Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for nearly two years during the dot-com frenzy of the late nineties...

For everyone who's ever wanted to be as smooth as James Bond, as clever as Captain Kirk...

An exciting new annual anthology: a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world...

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications...

In 1972, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. was America's greatest store, accounting for over 1 percent of the...

Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value.

But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America.

Timeless and effective business lessons from 21 top CEOs. Every business leader - from manager to entrepreneur - wants to know the ideas that motivate and inspire the world's most successful CEOs...

Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam…

Ever since the first publication of A Christmas Carol in 1843, the tale of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, humble Bob Cratchit, and beloved Tiny Tim has had a special place in the Christmas tradition.

In Cyberselfish Borsook journeys through and rants about high tech culture, profiling the worlds of ravers, gilders, cypherpunks, anarcho-capitalists,...

Don't consider yourself deviant? Well, that just may be a career breaker...

In Diamond, Matthew Hart embarks on a journey into an obsessive, largely hidden, and utterly fascinating world...

"Fritz Efaw, fugitive from justice, draft resister, and erstwhile enemy of the people...

In Drawing Fire, Donald Katz profiles Bill Mauldin, the curmudgeonly political cartoonist.

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan...

Will "beam me up, Scotty" become reality? Quantum mechanics suggests it may...and soon...

Confused because the conventional wisdom doesn't coincide with your view of the political world?...

Ray Bradbury's more than 500 short stories have established him as one of this century's most popular and imaginative storytellers...

In this powerful, passionate chronicle, the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and best selling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey...

In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, a little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life - the majesty...

For more than 100 years, Edwin Abbott's mathematical adventure has charmed and fascinated...

Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills...

As CEO, most everything that Rich O'Connor did had something to do with at least one of the four disciplines...