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The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America

Arthur C. Brooks · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute - the leading intellectual think tank on the right - offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice.In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing...
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Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy

Mark Schapiro · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In Carbon Shock, veteran journalist Mark Schapiro takes readers on a journey into a world where the same chaotic forces reshaping our natural world are also transforming the economy, playing havoc with corporate calculations, shifting economic and political power, and upending our understanding...
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What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and What Other Countries Got Right

George R. Tyler · BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Something has gone seriously wrong with the American economy.The American economy has experienced considerable growth in the last 30 years. But virtually none of this growth has trickled down to the average American. Incomes have been flat since 1985. Inequality has grown, and social mobility...
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Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Brian Krebs · Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times bestsellerThere is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances Steal Your Personal Data and Endanger Your LifeIn Spam Nation investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest...
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

David A. Stockman · PublicAffairs; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American stateespecially the Federal Reservehas...
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Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican

Ann Coulter · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

You have NEVER seen Coulter like this before! Coulter is uncensored, unapologetic, and unflinching in her ruthless mockery of liberals, sissies, morons, hypocrites, and all other species of politician. Coulter doesnt stop at the politicians, though. Watch her skewer pundits, salesmen, celebrities,...
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Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War a nd into the World

Michael Fullilove · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable untold story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the five extraordinary men he used to pull America into World War IIIn the dark days between Hitlers invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japans attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable...
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Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian's Guide

Laura Solomon · Amer Library Assn; 1 edition

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn: it s difficult enough to keep abreast of social media Web sites, let alone understand how they fit into today s library. This practical resource brings together current information on the topic in a concise format that s easy to digest. Laura Solomon...
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting

John Shiffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: "An impressive and important work ... The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the gravity of a meticulously researched exposé" (Christian Science Monitor).On today's high-tech...
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Jason L. Riley · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift...
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