Once a poster boy for the new economy, Bill Gates has become a global whipping boy. The Nike swoosh is quickly losing its cachet, equated now with sweatshop labor. Teenage McDonald's workers are joining the Teamsters. What's going on? NO LOGO explains why some of the most revered brands in the world ... more »

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Discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of Personality Type. Unlock the secrets of Personality Type--how you process information, make decisions, and interact with the world around you--and discover the career that is right for you. Do What You Are introduces Personality Type and shows ... more »

From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction's most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie's incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose ... more »

We are what we say. Now Sarah Myers McGinty, Ph.D., takes up where Deborah Tannen left off to delve into the ways our speech creates our identity. In this breakthrough book, McGinty shows how a little attention to our verbal patterns helps us alter the balance of power and always come out ahead. You ... more »

Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds ... more »

Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to 70 million acres since 1996. More than half of America's processed grocery products ... more »

The Chinese Almanac is both a health guide and a unique planning tool. It is based on the ancient Chinese science of long-term weather forecasting, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and knowledge of how the universe affects natural disasters, health, diseases, emotions, business and more. With the push for ... more »

The Ivy League is full of societies and clubs, some public and some very private. But none is as secret as Yale?s Skull and Bones, a tiny, mysterious society that has spawned three U.S. presidents, including William H. Taft, George W. Bush, and his father. Skull and Bones? cloak-and-dagger secrecy has ... more »

ABC?s John Miller has been tracking this story since his coverage of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. He was the first American journalist to interview Osama bin Laden. He has a sophisticated knowledge of the structure and workings of bin Laden?s and other extremist organizations. And he ... more »

Sales Dogs will: · Show the five simple but critical revenue-generating skills to generate endless streams of qualified buyers and life-long sales · Teach you how to communicate and sell to your own natural strengths · Give you the steps to inspire and direct any group of salespeople into a charging ... more »

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- thought this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating ... more »