bennett] is not simply regarded--with awe and terror--as one of the greatest living English writers. . . . If you want to understand the cultural wars in England now, and if you want to come to grips with a great writer and a challenging mind, then Bennett is your man.” The Nation“While he plays the old crank who is put upon by the world as it is, Bennett reveals an eye for detail and a feel for the complexity of human interactions.” Publishers Weekly“[Bennett] is a fine storyteller. . . . His memories of fellow actors Peter Cook and Dudly Moore are wry, witty, and honest.” Library Journa...

-Titulo Original : Writing Home-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Alan Bennett has been one of Englands leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His work includes the Talking Heads television series, and the stage plays Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, and The Madness of King George III. His recent play, The History Boys (now a major motion picture), won six Tony Awards, including best play, in 2006. In the same year his memoir, Untold Stories, was a number-one bestseller in the United Kingdom. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of Englands best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as The Lady in the Van, his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennetts garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material from the author, including more recent diaries and his introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George. A chronicle of one of the most important literary careers of the twentieth century, Writing Home is a classic history of a life in letters. Review “[A] wonderful book, the wit of which spills over even into the index....Theres so much here...[Bennett] is angry, hilariously self-pitying and he writes beautifully.” The Times (London)“Delightful.” Time“A classic performance.” Times Literary Supplement“Brilliantly perceptive...If anyone wants to define the distinctive Englishness of English writing, they can find it all in this book--modesty, irony, self-deprecating wit, and supremely good observation.” Daily Telegraph“The book [contains] perhaps the funniest piece ever written about the theater...marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.” The Independent“Irresistibly well written, wry, witty, every sentence a pleasure...Humane, observant, and sharply intelligent.” Sunday Tim...

-Titulo Original : Christ Stopped At Eboli The Story Of A Year-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Review “[Levi is] a sensitive and gifted writer with a great sense of style.” Alfred Kazin Part autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli is a reissue of Carlo Levis classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italys Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors had, constantly fearing black magic and the near presence of death. In so doing, Levi offered a starkly beautiful and moving account of a place and a people living outside the boundaries of progress and time. About the Author Carlo Levi (1902-1975) was born in Turin, Italy. He was a writer, journalist, artist, and doctor, whose first documentary novel, Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945), became an international sensation and introduced the trend toward social realism in post-war Italian literature.Mark Rotella is the author of Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria (NPP, 2003). A senior reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and their two children...

-Titulo Original : The Mercies-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2020‘Chilling and page-turning’ - The Times ‘Dark, dramatic and full of danger’ - Daily Mail‘Gripping’ - Madeline Miller‘Took my breath away’ - Tracy ChevalierThe storm comes in like a finger snap . . .Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant.Vardø is now a place of women.Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargraves The Mercies is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.‘A beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope’ - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain ‘Strong characters, gorgeous settings’ - Sarah Moss, Guardian‘Something rare and beautiful’ - Marian Keye...

-Titulo Original : The Lexus And The Olive Tree Understanding Globalization-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: A brilliant guide for the here and now.---The New York Times Book ReviewIn this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of ancient traditions will ensure a better future for all. The Lexus and the Olive Tree is an indispensable look at power and big change in the age of globalization. Review “Required reading...No one gives a better explanation of [globalization] than New York Times correspondent Thomas L. Friedman....Impressive.” The Christian Science Monitor“Important…Friedman writes in straightforward language that should make globalizations complexities comprehensible. Theres a great deal of wisdom in this book.” USA Today“Friedman gets the economics right. His book is a wellspring of economic common sense that will inoculate its readers against the ‘globaloney so prevalent in popular discussions of the subject.” Foreign Affairs“Friedman convincingly argues that what creates wealth has suddenly changed.…The Lexus and the Olive Tree makes alarmingly good sense; it educates and provokes.” The Baltimore Sun“A lively mix of anecdote and analysis…full of solid reporting…Friedman is eager, provocative, [and] often entertaining….Insightful.” The Boston Globe“There is hardly a page in The Lexus and the Olive Tree without an underlineable passage….Friedman has used his remarkable vantage point to provide a readable overview that no academic or narrow-beat reporter could have given us….A genuinely important book.” Salon About the Author Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist-the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of six bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.He was born in Minneapolis in 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies, attended St. Antonys College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship, and received an M.Phil. degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. After three years with United Press International, he joined The New York Times, where he has worked ever since as a reporter, correspondent, bureau chief, and columnist. At the Times, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1983 for international reporting (from Lebanon), in 1988 for international reporting (from Israel), and in 2002 for his columns after the September 11th attacks. Friedmans first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1989. His second book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), won the Overseas Press Club Award for best book on foreign policy in 2000. In 2002 FSG published a collection of his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns, along with a diary he kept after 9/11, as Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. His fourth book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and received the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in November 2005. A revised and expanded edition was published in hardcover in 2006 and in 2007. The World Is Flat has sold more than 4 million copies in thirty-seven languages. In 2008 he brought out Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which was published in a revised edition a year later. His sixth book, That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, was published in 2011.Thomas L. Friedman lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family...

