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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Daniel Yergin - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the "era...
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

J.B. MacKinnon
Format: Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet--but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.
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Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy

Jeffrey E. Garten - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard - breaking the link between gold and the dollar...
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Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

Chris Anderson - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind's defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future "I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that...
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Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History

Yasmeen Abutaleb - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Looks at the Trump administration's response to the pandemic. 100,000 first printing.
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How to Make it Happen: Turning Failure into Success

Maria Hatzistefanis - ?Ebury Press
Format: Hardcover

Success is not final and failure is not fatal. Maria Hatzistefanis should know. Having spent 20 years building her own company (described by the press as "an overnight success") , she acknowledges how hard it is to keep going and find your motivation, especially in the face of self-doubt,...
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Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports

Mike McIntire - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: 1st Edition

A searing exposé of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious, smash-mouth entertainment conglomerate known, quaintly,...
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX's spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center.When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders...
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The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb: How to Take Financial Control, Avoid Unnecessary Taxes, and Combat the Latest Threats to Your Retirement Savings

Ed Slott - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

With the possible e xception of home property, the most valuable asset for most Americans is their retirement fund. Yet most people don't know that the IRS is waiting to grab up to 90 percent of their hard-earned retirement savings. Now, in this fully updated edition of The Retirement...
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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering...
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