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An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind?In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily. Instead, she offers us a new framework to anticipate the “devil’s” inevitable return, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It’s no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when it does.Filled with personal anecdotes and real-life examples from natural disasters like the California wildfires to man-made ones like the Boeing 737 MAX crisis, The Devil Never Sleeps is a guide for governments, businesses, and individuals alike on how to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe.

An NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children's lives-and how our country has nearly always failed to put our children first

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A fan's search for the truth about American history, human nature, and whether Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh will keep his job

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The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.

A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal.

An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.

A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.

A fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers and anyone else who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.

In a Winners Take All meets This Town narrative, a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of the creation of a massive tax break, in which political and economic elites attend to the care and feeding of the super-rich, and inequality compounds.

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." -Jim Whittaker, first American to climb Mt. Everest

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace.

"A maddening, essential study in misinformation, jingoism, bad intelligence, and other hallmarks of the recent American past."-Kirkus (starred review)

The Mathematical Corporation is the breakthrough book leaders have been waiting for, showing how the synergistic combination of human ingenuity and machine cognition takes the guesswork out of decision-making and leads to new products, services, and solutions that reshape business and society.

A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.

A neuroscientist and journalist takes us on a fascinating and weird journey though the science behind hypothermia.

Blending data analysis with compelling stories and exclusive interviews, Super Founders shows us that nearly everything we thought was true about successful, billion dollar companies is false.

The story of America's unlikeliest, least-known, yet greatest achievement this millennium: containing AIDS in Africa.

A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.

Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" was originally written as a caustic rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," yet these songs that begin in conflict actually have much in common, tapping into a deep well of American song writing and patriotism that transcends race, politics, and class.

The opening of the world''s first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and laborers responsible for its creation.

At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. In this gripping financial biography, Frank Partnoy recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

Now in paperback: Eva Hoffmans extraordinarily clear-eyed and unsentimental meditation on our relationship to the Holocaust (New York Times Book Review)

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A young physician-reporter chronicles the experiences of doctors and nurses in a besieged city, illuminating the passions, challenges, tragedies, and agonizing moral qunadaries of practicing medicine in a war zone