-Titulo Original : Automating Inequality How High-tech Tools Profile, Police, And Punish The Poor-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Virginia Eubanksis an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, Harper’s, and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. She lives in Troy, NY. WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeAstra Taylor, author of The Peoples Platform: The single most important book about technology you will read this year.Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: A must-read.A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equityThe State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect.Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems rather than humans control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor.In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile.The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values.This deeply researched and passionate book could not be more timely. Review ONE OF Voxs 12 GREAT SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE 2010s This is a rigorous, compelling piece of qualitative social science and one of the best-crafted nonfiction books I’ve ever read, period. As a journalist, it made me actively envious of its prose.... a reminder of what can go awry when politicians mistake technical solutions for political solutions. Dylan Matthews, VoxRequired reading for the modern age, Automating Inequality explains through beautifully rendered individual stories and deeply researched historical analysis why we must remain vigilant and skeptical of the promises of artificial intelligence fed to us by those who stand to gain from their adoption. Cathy ONeil, New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction[Automating Inequalitys] argument is that the use of automated decision-making in social service programs creates a digit...

-Titulo Original : The Age Of Cryptocurrency How Bitcoin And The Blockchain Are Challenging The Global Economic Order-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Paul Vigna is a markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering equities and the economy. He is a columnist and anchor for MoneyBeat. Previously a writer and editor of the MarketTalk column in DowJones Newswires, he has been a guest on the Fox Business Network, CNN, the BBC, and the John Batchelor radio show. He has been interviewed by Bitcoin magazine and appeared on the Bitcoins & Gravy podcast, and boasts a collective 20 years of journalism experience. Vigna has coauthored books with Michael J. Casey, including The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine.MICHAEL J. CASEY writes for The Wall Street Journal, covering global finance in his Horizons column. He is a frequent contributor to the Journals MoneyBeat blog and co-authors the daily BitBeat with Paul Vigna. He is the host of the book-themed video series WSJ Afterword and a frequent guest on and host of The News Hub and MoneyBeat. Casey has written for such publications as Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. He is the author of Ches Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image (Vintage, 2009), one of Michiko Kakutanis best books of 2009, and The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Financial System Destroys the Middle Class (Crown, 2012). Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about bitcoin? In The Age of Cryptocurrency, Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey deliver the definitive answer to this question. Cybermoney is poised to launch a revolution, one that could reinvent traditional financial and social structures while bringing the worlds billions of unbanked individuals into a new global economy. Cryptocurrency holds the promise of a financial system without a middleman, one owned by the people who use it and one safeguarded from the devastation of a 2008-type crash. But bitcoin, the most famous of the cybermonies, carries a reputation for instability, wild fluctuation, and illicit business; some fear it has the power to eliminate jobs and to upend the concept of a nation-state. It implies, above all, monumental and wide-reaching change for better and for worse. But it is here to stay, and you ignore it at your peril.Vigna and Casey demystify cryptocurrency its origins, its function, and what you need to know to navigate a cyber-economy. The digital currency world will look very different from the paper currency world; The Age of Cryptocurrency will teach you how to be ready. Review “Vigna and Caseys thorough, timely and colorful book is a rewarding place to learn it all.” The New York Times Book Review“For any book on bitcoin to be worth reading, it has to delve further: into the crypto-currencys ideological and technical roots, for instance, or what it adds to the narrative of money, or even what its economic and political impact may be. The currencys...underlying technology provides plenty of intellectual fodder-and is unlikely to go away. So there is plenty to write about if you are serious. Paul Vigna and Michael Casey, two journalists at the Wall Street Journal, are certainly serious.” The Economist“[Vigna and Casey] have produced more than a bitcoin 101: their [book] is a smarter, more holistic take on not just bitcoin, but the potential of all digital currencies to change the way we send each other money.” Fortune“This book by @mikejcasey and @paulvigna is a new must-read on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency!” Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)“To their ample credit, Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, veteran Wall Street Journal reporters, resist the common temptations to hype their trendy subject. Theyve written a reported explainer that patiently documents bitcoins rise, acknowledges its fla...

-Titulo Original : Listen, Liberal Or, What Ever Happened To The Party Of The People?-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Thomas Frank is the author of Listen, Liberal, Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and Whats the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harpers, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and writes regularly for The Guardian. He lives outside Washington, D.C. A SCATHING LOOK AT THE STANDARD-BEARERS OF LIBERAL POLITICS A BOOK THAT ASKS: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH DEMOCRATS?Hailed as “the most prescient book” of the year, Listen, Liberal accurately described what ailed the Democratic Party even before the election of 2016 made their weaknesses obvious. It is the story of how the “Party of the People” detached itself from its historic constituency among average Americans and chose instead to line up with the winners of our new economic order.Now with a new afterword, Thomas Frank’s powerful analysis offers the best diagnosis to date of the liberal malady. Drawing on years of research and firsthand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats have over the last decades increasingly abandoned their traditional goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. With sardonic wit and lacerating logic, he uncovers the corporate and cultural elitism that have largely eclipsed the party’s old working- and middle-class commitment. And he warns that the Democrats’ only chance of regaining their health and averting a future of ever-increasing inequality is a return to their historic faith. Review “Thoroughly entertaining . . . Frank delights in skewering the sacred cows of coastal liberalism. . . . He argues that the Democratic party once the Party of the People now caters to the interests of a professional managerial class consisting of lawyers, doctors, professors, scientists, programmers, even investment bankers. . . . A serious political critique.” The New York Times Book Review (front page)“What makes Frank’s book new, different and important is its offer of a compelling theory as to how and why the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt is now so unlikely to champion the economic needs of everyday people. . . . In such a looking-glass world, Listen, Liberal is a desperately needed corrective.” History News Network“In his new book, progressive commentator Thomas Frank says Democrats need to take a good long look in the mirror if they want answers to why blue-collar workers are feeling abandoned and even infuriated by what used to be their party.” New York Post“Over the past four decades, Frank argues, the Democrats have embraced a new favorite constituency: the professional class the doctors, lawyers, engineers, programmers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, financiers and other so-called creatives whose fetish for academic credentials and technological innovation has infected the party of the working class. . . . For that class, Frank argues, income and wealth inequality is not a problem but an inevitable condition.” The Washington Post“An astute dissection of contemporary Democratic politics that demonstrates, cogently and at times acidly, how the party lost the allegiance of blue-collar Americans.” Publishers Weekly“A tough and thought-provoking look at what’s wrong with America . . . Frank puts forth an impressive catalog of Democratic disappointments, more than enough to make liberals uncomfortable.” Booklist“Important . . . Engaging . . . An edgy even disturbing analysis of the Democratic Party’s jilting of its traditional base.” The National Book Review“Thomas Frank’s new book Listen, Liberal documents a half-century of work by the Democratic elite to belittle working people and exile their concerns to the fringes of the party’s platform. If the prevailing ideology of the Republican establishment is that of a sneering aristocracy, Democratic elites are all too often the purveyors of a smirking meritocracy that offers working people very little.” The Huffington Post“Democr...

-Titulo Original : The Truth Machine The Blockchain And The Future Of Everything-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Paul Vigna is a markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering equities and the economy. He is a columnist and anchor for MoneyBeat. Previously a writer and editor of the MarketTalk column in DowJones Newswires, he has been a guest on the Fox Business Network, CNN, the BBC, and the John Batchelor radio show. He has been interviewed by Bitcoin magazine and appeared on the Bitcoins & Gravy podcast, and boasts a collective 20 years of journalism experience. Vigna has coauthored books with Michael J. Casey, including The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine.MICHAEL J. CASEY writes for The Wall Street Journal, covering global finance in his Horizons column. He is a frequent contributor to the Journals MoneyBeat blog and co-authors the daily BitBeat with Paul Vigna. He is the host of the book-themed video series WSJ Afterword and a frequent guest on and host of The News Hub and MoneyBeat. Casey has written for such publications as Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. He is the author of Ches Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image (Vintage, 2009), one of Michiko Kakutanis best books of 2009, and The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Financial System Destroys the Middle Class (Crown, 2012). Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future. Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury SecretaryFrom Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet’s Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the “legacy systems” once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain. In The Truth Machine, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society’s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping. Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we’ve relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. The Truth Machine reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift. With the same balanced perspective they brought to The Age of Cryptocurrency, Casey and Vigna show why we all must care about the path that blockchain technology takes moving humanity forward, not backward. Review “[A] subtle, and useful, investigation of what blockchain is, and what we might reasonably expect it to accomplish...Even more than AI, blockchain is something most executives know they should care about, but haven’t yet really figured out how to use. Casey and Vigna’s book would be a good place to start.” Strategy Business “An in-depth, fair, and engaging account of a massive technological shift that affects everyone.” Business InsiderReferences to bitcoin (the currency) and blockchain (the accounting ledger) are increasing at warp speed, and many of us are struggling to keep up. This book serves as a guide to this new economic order, designed to create a safer and fairer system for global transactions i...

-Titulo Original : Scarcity The New Science Of Having Less And How It Defines Our Lives-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard University, is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and conducts research on development economics, behavioral economics, and corporate finance. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He conducts research in cognitive science, judgment and decision-making, and behavioral economics. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why the same sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before.Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus, and Scarcity reveals not only how it leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success. Review “Extraordinarily illuminating...Mullainathan and Shafir have made an important, novel, and immensely creative contribution.” Cass R. Sunstein, The New York Review of Books“Compelling, important...A handy guide for those of us looking to better understand our inability to ever climb out of the holes we dig ourselves, whether related to money, relationships, or time.” The Boston Globe“[Scarcity offers] groundbreaking insights into...the effects of poverty on cognition and our ability to make choices about our lives.” Samantha Power, The Wall Street Journal“This is a book to read--but not while you are watching something else at the same time.” Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google and coauthor of The New Digital Age“Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.” Steven D. Levitt, coauthor“Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir are stars in their respective disciplines, and the combination is greater than the sum of its parts. Together they manage to merge scientific rigor and a wry view of the human predicament. Their project has a unique feel to it: it is the finest combination of heart and head that I have seen in our field.” Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow“Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show how the logic of scarcity applies to rich and poor, educated and illiterate, Asian, Western, Hispanic, and African cultures alike. They offer insights that can help us change our individual behavior and that open up an entire new landscape of public policy solutions. A breathtaking achievement!” Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor emerita, Princeton University, and president and CEO of the New America Foundation“Here is a winning recipe. Take a behavioral economist and a cognitive psychologist, each a prominent leader in his field, and let their creative minds commingle. What you get is a highly original and easily readable book that is full of intriguing insights. What does a single mom trying to make partner at a major law firm have in common with a peasant who spends half her income on interest payments? The answer is scarcity. Read this book to learn the surprising ways in which scarcity affects us all.” Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, coauthor of Nudge“With a smooth blend of stories and studies, Scarcity reveals how the feeling of having less than we need can narrow our vision and distort our judgment. This is a book with huge implications for both personal development and public policy.” Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Huma...

-Titulo Original : Why The West Rules For Now The Patterns Of History, And What They Reveal About The Future-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor in History at Stanford University and the author of the critically acclaimed Why the West Rules for Now. He has published many scholarly books and has directed excavations in Greece and Italy. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the Wests rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines from ancient history to neuroscience not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years. Review “Morris is a lucid thinker and a fine writer. . .possessed of a welcome sense of humor that helps him guide us through this grand game of history as if he were an erudite sportscaster.” Orville Schell, The New York Times Book Review“An excellent and amusing survey of the last [fifty] thousand years or so of human history.” Jane Smiley, The Washington Post“The greatest nonfiction book written in recent times.” The Business Standard“A pathbreaking work that lays out what modern history should look like.…Entertaining and plausibly argued.” Harold James, Financial Times (London)“In an era when cautious academics too often confine themselves to niggling discussions of pipsqueak topics, it is a joy to see a scholar take a bold crack at explaining the vast sweep of human progress. . .Readers of Why the West Rules For Now are unlikely to see the history of the world in quite the same way ever again. And that cant be said of many books on any topic. Morris has penned a tour de force.” Keith Monroe, The Virginian-Pilot“Readers of Why the West Rules--For Now are unlikely to see the history of the world in quite the same way ever again. And that cant be said of many books on any topic. Morris has penned a tour de force.” Keith Monroe, The Virginian-Pilot“If you read one history book this year, if you read one this decade, this is the one.” Tim O Connell, The Florida Times-Union“A monumental effort...Morris is an engaging writer with deep insights from archaeology and ancient history that offer us compelling visions about how the past influences the future.” Michael D. Langan, Buffalo News“A remarkable book that may come to be as widely read as Paul Kennedys 1987 work, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Like Mr Kennedys epic, Mr Morriss ‘Why the West Rules--For Now uses history and an overarching theory to address the anxieties of the present . . . This is an important book--one that challenges, stimulates and ent...

-Titulo Original : Fear City New Yorks Fiscal Crisis And The Rise Of Austerity Politics-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Kim Phillips-Fein is a professor of history at New York University and the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmens Crusade Against the New Deal. A recipient of grants from the New York Public Librarys Cullman Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities, she has written for The Nation, Dissent, The Baffler, The Atlantic, and The New York Times, among other publications. PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue.In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a struggle over the soul of New York, pitting fundamentally opposing visions of the city against each other. Drawing on never-before-used archival sources and interviews with key players in the crisis, Fear City shows how the brush with bankruptcy permanently transformed New York and reshaped ideas about government across America.At once a sweeping history of some of the most tumultuous times in New Yorks past, a gripping narrative of last-minute machinations and backroom deals, and an origin story of the politics of austerity, Fear City is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the resurgent fiscal conservatism of today.Fear City is one of Publishers Weeklys Top 10 Best Books of 2017, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History Review “A powerful and involving work of narrative history... You come away from Fear City with a clear sense of what was lost as New York left behind one set of priorities and embraced another.... This is a book that deserves an audience beyond New York City history buffs, and all the more so because of its relevance to our political moment. The young Donald Trump makes a brief cameo appearance as an icon of the new New York, a real estate mogul who leveraged his father’s connections and the city’s desperation into massive tax breaks, starving the city of badly needed revenues for education and other basic municipal functions as he developed properties for the rich. Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times Book Review“Paced like a thriller and extremely well written... Phillips-Fein narrates with almost cinematic flair, and by the time the credits roll, the significance of her accomplishment becomes clear. The book should be required reading for all those interested in the past, present, and future of democratic politics.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Deftly recounts the clash between government entities and vested interests as New York struggled to cope with slashed social service... Given events since, New York’s crisis and the author’s astute account of it seems oddly timely... Sobering, smart reading with many pointed lessons for activists.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Fear City is the best account of the New York City fiscal crisis of the 1970s and, more than that, an indispensable contribution to understanding the rise of austerity economics and the long decline of the public sector. This is a history with huge implications for the remaking of American politics and economics in our time.” Thomas J. Sugrue, author of Origins of the Urban Crisis“The remaking of New York City under cover...

-Titulo Original : Fordlandia The Rise And Fall Of Henry Fords Forgotten Jungle City-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His widely acclaimed books also include The Last Colonial Massacre, Kissingers Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history. He is Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the AmazonIn 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops, bandstands, indoor plumbing, and Model Ts rolling down broad streets. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, quickly became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the car magnate, lean, austere, the man who reduced industrial production to its simplest motions; on the other, the Amazon, lush, extravagant, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Fords early success in imposing time clocks and square dances on the jungle soon collapsed, as indigenous workers, rejecting his midwestern Puritanism, turned the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. Fordlandias eventual demise as a rubber plantation foreshadowed the practices that today are laying waste to the rain forest. More than a parable of one mans arrogant attempt to force his will on the natural world, Fordlandia depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. As Greg Grandin shows in this gripping and mordantly observed history, Fords great delusion was not that the Amazon could be tamed but that the forces of capitalism, once released, might yet be contained. Fordlandia is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction. Review “Grandin tells a gripping story of high hopes and deep failure, a saga that in some ways is a morality tale for the American century.” The Boston Globe“Historian Greg Grandin has taken what heretofore seemed just such a marginal event. . . and turned it into a fascinating historical narrative that illuminates the auto industrys contemporary crisis, the problems of globalization and the contradictions of contemporary consumerism. For all of that, this is not, however, history freighted with political pedantry. Grandin is one of blessedly expanding group of gifted American historians who assume that whatever moral the story of the past may yield, it must be a story well told.” Timothy Rutten, The Los Angeles Times“Fascinating. . . Indeed, Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness resonates through every page of this book. . . . a haunting story.” The New York Times Book Review“Greg Grandins riveting account of this forgotten jungle city demonstrates that in business, as well as in affairs of state, the means may be abundant but the ends still unachievable.” The Wall Street Journal“A sometimes horrifying, sometimes hilarious picture of the automakers attempt to bring the light of American industry to the Amazonian heart of darkness . . . Grandin tells a marvelous tale.” Star Tribune (Minneapolis)“Grandin, a distinguished historian of U.S. misadventures in Latin America, offers a fluently written, fair-minded guide to the Ford Motor Co.s jungle escapades. In addition to his research in company records, he has ransacked the many Ford biographies to assemble a telling portrait of his central character.” Brian Ladd, San Francisco Chronicle“Grandin offers the thoroughly remarkable story of Henry Fords attempt, from the 1920s through 1945, to transform part of Brazils Amazon River basin into a rubber plan...

-Titulo Original : The Vertical Farm (tenth Anniversary Edition) Feeding The World In The 21st Century-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Dr. Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia, where he has won the Best Teacher award six times, and received the national 2003 American Medical Student Association Golden Apple Award for teaching. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post. He spoke at the TED Conference, Pop!Tech and the World Science Festival and has been invited by the governments of China, India, Mexico, Jordan, Brazil, Canada, and Korea to work on environmental problems. He has been invited to speak at numerous national and international professional annual meetings as a keynote speaker, and at universities, including Harvard and MIT. He is one of the visionaries featured at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. Despommier lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The updated tenth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Gene A. Giacomelli!The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommiers visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the worlds food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today. --StingImagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to natures grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm.When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve Americas food, water, and energy crises, he didnt just think big - he thought up. Despommiers stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Despommier explains how the vertical farm will have an incredible impact on changing the face of this planet for future generations. Despommier takes readers on an incredible journey inside the vertical farm, buildings filled with fruits and vegetables that will provide local food sources for entire cities.Vertical farms will allow us to:- Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year- Protect crops from unpredictable and harmful weather- Re-use water collected from the indoor environment- Provide jobs for residents- Eliminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides- Drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels- Prevent crop loss due to shipping or storage- Stop agricultural runoffVertical farms can be built in abandoned buildings and on deserted lots, transforming our cities into urban landscapes which will provide fresh food grown and harvested just around the corner. Possibly the most important aspect of vertical farms is that they can built by nations with little or no arable land, transforming nations which are currently unable to farm into top food producers. In the tradition of the bestselling The World Without Us, The Vertical Farm is a completely original landmark work destined to become an instant classic.With a Foreword by Majora Carter. Review “A book you will read, and then you will read it again. It is a book that could begin a revolution. Lets hope it does.” Chicago Examiner“Nobody has ever dreamed as big as Dr. Dickson Despommier.” New York Magazine“Despommier has quickly become the central figure in what could be a worldwide revolution.” Scientific American“Despommiers . . . ingenious idea . . . could ultimately ease the worlds food, water, and energy crises.” The Huffington Post“Lucidly written . . . inspiring . . . Vertical farming is no doubt fast emerging as a powerful futuristic concept.” Businessworld“A captivating argument that will intrigue general readers and give policymakers and inv...

-Titulo Original : Glass House The 1% Economy And The Shattering Of The All-american Town-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Brian Alexander has written about American culture for decades. A former contributing editor to Wired magazine, he has been recognized by Medill School of Journalisms John Bartlow Martin awards for public interest journalism, and by other organizations. He grew up in Lancaster, with a family history in the glass business. He lives in California. Brian is the author of Glass House. For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land*A New York Post Must-Read Book**A Newsweek Best New Book**One of The Weeks 20 Books to Read in 2017**One of Bustles 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**Best Non-Fiction/2017 Books by the Banks*The Wall Street Journal: A devastating portrait...For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment in 2016, Mr. Alexander supplies plenty of answers. Laura Miller, Slate: This book hunts bigger game. Reads like an odd and oddly satisfying fusion of George Packer’s The Unwinding and one of Michael Lewis’ real-life financial thrillers.The New Yorker : Does a remarkable job. Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: This book should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a needlessly wrecked rural America. I wish I had written it. In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass House, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown 35 years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion.The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world’s largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster’s society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster’s citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town’s biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; Joe Piccolo, first-time director of the annual music festival who discovers the town relies on him, and it, for salvation; Jason Roach, who police believed may have been Lancaster’s biggest drug dealer; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realize that he can never arrest Lancaster’s real problems. Review If you want to understand the despair that grips so much of this country, and the love of place that gives so many the strength to keep going, Glass House is a place to start. Christian Science Monitor There are some books that I think of as wake-up calls. I’m talking about books that not only tell me something I don’t know, but that challenge and reconfigure a previously held belief, allowing me to see the world I live in with greater clarity and understanding...Glass House reveals that the Anchor Hocking Glass Co. of Lancaster, Ohio, wasn’t done in by the forces of globalization, but by private equity investors from Wall Street who drained the lifeblood from the company like a bunch of vampires, profiting mightily in the process. John Warner, Chicago TribuneGlass House is among the best of the books to hit shelves in the last several years exploring what’s happened to the nation and the role that greed and the collapse of once solid institutions played in the demise of small-town, middle-class America. Among the others are George Packer’s The Unwinding and J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Newsweek A masterfu...

-Titulo Original : Ninety Percent Of Everything Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car, And Food On Your Plate-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Rose George is the author of Nine Pints, The Big Necessity and Ninety Percent of Everything. A freelance journalist, she has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, and many other publications. She lives in Yorkshire. Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy, and so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work. Yet freight shipping is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny, it revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of flags of convenience. And then there are the pirates.Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with an anti-piracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains, and investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales. Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization. Review “Consistently absorbing…Timely as well as deft…Georges spirited book cracks open a vast, treacherous and largely ignored world.” The New York Times“Engrossing and revelatory…George not only explores a little-known world of commerce but also introduces readers to the many people who make shipping possible. That she does so with great empathy and self-effacing humor, much like Mary Roach, makes her subjects especially appealing.… Georges book is packed with telling anecdotes and detailed accounts, some funny, some shocking. If theres a downside to her seafaring, its that it comes to an end too soon.” San Francisco Chronicle“A fascinating account of the international ocean shipping industry and the arena it operates in, the largely ungoverned open seas.” The Seattle Times“Mind-blowing…With its wide scope, voice of intellectual curiosity, and inter-ocean adventure, the book is reminiscent of Donovan Hohns popular Moby Duck.” The Atlantic“Fabulous.” Time“Heart-stopping, mind-boggling... A superb book, well-written and bravely researched at sea.” Energy Metro Desk“Worth comparing to John McPhees Looking for a Ship…Offers a fascinating look at an anonymous industry affecting our daily lives, and gives a personal face to those working in that industry.” The Daily News (Galveston)“Consistently illuminating in-depth analysis…An eye-opening maritime expose.” Kirkus Reviews“Rose George beautifully captures the surprising nuances of this little-known world: beauty and privation, pathos and greed, tragedy and hilarity. Her strong, spare, gleaming prose steams along, powered by curiosity, compassion, outrage. As a writer, a reporter, and a human being, George is--stand by for nautical term--First Rate.” Mary Roach, author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal“For a modern seafaring adventure, there couldnt be a better guide than Rose George. Her intelligence, curiosity, and compassion shine through on every page to reveal a fascinating world that no one knows about, though it is fundamental to our economy and way of life.” Chris Anderson, curator, TED Conference“The two greatest stories are supposed to be ‘A man goes on a journey and ‘A stranger comes to town. In this enthralling, literally wide-ranging book, Rose George tells both: she goes on a voyage that few other journalists have accomplished, and she unveils the unknown seafarers who bring us all the worlds goods. Her sympathetic, deeply reported, and unexpectedly poignant account reveals the private, prick...

-Titulo Original : The Perfect Scent A Year Inside The Perfume Industry In Paris And New York-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Chandler Burr is the scent critic for the New York Times Style Magazine and the author of The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses. He lives in New York City. From the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insiders view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes -- one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the other made in New York by actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Coty, Inc., a giant international corporation. We follow Cotys mating of star power to the marketing of perfume, watching Sex and the Citys Parker heading a hugely expensive campaign to launch a scent into the overcrowded celebrity market. Will she match the success of Jennifer Lopez? Does she have the international fan base to drive worldwide sales?In Paris at the elegant Hermes, we see Jean Claude Ellena, his companys new head perfumer, given a challenge: he must create a scent to resuscitate Hermess perfume business and challenge le monstre of the industry, bestselling Chanel No. 5. Will his pilgrimage to a garden on the Nile supply the inspiration he needs? The Perfect Scent is the story of two daring creators, two very different scents, and a billion-dollar industry that runs on the invisible magic of perfume. Review “Filled with fascinating revelations about an industry built on illusions . . . entices you to marvel all the more at the power of fragrance.” The Dallas Morning News“The Perfect Scent has drama, unforgettable characters, history, and location.” Los Angeles Times“An inside, Hollywoodesque account.” The New York Times Book Review“Burr winds his way deep into the secretive, dark, high-stakes world of perfumery, where following the scent can be hazardous to your career. . . . He smells the story in each bottle.” Associated Press“Passionate and captivating.” The Toronto Star“An appealing writer and an acute observer, [who] tells his two stories well.” The Wall Street Journal“Filled with fascinating revelations about an industry built on illusions.” The Kansas City Star Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Perfect ScentA Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New YorkBy Chandler BurrPicadorCopyright © 2007 Chandler BurrAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-312-42577-7CHAPTER 1I became the perfume critic of The Times in 2006 owing to a series of coincidences. No one was more surprised than I was. Id studied in China and worked in Japan and gotten a masters in international economics and Japanese political economy, then - credit the haphazardness of life - became a science journalist for The Atlantic. This led me, after a chance encounter in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris with a biophysicist and perfume genius, to write a book called The Emperor of Scent about the creation of a new, radical theory of olfaction. Id been talking to The New Yorker about possible projects - Id proposed articles on Chinese and Indian economic development, Japanese politics - and one day they counterproposed, to (a bit) my consternation. They were interested in my writing a piece on the creation of a perfume. Its development, from the first instant to the launch. Behind the scenes, real time, full access.Id never considered such a project. As a journalist, I was an Asianist, and Id happened to do a book that touched on perfume; I assumed that that was finished. But OK, I said, Id take a look.I started going to houses. Not one of them would do it. I proposed the idea to an Amer...

-Titulo Original : Eloquent Rage A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Brittney Cooper writes a popular monthly column on race, gender, and politics for Cosmopolitan. A professor of Womens and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist Collective, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony , and The Root , among many others. In 2017, she was named to The Root 100 List, and in 2018, to the Essence Woke 100 List. NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An Emma Watson Our Shared Shelf Selection for November/December 2018 * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library * Mashable * The Atlantic *Bustle * The Root * Politico Magazine (What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer) * NPR * Fast Company (10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace) * The Guardian (Top 10 Books About Angry Women) Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed.Roxane Gay: I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now.Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility.America Ferrera: Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist.Damon Young: Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyonce instead of Ecclesiastes. Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls...I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.”Michael Eric Dyson: “Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today...and she will make you laugh out loud.”So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. It’s what makes Beyonce’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. When Cooper learned of her grandmothers eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. But homegirls emerge as heroes. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in ones own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again.A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour * Chicago Reader * Bustle * Autostraddle Review One of Signatures 5 Books that Bring Intersectional Feminism to the Forefront Eloquent Rage follows in the line of classics in the genre... The New York Times[A] proud, energetic reclamation of anger, via memoir and pop cultural analysis... forceful and smart and joyous all at once...It was an inspiration to me. Rebecca Traister, The CutRazor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist. America Ferrera[Eloquent Rage] is distinct both for its telling as the author’s own journey and for its yes eloquent personal voice, which, between her erudition (she is a professor at Rutgers) and her command of vernacular, is funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed. Rebecca Solnit, The New RepublicA dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility; an autobiography of ...

-Titulo Original : In Shock My Journey From Death To Recovery And The Redemptive Power Of Hope-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Now a Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe New York Times Book Review: Awdishs book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes...dramatic, engaging and instructive.A riveting first-hand account of a physician whos suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of the horribly misguided standard of care in the medical worldDr. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospital would result in hemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. But after her first visit, Dr. Awdish spent months fighting for her life, enduring consecutive major surgeries and experiencing multiple overlapping organ failures. At each step of the recovery process, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected: repeated cavalier behavior from her fellow physicians indifference following human loss, disregard for anguish and suffering, and an exacting emotional distance. Hauntingly perceptive and beautifully written, In Shock allows the reader to transform alongside Awidsh and watch what she discovers in our carefully-cultivated, yet often misguided, standard of care. Awdish comes to understand the fatal flaws in her profession and in her own past actions as a physician while achieving, through unflinching presence, a crystalline vision of a new and better possibility for us all. As Dr. Awdish finds herself up against the same self-protective partitions she was trained to construct as a medical student and physician, she artfully illuminates the dysfunction of disconnection. Shatteringly personal, and yet wholly universal, she offers a brave road map for anyone navigating illness while presenting physicians with a new paradigm and rationale for embracing the emotional bond between doctor and patient. Review Awdishs book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes...dramatic, engaging and instructive. The New York Times Book Review“Awdishs story is grueling: a catastrophic miscarriage, multiple organ failure, the uncertainty that accompanies a sudden medical crisis. In Shock searches for a glimmer of hope in life’s darkest moments, and finds it.” The Washington PostIn a gut-wrenching memoir approaching Job-level suffering, Awdish recounts her ordeal as a doctor-turned-patient and the many changes in her perspective and practice of medicine...Awdish’s emotional tenor is electric (and understandable): angry, anxious, self-pitying, vulnerable, even terrified. But she’s also heroic, smart, and determined.” Booklist (starred review)In Shock should be required reading in every medical, nursing and health professional school. Dr. Awdish cuts to the core of what is ailing the healthcare system: a loss of humanity. Her honest and poignant appraisal of how modern medicine systematizes illness and suffering is a wake up call to rethink medical pedagogy and the concept of how we truly heal. Ultimately, she gives us hope that through better understanding of each other and ourselves, we can reinvigorate the human connection at the heart of healthcare. Andrew J. Shin, JD, MPH, Senior Director, Policy, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate HealthcareA compassionate and critical look at medicine and illness from both a doctor’s and a patient’s perspective...Awdish has written a unique and insightful memoir. Publishers WeeklyA sobering, well-rendered reality check on the desperate need for advanced training on compassion-centric modes of patient care. Kirkus ReviewsDr. Rana Awdish brings the much-needed voice of the patient to life in a courageous retelling of her catastrophic illness and stunning revelations of the major disconnect between the communication caregivers deliver and what patients need. Rana’s story is not only compelling; it’s a call to action. This book will, hopefully, spur the change...

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-Titulo Original : When Women Were Birds Fifty-four Variations On Voice-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah. NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Kansas City Star Best Book of the YearBrilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder. Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect BirdsI am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you wont look at them until after Im gone. This is what Terry Tempest Williamss mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as it was to discover that the three shelves of journals were all blank. In fifty-four short chapters, Williams recounts memories of her mother, ponders her own faith, and contemplates the notion of absence and presence art and in our world. When Women Were Birds is a carefully crafted kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question: What does it mean to have a voice? Review “Williams displays a Whitmanesque embrace of the world and its contradictions....As the pages accumulate, her voice grows in majesty and power until it become a full-fledged aria.” San Francisco Chronicle“This poetic memoir continues the work Williams began in Refuge....Williams explores her mothers identity--woman, wife, mother, and Mormon--as she continues to honor her memory....A lyrical and elliptical meditation on women, nature, family, and history.” The Boston Globe“Williams is the kind of writer who makes a reader feel that [her] voice might also, one day, be heard….She cancels out isolation: Connections are woven as you sit in your chair reading---between you and the place you live, between you and other readers, you and the writer. Without knowing how it happened, your sense of home is deepened.” Susan Salter Reynolds, The Daily Beast“Time, experience, and uncanny coincidence spiral through these pages….When Women Were Birds is an extraordinary echo chamber in which lessons about voice--passed along from mother, to daughter, and now to us--will reverberate differently in each inner ear.” The Seattle Times“A beautiful, powerful, important book….Nothing Ive ever read has done this to me. Is this what religious people feel when they pray, I wonder? ...Terry Tempest Williams has written something that has revealed me and affirmed me and changed me. In sharing her voice, she has summoned mine.” Rebecca Joines Schinsky, Book Riot“In some ways When Women Were Birds functions as a detective story, an attempt to solve a mystery. But its also a realization that often there are no answers…theres only the present.” The Salt Lake Tribune“A lyrical, timeless book that rewards quiet, attentive reading--a rare thing.” The Huffington Post“At some point I realized I was reading every page twice trying to memorize each insight, each bit of hard-won wisdom. Then I realized I could keep it on my bedside table and read it every night.” Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. When Women Were BirdsFifty-four Variations on VoiceBy Terry Tempest WilliamsPicadorCopyright © 2013 Terry Tempest WilliamsAll right reserved.ISBN: 9781250024114WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS (Chapter 1)I AM FIFTY-FOUR YEARS OLD, the age my mother was when she died. This is what I remember: We were lying on her bed with a mohair blanket covering us. I was rubbing her back, feeling each vertebra with my fingers as a rung on a ladder. It was January, and ...

-Titulo Original : The Fish That Ate The Whale The Life And Times Of Americas Banana King-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: About the Author Rich Cohen is the New York Times-bestselling author of Tough Jews, Monsters, Sweet and Low, The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, The Chicago Cubs, and The Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. He is the cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut. Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Zemurray lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen. From hustling on the docks of New Orleans to overthrowing Central American governments and precipitating the bloody thirty-six-year Guatemalan civil war, the Banana Man lived a monumental and sometimes dastardly life. Rich Cohens brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale unveils Zemurray as a hidden power broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed. Review “Rich Cohen books constitute a genre unto themselves: pungent, breezy, vividly written psychodramas.” The New York Times Book Review“Lively and entertaining.” The Boston Globe“This biography of the complex and often contradictory figure of Zemurray is Cohens most engaging and entertaining book to date.” Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal“This is a rollicking but brilliantly researched book about one of the most fascinating characters of the twentieth century. I grew up in New Orleans enthralled by tales of Sam Zemurray, the banana peddler who built United Fruit. This book recounts, with delightful verve, his military and diplomatic maneuvers in Central America and his colorful life and business practices.” Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Steve Jobs“Sam ‘the Banana Man Zemurray was a larger-than-life character. Rich Cohen is a superb storyteller. Put them together and you have a startling and often hilarious account of one of the forgotten heroes (and villains) of the American empire.” Zev Chafets“In Rich Cohens masterful and enthralling narrative, one mans character is not simply his fate but also that of a nation. With verve, wit, and page-turning excitement, The Fish That Ate the Whale unfolds as compelling story of bold success coupled with reckless ambition. I loved this book.” Howard Blum, author of The Floor of Heaven and American Lightning“If this book were simply the tale of a charismatic and eccentric banana mogul, that would have been enough for me--especially with the masterful Rich Cohen as narrator. But its not. It is also the story of capitalism, psychology, immigration, public relations, colonialism, food, O. Henrys shady past, and the meaning of excellence.” A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically“What a story, and what a storyteller! Youll never see a banana--an...

-Titulo Original : Running With Scissors A Memoir-Fabricante : Picador-Descripcion Original: Review There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughss harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctors office, he writes, And it certainly wouldnt be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours. There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapists eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a beauty empire and performing an a capella version of You Light Up My Life at a local mental ward. Burroughss perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And its ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, theres always a sense that Burroughss survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion PictureRunning with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctors bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boys survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.Running with Scissors AcknowledgmentsGratitude doesnt begin to describe it: Jennifer Enderlin, Christopher Schelling, John Murphy, Gregg Sullivan, Kim Cardascia, Michael Storrings, and everyone at St. Martins Press. Thank you: Lawrence David, Suzanne Finnamore, Robert Rodi, Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Pepoon, Lee Lodes, Jeff Soares, Kevin Weidenbacher, Lynda Pearson, Lona Walburn, Lori Greenburg, John DePretis, and Sheila Cobb. I would also like to express my appreciation to my mother and father for, no matter how inadvertently, giving me such a memorable childhood. Additionally, I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. The book was not intended to hurt the family. Both my publisher and I regret any unintentional harm resulting from the publishing and marketing of Running with Scissors. Most of all, I would like to thank my brother for demonstrating, by example, the importance of being wholly unique. Review “I just finished reading the most amazing book. Running with Scissors is hilarious, freaky-deaky, berserk, controlled, transcendent, touching, affectionate, vengeful, all-embracing....It makes a good run at blowing every other [...